Why Horcrux

commerce should not ask a merchant to become an infrastructure team.

Horcrux is a Bangladesh-first commerce platform built around the work that happens after a storefront goes live: stock, orders, COD, delivery decisions and a record you can trust.

Bangladesh is not a footnote.

Horcrux begins with the way commerce actually moves here: BDT prices, Bangladesh addresses, cash on delivery, local delivery decisions and the operating rhythm of Asia/Dhaka. The first release is deliberately Bangladesh-first. Other countries can be configured, but selling, checkout, payments, shipping and orders remain closed outside the supported commerce market.

A storefront is only the first handoff.

A product becomes useful when the thread survives the handoffs: storefront to cart, checkout to order, order to stock, and order to fulfilment evidence. Horcrux puts those working surfaces in one merchant workspace instead of asking a growing business to reconstruct the truth across disconnected tools.

COD is a first-class path, not a temporary compromise.

A Bangladesh merchant can start on COD without waiting for a payment-provider setup. Optional online checkout uses the merchant's own verified SSLCommerz connection and settles directly to that merchant. Horcrux does not become the custodian of shopper funds, and it charges 0% transaction fee on both current plans.

A useful platform says what it does not do yet.

That means Starter and Essential are the active plans, not a legacy catalogue. It means courier-provider release is separate from adapter code and plan capacity. It means custom storefront builds, Meta features and a merchant public API are not quietly presented as available. Limits are part of the product's honesty.

A platform should not need captivity to be valuable.

Authorized staff can export merchant records and original media as a portable archive. Export is not a restore button, and it does not include credentials or platform secrets. That distinction is intentional: portability belongs to the merchant workflow; internal disaster recovery remains a separate platform responsibility.

The short version

Start with what is true. Build from there.

  • Bangladesh-first commerce in BDT, with COD as a real starting path.
  • A free Starter plan, a clear Essential plan, and 0% Horcrux transaction fees.
  • Direct merchant support, portable exports and limits stated before they surprise you.

The current product boundary matters more than a bigger promise. See the current plans or search the full FAQ for the detail.