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The short answer
Flipkart charges no commission on products priced below ₹1,000, in any category, and none on fashion at any price. Above ₹1,000, commission is charged per category and commonly runs from around 2 to 5 percent at the low end, such as mobiles, up to about 22 percent at the high end, such as jewellery. Commission is only one of four deductions though. Every order also carries a fixed closing fee, a shipping fee and a collection fee, with GST at 18 percent applied on top of all four.
The commission percentage alone is the wrong number to plan with, because it is roughly half the story. Four separate fees come off each order.
Commission, a percentage set by sub-category. A fixed closing fee, set by price slab and seller tier. A shipping fee, set by weight and delivery zone. A collection fee for payment processing. Then 18 percent GST on the total of those four.
Two products in the same category at different price points can therefore keep very different shares of the sale price, because the fixed fees do not scale.
Commission itself is simply final sale price multiplied by the category rate. The useful calculation is the full one: sale price, minus commission, minus fixed closing fee, minus shipping fee, minus collection fee, minus GST on that total, minus your product cost. What is left is the contribution margin your advertising has to come out of.
Flipkart publishes a rate card and a fee calculator in Seller Hub, and several third-party calculators exist. Use the Seller Hub one, because it is the one that reflects your account.
No. Flipkart's own fee page says it charges 0% commission on every product priced below ₹1,000, whatever the category. It brought this in during November 2025, and in July 2026 it extended zero commission to the whole fashion category at any price. The fixed closing fee and shipping still apply to those orders, so a ₹999 order still has costs.
Rates and slabs are revised by sub-category regularly, and any published figure ages badly. Check your own rate in Seller Hub under fee structure before you price inventory. That includes checking it against the numbers on this page.
The shipping fee is set per order by the parcel's weight slab and by how far it travels: local, zonal or national, with national costing the most. Flipkart's own seller calculator notes free local and zonal shipping for products under 500 grams. Where your stock sits matters, because a seller shipping from one city pays national rates to most of the country.
You're billed on actual weight or volumetric weight, whichever is higher. Volumetric weight is length × breadth × height in centimetres, divided by 5,000. A 300 gram product in an oversized carton can be billed as a much heavier parcel on every order, so right-size the box and check whether your best sellers sit just above a weight slab.
Returns are charged shipping too, in both directions. Cutting your return rate cuts your shipping bill more reliably than any packaging change. Confirm the current slabs and divisor in Seller Hub before you rebuild packaging around them.
Listing and registration carry no upfront charge, so getting on the platform is free. Selling is not. The fees above come out of every order, and for a thin-margin product they can be the difference between a business and a hobby.
Work the full deduction stack out before you list, not after your first settlement report.
| Deduction | How it is set |
|---|---|
| Commission | Percentage, by sub-category. 0 percent below ₹1,000 and on fashion; roughly 2 to 22 percent otherwise |
| Fixed closing fee | By price slab and seller tier |
| Shipping fee | By weight and delivery zone |
| Collection fee | Payment processing |
| GST | 18 percent on the total of the four above |
Structure as published across Indian seller resources in 2026; the 0 percent rule is from Flipkart's own fee page, checked 29 September 2026. Rates move by sub-category, so treat this as the shape of the calculation and take your actual numbers from Seller Hub.
No. Flipkart charges 0% commission on products priced below ₹1,000 in every category. The fixed closing fee and shipping fee still apply.
Yes. Since July 2026 Flipkart charges no commission on fashion products at any price.
In Seller Hub, under the fee structure and rate card, or with Flipkart's fee calculator for a specific listing. It reflects your category, price and seller tier, which third-party tables can't.
It depends on the parcel's weight slab and the delivery zone: local, zonal or national. You're charged on actual or volumetric weight, whichever is higher, and returns carry shipping in both directions.
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