Flipkart settlement calculator.
Flipkart pays you the selling price minus six or seven separate deductions, and the ones that hurt are rarely the one you were watching. Enter a price, a category and a weight, and see the settlement and the profit that actually reach you — with every deduction itemised rather than lumped into a single fee figure.
Profitable but thin — small shifts could tip it negative.
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Profit calculation
Rate card defaults are illustrative. Verify commissions, fixed fees, and shipping slabs against your Seller Central rate card before pricing decisions.
The rate card behind this calculator uses illustrative defaults. Flipkart's commission, fixed-fee and shipping schedules vary by category, seller tier and time, so before you price a product on these numbers, check them against Seller Hub → Fees & Commission and override the commission percentage if yours differs.
How it is worked out.
Settlement = Selling Price − Commission − Fixed Fee − Collection Fee − Shipping − Ads − Expected Returns
- Commission
- A percentage of the selling price set by category. Fashion sits around 14%, home and kitchen around 8%, electronics around 5% — the spread between categories is wider than most sellers assume.
- Fixed fee
- A flat charge that steps up with the selling price: roughly ₹15 under ₹300, ₹20 to ₹500, ₹35 to ₹1,000, ₹55 above that. On a cheap item it is a much larger share of the order than the commission.
- Collection fee
- Payment handling — around 2% prepaid and 2.5% on cash on delivery. Small per order, and the reason a COD-heavy catalogue quietly earns less than a prepaid one.
- Shipping
- Charged on billable weight and distance zone, in slabs. Billable weight is the GREATER of actual weight and volumetric weight (length × width × height ÷ 5000), which is what catches light bulky items.
- Expected returns
- A rate, not an event. Each return costs the forward shipping, the reverse shipping and the packaging, so the calculator charges your return percentage against those rather than pretending returns happen to someone else.
- Net GST
- Selling price and cost are both treated as tax-inclusive. Output GST on the sale less input credit on the goods is what you actually remit.
Settlement is not profit. Settlement is what Flipkart transfers; profit is what remains after your cost of goods and the GST you owe. The calculator shows both, because the gap between them is where the surprise usually is.
With real numbers.
A ₹1,299 apparel SKU costing ₹420 landed. 400 g, zonal delivery, seller-fulfilled, prepaid, 8% ad spend, 15% return rate.
| Selling price | ₹1,299 |
|---|---|
| Commission (Fashion, 14%) | −₹181.86 |
| Fixed fee (₹1,001+ slab) | −₹55.00 |
| Collection fee (prepaid, 2%) | −₹25.98 |
| Shipping (zonal, ≤500 g) | −₹55.00 |
| Ad spend (8%) | −₹103.92 |
| Expected returns, cancellations, damage | −₹25.32 |
| Packaging | −₹10.00 |
| Net settlement | ₹841.92 |
| Less cost of goods and net GST | −₹514.18 |
| Net profit | ₹327.74 |
Net settlement = ₹841.92 on a ₹1,299 order — ₹327.74 of actual profit
Flipkart's own fees came to ₹317.84, about a quarter of the order. But the deductions that turned ₹1,299 into ₹327.74 were mostly not Flipkart's: advertising took ₹103.92 and GST took ₹94.18 net. A seller watching only the commission line would have been watching the wrong number.
What the number means.
Read the profit margin, not the settlement. A large settlement on a high-priced item can still be a thin margin, and it is the margin that decides whether the product is worth advertising, stocking or listing at all.
| Range | Verdict | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Below 0% | Loss on every order | The listing costs you money each time it sells, and advertising it makes the loss faster. Usually fixable by price or by weight band before it is fixable by cost. |
| 0% – 10% | Too thin to defend | A commission revision, a bad returns month or a competitor's price cut takes this negative. Survivable at volume, and dangerous to advertise hard. |
| 10% – 20% | Workable | Where a lot of Flipkart listings honestly sit. Enough to fund modest advertising, not enough to absorb a mistake. |
| Above 20% | Strong | Room to advertise properly, absorb returns and still fund stock. Worth double-checking that returns and storage are in the numbers before you plan around it. |
Once you have the margin, you have your break-even ACOS too — they are the same number. A 25% margin means an advertising cost of sale above 25% is buying you sales at a loss.
Where this goes wrong.
- 01
Reading settlement as profit
Settlement is what Flipkart transfers. Your cost of goods and the GST you owe both come out of it afterwards. In the example above the settlement is ₹841.92 and the profit is ₹327.74 — a gap of more than five hundred rupees on a single order.
