9 Common Reconciliation Errors on Amazon, Flipkart, and Meesho
16 June 2026 · 7 min read
Every marketplace has its own way of quietly under-paying sellers. Here are the nine errors that show up most often across Amazon, Flipkart, and Meesho settlement reports — and what each one looks like.
Errors that show up across all marketplaces
Some reconciliation issues aren't specific to one platform — they show up in some form across Amazon, Flipkart, and Meesho alike, just labelled differently in each settlement report.
- Short settlements — the payout for a delivered order is lower than the expected sale price minus the standard commission and fees.
- Incorrect commission slabs — a product is charged the commission rate for the wrong sub-category, usually a higher one.
- Duplicate or double-charged fees — shipping, RTO, or packaging fees applied more than once to the same order.
- Unreimbursed customer returns — a return is processed and the customer is refunded, but the seller is never credited the compensation they're owed under the marketplace's return policy.
- TDS/TCS mismatches — the tax deducted doesn't match the rate that should apply to the transaction.
Amazon-specific errors
Amazon's FBA and Easy Ship programs introduce their own fee structures, and a few issues are particularly common for Indian sellers:
- Long-term storage fees on FBA inventory that has been sitting for months without a clear alert.
- Lost or damaged warehouse inventory that was never reimbursed under Amazon's reimbursement policy.
- Weight or dimension reclassification — Amazon recalculates a product's shipping weight and retroactively charges a higher fee.
Flipkart-specific errors
Flipkart sellers most often run into:
- Delayed settlements — payments for delivered orders that don't appear in the expected payment cycle at all.
- Return-to-origin (RTO) charges applied even when the return was not caused by the seller.
Meesho-specific errors
Meesho's supplier payment structure has its own quirks:
- Unscheduled deductions — charges that appear in a payment cycle with no clear order reference or explanation attached.
- Forward and return shipping charged on the same order without a corresponding valid return.
How to actually catch these
All nine of these errors share the same weakness: they're invisible in a dashboard summary and only show up when you compare the settlement report against your own order data, line by line. Doing that manually in a spreadsheet is possible at low volumes; at real scale, a tool that automatically flags order-level mismatches — like TheEcomWay — is the only way to catch them before the marketplace's claim window closes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do these errors happen because marketplaces are deliberately underpaying sellers?
Not necessarily — most of these are the result of complex, high-volume automated systems processing millions of orders, not deliberate action. But the outcome for the seller is the same either way, which is why catching them is the seller's responsibility.
Which marketplace has the most reconciliation errors?
It varies by seller and category — no single marketplace is consistently the worst. The common thread is that all three require order-level checking, since summary dashboards don't surface any of these issues.