Under ₹1,000 Product Margin Calculator: Compare Profit per Order Across Marketplaces

A product under ₹1,000 can pay no referral fee or commission and still lose money, because closing or fixed fee, shipping, returns and 18% GST on fees remain. Amazon.in charges 0% referral fee under ₹1,000 across 1,800+ categories from 16 March 2026. Flipkart announced no commission on eligible products under ₹1,000 on 14 November 2025. Use the calculator below with your own numbers, as of 9 November 2026.

What defaults does the calculator use?

You can edit every number. The commission default is 0% for all three channels because of the announcements above. Nothing else is a published universal rate.

Where a marketplace is not Amazon, we have not found a public rupee table for fixed fee, shipping or collection fee, so the calculator does not pretend to know it. Name the three channels however you like: Amazon.in, Flipkart, Shopsy, Meesho or others.

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How is the margin worked out?

1. Price excluding GST = selling price / (1 + product GST rate).
2. Fees = commission + closing or fixed fee + shipping fee + collection fee.
3. GST on fees = fees x 18%.
4. Profit = price excluding GST − product cost − fees − GST on fees − ad spend − expected return loss.

For example, with the defaults and the Amazon column: ₹450 including 5% GST is ₹428.57 before GST. Fees are ₹0 referral + ₹15 closing + ₹55 shipping = ₹70, GST on fees is ₹12.60, and product cost is ₹250. Profit is ₹428.57 − ₹250 − ₹70 − ₹12.60 = ₹95.97, a 22.4% margin on the ₹428.57. Now add 10% returns with a ₹100 loss on each: the expected return cost is ₹10 per order and profit falls to ₹85.97. These are illustrative numbers. Fees on a real order depend on category, weight, zone and channel.

What the zero-commission announcements do and do not change

• Amazon.in: zero referral fee under ₹1,000 does not remove closing fee, weight handling fee or GST on fees. The fee schedule also lists exceptions with no zero band, such as mobile phones at 5% and laptops at 6%. See Amazon zero referral fee explained.
• Flipkart: zero commission on eligible products under ₹1,000 from the 14 November 2025 announcement, and all fashion at any price after the July 2026 change. Fixed fee, shipping and collection fee amounts are in the seller dashboard. See Flipkart zero commission explained.
• Shopsy: zero commission on every listing at any price. See Shopsy zero commission.

Where the calculator stops

It does not include storage, ads beyond your per-order input, TCS or TDS (those are credits, covered in the marketplace payout calculator), or the effect of a lower price on conversion. For an Amazon-only fee view see the Amazon seller fee calculator.

FAQ

Which marketplace has the highest margin for products under ₹1,000? It depends on the fixed fee, shipping and return mix for your product, not on commission, because commission is zero on all three channels for eligible products. Enter your own figures in each column to compare.

Is it worth pricing at ₹999 instead of ₹1,050? Often, if the category pays commission above ₹1,000. On Amazon.in, Apparel: Shirts pay 21% above ₹1,000 and 0% up to it. Test price changes on a few SKUs first, because conversion and ad cost shift too.

Does the calculator include GST on the product? It uses GST only to strip tax out of the selling price and treats your output GST as a pass-through. Fee GST at 18% is included as a cost. This is general information, not tax advice; ask a GST practitioner about input tax credit.

Where do I find the fixed fee and shipping fee for Flipkart? In your seller dashboard rate card. We could not find a public rupee table, so the Flipkart column holds a placeholder you must replace.

Do all products under ₹1,000 get zero referral fee on Amazon.in? No. Mobile phones, laptops, desktops, televisions and some other categories show no zero band, and a few have smaller bands up to ₹300 or ₹500. See the category list.

Check your margins at scale

A calculator is fine for one product; a catalogue of 500 SKUs needs a fee table per category. Blooprint's Amazon account management team builds that and re-prices where the margin turns negative.