How a Flipkart label PDF is laid out
When you download labels from Flipkart Seller Hub you get an A4 PDF with one order on each page. The shipping label sits at the top: the courier and AWB barcode, the customer's shipping address, the "Sold by" line with your business details, and a small table with the SKU ID, description and quantity. Below a dashed line comes the tax invoice, which takes up the rest of the page.
Every Flipkart label ends with the line "Not for resale", printed just under the last barcode. This Flipkart label cropper uses that line to know exactly where the label stops, so the cut is clean even when the customer's address runs to five or six lines, and the invoice never creeps into the label.
Flipkart's 3 × 5 label on 4 × 6 or 3 × 5 rolls
Flipkart's current label is about 3 inches wide and 5 inches tall, the shape of a 3 × 5 sticker. If your thermal printer takes 3 × 5 rolls, choose 3 × 5 and the label prints at almost its original size. On the more common 4 × 6 rolls it is scaled up evenly to fill the sticker, which also makes the address easier for the delivery person to read. Either way the label is never stretched, so the barcode keeps its proportions.
No thermal printer yet? Choose A4, 4 per page and print four Flipkart labels on one A4 sticker sheet with an ordinary printer, then cut along the light dashed lines.
Flipkart label crop with or without the invoice
Choose Labels only to print just the shipping stickers. Choose Label, then its invoice to print each order's invoice on the sticker right after its label. A Flipkart invoice is wider than it is tall, so it is turned sideways to use the full length of the sticker and stay readable. On A4 sheets the label and its invoice are printed side by side.
Group Flipkart orders by SKU
The SKU ID and quantity on every Flipkart label are read automatically from the PDF. Turn on Group by SKU to put orders for the same product together, and add the picklist page to see how many units of each SKU you need to take from stock before you start packing. On many other tools this is a paid feature; here it is free.
Several files, accounts and old downloads
If you sell from more than one Flipkart account, or download labels in batches through the day, drop all the PDFs in at once: you get one combined print file. A file dropped twice by mistake is skipped, so no order gets two labels. Files that another tool already cut down, or that hold two labels side by side on one sheet, work too: each label is found and placed on its own sticker.
Printing Flipkart labels on a thermal printer
- Open the cropped PDF and choose your thermal printer.
- Set the paper size to match your roll: 4 × 6 in (100 × 150 mm) or 3 × 5 in.
- Set the scale to 100% or "Actual size", and the margins to none.
- Print one label first to check the position, then print the rest.
The barcode is copied from Flipkart's own PDF without being redrawn, so it scans exactly like the original. If it doesn't, the cause is almost always a scale other than 100%, or a print head that needs cleaning.
Common problems after a Flipkart label crop
The label prints small, with white borders
The print dialog is shrinking it. Switch "Fit to page" off, set the scale to 100% and make sure the paper size is your label size, not A4.
The bottom of the label is cut off
Your roll and the chosen size don't match: a 4 × 6 page sent to a 3 × 5 roll loses its last inch. Pick the size of the sticker that is actually loaded, then crop again.
The invoice still appears
Check that Labels only is selected. With Label, then its invoice, every second sticker is an invoice on purpose.