PDFCart is built by Saumya Shukla, who has spent the last 10 years in Indian EdTech — working with Graphy, BYJU’S Exam Prep and Gradeup — building for creators, coaching institutes and students.
The pattern kept repeating. A teacher writes genuinely good notes, a designer makes a template worth paying for, a doctor writes a revision guide — and then loses a quarter of every sale to a platform priced in dollars, paid out through PayPal, with a checkout their buyers do not recognise. So we built PDFCart to do one thing well: let any Indian creator upload a file, price it in rupees, and get paid straight to their bank by UPI.
What that means in practice
- Rupee checkout. Buyers pay by UPI, card or netbanking — the way India actually pays.
- Money to an Indian bank. Your share of each sale settles to your own account via Razorpay Route, typically T+1 or T+2.
- One simple fee. 8% per sale, payment gateway charges included. You keep 92%.
- PDFs, ZIPs and full courses. Sell a single file, a folder of chapters, or a whole PDF course bundle.
- Downloadable or read-only. Protect premium work by selling it view-only.
PDFCart runs on the same infrastructure that powers Igniter’s live-class and course platform for Indian academies — so the payments, payouts and content-delivery pipeline were already carrying real student and creator transactions before the first PDF was ever listed here.
Today 3,396 sellers use PDFCart, and 5,234 PDFs have been sold through it.