On Flipkart, a late dispatch costs more than one unhappy buyer. Orders that miss their dispatch time can count against your seller metrics, and a parcel that is marked ready but is not actually packed when the courier arrives is a wasted pickup. Most of these problems come from doing the steps in a different order each day.
Here is a routine that works for most sellers, whether they ship ten orders a day or a few hundred.
1. Start at the same time every day
Pick a time that leaves a comfortable gap before your usual pickup, and start then every day. Orders keep arriving through the morning, so a fixed start time also gives you a fixed cut-off: what came in before it goes out today, and the rest waits for tomorrow's batch if its dispatch date allows.
Check your dispatch dates in Seller Hub rather than assuming. Orders placed at different times can have different dispatch days.
2. Accept and confirm the day's orders
Open the orders waiting for you in Seller Hub and work through them in one go rather than one at a time through the day. Before you confirm, look for anything that needs your attention first:
- Products that need an IMEI or a serial number before they can move on.
- Orders where the weight and dimensions you send do not match what you actually pack. Send the packed weight and the packed box size, not the product's own.
- Anything flagged out of stock. Cancelling it yourself early is better than letting it go late.
3. Print labels and the pick list together
Download the labels for everything you confirmed in one file. If you have more than a handful of orders, print a pick list as well: one line per SKU with the total quantity, so you collect every item from the shelf once instead of walking back for each order.
Crop Flipkart's labels to 4 x 6 before printing on a thermal printer. The Flipkart label crop tool does this in your browser without uploading the file.
4. Pack in label order
Lay the labels out in the order they printed. For each one, pick the item, check its SKU against the label, pack it, and stick the label on. Checking the SKU at the moment of packing is what stops two similar products being swapped, which is one of the most common reasons for a return.
Put packed parcels in one place, away from anything not yet packed.
5. Mark Ready to Dispatch only when it is true
Mark an order Ready to Dispatch once its parcel is packed, labelled and sitting in the dispatch pile, and not before. Marking early looks efficient but leaves you exposed if something goes wrong with that order before pickup: a missing item, a broken product, a label that will not print.
6. Hand over and check
When the courier arrives, count the parcels against the list of orders marked ready. If you use a pickup code or a handover sheet, keep it until the day is closed. Anything left behind gets dealt with now, not discovered tomorrow.
7. Close the day
Before you stop:
- Check for orders that came in after your start time and still have today as their dispatch day.
- Note any SKU that ran low so it gets restocked.
- Look at returns waiting to be received, so they do not pile up.
Letting the routine run itself
Steps 2 to 5 are the same clicks every day. The Sellerio Seller Toolkit, a free Chrome extension for Flipkart, Amazon and Meesho sellers, runs them inside Seller Hub: it accepts the day's orders, fills in the IMEIs and weights you saved, crops and prints the labels with a pick list, and marks the orders ready once their labels are printed1. You can press Run, or set a daily time3.
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