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title: "Rate Card"
slug: "rate-card"
updated: 2024-12-20T05:08:34Z
published: 2024-12-20T05:08:34Z
canonical: "help.delhivery.com/rate-card"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.delhivery.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Rate Card

## Rate Card for Business Shipments on Delhivery

You can view the Domestic shipping pricing table from the Rate Card page.

In this article, you will learn about

- [Key Terms and Definition](/v1/docs/rate-card#key-terms-and-definition)
- [Pricing Table & Overhead Charges](/v1/docs/rate-card#pricing-table)
- [Destination City Surcharge](/v1/docs/rate-card#destination-city-surcharges)

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### Key Terms and Definition

- **Transport Mode**
  - **Surface** refers to movement of goods via Road
  - **Express** refers to movement of goods via Air (wherever feasible).
- **Shipment Type**
  - **Forward** (movement from Client Pickup Location to Consignee)
  - **RTO** = Return to Origin, in the case that the customer is not available to receive the courier, it is returned back to the shipper.
  - **DTO** = Deliver to Origin, in the case that the customer wants to return the product back to the shipper.
- **Zone** - Based on the Origin and Destination pincodes, your shipment is assigned a Zone.
  - **Zone A** - Local within city pickup and delivery
  - **Zone B** -Regional (Origin to destination within 500kms)
  - **Zone C** - Metro to Metro
  - **Zone D** - Rest of India
  - **Zone E** - Special Zones (Jammu,HP, North East Excl. Manipur)
  - **Zone F** - Special Zones (Kashmir, Manipur, Ladakh, Andman & Nicobar)
- Weight Slab - Based on the chargeable weight, your shipment is assigned a Weight slab.
  - **Chargeable Weight** : Dead Weight or Volumetric, whichever is higher. For volumetric weight calculation, all sides are measured in cm.
  - Please check your rate card to check the exact formula for calculating chargeable weight.

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/99cfd8a0-cd1b-4550-bd86-3e4e610f163b/Images/Documentation/image%28103%29.png)

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### Pricing Table & Overhead Charges

- Navigate to Left Panel > Information Center > Rate Card to view your pricing table.
- Your pricing table gives the shipping cost for a shipment belonging to a specific weight slab, zone, a specific shipment type, and transport mode
- Pricing table also includes overhead charges.
  - If you are shipping a COD shipment, you'll be charged an additional cost for cash handling
  - If you are opting for Quality Check RVP, you'll be charged an additional cost for QC process

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### Destination City Surcharge

- Destination City Surcharge is a small surcharge applied for destination cities for both surface(land) and express(air) mode during shipment manifestation for deliveries. This small surchage is applied to offset the operational cost of reaching these destinations and will allow us to maintain our service quality and reliability.
- The surcharges are in addition to the standard zone-based rates and are applied to forward, return(RTO) and reverse(DTO) domestic shipments
- The Destination city surchage is exclusive of Fuel Surcharge

**To view the Destination City Surcharge**

- Navigate to **Left Panel > Information Center > Rate Card > Destination City Surcharge table** to view the Destination City Surcharges.
- You can use 'search city names' functionality on the Destination City Surchage table to find out the surcharge applicable to a given city
- The surcharges apply to the select cities of NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Surat, and Goa. Below table lists the abbreviation for the applicable cities:  

![LM City abbreviation V2.PNG](https://cdn.document360.io/99cfd8a0-cd1b-4550-bd86-3e4e610f163b/Images/Documentation/LM%20City%20abbreviation%20V2%281%29.PNG)