While competition within platforms increases, sellers need to constantly monitor their costs for goods sold to ensure sufficient profits and earnings. Learn how you can check your final sums and work out the best ways to optimizing your profits.
Here is a summary of the most up to date Lazada platform cost tabulation:
Payment Fees:
2% x (Unit Price – Seller Discount + Buyer Shipping Cost)
Commission Fees:
1 – 5%* x (Unit Price – Seller Discount)
*Commission rate do refer to bottom graph.
Shipping Fees:
Incurred for Ninjavan fulfilled Orders.
The actual chargeable amount for shipping of your Lazada orders will appear after the order status has been set to delivered.
The amount that will be offset from your actual payout is after deduction of your buyer’s shipping fee.
Eg:
Shipping Fee charged to seller = Actual Shipping Charges – Buyer Shipping cost – platform supported shipping cost.
The following is the shipping fee rate card as of Mid – Dec 2021.
Miscellaneous
Other Misc charges might want to include in the calculation of your gross payout from Lazada.
- Sponsored Affiliate Charges
- Sponsored Discovery Charges
- Seller Vouchers
- SOF Shipping Charges.
With heavy platform charges, having proper reporting of your margins and expenses will help you to accurately measure how well you are doing on each platform and if your business on the overall is making money or losing money.