Online sellers
Software for Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho sellers, down to the lot
A thousand bought at ₹12, sold at ₹20 and then ₹18 on three channels. What did it actually make after every fee — and was every payout right?
Free for 45 days · no card · we do the setup
What it does
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Profit by the lot
Every sale is costed from the purchase lot it left, so a thousand bought at ₹12 shows, channel by channel, what it made after the fees, their GST and the box — and what is still on the shelf at cost.
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Payouts you can check
Fees are your own rule’s estimate until the settlement arrives, then its real figures; TCS and TDS stay apart as yours to claim back, and each payout is set against the bank.
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Returns and packing, costed
An RTO and a buyer’s return are counted apart and put back on their lot or written off with a reason; the box and the label come off stock with every parcel.
Nivasik keeps an online seller’s orders from Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, their own website and the counter on one stock, and works out what each purchase lot made on each channel after the marketplace’s fees, the GST on them, packaging and returns. Orders and settlements come in as each marketplace’s own report file or are typed in, and every payout is checked against the bank.
It is the Online selling add-on at ₹1,499 a month per business, with the POS it runs on at ₹1,499 per outlet, after 45 free days.
Read this first: how the marketplaces connect today
- By file, today. Orders and settlements come in as each marketplace’s own report file (CSV) — mapped once, previewed before anything is saved — or are typed in by hand. The same file imported twice adds nothing twice.
- Live sync with Amazon and Flipkart is coming once their approvals land. Each needs a one-time registration on Nivasik’s side; Meesho has no seller API at all, so its own files are the way in.
- No password, no API key. Nivasik never asks for your marketplace login or keys — the marketplaces’ own rules tell sellers not to share them.
- Stock is not sent to the marketplaces. The stock screen works out what each listing can still sell, less the buffer you keep back, and tells you the number to set on each channel.
Every payout, checked against the bank
A marketplace pays weeks later, in one credit for many orders, after commission, fixed fees, shipping, the GST on all of it, ads and two withholdings. Nivasik estimates each order’s fees from the rule you typed off your own fee card, and the moment a settlement line names the order, the estimate is replaced by what the settlement says.
The settlement’s expected total is then set against the credit you type in, or read off a bank statement file. A credit that is short is flagged, and one tap raises it as a request with an owner and a clock, so the claim is chased rather than forgotten.
How to improve, from your own orders
Suggestions are worked out from this seller’s orders alone, and each one carries the rows it was drawn from. A product that loses money on a channel gets its break-even price and the price that makes your target margin; a channel whose fees take far more than the best one is named.
The rest follow the same rule: products that come back far more often than your own average, where and how RTO happens, stock with no sale for weeks, what to reorder before it runs out, a lot that cost more while the price stayed put, a payout paid short, packaging creeping up, and profit that cannot be known because a cost is missing.
Returns and RTO, counted apart
An RTO never reached the buyer — refused at the door, a wrong address — and usually comes back sealed. A return was delivered and sent back, and may come back opened or damaged. Nivasik keeps them as two outcomes, because they cost different things and are fixed in different ways.
Either way, a person receives the parcel and decides: back onto the very lot it left, so that lot’s count and cost are right again, or written off with a reason. The returns report shows rates by product and channel and the reasons given, and a suggestion says when COD comes back far more often than prepaid.
A seller’s day, told through the product
The spreadsheet way, and the same day on Nivasik.
Yesterday’s orders are copied from three seller panels into one sheet by hand.
Each marketplace’s order report is imported with its saved mapping; a file brought in twice adds nothing twice.
Parcels are packed from memory and the wrong colour goes out.
One picklist across the orders, with shelf locations; every item is scanned before the parcel is closed, and a wrong code is refused.
A trader takes 200 pieces on credit, written in a notebook.
A wholesale bill at the counter on the same stock, on the buyer’s khata, with their GSTIN on the bill.
A parcel comes back and nobody knows whether it was ever counted out.
Received onto the lot it left; if damaged, written off with a reason, and the claim is raised as a request with an owner.
