Glossary
Shipping terms for Indian marketplace sellers, in plain English.
The Meesho, Flipkart, and Amazon terms that decide your shipping cost — defined the way ShipWorks actually uses them.
- Low-Shipping AI
- ShipWorks' AI feature that scores 25 variants of a product's listing photo against Meesho's volumetric-weight grid to find the framing that lands the item in the lowest shipping-weight bracket — so the same product ships in a cheaper slab. It runs on credits: 1 credit = 1 photo scan.
- Meesho AI credits
- The currency Low-Shipping AI runs on — 1 credit = 1 photo scan. Every ShipWorks plan includes a per-cycle scan allowance (Free trial 3, Starter 10, Growth 25, Yearly 60) that expires when the plan ends, and you can top up pay-as-you-go credit packs at a per-scan rate from ₹3.50 to ₹4.80. Top-up credits never expire.
- Volumetric weight
- A shipping weight derived from a parcel's size rather than its actual mass — length × width × height divided by a standard divisor. Carriers and marketplaces bill on whichever is higher, actual or volumetric, so bulky-but-light items are charged on volume.
- Volumetric weight bracket
- The shipping-weight slab Meesho uses to price a shipment (for example 0–500g, 500g–1kg). Meesho estimates the bracket from the bounding box of the product in your listing photo, so a tighter, better-framed photo can move a listing into a lower, cheaper bracket — which is exactly what Low-Shipping AI optimises for.
- Label cropper
- A tool that takes the full-page (often A4) shipping-label PDFs marketplaces export and crops them down to just the label, sized for a thermal printer. ShipWorks does this in bulk across Meesho, Flipkart, and Amazon, and auto-removes invoices and marketplace branding.
- Thermal label
- A shipping label printed on a thermal printer with no ink, typically at 4×6 inches. ShipWorks crops marketplace labels to standard thermal sizes — 3×5, 4×4, 4×6, and 6×4 inches.
- Courier-wise sorting
- Reordering a batch of shipping labels so all of one courier's parcels are grouped together, which makes pickup handover and manifesting faster. ShipWorks detects the courier from each label's structured carrier field and sorts automatically.
- SKU sorting
- Grouping shipping labels by product SKU so a packer can pick and pack one product at a time instead of hunting order by order — fewer mistakes, faster dispatch.
- RTO (Return to Origin)
- An order that ships but comes back undelivered — refused, undeliverable, or unclaimed. RTO costs the seller both forward and return shipping with no sale, so lowering the RTO rate is a core margin lever for marketplace sellers.
- Manifest
- A handover document listing every parcel a seller is giving a courier in one pickup, used to reconcile what was collected. ShipWorks can generate it alongside the cropped, courier-sorted label batch.
Want to see Low-Shipping AI lower a bracket on your own SKUs? Read the Meesho low-shipping image generator overview, or try the free Meesho volumetric weight calculator.
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