Etsy Fee Calculator

How Etsy fees work for US sellers

Etsy doesn't take one flat cut of a sale. It charges several separate fees, and each one is calculated on a slightly different amount, which is why the rough "Etsy takes about 10%" rule can be well off for your shop. For a seller in the United States, three fees apply to almost every order.

The listing fee is a flat $0.20 each time you publish or renew a listing, and a listing stays up for four months. If a listing has more than one item in stock, you pay another $0.20 for each additional item that sells. The transaction fee is 6.5% of the price you display plus the amount you charge for shipping and gift wrapping. And if you get paid through Etsy Payments, the US payment processing fee is 3% plus $0.25, charged on the order's total sale price, including shipping and any sales tax the buyer pays.

Two more fees depend on the order. Offsite Ads charge a share of the order total when a sale comes from one of the ads Etsy runs for your listings on other websites. The rate is 15% if your shop has always made less than $10,000 in any 365-day period, and 12% once it has made $10,000 or more, at which point you can no longer opt out. The fee never exceeds $100 for a single order, and for US sellers it isn't charged on sales tax. Lastly, a currency conversion fee of 2.5% of the sale amount applies if you list items in a currency that differs from your payment account's currency.

How to use this Etsy fee calculator

Enter the item price and the shipping you charge the buyer. If you offer free shipping, enter 0 and make sure postage is built into the price. Add a gift wrap charge if you sell one, and the sales tax rate on the order if you want the processing fee to include tax. Then choose whether the sale came through Offsite Ads and at which rate, and tick the currency box only if your listings are priced in a different currency from your payment account.

Next, fill in your costs: the item cost (materials and labor, or what you paid for it), the shipping cost you pay for the label, and other costs per order such as packaging, Etsy Ads spend or printing. Results update as you type. The fee breakdown shows each fee with the amount it was charged on, then your total fees as a share of revenue, your net payout (what reaches your payment account before your own costs), profit, margin and ROI. The calculator also solves for two prices: the break-even price, where profit is exactly zero, and the price that gives the target margin you enter.

Worked example: a $30 item with $5 shipping

These are the calculator's default numbers. An item sells for $30 and the buyer pays $5 shipping, so the order total is $35. The item costs $8 to make, the shipping label is $4.50 and packaging adds $1, for $13.50 in costs.

• Listing fee: $0.20
• Transaction fee: 6.5% × $35.00 = $2.28
• Payment processing: 3% × $35.00 + $0.25 = $1.30
• Total Etsy fees: $3.78, or 10.8% of the $35 revenue

That leaves a net payout of $31.23 and a profit of $17.73: a 50.6% margin and a 221.6% return on the $8 item cost. The calculator keeps full precision and rounds each figure to the cent, so a hand sum of the rounded lines can be a penny off. The break-even price with the same shipping charge and costs is $10.42, and the price for a 30% margin is $18.06.

Now say the same order came through an Offsite Ad at 15%. The ad fee is 15% × $35.00 = $5.25, total fees rise to $9.03 (25.8% of revenue), profit drops to $12.48 and the margin to 35.6%. The break-even price moves up to $13.48 and the 30%-margin price to $25.66. At the 12% rate the ad fee is $4.20 and profit is $13.52.

Pricing tips for Etsy sellers

• Test the Offsite Ads case. In the example above, an ad-attributed order costs more than twice as much in fees as a regular one. Check that those orders are still profitable, especially once your shop passes $10,000 a year and can't opt out.
• Shipping isn't a way around fees. The transaction, processing and Offsite Ads fees all apply to shipping, so moving $5 from the shipping charge into the item price leaves Etsy's fees unchanged. Choose between free and paid shipping based on how buyers respond, not on fees.
• Watch the fixed fees on cheap items. The $0.20 listing fee and the $0.25 processing charge add $0.45 to every order. On a $5 order that's 9% before any percentage fee, so low-priced items often work better as bundles or multi-packs.
• Price from margin, not markup. Doubling your cost ignores fees that grow with the price. Enter a target margin and use the price the calculator solves for.
• Know where the cap kicks in. The $100 Offsite Ads cap is reached on orders of about $666.67 at 15% and $833.33 at 12%. Above that, each extra dollar of price only carries the standard fees.

Common mistakes

• Calculating the 6.5% transaction fee on the item price alone and forgetting shipping and gift wrap.
• Leaving sales tax out of the processing fee. Etsy collects and remits the tax, but the 3% processing fee is still charged on it.
• Treating the net payout as profit. The payout still has to cover materials, labels, packaging and your time.
• Forgetting that every extra item sold from a multi-quantity listing costs another $0.20 listing fee.
• Mixing up Etsy Ads and Offsite Ads. Etsy Ads is advertising you choose to pay for on Etsy itself; add your average spend per order to other costs. Offsite Ads is the per-sale fee modeled above.
• Pricing once and never checking again. Postage and material costs change, and so can Etsy's fees, so rerun your numbers when they do.

Sources

Fees last checked: September 2026. Rates and rules on this page come from Etsy's official fee pages:

• Etsy Fees & Payments Policy
• Etsy Help: payment processing fees
• Etsy Help: how Offsite Ads work
• Etsy Help: currency conversion fees
• Etsy Help: fees and listing multiple quantities