Pasalos vs Nepdora for businesses in Nepal

Pasalos and Nepdora are both built in Nepal, priced in Nepali rupees, and connected to local payments. Nepdora is an AI website builder for businesses such as restaurants, clinics, travel agencies, schools, and online stores. Pasalos is a commerce platform for product catalogs, checkout, orders, inventory, and delivery settings.

The right choice depends first on whether the business needs a general website or a product-selling system.

The practical difference

Nepdora is cheaper and faster to launch. Its Business plan is रु 10,000/year (about रु 833/month), there's a free tier to start on, and its AI builder can put a templated site live in minutes. If you're a consultancy, café, or clinic that mostly needs bookings and a payment link, that's hard to argue with.

Pasalos costs रु 1,499 per month on Starter. Its price covers order management, shared inventory, discounts, cash on delivery, delivery pricing by zone, and checkout with four local payment methods. Those features matter when product sales are the main job of the website.

Different products: website builder vs commerce platform

• Nepdora leads with its AI builder. You describe your business in a sentence, it generates a mobile-first, SEO-ready site from a template library that spans restaurants, gyms, real estate, salons, schools, and e-commerce stores. Product catalogs and orders are one feature among many, managed from a simple dashboard.
• Pasalos is a commerce platform. Its storefront, cart, checkout, orders, inventory, discounts, delivery settings, and taxes are designed for physical products. It does not include a general site builder for service businesses.

The practical test: if your homepage's job is "book an appointment" or "see our menu," Nepdora fits. If it's "add to cart," keep reading.

Pricing and billing schedule

• Nepdora bills yearly. As of July 2026: a free plan (1 website on a Nepdora subdomain, up to 10 products), Business at रु 10,000/year (custom domain, eSewa & Khalti payments, SEO tools, analytics), and AI Pro at रु 20,000/year (AI content tools, advanced e-commerce, multiple websites). Migration help and 1-on-1 onboarding are included on paid plans.
• Pasalos bills monthly: रु 1,499/month on Starter, cancel anytime, 14-day free trial with no credit card. Over a year that's रु 17,988, nearly double Nepdora's Business plan.

Nepdora's Business plan has the lower annual price. Compare that saving with the order, inventory, and checkout features you expect to use. Neither platform lists an added transaction fee on top of payment-gateway charges.

Local payments and cash on delivery

• Pasalos ships checkout with eSewa, Khalti, Fonepay QR, and connectIPS built in, plus a cash on delivery toggle, which is still how a large share of Nepali online orders are paid.
• Nepdora supports eSewa and Khalti merchant accounts (its comparison pages also mention Fonepay). We could not find connectIPS or cash on delivery documented anywhere on nepdora.com as of July 2026. If either matters to you, ask them directly before committing.

For a service business, eSewa and Khalti may cover the required payment flow. A store shipping parcels across Nepal should also verify its cash-on-delivery process before choosing a platform.

Order management, inventory, and delivery

This is where the products diverge most.

• Pasalos gives you a full order pipeline (draft orders, fulfillment, order status pages for customers), inventory shared across locations, discount codes and automatic discounts, tax settings for Nepal, and delivery pricing by zone, plus local pickup for customers who'd rather collect from your pasal.
• Nepdora's dashboard covers adding products, managing orders, and viewing analytics, and it integrates with logistics partners like Pathao Parcel and Dash for delivery. This is a genuine convenience Pasalos doesn't have as a built-in courier integration today. Its store management is intentionally simpler; the free plan caps at 10 products, and deeper e-commerce features live on the AI Pro plan.

Nepdora's simpler dashboard may be enough for a small catalog and a few weekly orders. Pasalos has more relevant controls when the seller must reconcile stock, run discounts, and set different delivery rates inside and outside the Valley.

Launch speed and POS

• Nepdora says its AI builder can publish a site in minutes. Its template-based setup is designed for a quick first draft. Nepdora also lists a POS system integration among its features.
• Pasalos setup is manual: you add products, payment methods, and delivery rates yourself (the 14-day trial exists for exactly this). The Pasalos POS is rolling out now to founding stores. It's coming, not shipped, and it shares one stock list between your counter and your online store when it lands.

Feature comparison table

Facts checked July 2026 against nepdora.com public pages (homepage, pricing, and comparison pages). "Not documented" means we could not find the feature stated on their site. Tell us if you spot a discrepancy.

Choose based on the job of the website

Choose Nepdora if you want the cheapest credible way to get a professional Nepali website live, especially for a service business, restaurant, or clinic, and your selling needs fit a simple catalog with eSewa/Khalti payments.

Choose Pasalos if you sell physical products and need COD, four local payment methods, delivery pricing by zone, order and inventory management, and monthly billing.