Marketplace fee guides

Everything here is sourced and dated. Where we're relying on an estimate rather than an official figure, we say so — because most marketplace fee content on the internet is stale, and stale fee data costs sellers real money.

Start here if you read nothing else In March 2026, Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho all moved to 0% commission on products under ₹1,000. If you learned marketplace economics before this year, your rules of thumb are wrong.

Start here: what each marketplace charges

The March 2026 marketplace fee reset What actually changed on Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho — and why most guides you'll find still quote the old rates. 8 min read. What Amazon India actually charges in 2026 234 referral categories, the ₹1,000 cliff, closing fees, weight-based shipping, FBA and GST. With real numbers. 9 min read. Meesho's 0% commission: what it really costs Zero commission is real and verified. It isn't the same as free. Where Meesho actually earns, and when it wins. 7 min read. Flipkart fees and the rate card that doesn't exist 0% under ₹1,000, tier-dependent above it — and why no article can tell you your real rate. 7 min read.

The costs that decide your margin

With commission at zero below ₹1,000, these are what actually determine whether a product works. All four are more under your control than your choice of marketplace is.

Weight slabs, zones, and the 50g that costs ₹32 Shipping is charged in 500g steps, not by weight. Crossing a boundary by ten grams costs the same as adding half a kilo. 5 min read. What a return actually costs you Not a missed sale — a sale you paid for twice. One return costs more than one successful order earns. 5 min read. GST and Input Tax Credit GST is collected, not earned. Treating it as a cost understates your profit by a third on a ₹499 order. 6 min read. Break-even, and how to price backwards Start from the margin you need and solve for the price, including returns, ad spend and fixed costs. 6 min read.

Worked examples and reference

A ₹499 t-shirt on all three, line by line One real product costed end to end on Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho — then the four changes that flip the answer. 5 min read. Marketplace fee glossary Every term on your settlement report defined plainly — referral, closing, ACoS, ITC, RTO, volumetric weight. 6 min read.

How we source these

Every figure comes from the marketplace's own published pages where one exists. Each carries the date we last checked it, and a link so you can check it yourself.

Where no official source exists — Flipkart's per-seller commission, Meesho's shipping slabs — we label the figure an estimate and tell you where to find your real number. We don't copy figures from other blogs and present them as fact. We checked several while building this, and found them contradicting each other by as much as 25 percentage points on the same question.

Rates drift constantly. Two Amazon categories changed on 10 June 2026 while this site was being built. Confirm against your seller panel before pricing anything, no matter who told you the number.

The full standard — our sourcing hierarchy, the verified/estimate rule, how often we re-check, and what we do when we get something wrong — is set out on our methodology page.

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