Guides for online sellers
Short answers to the questions sellers ask most. Built from one real store's Meesho payment files and the marketplaces' own official pages.
Payments
- When does Meesho pay sellers?Meesho pays a delivered order about 14 days after the order, Monday to Friday. The payment cycle, settlement days, and what to check if payment is not received.
- How to read your Meesho payment fileRead your Meesho payment report column by column, see why some amounts are negative, and match the money to your orders and bank (payment reconciliation).
- How much does Meesho charge sellers?In the Meesho files we checked, commission was ₹0. What was taken: shipping, TCS, TDS, returns, ads and an affiliate fee. Each one explained, with an example.
- Meesho TCS and TDS: what is cut and how to get it backMeesho cuts 0.5% TCS and 0.1% TDS from each payment. What they are, how they are worked out, how to claim them, and when TDS is not cut for a small seller.
Returns and claims
- What a return and an RTO cost you on MeeshoWhat a customer return and an RTO cost you on Meesho, from one store's real payment files: ₹175 return shipping, ₹0 for RTO, and the packaging you lose.
- Meesho claims for wrong, damaged or incomplete returnsHow to raise a Meesho claim when a return comes back wrong, damaged, with items missing or as an empty box: the unboxing video, the time limit and the payout.
Profit and ads
- How to calculate your real profit on MeeshoHow to calculate profit and loss on Meesho per delivered order: price minus cost, returns, RTO, packaging, ads and GST. A worked example, step by step.
- Meesho ads ROI vs your real profitThe ROI on your Meesho ads counts sales, not profit. See why returns, RTO and product cost decide the ROI you need, with a worked example and your own file.
GST
- Can you sell on Meesho without GST?Selling on Meesho with an enrolment ID, a composition GSTIN or a regular GSTIN: where you can sell, the sales limits, when TCS is cut, and what a GSTIN changes.
- Meesho GST report and GSTR-1: what each part meansWhat is in the Meesho GST report, why it goes by shipping month, why your TCS may not match, what to send your CA, and how the report is used for GSTR-1.
Flipkart, Amazon and other marketplaces
- Zero commission in 2026: what each marketplace still takes from a ₹499 saleHow much commission Amazon and Flipkart take in 2026, and what they still charge on a ₹499 sale. Meesho, Myntra and Snapdeal too, from their own seller pages.
- When Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra and Snapdeal pay youAmazon, Myntra and Snapdeal count from delivery, Shopsy from dispatch, and Flipkart's own two pages differ. When each marketplace pays a seller, in days.
- Cancelling an order on Amazon or Flipkart: what it costs youAmazon cancellation charges for sellers: ₹58.88 on a ₹499 order since 17 August 2026. What triggers the fee, what Flipkart reportedly charges, how to avoid it.
- Amazon closing fee and Easy Ship charges in 2026Amazon's Easy Ship closing fee is ₹2, ₹23, ₹48 or ₹79 by price since 7 September 2026, and referral is 0% up to ₹1,000. Shipping by weight, and a ₹499 example.