- 02
Using actual weight instead of billable weight
Shipping is charged on the greater of actual and volumetric weight, where volumetric is length × width × height ÷ 5000. A light, bulky item — a cushion, a lampshade, anything boxed with air — ships at a slab well above what the scale says, and the difference lands on every order.
- 03
Forgetting the fixed fee on low-priced items
At ₹1,299 the ₹55 fixed fee is 4% of the order. At ₹280 the ₹15 fee is 5.4%, and it is charged before commission, shipping or anything else. Cheap SKUs are disproportionately punished by a charge that does not scale.
- 04
Treating returns as an occasional annoyance
In apparel and footwear a fifth to a quarter of orders come back, and each one costs the forward shipping, the reverse shipping and often the packaging. Modelled as a rate it is a permanent line item; modelled as bad luck it is invisible until the month closes.
- 05
Assuming the default rate card is your rate card
Commission varies by category, by sub-category and by seller tier, and Flipkart revises it. The defaults here are illustrative. Pull your real commission from Seller Hub and use the override field — a two-point difference on commission is roughly ₹26 an order at this price.
- 06
Comparing a COD price to a prepaid one
Cash on delivery carries a higher collection fee and a materially higher cancellation rate. A catalogue that is mostly COD earns less per order than the same catalogue prepaid, before anything else differs.
The rest of the set.
Where the real numbers live.
- Flipkart seller analytics
The rest of what we build for Flipkart — PLA advertising analysis and the Earn More opportunity report.
- Flipkart PLA search terms
Advertising is the second-largest deduction in the example above. This is where you find the part of it that produced nothing.
- Ecommerce margin calculator
This page is one order. That one is a whole month, with storage and unrecovered returns included.
The advertising line was bigger than the fixed fee, the collection fee and shipping combined.
₹103.92 of that ₹1,299 order went on ads. Some of it produced the sale; some of it produced nothing at all. Upload your PLA search term export and see which was which — it parses in your browser and needs no account.
Questions people actually ask.
How is the Flipkart settlement amount calculated?
Flipkart takes the selling price and deducts commission (a category percentage), a fixed fee that steps up with price, a collection fee for payment handling, and shipping charged on billable weight and distance zone. What remains is your settlement. Your own costs — goods, advertising, packaging and the GST you owe — come out of that afterwards, which is why settlement is always noticeably larger than profit.
What is the difference between settlement and profit on Flipkart?
Settlement is the amount Flipkart transfers to your bank. Profit is what is left after your landed cost of goods and net GST. On the ₹1,299 apparel example on this page the settlement is ₹841.92 and the profit is ₹327.74 — the settlement figure is more than two and a half times the profit, which is exactly why pricing off settlement is dangerous.
What is billable weight on Flipkart?
The greater of the actual weight and the volumetric weight, where volumetric weight is length × width × height in centimetres divided by 5000, expressed in kilograms. Shipping is charged on whichever is higher. This is what makes light, bulky items expensive to ship — a large box of low-density goods is billed as though it were much heavier than the scale says.
Does Flipkart charge GST on its fees?
Yes, GST applies on top of marketplace fees. If you are GST-registered you reclaim it as input credit, so the fee net of tax is your real cost; if you are not registered, or the credit is stuck, you genuinely bear it. This calculator treats your selling price and cost of goods as tax-inclusive and shows the net GST you remit, which is output tax on the sale less input credit on the goods.
Why is my actual settlement different from this estimate?
Most often because your commission rate differs from the illustrative default — commission varies by sub-category and seller tier and Flipkart revises it periodically. Other common causes are a different weight slab than expected because billable weight exceeded actual weight, promotional or campaign fees not modelled here, and returns settled in a later cycle than the sale. Pull your real rate card from Seller Hub and use the commission override.
Is Flipkart or Amazon better for margin?
Closer than the fee structures suggest. Run the same ₹1,299 apparel SKU through both calculators and Flipkart settles ₹841.92 against Amazon's ₹839.93 — a difference of about two rupees, reached by completely different routes. Flipkart charges a lower commission but adds a fixed fee and a collection fee; Amazon charges a higher referral percentage with a closing fee instead. Which wins depends entirely on your category and price point, so it is worth running your own numbers rather than trusting a general answer.
How do I reduce Flipkart fees?
The lever with the most room is usually weight band — reducing packaging dimensions enough to drop a shipping slab saves on every order and costs nothing per unit. After that: reduce returns by fixing the listings that cause them, shift the mix toward prepaid to cut collection fees and cancellations, and check whether your category classification is correct, since a mis-categorised listing can carry several points of unnecessary commission.