Your payout from sales on the Paytm Mall marketplace is calculated after deducting various commissions and fees from the selling price. These deductions include marketplace commissions of 12-13% of the selling price, payment gateway fees of 2.7% of the selling price, logistics charges based on shipment weight and mode, and applicable taxes. You can check your expected payout for a product by using the payout calculator on the seller panel, which allows you to enter the MRP and selling price and view the estimated payout breakup.

1. How is your payout
calculated?
In this module, we will discuss:
1. How is your payout calculated?
2. How can you check your commission details?
3. What are the different modes of logistics?
4. How can you measure the weight of a packed product?
5. What are the logistic charges at Paytm Mall?
6. What are the different types of frauds?
7. What is a service level agreement (SLA)?
8. How to avoid penalties?
9. How is your payout calculated?
10. How can you check your expected payout on the Paytm Mall seller panel?

2. How is your payout calculated?
Your final payout is made after various commissions & fee deductions from the selling price
The components which are deducted from the selling price are as follows -
Charges Definitions Rates
Marketplace commission
Fee charged for listing your products on the
Paytm Mall marketplace
% of the selling price (varies at the
category/product level)
Payment gateway
Fee paid for the transfer of money via Paytm
Mall payments gateway
2.7% of the selling price
Logistics charges
Charges for using the services of Paytm Mall
logistics partners
Based on the mode of shipment
Penalty
A fraud is a deliberate action of deceiving
Paytm Mall or its partners to secure unfair
gains.
Depends on the type of fraud

3. How can you check your commission details?
You can download your agreement history by going to the seller panel, where you can read the terms
and conditions along with the commission details of your products
Click on Profile1
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Click on Agreement History
Click on ‘Click To Download’
Note – You have to download the latest version of the agreement history.
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4. What are the different modes of logistics ?
Express shipment
Standard sized shipments (less than 5 kg) which are serviced through
the aerial mode
Local shipment
These are intra-city shipments i.e. whose pickup & drop locations fall
in the same city
Zonal shipment
All pincodes assigned to specific zones (north, south, east, west). If pickup
and delivery fall in the same zone (not cities), zonal rates will be charged
National shipment
These are inter-zone shipments i.e. whose pickup & delivery pincodes
fall in different zones

5. Below are the weight slab rates for logistics in Paytm Mall
What are the different modes of logistics ?
Note – All the fee mentioned above is exclusive of taxes.
Revised shipping charges
Express
Weight Local Zonal National
First 500 Grams Rs 35 Rs 45 Rs 60
Additional 500 Grams Rs 25 Rs 35 Rs 55
Surface
Up to first 3 Kg Rs 90 Rs 100 Rs 120
Additional kg 3-10 Kg Rs 18 Rs 20 Rs 25
Additional kg 10-30 Kg Rs 15 Rs 18 Rs 23
Additional kg 30-60 Kg Rs 10 Rs 12 Rs 20
Additional kg >60 Kg Rs 8 Rs 10 Rs 15

6. The weight of a product can be calculated in 2 ways - dead weight and volumetric weight. The higher of
the two is used to calculate the logistic charges
Dead weight = weight of
package
Length 5 inches
Width 6 inches
Height 4 inches
Volumetric weight 393.28 Grams
Volumetric weight in grams =
(𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ × 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑡ℎ × ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 × 2.543
)
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Note: length, breadth and
height in inches
Weight of the packet measured on the
weighing machine = 900 grams
Dead weight = 900 Grams
Weight
Volumetric
weight
Deadweight
Formula Example
In this case, the dead weight will be considered since it is greater than the
volumetric weight
How can you measure the weight of a packed product?

7. How can you calculate the logistic charge?
Example 1. If the weight of your product is 5 Kg
Note – All the fee mentioned above is exclusive of taxes.
Revised shipping charges
Surface
Slab Charges Weight breakup Calculation Final
Up to first 3 Kg Rs 90 3 Kg 90 90
Additional kg 3-10 Kg Rs 18 2 Kg 18*2 36
Total 5 Kg Rs 126

8. How can you calculate the logistic charge?
Example 2. If the weight of your product is 20 Kg
Revised shipping charges
Surface
Slab Charges Weight breakup Calculation Final
Up to first 3 Kg Rs 90 3 Kg 90 90
Additional 3-10 Kg Rs 18 7 Kg 18*7 126
Additional 10-30
Kg
Rs 15 10 Kg 15*10 150
Total 20 Kg Rs 366
Note – All the fee mentioned above is exclusive of taxes.

