Pricing
Commission threshold price calculator
Amazon India and Flipkart both stopped charging commission on products under a thousand rupees. That turns a price rise from a smooth thing into a cliff, and plenty of sellers are sitting a few rupees on the wrong side of it. This shows you exactly where the edge is for your product.
What you sell and what you charge
₹136
Lost on every unit by sitting above the threshold
₹180
Profit at ₹1,099
₹315
Profit at ₹1,000
15.5%
Commission you pay now
At ₹1,099 you pay 15.5% commission. At ₹1,000, ₹99 cheaper, you pay 0.0% and keep ₹136 more per unit. Charging less makes you more money here, which is not a sentence that should be true and is exactly what a commission threshold does.
Profit at every price
How this works
- Every price between roughly half and twice your current one is run through the fee engine, and the profit at each is plotted.
- Where commission steps up, profit steps down. Those points are marked, and the one immediately below your price is the one that matters.
- If you are above a threshold, the tool works out the price you would have to charge to earn what you would have earned just below it. That number is usually uncomfortable.
- Costs are held constant across the whole range, so the only thing moving the line is the marketplace rate card.
- Advertising and returns are left out on purpose. Adding them shifts the whole curve down without moving the cliff, and the cliff is the point.
Questions sellers ask
Is it really true that charging less can earn more?
Across a commission threshold, yes. On a category charged fifteen and a half percent above a thousand rupees, moving from 999 to 1,001 hands roughly a hundred and fifty five rupees of commission to the marketplace in exchange for two rupees of revenue. You have to climb a long way past the threshold before you are back where you started.
Which categories actually get zero commission?
On Amazon India, most consumer categories under a thousand rupees since March 2026, though high value electronics were not included. On Flipkart, everything under a thousand since late 2025, and all of fashion at any price since July 2026. Categories that were left out are marked in the tool when you select them.
Should I just reprice everything to 999?
No. Bunching your whole catalogue at one price point is how you end up competing entirely on being cheapest. Use it where you are already close to the line, where dropping thirty or fifty rupees is genuinely worth a hundred and fifty in saved commission. Where you are well above, stay above.
What about the closing fee and shipping?
Both are included in the curve, and both have their own smaller steps. That is why the line is not perfectly smooth even away from the commission thresholds.
Do these thresholds change?
They have changed twice in the last year, and both times with a few weeks of notice. Treat any price built around a threshold as something to check quarterly rather than set and forget.
Does a lower price hurt my ranking?
Usually the opposite in the short term, since price affects conversion and conversion affects rank. The risk is the one you create yourself, which is training buyers to expect a price you cannot hold once the waiver moves.