Honest comparison
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Nobody arrives here from nothing. Here is where each of the real alternatives beats us and where it does not — including the rows we lose, because a table where the other side never wins is one nobody believes, including the rows where we are genuinely right.
Excel or Google Sheets: Most Nepali shops selling on Instagram run on exactly this, and it is not a stupid choice — it is free, everyone can already use it, and it fits any shape of business.
| BaseBlock | Excel or Google Sheets | |
|---|---|---|
| Setting it up the way your shop works | Design your own tables and columns. There is no fixed Products or Orders shape you have to bend to. | Anything you like. This is the reason it wins for so long. |
| Two people editing at once | Built for it — roles, departments, and a log of who changed what. | Sheets handles it; Excel on a shared drive does not, and the file becomes Final_v3_new.xlsx. |
| Answering a DM | Every channel in one inbox, with the customer's orders beside the message. | A different app, and copy-paste between them. |
| A comment on a reel becoming a sale | An automation replies publicly and sends the price by DM. | Somebody sits and does it by hand, or it does not happen. |
| Stock being right after a sale | Billing takes it off stock as the bill is made, wherever the sale came from. | Somebody remembers to update the sheet. Usually. Eventually. |
| Doing your own maths, your own way | Formula columns cover the ordinary cases and no more. | Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, macros. Genuinely more powerful than what we have. |
| Working offline | The billing station does. The rest needs a connection. | Excel entirely. Sheets, mostly. |
| What it costs | Free forever on the free plan; रू 999/mo when you outgrow it. | Free. |
The short version: If a spreadsheet is still coping, keep it — genuinely. Move when the cost has stopped being the file and started being the hours: the DMs answered twice, the stock number nobody trusts, the order somebody forgot to write down.
Other companies' prices and capabilities are from their own published pages, checked in September 2026. They change them without telling us — if something here is out of date, say so and it will be fixed.