Search Nepali products in one place. Tap a result — you're at the shop.

What pasal.biz actually is

Think of pasal.biz the way you think of Google Search — but narrowed to one job: finding products in Nepal.

We crawl the public web for shops registered in Nepal, read their public product pages, and put everything into one searchable index. When you search "laptop bag" or "saaj" or "instant noodles Kathmandu," you get results from many different shops on one results page. Each result links back to the shop that actually sells the item.

We are not a marketplace. We don't have a shopping cart. We don't process payments. We don't pack boxes or hire delivery riders. We don't hold inventory. We are infrastructure — the part that helps you find a product when you don't already know which shop has it.

Why this exists

If you've ever tried to find a specific product available in Nepal, you've probably noticed:

• Google is global. It surfaces Amazon, AliExpress, and other shops that don't deliver to Nepal — or that charge customs that wreck the price. NPR pricing rarely shows up correctly.
• Daraz and Hamrobazar only show what's in their own walled marketplace. The thousands of independent Nepali shops with their own websites are invisible there.
• Searching shop by shop means opening five tabs and comparing manually. Most people give up and just buy from whichever shop they remembered.

Nobody was aggregating Nepal-wide product availability across all shops without owning the transaction. That gap is what pasal.biz fills.

How a search works (start to finish)

1. You search on pasal.biz — by product name, category, or city.
2. Results appear: each one shows the product name, photo, price, and the shop selling it.
3. You tap a result. We open the product detail page on pasal.biz — same product, same price, same photos, but inside our app so you can compare without losing the result.
4. On that detail page there's one big button: "View on shopname.com.np". Tap it.
5. That tap forwards you out to the shop's actual product page on the shop's actual website.
6. You buy on the shop's website, the way you would have anyway. pasal.biz is no longer involved.

The detail page in step 3 is deliberate. It's where you can read the full description, see the photos at full size, and — most importantly — see who is actually selling the product before you leave pasal.biz. We want you to know exactly which shop you're about to transact with. Because the shop's own page is always one tap away, you can confirm the current price, stock, and availability on the source itself — where the shop is the source of truth.

Pasal is the index, not the seller

This is the single most important thing to understand, so we'll spell it out:

We're saying this clearly because some shoppers are used to marketplaces (Daraz, Amazon) where the marketplace itself is the counterparty for refunds and disputes. pasal.biz is not that. We're a search engine. The relationship is between you and the shop.

How to check a shop before paying

Most Nepali shops listed on pasal.biz are perfectly legitimate small businesses doing their own e-commerce. A few are not. Because we index automatically, we cannot tell the difference for every shop — that's a job you, the shopper, should do before paying any shop you haven't used before.

A quick five-step check, takes about 90 seconds:

1. Open the shop's website. Does it have a real Nepal address, a working phone number, and a contact email? Try calling the number — if it rings and someone answers in Nepali, that's a good sign.
2. Search the shop's name on Google. Are there reviews, complaints, or news mentions? A shop that's been operating in Nepal for years usually has a footprint.
3. Check the badge on the shop's pasal.biz profile. Shops marked auto-listed have not gone through any verification with us — they were added from public sources. Shops marked verified have passed additional checks. The absence of an auto-listed badge is itself a positive signal.
4. Prefer cash on delivery for the first order from a shop you don't know. If the shop only accepts upfront digital payment, that's a yellow flag — not a red flag, but worth a second look.
5. If a deal looks too cheap, treat it with suspicion. Real shops can't sell ₹1,200 headphones for ₹200; counterfeits and bait-and-switch can.

These are the same checks you'd do before ordering from any unfamiliar website. pasal.biz is a search engine — finding a shop here is not an endorsement.

How we find shops

pasal.biz adds shops to the index three ways:

• Shops connect a feed. WooCommerce, Shopify, Google Merchant, and CSV feeds let a shop push their catalog to us directly. This is the cleanest path and the most up-to-date — see the catalog ingestion guide.
• We crawl the public web. Our crawler identifies itself as PasalBot in the User-Agent header so server admins can see us in their access logs. Our policy is to respect robots.txt — if a shop's website tells crawlers to stay away from a path, we stay away; if it sets a Crawl-delay, we honour it. We don't crawl behind logins, and we rate-limit per host so a small shop never sees a burst from us.
• We add shops one-by-one from public business directories. Nepali shops with a public web presence sometimes appear in our index because we found them in a directory or sitemap — the shop's own pages still get linked, never a cached copy.

More on our crawler policy and how to block us is on the PasalBot page.

Freshness — and why we always link to the source

Pasal.biz holds a snapshot of each shop's catalog, not a live mirror. Prices change, stock runs out, products get retired. That's why we always link back to the shop's own product page, never to a cached copy. You can confirm the current price, stock, and availability on the source page itself, where the shop is the source of truth.

Shops that have claimed their listing can re-sync on demand and tend to be much fresher than unclaimed ones.

What pasal.biz doesn't do

• Take a commission. We don't take a cut of any sale. Shops receive 100% of what you pay them.
• Charge for placement. A shop cannot pay us to rank higher. Results are ordered by relevance, freshness, and signals we control.
• Insert ads into shop listings. Your view of a shop's products is clean — no third-party banners, no competitor ads.
• Share your data with shops. Until you tap "View on shopname.com.np" and leave pasal.biz, the shop doesn't know you exist. Once you're on the shop's site, you're a normal visitor to that site — subject to the shop's privacy policy, not ours.
• Hold inventory or ship products. We have zero warehouses and zero delivery riders. Every shop runs its own fulfillment.

For shop owners reading this

If you found your own shop on pasal.biz and you didn't sign up — that's expected. We add Nepali shops from public sources and crawl publicly available product pages. You have three options, all free:

• Do nothing. The listing keeps re-syncing on its own. Traffic continues flowing to your website at no cost to you.
• Claim the listing. Email [email protected] from the email address on your shop's website with your shop name and the pasal.biz business page URL. We verify ownership and transfer the listing to your pasal.biz account — then you can edit the business profile, choose how often we re-sync, hide individual products, and trigger a manual sync after a big catalog change.
• Ask us to delist. Email [email protected] from the email address on your website and we'll remove the listing. You can also block PasalBot in your robots.txt and we'll stop crawling on the next pass.

If you'd rather go further — connect a product feed so updates flow automatically the moment your catalog changes — see our guide on connecting an existing e-commerce site to pasal.biz. Still free; still no commission.

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