The per-order charge for collecting cash — flat (₹30–60) or a percentage of order value (1–2.5%), whichever is higher on some cards.
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Pure Parcel Editorial
October 22, 2026 · 4 min read
In 45 seconds
COD Fee: The per-order charge for collecting cash — flat (₹30–60) or a percentage of order value (1–2.
Why you care: COD fee + higher RTO is the real cost of offering cash.
In practice: ₹350 order: ₹45 COD fee + ₹70 freight means ₹115 to deliver a ₹350 order
Every Indian courier, inside your store. An order comes in,
we quote every connected carrier on the order page — you book the best rate, hyperlocal or national.
COD Fee — The per-order charge for collecting cash — flat (₹30–60) or a percentage of order value (1–2.5%), whichever is higher on some cards.
Why it matters to your store
COD fee + higher RTO is the real cost of offering cash. On a ₹400 order, a ₹50 COD fee is 12.5% of revenue before freight — price it into the COD decision.
This is the vocabulary every courier invoice, NDR report and rate card is written in — learn it once, save money forever.
₹350 order: ₹45 COD fee + ₹70 freight means ₹115 to deliver a ₹350 order — 33% gone before product cost.
The bottom line
Shipping jargon is really just the billing manual in disguise — every term on this list maps to a line
on an invoice or a lever on your margins. Pure Parcel is built so you rarely have to think about it:
statuses normalise, bills reconcile, and quotes already include the surcharges.
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