The Maker's Case: Why Pasal Is the Best Value for a Nepali Shop
Every so often somebody asks us, straight out: why should I pick Pasal over everything else? It is a fair question, and because we built the thing, you should read this as the maker's own case, not a neutral review. Here it is, in the plainest terms we can manage.
It is the most affordable way to run a real shop online
Pasal's Free plan is not a trial. Your shop, your catalog, your orders, your own link, free, forever. It covers a shop of up to 20 products, which is a real shop, not a demo.
Pro is NPR 1,200 a month, or NPR 1,000 a month billed yearly, and it exists to pay for the counter tools: the till, the khata, tickets, bookings, loyalty and the kitchen TV. Compare that with what a foreign website builder charges in dollars before you have taken a single order, and then add what a delivery aggregator takes from every sale, every day. During the founding window Pro costs nothing at all, and founding shops keep 20 percent off for life.
More of the shop is already built
Most website tools give you pages and leave the actual shopkeeping to you. Pasal ships the parts a Nepali counter actually runs on:
- Ten designed templates, jewellers included, that read like real shops rather than themes
- QR ordering at the counter and on tables, with a live order board and a kitchen TV
- A till for walk-in sales, with barcode scanning, held bills and printed receipts
- Bookings for salons, restaurants and repair counters, confirmed by email
- A digital khata so regulars can buy on credit and settle up monthly
- Event tickets with QR codes scanned at the door
- Counter discounts, because haggling is how a counter works, shown honestly on the bill
- Cost prices and profit, so you know what you kept, not just what came in
- PAN and VAT receipts, Bikram Sambat dates, and Nepali alongside English
Nothing on that list is a plugin you hunt down and pay extra for. It is one product, wired together, and your data stays in one place.
Support that answers like a neighbour
When something confuses you on Pasal, you message and a person answers, usually the person who built the screen you are stuck on. There is no ticket number and no queue robot. The help centre is written in plain language with screenshots of the real dashboard, the dashboard has a help chat built in, and if the answer is missing we treat that as our bug, not yours.
The honest comparison
If you need a big custom web application, hire a developer. If you love spreadsheets and enjoy stitching five tools together, you can absolutely do that. But if you run a cafe, a boutique, a salon, a mart or an events crew in Nepal and you want the whole shop online this afternoon, priced in rupees, with someone to call when you are stuck, we built Pasal for exactly you, and we think it is the best value on the table.
See it for yourself: walk through the live demo shops, read what a website actually changes, and when you are ready, your shop is five minutes away.