E-commerce operator

“Electronic commerce operator is every person who, owns, operates or manages digital or electronic facility or platform for electronic commerce.” On the other hand, sale of a company’s products through its website would not be called an e-commerce activity. Hence, the basic functions of an E-commerce operator are:

To display the available products and services in the website.

Arrange for dispatch through any of the vendors.

Post the successful supply by the vendors, the e-commerce operator proceeds to settle the payment of the vendor on a periodical basis.

The GST Law explains that a person supplying goods/services on his own account, however, would not be considered as an Operator. For instance, Amazon and Flipkart are e-commerce Operators because they are facilitating actual suppliers to supply goods through their platform (popularly called Market place model or Fulfilment Model)

Hence you do not cover under the E-Commerce Operator