WhatsApp catalogue versus a real online store
The catalogue is free and works fine up to about 30 products. Here is what starts to hurt after that.
The WhatsApp Business catalogue is a very good place to start. It is free, it takes ten minutes to set up, and the customer sees it where they already are.
When the catalogue is enough
If you have fewer than 30 products, your stock does not change daily, and you write orders down yourself, there is no reason to go further. Save the money.
Where it stops working
There is no search, no variants for size or colour, stock does not reduce on its own, every payment link has to be made by hand, and Google cannot find a catalogue at all. Past 40 or 50 products, counting orders becomes difficult.
When to get a store
When more than 15 to 20 orders arrive in a week, or stock starts getting missed, or customers begin asking whether you have a website. At that point a ₹19,999 store pays for itself within a month.
The middle path
Run both. The store holds the products and the stock, and every product carries an "order on WhatsApp" button that opens the chat directly. The customer gets the comfort, you get a clean count.
No time to do all this yourself?
We will do it. 7 days, fixed price.