On Amazon.in, Easy Ship means you store and pack your products and Amazon delivers them to customers. The Easy Ship fee is not one line item. It is made up of a referral fee, a closing fee and a weight handling (shipping) fee, with 18% GST on the fees shown. As of November 2026 the full rate tables are published as images, so check the live fee schedule.
What makes up the Easy Ship fee
- Referral fee: a percentage of the selling price, set by category. Amazon's example is 7% on a ₹1,450 baby apparel item, which is ₹101.5.
- Closing fee: a fixed fee by price band. From 7 September 2026 it rose by ₹1 for items up to ₹500 and ₹3 above ₹500, across Easy Ship, FC and Seller Flex.
- Weight handling fee: charged on the higher of actual or volumetric weight, where volumetric weight is length x breadth x height in cm divided by 5000. Standard items have a 500 g minimum, then 500 g steps.
Pick, pack and storage are not charged for Easy Ship because you bear those costs yourself.
Examples from Amazon's page
A 350 g headphone pays a flat ₹55 weight handling fee. An 800 g item to a regional location pays ₹51 for the first 500 g plus ₹17 for the next 500 g, so ₹68. These are Amazon's own illustrations; your rate depends on route and category.
The April 2025 change
Coverage of Amazon's announcement says that from 7 April 2025 the national shipping rate for Easy Ship and Seller Flex fell from ₹77 to ₹65, and handling fees for items under 1 kg fell by up to ₹17. This is news coverage; check Seller Central for the current schedule.
How to work out your own Easy Ship cost
- Find the item's actual weight and its volumetric weight, and take the higher.
- Look up the weight handling fee for that weight and your delivery zone in the Seller Central fee schedule.
- Add the closing fee for your price band and the referral fee for your category.
- Add 18% GST on the fees.
As an illustration with made-up figures, not an Amazon quote: a ₹55 handling fee plus a ₹20 closing fee and no referral fee is ₹75 before GST, or ₹88.50 with 18% GST. Compare that with the price you charge before you cut a price.
See the Easy Ship entry, the weight handling fee entry and our guide to Amazon seller fees in India. Blooprint, a Bengaluru Amazon SPN verified partner, can model your per-order fees through Amazon account management.