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Fees, pricing, listings and returns for profitable growth on Flipkart. The system PrimeScale uses for Flipkart fees, the ₹999 line, listings, shipping weight, ads and returns, with every fee rule checked against Flipkart’s official fees page.
What’s inside
Know how Flipkart charges and what each order earns.
The four fees on every order, the two zero-commission rules, and what your seller tier changes.
Know your real profit per delivered order, returns included, before you spend a rupee on ads.
Build clean data, a catalogue and listings that sell.
Get the foundations right once: the data every listing needs, a clean catalogue and the right way to fulfil.
Titles, images and specifications that answer a shopper’s questions before they scroll away.
Price, ship and advertise without leaking margin.
Set prices that hold margin, and cut shipping fees by shrinking the box.
Run ads to a ceiling your own numbers set, and review them every week.
Cut returns and run a 90-day plan.
Returns quietly take profit from every delivered order. Find the cause and fix the listing behind it.
A week-by-week plan from set-up to steady, profitable growth, and when to add another marketplace.
Look inside
Infographics built on Flipkart’s fee rules, checklists you can tick, a worksheet for every SKU and an action box at the end of each chapter.
Free chapter · Chapter 02
Know your real profit per delivered order, returns included, before you spend a rupee on ads.
Profit on Flipkart comes down to five things: the selling price, GST, Flipkart’s four fees, your own costs and your returns. Work them out per delivered order, because returned orders still cost you packaging, a return fee and sometimes the product.
A non-fashion product priced at ₹1,049 including 18% GST, sold by a Silver seller. The 10% commission and every rate-card amount here are examples, not Flipkart’s published rates, so replace them with the ones in your Seller Hub. Product cost is ₹350, packaging and other costs are ₹20 per order shipped, 10% of orders come back, 20% of those can’t be resold, and ads run at 5% of the price.
Per delivered order at ₹1,049
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Selling price | ₹1,049.00 |
| GST collected (18%) | −₹160.02 |
| Commission (10%, example) | −₹104.90 |
| Fixed fee (Silver, example base) | −₹20.00 |
| Collection fee (example) | −₹10.00 |
| Shipping fee (example) | −₹60.00 |
| Product cost | −₹350.00 |
| Packaging and other | −₹20.00 |
| Returns (10% returned, 20% unsellable) | −₹16.66 |
| Ads (5% of price) | −₹52.45 |
| Profit per delivered order | ₹254.97 · 24.31% margin |
Example rate card: fixed fee ₹20, collection fee ₹10, shipping fee ₹60 and a ₹60 fee on each returned order, all before GST. GST on Flipkart’s fees is claimable, so it isn’t counted as a cost.
Outside fashion, commission is charged on the whole selling price once a product reaches ₹1,000. Below ₹1,000 it is 0%. So a price just above the line can earn you less than ₹999.
₹1,049 or ₹999?
| Per delivered order | At ₹1,049 | At ₹999 |
|---|---|---|
| Commission | ₹104.90 | ₹0.00 |
| Flipkart fees, before GST | ₹194.90 | ₹90.00 |
| Payout | ₹813.68 | ₹887.72 |
| Profit | ₹254.97 | ₹319.99 |
| Margin | 24.31% | 32.03% |
Same example inputs as above. Only the price changes.
Work on 100 orders shipped. The orders that come back still cost packaging, the fee Flipkart keeps on a return and sometimes the product. Spread those costs over the orders that are delivered and you get your real profit per order.
The ₹1,049 example on 100 orders shipped
| Line | Orders | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Sales after GST | 90 delivered | ₹80,008.47 |
| Flipkart fees | 90 | −₹17,541.00 |
| Fees on returned orders | 10 returned | −₹600.00 |
| Product cost of delivered units | 90 | −₹31,500.00 |
| Stock lost on returns (20% unsellable) | 2 | −₹700.00 |
| Packaging and other | 100 | −₹2,000.00 |
| Ads | 90 | −₹4,720.50 |
| Profit on 100 orders shipped | ₹22,946.97 |
The calculator assumes Flipkart reverses its other fees on a returned order and keeps only the return fee.
₹254.97
Profit per delivered order at ₹1,049
₹598
Lowest price that breaks even, with the same costs
29.31%
Most you can spend on ads before a delivered order makes a loss
Break-even ad spend
(Profit per delivered order + ad spend per order) ÷ selling price
Example: (₹254.97 + ₹52.45) ÷ ₹1,049 = 29.31%
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Every fee rule was checked against Flipkart’s official fees page on 14 September 2026, including 0% commission below ₹1,000 and 0% commission on fashion at any price since 8 July 2026. Flipkart shows exact fixed, collection and shipping amounts only in Seller Hub, so worked examples use clearly labelled example amounts.
Eight chapters across four parts: how Flipkart charges, unit economics and the ₹999 line, account and catalogue set-up, listings, pricing and shipping weight, ads, returns and a 13-week plan. It includes worked examples, infographics, checklists and a SKU worksheet.
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