Hostinger Ecommerce is the newest addition to Hostinger’s lineup, listed under Sell Online in the site’s navigation and tagged New.
It’s built around your products and orders first, letting you sell through a shareable link, an existing website, or social channels, all from one dashboard, rather than forcing you to build a site before you can take a single order.
Five Pricing Facts to Know Before You Buy
- Starter appears to renew at the exact same price it starts at, an inversion of the usual pattern where the cheapest plan carries the worst renewal shock once the intro term ends.
- Growth and Scale both step up at renewal, by 1.5 times and 1.25 times respectively, so the two paid mid and top tiers behave the opposite way from Starter.
- “0% transaction fees” describes Hostinger’s own cut, not your total cost. Your payment gateway, Stripe or PayPal, still charges its own processing fee on every sale.
- Hostinger’s own cost-guide blog states the entry plan sells up to 500 products at $2.99 a month. The live pricing page puts that same $2.99 price on Starter, which actually caps out at 5 products, a hundred times fewer.
- Checkout defaults to the longest term automatically, the same 12-month pre-selection pattern I have found across other Hostinger products.
Let’s start with what each tier actually includes, since the gap between Starter and Growth is bigger than the dollar difference suggests.
Hostinger Ecommerce Plans and Prices
All three tiers run on a 12-month term by default.
| Plan | Products | Businesses | Sales Channels | Standard Price | Intro Price (12mo) | Renews At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 5 | 1 | Limited | $3.99/mo | $2.99/mo | $2.99/mo |
| Growth | 300 | Up to 3 | 3 per business | $15.99/mo | $7.99/mo | $11.99/mo |
| Scale | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | $29.99/mo | $19.99/mo | $24.99/mo |
Growth carries the Most Popular tag, and it is the first tier that unlocks subscriptions, print-on-demand merch, a free custom domain for a year, branded business email, and centralized inventory across multiple shops.
Scale adds API connections, scalable hosting, and priority multilingual support on top of everything in Growth.
1. Starter: The Cheapest Entry Point
Pricing: $2.99/month (12-month introductory pricing)
Starter is the one worth a second look before you assume it is the obvious cheap starting point.
Hostinger’s own pricing page lists its renewal rate as the same $2.99 a month it starts at, with no increase at all.
Key Features:
- Products: Up to 5 products
- Businesses: 1 business
- Sales Channels: Limited
- Renewal: $2.99/month
- AI Credits: None included
Best For: Very small sellers with a fixed catalog of five products or fewer who want the lowest possible ongoing platform cost.
That breaks the pattern I usually see on discount-driven hosting pricing, where the cheapest plan usually carries the harshest renewal jump rather than the gentlest.
Just keep in mind Starter caps out at 5 products and offers no AI credits at all, so the flat renewal only helps if 5 products truly covers what you plan to sell long-term.
2. Growth: The Most Popular Ecommerce Plan
Pricing: $7.99/month (12-month introductory pricing)
Growth is where Hostinger Ecommerce’s more complete feature set begins to open up.
Key Features:
- Products: Up to 300 products
- Businesses: Up to 3
- Sales Channels: 3 per business
- Subscriptions: Included
- Print-on-Demand: Included
- Domain: Free custom domain for 1 year
- Email: Branded business email
- Inventory: Centralized inventory across multiple shops
- Renewal: $11.99/month
Best For: Small and growing ecommerce businesses that need substantially more selling capacity and multichannel features than Starter provides.
3. Scale: Maximum Ecommerce Flexibility
Pricing: $19.99/month (12-month introductory pricing)
Scale removes the main product, business, and sales-channel limits while adding tools aimed at larger ecommerce operations.
Key Features:
- Products: Unlimited
- Businesses: Unlimited
- Sales Channels: Unlimited
- Growth Features: Everything included in Growth
- API Connections: Included
- Hosting: Scalable hosting
- Support: Priority multilingual support
- Renewal: $24.99/month
Best For: Larger sellers, multi-store operators, and businesses that need unlimited products and deeper integrations.
Gói Hostinger Ecommerce Hosting
| Tên gói dịch vụ | Dung lượng bộ nhớ | RAM | Băng thông | Bảo hành | Số lượng trang web | Giá | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Không giới hạn | Không giới hạn | 0,00 US$ | Không giới hạn | 2,99 US$ | Chi tiết | |
| Growth | Không giới hạn | Không giới hạn | 0,00 US$ | Không giới hạn | 7,99 US$ | Chi tiết | |
| Scale | Không giới hạn | Không giới hạn | 0,00 US$ | Không giới hạn | 19,99 US$ | Chi tiết |
If you would rather get a website and a store bundled into a single purchase from day one, Hostinger separately sells ecommerce through its Website Builder line, currently starting around $3.99 a month, worth a look if a standalone site is on your list anyway.
That plan’s own renewal jump runs considerably steeper than any tier covered here, so weigh the intro price against the standing rate before assuming it is the cheaper long-term route.
What a Real Hostinger Ecommerce Order Actually Costs
I ran a Growth plan through checkout to see the real total once tax and the free extras are factored in, and the period selector opens on 12 months by default.
| Line Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Growth, 12-month term | $95.88 |
| Daily backup | $0 (included) |
| Domain | $0 (free for 1 year) |
| Domain privacy protection | $0 |
| Tax | $15.34 |
| Total | $111.22 |
The plan itself makes up about 86% of that total, with tax accounting for nearly all the rest since the backup and domain both come bundled at no charge.
