How to track upcoming and live IPOs on Zerodha

Zerodha tracks IPOs in two places: the public page at zerodha.com/ipo and the IPO window inside Kite . Both organise issues into three sections, live, upcoming, and closed, and show the company name, the Mainboard or SME tag, the bidding date range, the listing date, and the price band. The tracker is where you find what is open now, what is coming, and what has just listed, and it links straight into the Kite bid window when you decide to apply.

This is an evergreen guide to reading the tracker, not a list of specific issues, which change every week. The skill is the same regardless of which company is on the page: knowing which section means what, which columns the public page shows and which details only appear once you open the bid window, and where the tracker ends and the authoritative exchange data begins. Specific IPOs come and go; the layout and the reading method described here hold.

The two tracking surfaces

There are two ways to track IPOs at Zerodha, and they serve slightly different jobs.

The public page at zerodha.com/ipo is open to anyone, logged in or not. It is the browsing surface: a clean list of mainboard and SME issues split into live, upcoming, and closed, with dates and price bands. It is useful for scanning what is in the pipeline before you decide to apply, and it carries an Apply now link that routes you to Kite.

The Kite IPO window, at kite.zerodha.com/bids/ipo and under the Bids menu in the Kite app, is the application surface inside your account. It shows the issues you can act on, and when you open a specific live issue it reveals the application detail the public page omits: the lot size, the minimum and maximum quantity, the per-lot amount, and the bid and cut-off entry. The Kite web and Kite app IPO flows walk the bidding steps in full.

The three sections and what they mean

The tracker’s organising idea is status by section. There is no separate status column; the section an issue sits in is its status.

A live IPO is open for application; this is the only section from which you can place a bid. An upcoming IPO is announced but not yet open, so you can read its details and prepare but not yet apply; this is the section to watch if you want to set an IPO reminder or pre-apply on Kite where supported. A closed IPO has finished bidding or has listed; in this section the page also shows the listing gain or loss once the share has listed, a quick read of how the issue performed.

The columns on the public page

Each of the three sections uses the same four columns, so once you can read one you can read all of them.

• Stock. The company name, its logo and ticker, and a tag marking it Mainboard or SME. The tag matters: an SME issue has a much larger minimum application value and trades on a separate platform, covered in mainboard versus SME IPO .
• IPO date. The bidding window as a date range, for example 19th to 23rd June 2026. This is when the issue is open for bids, not the listing date.
• Listing date. The date the share is expected to start trading, for example 29 June 2026. Under SEBI’s T+3 framework this falls three working days after the issue closes; read IPO listing timeline after the issue closes and listing date versus actual listing for the timing detail.
• Price range. The price band , for example Rs 144 to Rs 152, the floor and cap within which you bid, or at cut-off.

For an upcoming issue whose details are not yet confirmed, the page shows a dash or a “to be announced” placeholder in place of dates and price. This is normal for an issue still pending SEBI approval of its prospectus ; the fields fill in once the issuer firms up the window and band.

Where the lot size and minimum amount appear

The public page does not carry a lot-size column. The lot size , the minimum number of shares you can bid for, and the resulting minimum application amount appear inside the Kite IPO bid window when you open the specific live issue. This is by design: the lot detail is part of placing a bid, not part of browsing, so it lives on the application surface rather than the listing page.

When you open a live issue in the Kite window to apply, you see the lot size, the minimum and maximum lots a retail applicant can bid, the per-lot rupee amount, and the field to enter your bid price or select cut-off. A retail applicant can bid up to the Rs 2 lakh limit; beyond that the application falls into the HNI category . The lot size and per-lot amount together tell you the smallest cheque the issue requires, which is the number most retail applicants actually care about.

Applying from the tracker

Applying is a two-step block, not a payment. From the public page or the Kite window you submit the IPO bid on Kite, then approve the UPI mandate in your UPI app. The mandate blocks the application amount in your bank account under ASBA ; no cheque is needed, and if you get no allotment the block is released and the money was never debited. The full mechanics are in the Kite web and Kite app guides, and the cost position, applying is free, is in Zerodha IPO charges .

Two operational points matter when you apply from the tracker:

• Approve the mandate before the cutoff. The UPI mandate must be approved by the brokerage cutoff on the bid closing day, typically the early evening, or the bid lapses. The last-day rush is when mandate timeouts are most common.
• A blocked bid is not an allotment. Submitting a bid and approving the mandate only enters you into the issue. Allotment is decided after close by the registrar , and in an oversubscribed retail tranche it is a lottery .

Where the tracker ends and the exchange begins

The Zerodha tracker is a status-and-application surface, not the source of the live bid book. For the authoritative, category-wise subscription data , the times-subscribed figures for QIB, NII, and retail, read the BSE Cumulative Bid Details and the NSE primary-market IPO pages, which come straight from the exchanges. The tracker may mirror a subscription status, but the exchange pages are the source. Likewise, do not read the tracker as a buy recommendation: the listing-gain figure it shows on closed issues is history, and the grey market premium you see elsewhere is an unofficial, unregulated estimate, not a forecast.

See also

• Initial public offering
• Mainboard IPO
• SME IPO
• Mainboard versus SME IPO
• How to set IPO reminders on Kite
• How to pre-apply for an IPO on Kite
• How to apply for an IPO on Kite web
• How to apply for an IPO on the Kite app
• How to apply for an IPO through Zerodha
• IPO price band
• IPO lot size
• Cut-off price
• IPO investor categories: retail, HNI, QIB
• ASBA
• UPI mandate
• How to handle an IPO UPI mandate timeout
• How to read IPO subscription data
• IPO oversubscription and allotment
• The role of RTAs in the IPO process
• Zerodha IPO charges
• IPO listing day
• IPO listing timeline after the issue closes
• IPO listing date versus actual listing
• Grey market premium
• Red herring prospectus
• Kite by Zerodha
• Zerodha
• Bombay Stock Exchange
• National Stock Exchange

External references

• Zerodha: IPO tracker
• Zerodha support: IPO category
• BSE: public issues and cumulative bid details
• NSE: all upcoming issues and IPO data
• SEBI: investor education on IPOs

References

1. Zerodha IPO tracker, zerodha.com/ipo (Live, Upcoming, and Closed sections; Stock, IPO date, Listing date, and Price range columns; Mainboard and SME tags; to-be-announced placeholders; Apply now linking to the Kite IPO window).
2. Zerodha support, IPO application via Kite and the UPI mandate (submit the bid on Kite, approve the mandate in the UPI app; no cheque; funds blocked in the bank account).
3. SEBI master circular on the T+3 IPO listing timeline (listing on the third working day after issue close).
4. SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018 (price band, lot size, and category framework).
5. BSE cumulative bid details and NSE primary-market IPO pages (authoritative exchange-published subscription data).