Poshmark fee calculator

The two-tier fee, and why cheap items still work

Poshmark's commission is simple compared with other marketplaces, but it has a step in it:

20% of the item price on sales of $15 or more

On the default sale — a $40 item that cost you $12 with $1 of packaging — the fee is $8.00 and you keep $19.00, a 47.5% margin. The fee is on the item price only; the buyer's shipping label is separate and is not part of your payout, which is why both shipping boxes are 0 by default.

A flat $2.95 on sales under $15

Below $15 the percentage is not used at all. A $10 item costs you $2.95 in fees — 29.5% of the sale, far more than 20% — yet a cheap item can still be worth listing because the absolute fee is small: with a $2 cost you keep $5.05. At exactly $15 the 20% rate applies, which is $3.00, so $15.00 is a slightly worse price than $14.99 in fee terms. Worth knowing when you send an offer.

What moves the number

Offers to likers. An offer lowers your price and your fee, but not by the same amount, because the flat $2.95 does not shrink. Dropping a $20 item to $14 turns a $4.00 fee into $2.95: your price falls $6.00 while your proceeds fall only $4.95, because the fee gave back $1.05.

Shipping discounts. If you offer discounted shipping, that cost is yours: put it in "postage you pay".

No listing fee. Poshmark does not charge to list, and there is no per-order fee on top, so unlike eBay the only fixed cost is the sub-$15 tier.

Break-even and target-margin prices

For this item, break-even is $16.25 — below that you are paying the buyer for the privilege. To keep 30% of revenue rather than any profit at all, price it at $26.00. If you buy to resell, compare that against what similar items actually sell for, not asking prices.