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Payment and GST compliance
Which hosting companies bill in rupees, put your GSTIN on the invoice, accept UPI, and get their auto-renewals through on an Indian card.
Payment and GST compliance
round 1 · 29 August 2026| Host | Bills in INR | GSTIN on invoice | UPI | Reminder before charge | Manual payment link | Checked |
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| First round in progress. Rows appear as each host is checked — we publish partial data rather than waiting, and date every row. | ||||||
Why this matters
Two things go wrong for Indian businesses, and neither appears in any global hosting review.
The renewal declines and the site goes offline. Under the RBI's e-mandate framework a recurring card charge needs a mandate registered with additional factor authentication, a pre-debit notification at least 24 hours ahead, and fresh authentication every time the amount exceeds ₹15,000. Annual hosting renewals routinely exceed it. Merchants that never adapted see their charges fail on valid, funded cards. Full explanation here.
You cannot claim the tax back. A dollar invoice from an overseas provider carries no Indian GST, so a GST-registered business has nothing to claim as input tax credit — while also paying a forex markup of roughly 3.5% on the card, plus GST on that markup fee. Same sticker price, different real cost.
How we collected it
For each host we open a paid account or take the checkout as far as payment selection, then record what we can see with our own eyes: the currency charged, whether the tax invoice in the billing panel carries a GSTIN field, which payment methods are offered at renewal rather than only at signup, whether a pre-debit reminder actually arrives, and whether an unpaid invoice can be settled manually when auto-renewal fails.
We do not record what a host's marketing page claims. Only what happened.
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