The best COD apps for Shopify stores in India (2026)
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India is the world's largest COD market, and no single app covers every COD job. Pick by problem: ACOD (ours) for COD fees plus pin-code, order-value, and customer rules; COD King for SMS/WhatsApp OTP verification of orders; Releasit COD Fee for a broad toolkit with a real free plan; Partialy for collecting partial deposits on high-ticket COD. Many Indian stores run two of these together, one for checkout rules and one for verification.
4.9 · ACOD does this for you: COD fees plus location, order-value, product, and customer rules.
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We develop ACOD, one of the apps below. Every entry, including ours, gets a trade-offs row sourced from public listings, pricing pages, and reviews as of July 2026. Verify current numbers on each listing; pricing and features change.
What an Indian store actually needs from a COD app
The Indian COD stack has three distinct jobs, and apps tend to be great at exactly one of them. Checkout rules: charge a COD fee in INR, offer COD only for serviceable pin codes, cap order values, block repeat refusers. Order verification: confirm the phone number or the intent (OTP, IVR, WhatsApp) before dispatch. Payment collection: partial advances that make refusal expensive. Match the app to the job that's costing you the most; the full India setup walkthrough is in our India COD guide and the RTO reduction playbook.
The comparison table
| App | Rating | Main job | Pricing | Free plan? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACOD: Cash On Delivery COD Fee | 4.9 ★ (100+) | COD fee + pin-code, order-value, product & customer rules | $4.99–9.99/mo flat by Shopify plan; yearly ~20% off | 7-day trial; dev stores free |
| COD King ‑ Part COD & OTP Verify | 4.9 ★ (927) | SMS/WhatsApp OTP verification + partial payments + fee | Usage-based: per-SMS by country (₹1 in India) + % on partial payments | Free to install; pay per use |
| Releasit COD Fee | 4.8 ★ (588) | Fee + OTP + partial payments toolkit | Premium $9.99/mo, Enterprise $29.99/mo; annual −25% | Yes: 60 COD orders/month |
| Partialy: Partial COD Fee | 4.8 ★ (67) | Partial deposits on COD orders | Free → $10 → $24 → $49/mo | Yes: 25 orders/mo, until $100 app-attributed revenue |
ACOD: checkout rules built for pin codes (ours)
ACOD charges the COD fee through a shipping rate two-way linked to the Cash on Delivery payment method, so the ₹49–149 fee applies only when COD is picked and can't be dodged by switching shipping options. For India specifically, the location rules matter most: pin-code conditions support prefix matching, so “hide COD for every pin starting with 19” is one rule, not four hundred pasted codes, and a courier serviceability list translates into a handful of conditions. Add order-value caps, product and collection conditions, and customer-tag blocklists for repeat refusers, all from $4.99/month flat with a 7-day trial. Built for Shopify certified.
ACOD's trade-offs
No OTP, no partial payments, no order forms: ACOD is deliberately the checkout-rules layer, and verification apps stack on top. No free tier for live stores (trial only), the fee is a fixed amount per rate rather than a percentage, and the listing is currently English-only.
COD King: the verification specialist
The reviews leader (927) and built for the Indian fake-order problem: SMS and WhatsApp OTP verification before dispatch, partial advance collection, and a COD fee feature alongside. If bogus orders and unreachable phones are your main RTO driver, verification attacks that directly, and COD King is the strongest dedicated option. Full comparison: ACOD vs COD King.
Trade-offs
Costs scale with order volume: per-SMS charges (₹1 in India) plus 0.8–1% on partial payments, so model the monthly cost at your volume; the promotional $0.01/mo plans are an anchor, not the real cost. Checkout availability rules (pin prefixes, product and customer conditions) are not its depth.
Releasit COD Fee: the broad toolkit
The biggest name in the COD fee niche: conditional fees, WhatsApp OTP, partial payments, and a genuinely useful free plan covering 60 COD orders a month, which makes it the natural starting point for small stores. Its sibling app, Releasit COD Order Form, leads the separate one-click-COD-order-form category if your funnel skips the standard checkout. Full comparison: ACOD vs Releasit COD Fee.
Trade-offs
Paid tiers are the priciest in the fee niche ($9.99–$29.99/mo), and the two-way per-shipping-rate fee link with multiple pay-on-delivery variants isn't its focus. You pay for toolkit breadth whether or not you use all of it.
Partialy: deposits for high-ticket COD
A fast-growing specialist in partial deposit collection: the customer pays a slice online to confirm the COD order, which makes refusing the parcel at the door cost them something. For Indian stores selling above the typical COD comfort band, that's a strong RTO lever, and the free tier (25 orders/month until the app attributes $100 in revenue) prices the experiment at zero.
Trade-offs
It's a deposit app first, not a rules engine: classic COD fee with location and product conditions isn't its center of gravity. The checkout widget shows Partialy branding unless you're on the $49/mo tier, and the app is young (launched June 2025).
How Indian stores combine them
- Most common stack: ACOD for the fee, pin rules, and caps + a verification app (COD King or Releasit's OTP) if fake orders persist after the rules go live. The layers don't conflict; they act at different stages.
- Small store, zero budget: Releasit's free tier covers 60 COD orders a month; graduate to a dedicated rules app when volume or pin-code complexity outgrows it.
- High-ticket catalog: Partialy's deposits or a strict order-value cap in ACOD; both keep the expensive refusal from ever shipping.
- Funnel without standard checkout: a COD order form app (Releasit COD Order Form leads that category), which replaces rather than complements the checkout-rules approach.
The checkout-rules layer, done in 5 minutes
COD fee in INR via a linked shipping rate, pin-prefix serviceability rules, order-value caps, and refuser blocking. From $4.99/month flat with a 7-day free trial, Built for Shopify, 4.9★.
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Frequently asked questions
›Which COD app is best for an Indian Shopify store?
Match the app to the job: ACOD for COD fees and pin-code/order-value/customer rules, COD King for OTP verification, Releasit COD Fee for a broad toolkit with a free plan, Partialy for partial deposits on high-ticket orders. Many stores run a rules app and a verification app together.
›Can I restrict COD by pin code in India?
Yes. ACOD supports exact pin lists and prefix matching, so a courier serviceability list becomes a handful of rules. Customers in blocked pins still check out prepaid.
›What COD fee do Indian stores usually charge?
₹49–149 is the common customer-facing band, typically set at or slightly above the courier's COD handling charge (₹30–60 per shipment). The fee covers costs and nudges UPI-capable buyers to prepay.
›Do I need OTP verification and a COD fee app at the same time?
They solve different problems: the fee and rules filter risky orders at checkout, OTP confirms the phone number before dispatch. Start with the rules (one-time setup, works on every order), then add verification if fake orders persist.