Shopdeck runs your store and your ads. You commit a monthly ad budget. HeyHomie gives you the tools. You run things — at a flat ₹1,999/month.

Platform: ₹0. Commission: 3% on delivered orders. Plus the ad budget Shopdeck asks you to commit.

From shopdeck.com: subscription ₹0, website ₹0, 0% commission on marketing budget, 3% + GST on delivered orders. The catch: sellers we've spoken to consistently mention a daily ad spend commitment (~₹1,000/day, i.e. ₹30,000+/month) before Shopdeck takes them on. That ad budget is your real monthly cost — and on ₹1L revenue you also pay ₹3,000 in commission.

Shopdeck runs them. Their revenue depends on shipped orders, so the model pushes ad spend higher.

Shopdeck only earns when you ship orders — so the structural incentive is to push more ad spend (more orders = more 3% cuts). They publicly claim 0% commission on ad budget, which is good — but ad spend itself is still your money. The more they run, the more you spend; the more orders, the more they earn.

Reply with your Shopdeck store link. They tap, browse, register, check out on the website.

Shopdeck's model is built around Meta ad → website conversion. Inbound DM traffic isn't the primary funnel they optimise for — you handle those replies manually, and the purchase happens on the storefront, not the chat.

Without ad spend, the model doesn't really work — Shopdeck's revenue model needs paid acquisition firing.

If you pause ads, traffic goes to zero, orders stop, and so does Shopdeck's 3% commission. Sellers report that going under the unwritten minimum ad spend prompts a conversation about deprioritisation. The model isn't built for organic-only sellers.

Shopdeck mediates the funnel — they build the store, run the ads, handle a lot of the retention.

Customers are technically yours, but operationally the relationship runs through Shopdeck's tooling and ad campaigns. If you leave, you take the customer list — but the day-to-day relationship management was theirs.

Run a retargeting Meta campaign through Shopdeck. Effectively means paying again to reach an existing customer.

Re-engagement through paid Meta retargeting works, but each touch costs money. Owned channels (email, WhatsApp) are typically not the primary play in the Shopdeck model.

Platform ₹0 + ad commitment ₹30,000+ + 3% commission on revenue. At ₹3L revenue: ₹30K ads + ₹9K commission = ₹39K/month.

Platform fee is genuinely zero — that's not the marketing trick. The real monthly cost is the committed ad budget plus the 3% revenue share. The bigger you get, the more commission you pay. The model rewards scale; it's not built for organic-only or low-ad-spend sellers.