Etsy Fee Calculator
Calculate your net profit on Etsy after listing, transaction, payment processing, and Offsite Ads fees — modeled the way Etsy actually charges them, on your full order total including shipping, not just the item price.
Fees last verified: 2026-08-03
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The item price listed on Etsy.
Etsy's transaction fee also applies to shipping you charge.
Materials, packaging, and your own shipping cost.
Offsite Ads fees only apply when a sale results from one of Etsy's ads.
Sellers under $10k/yr in Etsy sales pay a higher Offsite Ads rate.
Optional — for a more accurate result. Leave blank to ignore returns. Percentage of orders returned by buyers.
Net profit
$20.90
Net margin
59.7%
Total Etsy fees
$4.10
Breakdown
- Product cost$10.00
- Listing fee$0.20
- Transaction fee$2.60
- Payment processing$1.30
- Offsite Ads fee$0.00
- Return loss$0.00
- Net profit$20.90
Project at scale
See how this holds up at orders per month.
Revenue
$3,500
Costs
$1,410
Net profit
$2,090
How the Etsy Fee Calculator works
Enter your selling price, shipping charge, and product cost, then indicate whether Offsite Ads apply and whether you're under Etsy's $10,000 trailing-12-month revenue threshold. The calculator applies Etsy's listing, transaction, payment processing, and (if applicable) Offsite Ads fees — each modeled on the correct base (item price alone, or item price plus shipping, depending on the fee) — to show your true net profit and margin, the same way Etsy's own statement would.
Who this is for
For Etsy sellers pricing a new listing or auditing an existing one to see how much of each sale actually reaches their pocket after Etsy's stacked fees. It's also for anyone caught off guard by Offsite Ads, the single most-cited flashpoint in Etsy seller communities: once a shop crosses $10,000 in trailing-12-month sales, enrollment becomes mandatory with no opt-out, and the fee is charged on the full order total — item price plus shipping plus tax — not the item price alone. A documented real-world example makes the gap concrete: a $10 item with a $22.23 total order was charged $3.13 in Offsite Ads, 15% of $22.23. That reduces the seller's margin not by the headline 15% but by 31.3% of the actual item price — a distortion easy to miss until you do the arithmetic yourself, which is exactly what this calculator does automatically.
Worked example
You list an item at $35 with $5 shipping, costing you $10 to make. Listing fee: $0.20. Transaction fee: 6.5% × ($35 + $5) = $2.60. Payment processing: 3% × $35 + $0.25 = $1.30. With no Offsite Ads fee, total fees are $4.10. Net profit = $35 − $4.10 − $10 = $20.90, a margin of about 60%. Now suppose the same sale came through an Offsite Ads placement and this shop is under the $10,000 threshold, so the rate is 15%. Offsite Ads is charged on item price plus shipping — $40 — not $35, so the fee is 15% × $40 = $6.00. Total fees jump to $4.10 + $6.00 = $10.10, and net profit falls to $35 − $10.10 − $10 = $14.90, a margin of about 42.6%. That single fee, applied to the full order rather than the item price, is the difference between a 60% and a 42.6% margin on the exact same sale.
How Etsy fees are actually calculated
Etsy charges four separate fees on a typical sale, and missing any one of them is what makes a naive margin estimate optimistic. The listing fee is a flat $0.20 per item, but it isn't a true one-time cost — it renews automatically every four months for as long as the listing stays active, or immediately the moment the item sells, whichever comes first, so a slow-selling listing can rack up multiple $0.20 renewals over its life. The transaction fee is 6.5% of the item price plus shipping plus gift wrap — not the item price alone — charged on every sale regardless of how it originated. Payment processing adds 3% plus a flat $0.25 per order for US sellers (UK and Eurozone sellers typically see a higher processing rate, closer to 4%, though that regional difference isn't broken out separately in the standard US-baseline math above). Offsite Ads, when it applies, is charged on the full order total — item price plus shipping — at 15% for shops under $10,000 in trailing-12-month sales (optional, opt-out available) or 12% for shops above that threshold (mandatory, no opt-out, though the rate itself is actually lower). Stacked together, US sellers commonly see an effective non-ad fee rate around 10-12% of the item price — before Offsite Ads, which for enrolled shops adds a further, and often underestimated, chunk on top.
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Frequently asked questions
What fees does Etsy charge on every sale?
A flat $0.20 listing fee per item, a 6.5% transaction fee on the item price plus shipping, and a payment processing fee of 3% + $0.25. Offsite Ads fees only apply if the specific sale came through one of Etsy's ads.
Do I have a choice about Offsite Ads fees?
If your shop earns under $10,000 in the past 12 months, Offsite Ads participation is optional and you can opt out. Above $10,000, participation is mandatory, but the fee rate actually drops from 15% to 12%.
Why does the transaction fee include shipping?
Etsy charges its 6.5% transaction fee on the total order amount — the item price plus whatever you charge for shipping — not just the item price. This is easy to overlook and can meaningfully affect your real fee total.
How can I improve my margin on Etsy?
Since Etsy's fees are largely fixed percentages, the main levers are raising prices, reducing product and packaging cost, or increasing order value (since the $0.20 listing fee and $0.25 processing fee are flat regardless of price).
Is this calculator accurate for international sellers?
The percentages here reflect standard US Etsy fees. If you sell from outside the US, currency conversion fees or regional VAT may also apply and aren't included in this estimate — check Etsy's fee policy for your country.
How much does Offsite Ads actually cost, in real dollars?
More than the 12-15% headline suggests, because it's charged on your full order total — item price plus shipping plus tax — not the item price alone. A documented example: a $10 item with a $22.23 total order was charged $3.13 in Offsite Ads (15% of $22.23). As a share of the $10 item price itself, that's 31.3%, not 15%. The gap gets bigger the more shipping makes up of your order total, so if you ship heavy or expensive items, run your own numbers through this calculator rather than mentally applying the 12-15% rate to your item price.
Is the $0.20 listing fee really a one-time cost?
No — it renews automatically every four months for as long as the listing stays active and unsold, or immediately the moment it sells, whichever happens first. A listing that takes eight months to sell has renewed at least once before it ever generates revenue, and a large shop with hundreds of slow-moving listings can accumulate meaningful renewal costs that a single per-sale calculation like this one doesn't capture on its own — worth tracking separately if you carry a lot of inventory that doesn't turn over quickly.
What exactly counts toward the $10,000 Offsite Ads threshold?
It's your shop's trailing 12 months of Etsy sales specifically — not lifetime sales, not a calendar year, and not sales from other platforms. It's a rolling window, so a shop can cross the threshold mid-year and become subject to mandatory Offsite Ads enrollment (at the lower 12% rate) even without a fixed annual renewal date. If you're close to $10,000 in trailing sales, it's worth checking your Shop Manager stats directly rather than assuming you're still under the optional-enrollment tier.
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