Etsy fee calculator

How Etsy fees actually stack

On the default sale above — a $40 item, $5 shipping, $12 of goods, $4 postage, $1 of packaging — the buyer pays $45.00. Etsy's cut comes to about $4.73, or 10.5% of what the buyer paid, and you keep about $23.27. The dollar fee is larger than the headline 6.5% because four separate charges stack:

1. Transaction fee — 6.5%

Charged on the item price and the shipping the buyer pays, not just the item. On a $40 + $5 order that is $2.93.

2. Payment processing — about 3% + $0.25 (US)

Also charged on the whole amount including shipping, and the fixed part does not shrink on cheap items. On the same order, roughly $1.60. Rates differ by country, and some countries add a small regulatory operating fee on top.

3. Listing fee — $0.20

Per listing, renewing every four months or when it sells. On a multi-quantity listing you are charged per item sold, so it behaves like a per-sale cost here.

4. Offsite Ads — 15% (sometimes 12%)

Only on sales Etsy attributes to an offsite ad, and only if you are opted in. It is the fee people forget, and on a $45 order it is $6.75 — enough to turn a good sale into a thin one. If you are opted in and want to be safe, add 15 to the percentage field above; then every price you check is one that survives an ad-attributed sale.

Not covered here: sales tax and VAT (collected and passed on, not your income), Etsy Ads spend, and currency conversion. Enter ads spend in the "packaging / other" box if you want it in the number.

What the break-even price tells you

With those costs, this item breaks even at $14.28. Below that, every sale costs you money — and because the $0.45 fixed fee is a bigger share of a small order, the effective fee rate on cheap items is much higher than 10.5%. If you want to keep 30% of revenue rather than just any profit, the price needs to be $23.84.

Digital downloads

No postage and no shipping charge, but the transaction fee and processing fee still apply to the item price, and the $0.20 listing fee still applies. Set postage and shipping charged to 0 and the maths holds.