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How to sell on Instagram without a website in India

What works at ten orders a day, what breaks after that, and the free fix.

Short answer: You can start with DMs and WhatsApp: post the product, take the order in chat, collect payment by UPI, and book the courier by hand. It works until orders pile up. Then a free store link in your bio takes payments, cash on delivery and shipping on its own, with no developer and no monthly plan. Keep Instagram for selling, let the store handle the order.

Selling from DMs and WhatsApp

Post, reply, send a UPI request, ask for the address, book the courier. Each order takes ten minutes of your time and the address arrives in five different formats. Payment and delivery proof live in chat threads. This is fine for the first weeks and a real problem by the time you reach a few hundred orders a month.

A store link in bio

A free store gives you one link for the bio and for every reply. The buyer picks size and colour, pays by UPI or chooses cash on delivery, and types the address once in a form with pincode checks. Shipping is booked from the order, and the GST invoice goes out with it. On D2 Commerce OS this is the Free plan.

Keep the chat, move the order

Reply to DMs as before, but send the product link instead of a UPI request. Order updates can go out on WhatsApp automatically, and on the Growth plan abandoned checkouts are recovered on WhatsApp. Your time goes back to content and customers.

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Questions

Common questions.

Can I sell on Instagram without a website in India?

Yes, through DMs and WhatsApp with UPI payments and manual courier booking. A free store link in bio removes the manual work once orders grow.

Does Instagram have in-app checkout in India?

Not for most Indian sellers. Orders are taken in chat or on a website you link from the bio.

What does a store link in bio cost?

Nothing on D2 Commerce OS: the Free plan includes unlimited products and orders, UPI and cash on delivery, and shipping.

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