The Hosting Workspace: Plans & Getting Started
Two ways to unlock Hosting — the Hosted App add-on for existing store merchants, or a dedicated Hosting plan — and a tour of the workspace once it's live.
Hosting is available two ways, depending on whether you already run a BillionBiz store.
If you have a store: the Hosted App add-on
Any merchant on any store plan — including Free — can add standalone website hosting as a per-app add-on. You buy one "app" per website you want to host.
| Add-on | Monthly | Annual | Per unit you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted App (required) | ₹399 | ₹3,990 | 1 website, 5 GB storage, 50 GB bandwidth/month, 1 custom domain, 5 deploy-history slots, 500 form submissions/month, Google Analytics, SEO tools |
| Storage top-up | ₹99 | ₹990 | +10 GB storage |
| Bandwidth top-up | ₹149 | ₹1,490 | +100 GB bandwidth/month |
| Forms top-up | ₹199 | ₹1,990 | +5,000 form submissions/month |
The Hosted App add-on is the only purchase required to unlock hosting — it switches on the Hosted Apps area in your admin panel. Need more than one website? Buy additional Hosted App units. Storage, bandwidth, and form-submission allowances add up across all your units; per-unit limits (such as custom domains per site) use the per-unit value. Top-ups let you scale a single resource without buying a whole extra app.
Already a store merchant?
You don't go through sign-up again. Open your admin panel, go to Settings → Billing & Plan → Add-ons, and buy a Hosted App add-on. The Hosted Apps area appears in your sidebar the moment the payment is verified.
Buying a Hosted App (or a top-up)
Screen: Go to Settings → Billing & Plan → Add-ons.
Every add-on — Hosted App, Storage top-up, Bandwidth top-up, and Forms top-up — is its own card on this screen, each with the same buy flow:
Pick a billing cycle
Each card has a Monthly / Annual toggle. Annual carries a savings badge next to it.
Set the quantity
Use the − / + stepper to choose how many units to buy (for Storage/Bandwidth/Forms top-ups, one unit = the amount shown in the pricing table above). The card totals the price live as you adjust it.
Click Buy
If you don't already have this add-on active, the button reads Buy; if you already have units of it, it reads Add more instead — either way it starts the same purchase.
Pay in the card dialog
A payment dialog opens in-app showing the amount to charge. Enter your card details and click Pay — this drives Razorpay's Custom Checkout without leaving the page. If the price change is fully covered by an existing credit, no card dialog appears at all and the add-on activates immediately.
An active add-on shows a badge on its card with the quantity you own (e.g. "2 apps").
Cancelling an add-on
Every active add-on card has a Cancel link beneath the Buy button. Clicking it opens a confirm dialog: "Cancel your <add-on name> add-on? You will lose access at the end of the billing period." Confirming schedules the cancellation — you keep access until the current billing period ends.
Billing History
Screen: Go to Settings → Billing & Plan → Add-ons → Billing History tab.
This tab has two sections:
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Payment History | Total spent to date, plus a paginated table of every add-on invoice: date, description, amount, status (paid/pending/failed), and when it was paid |
| Add-on Event History | A paginated log of every quantity change per add-on — Subscribed, Cancelled, Renewed, Upgraded, or Downgraded — with the quantity delta (e.g. "+2") and date |
If you only need hosting: a Hosting plan
If you want website hosting without a store, choose a dedicated Hosting plan at sign-up. Annual billing is the equivalent of two months free.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Apps | Storage | Bandwidth/mo | Domains/site | Deploy history | Form submissions/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | ₹499 | ₹4,990 | 1 | 5 GB | 50 GB | 1 | 5 | 500 |
| Pro | ₹1,499 | ₹14,990 | 5 | 25 GB | 250 GB | 3 | 20 | 5,000 |
| Business | ₹3,999 | ₹39,990 | 20 | 100 GB | 1,000 GB | 10 | 50 | 25,000 |
All Hosting plans include custom domains with automatic HTTPS, Google Analytics, and SEO tools. A hosting-only account sees a streamlined admin panel — Hosted Apps, Newsletter, SEO, Analytics, and Billing — with the store-only sections hidden.
Billing
Choose Monthly or Annual at checkout; annual saves roughly two months. Mid-cycle purchases and upgrades are prorated automatically. There is no free tier for standalone website hosting — your store hosting remains free on every store plan.
Getting started: from sign-up to your dashboard
New to BillionBiz? The journey from the public website to a working dashboard is five short steps. Start at billionbiz.in and click Get Started.
About You
Enter your name, email, phone, and company. Click Send OTP; you'll receive a 6-digit code by email. Enter it to verify your email address. (Already registered? A "Log in" link appears instead.)
Business Info
Enter your business name (the address is checked for availability as you type), pick an industry, and tell us your business size.
Choose Plan
Toggle Monthly / Annual. You'll see two tabs — Online Store (store plans, including Free) and Hosting (the dedicated hosting plans). Pick the plan that fits. Use Compare all features to see everything side by side.
Review
Confirm your details and plan, accept the Terms, Privacy, Refund, and Cancellation policies, then continue. A Free store plan launches immediately; a paid plan or a Hosting plan continues to payment.
Payment
Enter your card in the secure in-page form and click Pay & Activate. On success, your subscription activates and a Log In to Admin Panel button appears. Your admin login credentials are also emailed to you.
After onboarding, your admin panel lives at admin.billionbiz.in.
The Hosting workspace tour
Once hosting is unlocked, a Hosted Apps entry appears in your left sidebar, under a dedicated Hosting group. Click it to open your list of hosted websites.
Screen: Go to Hosting → Hosted Apps.
Hosting-only accounts see a focused sidebar: Hosted Apps, Newsletter (under Marketing), SEO, Analytics, and Billing. Store accounts with the add-on keep their full store sidebar and gain the Hosted Apps entry, plus an app-selector in the top bar to scope hosting screens to a specific website.
Inside a site you'll find these tabs:
| Tab | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Overview | Live URL, last deployment, quota usage, and a quick traffic snapshot |
| Deployments | Upload a new build, see deployment history, promote or roll back |
| Domains | Your free subdomain plus any custom domains, with the DNS setup guide |
| Submissions | Lead/contact form submissions captured from your site |
| Activity | A timeline of every deploy, domain, and settings change |
| Settings | Form recipient email, routing mode (static vs. single-page app), and more |
Account-wide, Settings → Billing & Plan → Add-ons is where you buy and manage hosting capacity, and Marketing → Newsletter is where you manage subscribers and campaigns across all your sites.
Site status
Each site in your list carries its own status chip, separate from the deployment states covered in Creating & Deploying a Site:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Active | The site is live and serving normally |
| Provisioning | The site was just created and its infrastructure is still being set up |
| Archived | The site has been taken offline (shown in a neutral colour, not an error) |
| Failed | Something went wrong provisioning the site |
If you're at your site limit
If your plan or add-on quantity caps how many sites you can host and you've reached it, an upgrade banner appears above your sites list and the Add Site button is disabled. The banner tells you which feature is capped and links you to buy more capacity — from your existing Hosted App add-ons (buy another unit) or by upgrading your Hosting plan.
Next steps
- Creating & Deploying a Site — create your first site and understand the deploy lifecycle.
- Uploading Your Site — the build command and what to zip, by framework.