Choosing a Shopify checkout app for India.
A checkout app here does four jobs the global playbooks don't cover — because COD, UPI and WhatsApp change the physics. This page is the whole decision, with every deep-dive one click away.
Hire a checkout app for these, in this order.
1 · Convert the shoppers you already have
India's checkout dies at the address form and the payment screen. A phone-first flow verifies the shopper with one OTP, prefills everything it can, and puts UPI first.
2 · Control COD before you ship it
COD is a credit decision made at the doorstep. Score it before dispatch: risk bands, partial advances, pincode rules, confirmation on WhatsApp — refuse only the orders whose economics don't work.
3 · Recover the carts that slip
Most Indian cart recovery fails because the store never learned who the shopper was. OTP-verified phone numbers make WhatsApp recovery actually deliverable.
4 · Let your ads see COD revenue
A COD order converts at the doorstep days after the click — browser pixels never see it. Server-side conversions with offline COD upload close the loop, and retract cancelled orders.
Put the vendors side by side.
Once you know the four jobs, comparison is mechanical: ask every vendor the same questions and check the answers on their own sites. We keep an honest one here — including the cases where a competitor is the better pick.
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