Better Your Flipkart Sales & Business with DataChannel

Introduction

The Flipkart Seller API allows third-party developers and businesses to integrate with Flipkart's marketplace seamlessly. It provides powerful tools to manage seller operations, including listing products, managing orders, inventory, pricing, and shipping. With access to real-time data and automation features, the API enables efficient handling of day-to-day activities, optimizing business processes, and enhancing seller performance. This integration simplifies operations, offering a streamlined experience for vendors looking to scale and manage their e-commerce presence on Flipkart.

Why Flipkart Seller API?

Flipkart has more than 1.4 million sellers and caters to a diverse micro, small, and medium enterprise ecosystem. Here’s why so many sellers prefer to sell on the Flipkart marketplace.

Efficient Order Management: Automate order processing, tracking, and updates to streamline operations and reduce manual efforts.

Inventory Management: Keep stock levels accurate in real-time, preventing overselling and ensuring timely restocking.

Product Listing Automation: Simplify and speed up the process of listing new products or updating existing listings.

Pricing Optimization: Manage dynamic pricing strategies, offering better control over promotions and pricing updates.

Shipping and Logistics: Automate shipping processes, label generation, and real-time tracking for smoother fulfillment.

Seller Insights & Transactional Data Management with Flipkart and DataChannel

Flipkart Seller Hub is a seller portal provided by Flipkart. It enables sellers to promote their products to an extensive and diverse customer base of Flipkart users. By leveraging the seller portal, sellers can significantly expand their customer reach, amplify sales, and unlock new selling opportunities.

Here’s how you can directly sync your Flipkart marketplace data into your data warehouse to boost your platform performance.

Get Insights into your Sales Performance

Sellers can get insights into their sales performance on Flipkart using seller insights. Insights into different brand categories and verticals along with specific product & sku ids are especially useful to easily segregate different products while also ensuring data granularity. These metrics can range from gross units sold and their merchandise value, units returned and cancelled with their associated amount, fulfillment type (fulfillment by Flipkart = fbf) and order date. 

Commission Invoice Transaction Details

The Commission Invoice Transaction Details report provides a detailed breakdown of the charges Flipkart applies to sellers for each transaction. These charges are deducted as a commission from the seller's earnings for using Flipkart’s platform to sell products. These details or deductions can include Order ID, Commission charges, GST on these commission charges, total fees amount, and related fee waiver amount if any.

Marketplace Fee Rebate Transaction Report

The endpoint: MP Fee Rebate Transactions refers to adjustments or rebates given to sellers on their Marketplace Fees (MP Fees). These rebates offered by Flipkart Marketplace can include commission, fixed fees and collection rebate, some of these rebates are generally issued when there’s an error or a promotional discount on a particular product or service or When there's an overcharge or if an order is canceled or returned.

Sales Report: The Flipkart sales report provides details on tax-related collections or deductions made by the eCommerce platform, Flipkart. These taxes are typically categorized as CGST (Central) and SGST (State) for intra-state transactions, and IGST (Integrated) for inter-state transactions. The tax amounts vary based on factors such as product quantity, event type (e.g., orders placed during a sales event), order type (prepaid or postpaid), discount amounts (before and after discount), and shipping charges.

Cashback Report: The cashback report outlines the cashback provided to sellers by the e-commerce platform, Flipkart. It includes various fields such as cashback details, credit notes, invoice amounts, and associated credit or debit IDs. Similar to the sales report, the cashback report also offers insights into tax deductions, which are broken down by individual orders and order item IDs.

Data Management and Automation using Flipkart Marketplace Seller API & DataChannel 

Data management and automation are crucial for maximizing efficiency on Flipkart’s marketplace. By integrating the Flipkart Marketplace Seller API with DataChannel, sellers can streamline their processes, automate data workflows, and gain valuable insights into transactions, inventory, and performance.