Purple Stores is an ecommerce platform specifically designed for the Indian Merchants. It is a rental service (SaaS or Software as a service) which means that each Merchant gets a separate user account while using the common application and infrastructure.

When you sign up for Purple Stores you get

   a) Your own Domain Name (Free for Gold and above plans)
   b) Your own website/store front with catalog, search and navigation, shopping cart etc.
   c) Choice of pre-designed design themes or your own 100% customized theme.
   d) Payment Gateway (Free on all plans except Starter Plan)
   e) Site Admin Panel
   f) Best in the industry technical support
   g) Access to services like catalog development, logistics support, internet marketing etc.
   h) Subscription to our monthly mailers sharing tips and best practices

Being a SaaS based platform Purple Stores has numerous benefits over a dedicated solution.

1. Immediate as well as anytime access to 100+ features that have been used and proven in the marketplace by other Merchants.
2. Short turnaround time to get things done, whether you're are setting it up or upgrading or adding a new feature you don't have to wait for your developer.
3. No need to hire technical support, Purple stores is a fully supported ecommerce solution. We are just a phone call away to solve any of your or your customer's technical issues. We also offer designing and content development services at low hourly rates.
4. Pay for what you use. Purple Stores allows you to upgrade your plan as your business grows. We can even add features on 'A La Cart' basis. So you don't have to pay for something that you don't want to use right away.

Focus on your business. Purple Stores will take care of everything else.

Purple Stores is a SaaS based service where the pricing is such that you pay for the application in form of a rent instead of an upfront charge. The subscription fee covers the following
1. Rent for the ecommerce application
2. Hosting
3. Domain Renewal (If included in the plan)
4. Maintenance, Bug Fixing and Technical Support
5. Updates and new features unless charged separa

Disk space utilized by your store is visible in the resources section of your merchant panel. Disk space utilization depends on number of factors including number of products, categories, number and size of product and banner images. As a thumb rule 1.5MB per product or category may be assumed for calculating the disk space requirement. A 300MB disk space should be able to accommodate 200 products with 2-3 different picture shots where the images uploaded are sized down to the required dimensions and resolution.

If you already own a domain name, we will furnish the details of DNS or A records to be updated at your end which will redirect the domain to your online store residing on our platform.

Purple Store being a SaaS application, hardware, software and bandwidth are bundled together. Hence you will not be charged any extra for hosting services. However if your requirements of bandwidth and hardware are much beyond regular usage, we may provision exclusive resources for your online store at an additional cost.

Since Purple Stores is delivered on SaaS model, it cannot be unbundled from the other components and hence it can't be hosted on individual servers.

Number of concurrent users/visitors should not be a constraint; however it depends on the capacity of instance where your online store is hosted. This was never reported even by our biggest client till date, given their traffic levels and hence should not be a decisive factor for any one.

Yes. Purple Stores is tested across all major web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Chrome and Safari.

Yes, you can create a free demo store for 15 days at http://www.purplestores.in/plans.html to have firsthand experience of features and functionalities.

If you are comfortable in using existing layout and themes from our library without many modifications, you can manage the daily operations of your store with an ease. Building an online store is fun with Purple Stores with our DIY (Do-It-Yourself) platform. Purple Stores is designed and developed keeping in a view that, merchants are businessmen and not techies.

We will be more than glad to notify all our customers with new set of features and upgrades that are released as per various planned and unplanned schedules. Please subscribe to our newsletter to get all such timely updates.

Purple Stores can be integrated with Google Analytics to measure the performance metrics of your online store.

Purple Stores extends greater flexibility in configuring the options of cross-sell and up-sell for every product. Which means for every product you can link the appropriate products from other categories as matching products, cross-sell or up-sell.

With our strategic relation, you will be offered their solutions at much subsidized prices compared to open market rates besides simple documentation requirements. Purple Stores is pre-integrated with the popular payment gateways (PayU, ccavenue, EBS and HDFC) and hence you don't need to shell out a single penny.

There are no other charges except your monthly charges to be paid for Purple Stores. If you are in need of our support to customize the store-front, we charge for these professional services which are beyond delivery of platform.

Yes, in case of upfront payment of subscription for ONE full-year, you will avail 10% discount. But this discount policy may change from time to time given change in pricing policies and billing cycles.

You can opt for a convenient billing cycle given the flexibility of quarterly and yearly options being extended at the time of sign-up.

You can opt for a convenient billing cycle given the flexibility of quarterly and yearly options being extended at the time of sign-up.

We will setup your store and upload first 20 products and will train you and your team to manage the store.

No one, except you or your team have access to your control panel. Purple Stores offers a strong set of data security measures that are often more wide-ranging than what a customer could guarantee if the application was located on-premise.

Please be aware that no credit card details are stored at merchant's online store and thus you don't need to worry about the security of your customers who are making online payments. Upon selecting the payment method, system will redirect the shopper to secured and encrypted gateway of respective Payment Service Providers who generally comply with PCI security standards.

You can export products in the relevant format for the shopping site where you want your product to list. Additionally, if provided by the shopping site, automated feeds can be setup which does not require any manual intervention on day to day basis.

You can export products in the relevant format for the shopping site where you want your product to list. Additionally, if provided by the shopping site, automated feeds can be setup which does not require any manual intervention on day to day basis.

We strictly adhere to our privacy policy and thus we are not authorized to share any of your data with any other 3rd party.

Please contact us at writetous@purplestores.in for detailed list of features.

Please refer the tutorials for different tasks. In case you don't find the solution please writetous@purplestores.in. We provide catalogue management services for a fee. Please ask for our service schedule.