The Pasal blog
Running a shop, online
Plain talk for Nepali shopkeepers: what a website changes, what it costs, and how the counter's habits, the khata, the haggle, the festival rush, carry over.
One Nepali shop, one month, and the sums done in front of you: what an online pasal saves in commissions, software licences and hours at the counter.
Read the postThe seven jobs a POS system must do for a Nepali shop, what billing software usually costs, and how Pasal folds the whole counter into one price.
How to start an online business in Nepal, in the right orderThe website is an afternoon. The hard part is six decisions around it, in an order where each one stops blocking the next.
FonePay QR for your shop: getting one, and using it onlineHow to get a FonePay merchant QR through your Nepali bank, what to ask for that shops forget, and why a payment screenshot is a clue rather than a receipt.
How to accept cash on delivery in Nepal without losing moneyCOD is rational, not backward. The three separate losses it causes, what actually cuts refusals, and why banning it usually costs more than it saves.
Delivery partners in Nepal: how to choose oneYourself, a courier, or a platform's riders. The questions that actually decide it, and why you should promise the slow version on your shop page.
eSewa vs Khalti vs FonePay: which should your shop take?They are not three of the same thing. FonePay is a bank rail, eSewa and Khalti are wallets, and a Nepali shop does not have to choose between them.
Closing the day without arguing about itThe drawer is short and nobody knows why. Why a daily close beats a monthly one in a Nepali shop, and why naming who rang a sale protects everyone.
Never make the worst phone call in retailTwo customers buy the last one. Which products a Nepali shop should count, and why the counter till is deliberately allowed to oversell.
Your shop already knows who its regulars areEvery Nepali shopkeeper can name their best customer and not their tenth. What changes when paid orders quietly build a customer book for you.
A loyalty card beats cutting your priceA discount buys one sale and teaches people to wait for the next one. A card buys a habit. The honest arithmetic of rewarding regulars in a Nepali shop.
What a shop website costs in Nepal: three honest routesA developer, an AI tool and your own evening, priced against each other for a small Nepali shop, and what each quietly costs later.
How to Get a Domain Name in Nepal, Including the Free OneA .com.np domain costs nothing, which almost nobody knows. Here is how to get one, what papers you need, and when to pay for a .com instead.
Do You Need to Register a Company to Start Selling in Nepal?The short answer is not always, and the longer answer depends on what you sell and to whom. What registration actually gets you, and the order to do it in.
The maker’s case: why Pasal is the best value in NepalWhat Pasal costs to build and run, counted out of its own repository, set against what a Nepali shop pays for the same jobs done separately.
Why Every Nepali Business Needs a Website in 2026Why Nepali shops need their own website in 2026: search and Instagram DMs have replaced footfall, and an owned site builds trust that social media cannot.
What matters when picking a website builder in NepalAn honest comparison of Wix, Daraz, Facebook pages and Pasal for Nepali shops, judged on NPR pricing, local payments and the phones customers really own.
Launch your shop's website in one eveningWhat to get ready before you sit down, the five minute Pasal setup, and what to polish in week one. Your shop online in Nepal, this evening.
WhatsApp Is Not a ShopWhy DM for price loses your best buyers, and how a small Nepali shop can keep WhatsApp for chat while a real website does the selling.
Getting Your Shop Ready for Dashain and TiharA practical plan for Nepali shops to catch the Dashain and Tihar rush online, from pre-orders and gift boxes to delivery cutoffs and remittance buyers.
Why the paper khata loses money and what a digital one fixesHow Nepali shops run customer credit, where the paper khata quietly leaks money, and what changes when a kirana or fabric shop puts the book on a screen.
What a QR menu actually changes in a Kathmandu cafeHow QR table ordering cuts the waving and the wrong orders in a Kathmandu cafe, ends menu reprinting, and what setting it up on Pasal looks like.
What the delivery apps take from a NPR 600 orderThe commission maths on a NPR 600 order in Nepal, why repeat customers should order direct, and how restaurants can keep aggregators for discovery only.
How a Nepali jewellery shop goes online without losing trustWhy gold sells on trust and how a Nepali jewellery shop can build that trust online with honest rates, enquiry-first selling and the Gahana template.
Why Kathmandu Salons Should Take Bookings OnlineHow salons in Kathmandu can cut no-shows and late-night WhatsApp back and forth by putting prices, durations and bookings on their own website.
Selling event tickets online in Nepal, without paperHow small venues, gig organisers and wedding planners in Nepal can sell tickets online, run QR check-in at the gate, and finally retire the paper pass.
Taking eSewa and Khalti payments on your shop websiteHow eSewa and Khalti changed Nepali buying, when cash on delivery still makes sense, and why a clear receipt is the real foundation of payment trust.
Sell Online Without a Marketplace Taking Its CutWhat a small Nepali shop gains by selling from its own website instead of only Daraz or Instagram, and when the marketplaces still earn their place.
Product photos that sell, on the phone you already haveA practical guide for Nepali shopkeepers to clean, consistent product photos using a phone, window light, and a metre of plain cloth.