E-commerce Profit Calculator
Optimize your listings and protect your margins. Auto-calculate recommended product listing prices, marketplace commission cuts, GST taxes, packaging expenses, and net payout margins.
Select Target Marketplace Presets
Cost Configurations
The wholesale procurement or factory production cost.
Expenses for boxes, bubble wraps, flyers, tapes, and thermal labels.
Forward shipping courier charges charged by platform.
Dynamic rates according to chosen marketplace preset.
Fixed transaction fee, payout levy, or marketplace platform closing rate.
Government output GST liability percentage for your category.
The recommended catalog list price required to pay for all product costs, commissions, 18% service taxes, and hit your target margin.
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Real-time Price Distribution Bar
Understanding Marketplace Commissions and GST on Indian E-commerce
Pricing a product on Amazon India, Flipkart, Myntra, or Meesho involves navigating an elaborate system of service deductions, logistics fee matrix slabs, and complex multi-layered GST tax filing liabilities. Successful e-commerce business models and D2C brands use profit calculators to find pricingsweetspots.
✔ What are standard marketplace deductions in India?
Whenever a customer purchases on marketplaces, the platform takes several service deductions before transferring payments. The first cut is the Referral Fee (commission ranging from 1.5% up to 22% depending on the exact item category). Next is the Fixed Closing Fee, which is charged dynamically based on the listing price band. Forward logistics weight charges and an 18% GST service surcharge on top of platform cuts are then subtracted.
✔ How does product GST impact e-commerce net payout?
When selling items, the seller receives a payment that is inclusive of GST. However, this product output GST (typically 5%, 12%, or 18% based on the tax category) is a state tax liability that must be filed and returned monthly to the tax department, meaning it is not a part of your take-home net profit pocket margins.