Rate Card — A carrier's price table — zones × weight slabs, plus the surcharges (fuel, COD, RTO, remote area). Contract rate cards are negotiated versions for volume shippers.
Why it matters to your store
Everything you pay derives from the rate card. Sellers who negotiate cards then can't use them because no tool quotes them — which is why Pure Parcel stores your contract cards directly.
This is the vocabulary every courier invoice, NDR report and rate card is written in — learn it once, save money forever.
See how →Worked example
Your Shadowfax card: Local ₹49, Regional ₹59, National ₹75 per 500g — stored once, quoted on every order automatically.
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.