The checkout tooltip on tax reads “Estimated VAT: 16%,” and that figure only firms up once you enter a billing address, so treat the $111.22 shown before that point as an estimate rather than a locked-in number.
Transaction Fees and Payment Processing Costs
Every Hostinger Ecommerce tier advertises 0% transaction fees, and that claim holds up as far as it goes.
Hostinger does not take a cut of your sales.
It does not follow that selling is free, though. Every payment still runs through a gateway, usually Stripe or PayPal, and that gateway charges its own processing fee no matter which platform you built your store on.
| Gateway | Typical Fee |
|---|---|
| Stripe | 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction |
| PayPal | 3.49% + $0.49 per transaction |
On a $100 order, Stripe takes about $3.20 and PayPal takes about $3.98.
Hostinger’s 0% figure means neither amount grows any further on top of that, which is a real advantage over platforms that layer their own fee onto the gateway’s fee.
It does not mean the $3.20 or $3.98 disappears from your total.
How Hostinger Ecommerce Compares to Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce
Hostinger’s own published research puts the platform side by side with the three tools most people compare it against, and the price gap is wide at every tier.
| Platform | Starting Price | Transaction Fees |
|---|---|---|
| Hostinger Ecommerce | $2.99/mo | 0% |
| WooCommerce | Free plugin, hosting and themes extra | 0% |
| BigCommerce | $29.95/mo | 0% |
| Shopify | $29/mo (up to $2,300/mo enterprise) | 0.6% to 2% unless using Shopify Payments |
Shopify sits furthest from Hostinger on price and is the only one of the four that adds its own transaction fee on top of gateway costs unless you use its in-house payment processor.
WooCommerce is free as software but shifts the cost into hosting, premium themes running $50 to $200, and plugins commonly running $40 to $200 each, so its real total depends entirely on what you add to it.
BigCommerce charges no transaction fees either, but its entry price sits roughly 10 times higher than Hostinger’s cheapest tier.
None of this makes Hostinger the automatic right fit.
Shopify and BigCommerce both carry a deeper app ecosystem and more established enterprise tooling than a newer platform can match yet.
For a seller weighing monthly cost against feature depth, though, Hostinger’s starting price is difficult for any of the three to compete with directly.
What an Online Store Costs Beyond the Platform Fee
The plan price is one line in a larger budget, and Hostinger’s own cost research is useful for setting expectations beyond its own products.
| Cost Category | Typical Range |
|---|---|
| Domain name | $10 to $30/year |
| SEO and marketing | $0 to $10,000/month |
| Shipping | Varies by size, weight, and distance |
| Inventory management software | $100 to $500/month |
| Contingency buffer | 10 to 20% of total budget |
For a small to medium store built on an all-in-one platform, total monthly spend including marketing and the extras above usually lands between $30 and $300.
Hostinger’s plan price sits at the very low end of that range, but it does not include marketing spend, shipping costs, or any custom development you decide to add later.
That backdrop matters when you compare Hostinger’s own marketing claims to its own pricing page, and the two do not always agree.
Where Hostinger’s Own Numbers Disagree
Hostinger’s cost-guide blog states that its ecommerce entry plan starts at $2.99 a month and covers up to 500 products.
The live pricing page shows Starter at that same $2.99 price with a limit of 5 products, not 500.
The 500-product figure appears to belong to a different plan elsewhere in Hostinger’s own lineup, mixed into the blog’s description of the entry-level tier.
If you came across the $2.99 and 500-product combination first and went shopping expecting both together, you would not find that pairing anywhere on the actual Ecommerce pricing page.
Bottom Line
Treat any “starting at” figure you see referenced outside the live pricing page with some caution, including Hostinger’s own blog content.
Check the Starter, Growth, and Scale table directly for product limits rather than a number that might belong to a different plan.
With the numbers sorted, the last practical question is what happens if a tier does not work out.
Refunds on Hostinger Ecommerce Plans
Checkout displays the standard 30-day money-back guarantee on all three tiers, but I did not take that badge at face value, since Hostinger Ecommerce is not named explicitly under “hosting” in the Refund Policy.
The AI chat agent could not confirm coverage on the spot and pointed only to Web Hosting, Cloud, Agency, and KVM VPS as the products it was certain about, so I asked to be escalated to a human agent rather than settle for that answer.
A specialist confirmed directly that Starter, Growth, and Scale are all covered under the standard 30-day guarantee, on the same terms as the rest of Hostinger’s refund policy.
The 30-day window starts from your payment date, refund handling can vary slightly depending on the payment method you used, and the service is cancelled automatically once the refund goes through.
In this case, the escalation was the difference between an uncertain answer and a confirmed one.
The Bottom Line on Hostinger Ecommerce Pricing
Hostinger Ecommerce undercuts Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce on starting price at every tier, and its 0% transaction fee claim holds up once you understand it only covers Hostinger’s own cut.
Starter’s flat renewal price is the standout detail on this pricing page, a real outlier for a discount-driven plan, but it only pays off if 5 products is really all you plan to sell.
Growth is where the platform’s real feature set opens up, and its 1.5 times renewal jump is still gentler than what most Hostinger products charge once the intro term ends.
Next Steps: What Now?
- Choose Starter if you sell no more than 5 products and want the lowest ongoing price
- Choose Growth if you need subscriptions, print-on-demand, multiple businesses, and more sales channels
- Choose Scale if you need unlimited products, businesses, and sales channels
- Factor Stripe or PayPal processing charges into your real selling costs
- Check renewal pricing rather than comparing introductory prices alone
- Use the 30-day money-back guarantee if the platform does not meet your requirements
