Flipkart commission rates 2026, category by category.

Flipkart's fee schedule trips people up for a different reason than Amazon's: the commission is set at a much more granular level. It's not "Beauty = 8%" — it's the specific sub-category, sometimes split further by price band, and Flipkart revises these rate cards periodically. Two products a seller thinks of as "the same kind of thing" can carry commissions 10 points apart.

So before you list anything on Flipkart, you need to know exactly which four fees apply and how they stack. Here's the full 2026 picture, India-specific.

The four fees on every Flipkart order

Flipkart shows these on your settlement as separate "Marketplace Fee" components. Let's take each one.

1. Commission fee — granular and category-specific

The commission is a percentage of the selling price, set per sub-category. It's the single biggest deduction and the one that varies most. Representative 2026 bands across Flipkart categories:

The big trap on Flipkart is that the rate card moves. Flipkart revises commissions by sub-category, often around big sale events. A SKU that was profitable at 11% can quietly become marginal at 14% after a rate-card update you didn't notice. We check client rate cards every cycle for exactly this reason.

2. Collection fee — the payment-mode tax

Flipkart charges a collection fee for processing the customer's payment. It differs by payment method, and the COD (cash on delivery) handling typically costs more than prepaid because of the extra logistics and risk. It's usually a small percentage or a flat slab depending on order value, but on a high-COD category — common in Tier 2/3 demand — it adds up across volume.

If your category skews heavily COD, that fee plus the higher return rate that comes with COD is a real margin factor, not a rounding error.

3. Fixed fee — flat, and it steps with order value

The fixed fee is a flat rupee amount per order that increases across order-value slabs. Rough 2026 shape:

• Very low order value (well under ₹300): often ₹0 or a few rupees
• Mid bands (₹300–₹500, ₹500–₹1,000): a stepped flat fee, often ₹10–₹35
• Higher order values: a larger flat fee that still stops mattering as a % on expensive items

Like Amazon's closing fee, the fixed fee is brutal on cheap products and negligible on expensive ones. On a ₹150 item, a ₹15 fixed fee is 10% of the sale by itself.

4. Shipping fee — weight band × zone

If Flipkart fulfils the shipment, you pay a shipping fee based on the weight slab and the delivery zone (Local → Zonal → National). As with Amazon, billable weight is the higher of actual and volumetric weight, so bulky-but-light products get penalised. National-zone shipments on heavier items are where margin disappears fastest.

Flipkart's fulfilment options (seller-shipped / Flipkart-fulfilled / F-Assured) change both the shipping cost and the conversion lift, so the same trade-off applies as on Amazon: a higher fee can be worth it if the badge lifts conversion enough.

A worked example: ₹699 fashion accessory

Fashion accessory, ₹699, 500g, zonal shipping, prepaid, GST-registered seller, 14% commission sub-category:

That's roughly 66% of sale price before COGS, packaging and ads. Now flip one number: if Flipkart revises this sub-category to 18% commission, you lose another ~₹28 and an extra ₹5 of GST — your net drops to ~₹431, a 5-point margin hit from a rate-card change you didn't cause. This is why the rate card is something you monitor, not something you check once.

Flipkart vs Amazon: the fee differences that matter

• Granularity: Flipkart's commissions are set at a finer sub-category level and revised more visibly around sale events. Amazon's referral fees are broader but also slab-dependent.
• Naming: Amazon's "referral + closing" maps loosely to Flipkart's "commission + fixed fee." Flipkart's separate collection fee has no clean Amazon equivalent.
• Audience: Flipkart skews more value-conscious and Tier 2/3, which means more COD, higher collection-fee exposure and higher return rates in some categories.
• The ₹1,000 relief applies on both — low-value items get meaningful fee relief on either marketplace, which reshapes how you price entry SKUs.

We put the two side by side in Amazon vs Flipkart vs Meesho, and there's a quick Amazon vs Flipkart fee comparison tool if you just want the numbers.

The Flipkart fees people forget

• Pick-up / reverse logistics on returns — high-return categories carry real return-shipping cost.
• Cancellation & SPF (Seller Protection Fund) impacts — service-quality penalties hit settlements and account health.
• Storage fees if you use Flipkart-fulfilled warehousing for slow movers.
• TCS (1%) & TDS — collected at source, reconcilable at filing but a cash-flow drag every cycle.

What to do before listing on Flipkart

1. Pull the exact commission for your precise sub-category and price band from the Seller Hub rate card.
2. Add the fixed fee for your order-value slab and the collection fee for your expected payment mix.
3. Compute billable weight and apply the shipping fee for your most common delivery zone.
4. Apply 18% GST on the total fees.
5. Re-check the rate card every cycle — especially before Big Billion Days — because commissions move and your old model goes stale silently.