The bank credit is eyeballed against a number in the seller panel.
The settlement file comes in, its real fees replace the estimate, and a credit ₹50 short is flagged.
What is on its screen
In Online selling
- Orders — every channel in one list, with their status and problems flagged
- Products and stock — by lot, what is held for orders, and what each channel can still sell
- Profit and ROI — per product, lot, channel and month, with suggestions
- Payouts — settlements, fees made actual, and the bank check
- Channels — each marketplace’s fee rule, withholdings and packing kits
Never on its screen
- Rooms, guests and the front desk
- Folios and the police register
- Tables and the kitchen screen
Packers and cashiers see orders and shelves; only the owner sees costs, fees, profit and payouts.
The money problem, in plain words
The orders are the easy part — every marketplace panel shows them. The trouble starts with the money.
| What sellers run into | What Nivasik does about it |
|---|---|
| The payout lands as one lump, net of everything, and nobody can say which orders it paid for | Each settlement file is matched to its orders line by line, and its total is set against what reached the bank |
| Deductions show up that nobody can explain | Every fee, penalty and ads line sits on the order it names, or as account-level money when it names none |
| The profit on a dashboard is not trusted — rows go missing, ads are left out | Profit is built from the order, the lot it left and its settlement; a line with no cost says “unknown”, and every figure opens to its rows |
| Returns and RTO eat the margin, and claims are lost on a missed step | Two outcomes, each received back onto its lot or written off with a reason; a claim is raised as a request with an owner and a clock |
| The same unit is sold twice on two channels | An order holds its units the moment it arrives, and the stock screen says what each channel can still sell |
| Boxes, tape and labels never reach the profit figure | Packing kits come off stock as each parcel ships; loose consumables from Expenses are spread over the month’s parcels |
| TCS and TDS get booked as costs, or forgotten | Both are kept apart as your money to claim back, never as a cost |
One lot, three channels, to the paisa
The counter kept the most of every rupee; Amazon sold the most. Both are true at once, and only a figure per channel shows it.
| Amazon | Flipkart | Counter | The lot | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Units sold | 80 | 70 | 50 | 200 |
| Revenue | ₹1,540.00 | ₹1,320.00 | ₹940.00 | ₹3,800.00 |
| Goods, at ₹12 from the lot | ₹960.00 | ₹840.00 | ₹600.00 | ₹2,400.00 |
| Marketplace fees | ₹317.00 | ₹227.80 | — | ₹544.80 |
| GST on those fees — a cost here | ₹57.06 | ₹41.02 | — | ₹98.08 |
| Boxes, ₹5 a parcel | ₹40.00 | ₹35.00 | — | ₹75.00 |
| Profit | ₹165.94 | ₹176.18 | ₹340.00 | ₹682.12 |
| Kept of each rupee | 10.8% | 13.3% | 36.2% | 18.0% |
A business not registered for GST, so the GST on the marketplace’s fees is a cost to it. Fee rules as a seller typed them in for this sample — not any marketplace’s rate card: Amazon 5% + ₹1 a unit + ₹20 an order, Flipkart 4% + ₹1 + ₹15; the counter pays no fees. 800 key rings are left, worth ₹9,600 at the cost of their lot. These are the product’s own worked numbers, checked line for line.
Fees, TCS and TDS: which one is a cost
Two common mistakes throw a seller’s profit figure off, one in each direction.
Revenue is the selling price with the GST taken out, because the output GST was never yours. The marketplace’s fees are a cost; the GST charged on those fees is a cost only when your business cannot claim it back — so the same order shows a different profit for a regular GST seller and for one on composition or not registered, and the product asks which you are rather than guessing.
What the marketplace withholds as TCS and TDS is your own money held back, to be claimed through your returns — so it is shown apart, “to claim back”, and never counted as a cost. Nivasik does not file anything: take the figures to your CA.
At the packing table
Packers see orders and shelves, never a cost or a profit.
- One picklist across the day’s orders, with the shelf or box each item lives in.
- A packing slip for each order.
