Most store builders hand you a blank dashboard and a hundred settings. Kartrocket flips that. You describe what you sell the way you'd tell a friend - in English or Hinglish - and a working website builds itself in front of you, with your prices, your photos, and a checkout that actually takes orders.
There's no separate design step, no plugin hunting, no template you're forced to fill in cell by cell. You talk, it builds, you point at what's wrong and say what to change. Here's exactly what happens at each stage.
Step 1: Describe your business in plain words
Start by telling Kartrocket what you do. "Main Jaipur se handmade juttis bechta hoon, 8 designs, price 799 se 1499" is enough to begin. You don't need to know what a 'product variant' or 'collection page' is - the builder works those out from how you describe your trade.
Because it's built for Indian businesses, it understands the shapes different trades take: a restaurant needs a photo menu and maybe table reservations; a salon needs a service list with appointment booking and deposits; a wholesaler needs a B2B catalog with a quote or RFQ flow. You describe the business; it picks the right structure.
Step 2: Watch a real store assemble live
This is not a preview or a mockup. As you talk, a genuine storefront takes shape - product cards with ₹ pricing, a cart, a checkout, pages for your hours and location. If you already sell somewhere, you can import your catalog from an existing site or marketplace listings instead of retyping everything.
You add your own photos and set your own prices. What you see building is the actual site that will go live, running on the same commerce engine that processes real orders. There are storefronts designed from each business's own material if you'd rather start from a working storefront in your line of trade and describe changes from there.
- Product catalog with ₹ pricing and variants
- Cart and checkout with COD, UPI and cards
- Shiprocket shipping across 24,000+ serviceable pincodes with tracking
- Restaurant menus, reservations and prepay; salon booking and deposits; B2B quote flows
Step 3: Point at anything and say what to change
When the site is up, editing is a conversation. Point at the header and say "make this maroon," or at a product and say "add a size chart," or "move the reviews above the menu." You don't dig through menus to find the right toggle - you describe the outcome and it happens.
This is where most people relax. You can't 'break' the layout in a way you can't reverse, so experimenting is cheap. Try something, look at it, change your mind.
Step 4: Publish free to yourname.kartrocket.ai
When you're happy, publish. Your store goes live at yourname.kartrocket.ai with SSL included, at no cost - building and publishing are both free. There are no plugin fees or app charges layered on top.
You only ever pay real pass-through costs: courier charges when you actually ship an order (at Shiprocket rates), payment-gateway fees on prepaid orders, and your own domain if you choose to connect one. When you're ready, you can point a custom domain like yourbrand.com at the store.
The safety model: your money path can't break
Here's the part that matters most and gets talked about least. Checkout, payments and orders run on a locked commerce core that the AI physically cannot edit. So a clumsy prompt - or a wild experiment at 11pm - can change how your site looks, but it can never touch how customers pay or how orders are recorded. Prices are computed on the server too, so a checkout total can't be tampered with by a buyer.
Every change you make is saved as a version with one-click undo. Made a mess? Roll back. And if one section of your site breaks, it stays contained - a broken block can't take the whole store offline. You get the freedom to tinker without the fear that you'll lose sales while you sleep.
Why this team can be trusted with the money path
Kartrocket isn't a brand-new experiment. It was Shiprocket's original product - a DIY store builder for Indian SMBs from roughly 2012 to 2017 - built by the same team that went on to create Shiprocket, now India's largest e-commerce shipping platform. In 2026 it relaunched as an chat-native business builder.
That history is why shipping, pincode serviceability and order tracking feel native rather than bolted on: the people who built India's shipping backbone built the store that plugs into it.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need any technical or design skill?
Is it really free, and where's the catch?
What if I give a bad instruction and break my store?
Can customers pay by COD and UPI?
Can I move my existing products over?
Can I use my own domain name?
Describe your business and see it build
Tell Kartrocket what you sell in plain words and watch a real store take shape - free to build, free to publish.
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