ONDC Fee Calculator
ONDC charges no commission. Your seller app, the 18 per cent GST on its fee, the payment gateway, delivery and packing all do. Put your own numbers in and see what actually lands in your bank account, next to what your current channel leaves you.
Your typical basket, not your biggest.
What you actually do today, on this channel.
Published rates run about 1% to 5% and beyond.
Plans run from ₹0 to roughly ₹22,500 a month.
UPI is cheaper, cards and wallets are not.
Put your real cost even if you deliver yourself. Enter 0 only if it genuinely costs you nothing.
Small, real, and never in anybody's slide.
A returned order earns nothing and still costs delivery and packing.
Marketplaces and delivery apps commonly sit between 18% and 40%. Enter 0 if you sell only direct today.
The gain is large enough to survive the admin overhead. Start with one city and your strongest range, and watch your cancellation rate more closely than your revenue for the first month.
ONDC route, one order
- Order value
- ₹600.00
- ONDC network commissionthe network itself charges nothing
- ₹0
- Seller app fee (2%)
- -₹12.00
- GST on that fee (18%)the line people forget
- -₹2.16
- Payment gateway (1.5%)
- -₹9.00
- Deliveryusually the biggest line on a small basket
- -₹40.00
- Packing
- -₹8.00
- Lands in your account
- ₹528.84
Friction: 11.9% of the order value.
Current channel, same order
- Order value
- ₹600.00
- Marketplace take rate (25%)
- -₹150.00
- GST on commission (18%)
- -₹27.00
- Packing
- -₹8.00
- Delivery and collectionassumed inside their take rate
- ₹0
- Lands in your account
- ₹415.00
Friction: 30.8% of the order value.
Cost of goods is excluded on both sides, since it is the same either way and leaving it in would only flatter one route. The ONDC side assumes you arrange delivery and collect payment; the comparison side assumes your current channel's take rate covers both, which is how marketplace and delivery app pricing usually works. Seller app rates, plans and gateway charges change, so confirm the current numbers with the app you are signing with before you commit. 291 of your 300 monthly orders are treated as completing, and 9 as returned or cancelled.
Why the answer is never one percentage
The number going around Indian trade events is three per cent against thirty. The three per cent is real, in the sense that the network itself takes nothing from the transaction. The mistake is treating that as the bill. You do not sell through ONDC, you sell through a seller app, and everything after that is somebody else's price list:
- Seller app fee: published rates from about 1 per cent of order value to 5 per cent and beyond, with monthly plans from ₹0 to roughly ₹22,500.
- 18 per cent GST on that fee: the most commonly forgotten line. A "1 per cent" fee is really 1.18 per cent.
- Payment gateway: roughly 1 to 2 per cent, the same as anywhere else. UPI is cheaper, cards and wallets are not.
- Delivery: on a small basket this is routinely the largest line of all, and it is the one that decides your answer.
- Packing and returns: a returned order earns nothing and still costs you the delivery and the packing.
Walk a ₹600 order all the way down and roughly ₹510 to ₹540 reaches you. Ten to fifteen per cent of friction, not three. Against a marketplace at 25 to 30 per cent, which leaves about ₹420 to ₹450, ONDC still wins. It wins by ₹60 to ₹100 on that order rather than ₹180, and knowing which of those two numbers you are working with is the difference between a good decision and a disappointed one.
The two gates before the maths matters
A good number here is necessary and not sufficient. Two things decide whether the saving ever reaches you.
- Which problem you actually have. ONDC is plumbing, not footfall. There is no ONDC app for shoppers to browse, so listing puts you on a road without bringing anybody down it. If your problem is commission on orders you already get, this calculator is the right question. If your problem is that too few people know you exist, the lever is your own storefront and search presence, and listing will change nothing.
- Whether your stock counts are honest. Of all the operational trouble reported on the network, the one that recurs is sellers not tracking inventory in real time. Orders get placed and paid for, then cancelled because the item was not there. The punishment is not a complaint, it is that buyer apps show you less, and you will read the silence as the network not working. If anybody updates a second stock number by hand, fix that before you list.
Both gates, the line-by-line reasoning, the order volumes that fell when subsidies were cut, and what building your own Beckn-compliant seller node involves are all in our honest guide to selling on ONDC in 2026. If the answer here is that ONDC is not your lever, start instead with how to start selling online in India.
FAQs
How much commission does ONDC charge sellers?
ONDC itself charges no commission on transactions, and that part of the pitch is accurate. What you pay is your seller app's fee, with published rates running from about 1 per cent of order value to 5 per cent and beyond, and monthly plans from ₹0 up to roughly ₹22,500. Add 18 per cent GST on that fee, a payment gateway at roughly 1 to 2 per cent, delivery, packing, and returns. All in, most sellers land between 3 and 15 per cent depending mainly on basket size and who carries the parcel.
Is ONDC really 3 per cent instead of 30 per cent?
The 3 per cent refers to the network commission, which is genuinely zero, and to the lower end of seller app fees. It is not the whole bill. On a ₹600 order with a 2 per cent seller app, a 1.5 per cent gateway and ₹40 of delivery, roughly ₹510 to ₹540 reaches you, so about 10 to 15 per cent of friction. That still beats a marketplace taking 25 to 30 per cent, which leaves about ₹420 to ₹450. The win is real, it is just worth ₹60 to ₹100 on that order rather than ₹180.
Why does this calculator ask for delivery cost separately?
Because on small baskets delivery is usually the single largest line on the bill, and percentage talk hides it completely. A ₹40 delivery on a ₹600 order is 6.7 per cent, more than most seller app fees. It is also the number that decides the answer: the same shop can be better or worse off on ONDC purely depending on whether it already has somebody on a bike.
Does GST apply to the seller app fee?
Yes, at 18 per cent, and it is the line people forget most often. A seller app advertising a 1 per cent fee is really costing you 1.18 per cent. The calculator shows it as its own row rather than folding it into the fee, because seeing it separately is the only way the advertised number and the real number ever get reconciled.
What counts as a good monthly saving?
As a rule of thumb, under ₹5,000 a month is not worth the work. A new channel brings catalogue upkeep, stock synchronisation and a second reconciliation every month, and a thin gain gets eaten by that admin before it reaches you. Above ₹5,000 the saving generally survives the overhead. Revisit the calculation when your order count or average basket grows, since both move the answer quickly.
Will listing on ONDC bring me more orders?
No, and this is the most expensive misunderstanding about the network. ONDC is plumbing, not footfall. There is no ONDC app for customers to browse, so being listed puts you on a road rather than bringing anybody down it. Buyer apps hold the demand and will show whoever ranks, converts and does not cancel. ONDC lowers the toll you pay per order, so it helps a seller with a commission problem and existing demand, and does nothing for a seller whose real problem is that too few people know they exist.
Are these numbers official?
No. This is a free calculator we built at buildbyravirai from running commerce systems in production, and the default rates reflect publicly published seller app pricing at the time of writing. Seller app fees, monthly plans and gateway charges change, and they vary by category. Always confirm the current numbers with the seller app you intend to sign with. For the reasoning behind every line, see our honest guide to selling on ONDC.
Copy your result and send it over with your category and who delivers today. We will tell you straight whether ONDC is worth your quarter.
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