Sales & Customers · Marketplace checkout
VanVed vs Shopify
for Marketplace checkout
Why businesses choose VanVed over Shopify
A many-seller cart is native: one buyer payment, line items split by store, commission computed per line on verified payment, and each seller sees only their own items on a shared order. The gateway is real Razorpay — signature verification and a signed webhook, both idempotent — which matters because Shopify Payments does not work in India at all. Coupons and abandoned-cart recovery, both missing from earlier versions of this page, now exist.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Real payment gateway | Razorpay, wired end to end — order creation, signature verification and an HMAC-checked webhook | Shopify Payments is not available in India, so a third-party gateway plus a 0.2-2% Shopify fee on top |
| Guest checkout | No — the cart is one row per user account, so a buyer must register first | Yes, one-page guest checkout |
| Discount codes | Per-seller codes with flat or percent value, validity window, minimum order and use caps that only burn on a verified payment | Native discount engine plus automatic discounts |
| Abandoned cart recovery | A reminder job that emails through each seller's own configured provider, idempotent per cart and seller | Native abandoned-checkout automation |
| Shipping rates | None — shipping_total is hardcoded to zero at checkout | Flat and weight-based rates; carrier-calculated rates on Advanced and Plus |
| Tax handling | One flat platform-wide percentage on the discounted subtotal — no per-product GST rate, no HSN, no CGST/SGST split | Automated tax for US, Canada, EU and UK; India is manual rate entry there too |
| Fulfilment and tracking | An order stops at paid — there is no shipped or delivered state and no tracking number field | Fulfilments, carrier tracking and a customer order status page |
| Refunds and returns | A refunded status exists on the model but no endpoint ever sets it | Self-serve customer returns and refunds from the admin |
| Multi-vendor commission | Per-seller or platform commission computed per line item on payment, with a seller payout statement | No native multi-vendor; Collective requires Shopify Payments so it is unavailable in India |
Where Shopify is ahead of us today
Checkout charges zero shipping — the field is hardcoded — so any physical seller has to build the cost into the item price. Tax is one flat platform rate with no per-product GST or HSN. There is no guest checkout: a buyer must create an account before they can buy. And after payment the order simply stops — no shipped or delivered state, no tracking, and no way to issue a refund even though the status exists.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Shopify may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Marketplace checkout module does
- Store and catalog
List products under your own storefront.
- Cart and checkout
Customers add to a cart and check out; each payment is verified and recorded against its order.