9. How can you calculate the logistic charge?
Example 3. If the weight of your product is 35 Kg
Revised shipping charges
Surface
Slab Charges Weight breakup Calculation Final
Up to first 3 Kg Rs 90 3 Kg 90 90
Additional kg 3-10 Kg Rs 18 7 Kg 18*7 126
Additional kg 10-30 Kg Rs 15 20 Kg 15*20 300
Additional 30-60 Kg Rs 10 5 Kg 10*5 50
Total 35 Kg Rs 566
Note – All the fee mentioned above is exclusive of taxes.

10. Note- 1. This list is just for illustrative purposes and doesn’t include all cases
2. Paytm Mall reserves the right to block your seller account or to disable your listings depending on the
severity of the case
What are the different types of fraud?

11. What are the different types of fraud?
Note- 1. This list is just for illustrative purposes and doesn’t include all cases
2. The SLA breach and cancellation penalties are defined at the category level of the product
3. Paytm Mall reserves the right to block your seller account or to disable your listings depending on the severity of the case

12. What is a service level agreement (SLA)?
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is your promise to ship your products to your customers within a
certain number of days. You have to ensure that all the orders are marked Shipped within SLA.
Note- 1. If SLA is breached, the order will be cancelled and you will be charged an SLA breach penalty and a cancellation penalty
2. SLA breach and cancellation penalties are defined at the category level of the product
3. Avoid SLA breaches as they affect your seller ratings and performance on Paytm Mall.
Example:

13. Penalty structure
The SLA breach and cancellation penalties are defined at the category level of the product
Note- 1. These charges are exclusive of taxes
2. The minimum penalty amount will be Rs.50 on both SLA breaches and Cancellations by the Seller
There will also be a minimum cancellation penalty amount and minimum SLA breach penalty amount.
This means that the seller will be charged the higher of the minimum penalty amount OR Y%/X% of SP.
SLA breach penalty, ‘X%’ of selling price
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Cancellation penalty, ‘X%’ of selling price
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14. How to avoid penalties?
• Maintain physical stock of products
• Add inventory only if you have its
physical stock
• Procure genuine products only
• You must have authorizations
from brands for all products
• Ship products with an MRP sticker
• Always match the MRP of the
product with the MRP listed in your
catalogue
• Ensure that the warranty you
offer on the product is valid
• Maintain a record of
purchases
• Do not indulge in fraudulent
methods to obtain induced orders.

15. How is your payout calculated?
Your final payout is made after the various commissions & fee deductions from the selling price
Payout
Selling price Rs 1000
(-) Marketplace commission Rs 124.3 (12.43% *1000)
(-) Payment gateway fee @2.7% Rs 27 (2.7%*1000)
(-) Logistic charges Rs 60 (500 grams)
= Payout breakout Rs.743.15 [1000-(124.3+27+60+38.03+7.51)]
Example : Product- Men’s T-shirt
DEDUCTIONS
Rs 0(-) Additional minor deduction/penalty
(-) GST@ 18% Rs 38.03 [18%*(124.3+27+60)]
Rs 7.51 [1%*(1000-(124.3+27+60+38.03))]TCS (1%) on base price

16. You can check your expected payout amount through the payout calculator
Click on the Catalogue tab1
Click on the Edit icon2
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How can you check your expected payout on the Paytm
Mall seller panel?

17. Click on the Calculator icon3
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How can you check your expected payout on the Paytm
Mall seller panel?

18. Enter the MRP & selling price4
5 Click on the Re-calculate
button
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How can you check your expected payout on the Paytm
Mall seller panel?

19. How can you check your expected payout on the Paytm
Mall seller panel?
View the expected payout
break-up here
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20. Thanks everyone!
For any query, please raise a ticket using the Seller Helpdesk tab on
your seller panel.