- Scan to verify with the counter’s own barcode scanner: the wrong item is refused before the parcel is closed.
- Stock leaves when the parcel leaves — held from the moment the order arrives, taken off lot by lot on ship, so a count taken in between still finds it on the rack.
- The box counts: a packing kit — box, bag, label — comes off stock with each parcel, at what it cost.
The counter and wholesale are channels too
A seller who also sells across a counter, or to other shops, does it on the POS the module runs on: a counter bill, or a wholesale bill at the wholesale price with the buyer’s GSTIN and the rest on their khata. It comes off the same stock, from the same lots.
In every report the counter and wholesale sit beside Amazon and Flipkart as channels of their own, with their own revenue, cost and profit — so moving limited stock to the channel that keeps the most is a decision made on one table.
Open the sample online seller
The online-selling screens on a sample seller — orders, stock by lot, profit per channel and the payouts. Press anything; nothing you do in the demo is saved.
What it does not do
What Online selling does not do, and what to use instead.
Not included, said plainly
- No live sync with Amazon, Flipkart or Meesho yet, and no stock sent to them — their own report files come in, and the screen gives you the number to set. Amazon and Flipkart sync is coming once their approvals land.
- No shipping labels, manifests or courier booking: those stay in each marketplace’s own panel.
- No e-way bill or e-invoice, and no GST or TDS return is filed; the invoice on a marketplace order is the marketplace’s.
- No repricing, no ads management, and nothing is sent to a buyer by itself.
- Stock at a marketplace’s own warehouse is not tracked: one location, your own shelf.
- Profit is only as good as the buying price entered — a lot with no cost shows its profit as unknown.
What it costs
One price per business, however many marketplaces it sells on. It runs on the POS — the products, the stock, the lots and the bills are the counter’s — so a seller takes both: this, and the POS at ₹1,499 per outlet. No hotel plan is needed.
Free for 45 days; we set up your products, channels and fee rules.
Questions people ask
Does Nivasik connect to Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho?
Not live yet. Orders and settlements come in as each marketplace’s own report file (CSV) or are typed in, and importing the same file again adds nothing twice. Live sync with Amazon and Flipkart is coming once their approvals land; Meesho has no seller API, so its files are the way in.
Do I have to give Nivasik my marketplace password or API key?
No, never. Nivasik does not ask for an Amazon, Flipkart or Meesho login or key — the marketplaces’ own rules tell sellers not to share them.
How is the profit on each order worked out?
From the price with the GST taken out, less the goods at the cost of the lot they left, the marketplace’s fees, the GST on those fees where your business cannot claim it back, the box and any write-off. Fees are your own rule’s estimate until the settlement names the order, and the settlement’s after that. An order whose cost is not known shows its profit as unknown, not as if the goods were free.
Are TCS and TDS counted as costs?
No. What the marketplace withholds as TCS and TDS is shown apart as money that is yours to claim back — your CA claims it. GST on the marketplace’s fees is a cost only when your business cannot claim it as input credit.
Does it handle returns and RTO?
Yes, as two outcomes. A returned or undelivered unit is received back onto the very lot it left, or written off with a reason if it came back damaged, and the report gives return and RTO rates by product and channel; a suggestion flags COD that comes back far more often than prepaid.
Can it print shipping labels or make e-way bills?
No. Labels, manifests and courier booking stay in each marketplace’s own panel; it makes no e-way bill or e-invoice and files no GST or TDS return.
Does it work for wholesale and a counter as well?
Yes. A counter sale or a wholesale bill to a business is a POS bill on the same stock, with the buyer’s GSTIN and khata for credit, and it shows as its own channel in every profit report.
What does software for online sellers cost here?
₹1,499 a month per business for Online selling, however many marketplaces you sell on, plus the POS it runs on at ₹1,499 per outlet. No hotel plan is needed, and the first 45 days are free.
Try it on your own place, free for 45 days.
We set it up for you — your rooms, menu or stock list, your staff and your prices — and walk it end to end on your phone. No card, and we invoice only if you stay.