Etsy Fee Calculator

Etsy Fees at a Glance

Etsy charges its fees on the item price plus shipping and gift wrap.

Fee	Percentage	Flat	Notes
Listing fee	—	$0.20	Per listing, every 4 months
Transaction fee	6.5%	—	On item price plus shipping
Payment processing	3%	$0.25	—

Fees That Apply in Some Cases

Fee	Percentage	Flat	When
Offsite Ads	15%	—	12% if you made over $10k in 12 months

What You Keep

The flat component is what makes small sales expensive. The same fee schedule costs a very different effective rate depending on the order size:

Sale	Fees	You receive	Effective rate
$5.00	$0.93	$4.08	18.50%
$20.00	$2.35	$17.65	11.75%
$50.00	$5.20	$44.80	10.40%
$100.00	$9.95	$90.05	9.95%
$500.00	$47.95	$452.05	9.59%

Etsy Charges Four Times

Etsy is not one fee, it is a stack — and the transaction fee applies to shipping as well as the item price, which surprises sellers who price shipping at cost.

For a $50 item with $8 shipping:

Fee	Basis	Amount
Listing	Flat, per listing per 4 months	$0.20
Transaction 6.5%	$58 (item + shipping)	$3.77
Payment 3% + 25¢	$58	$2.00
Subtotal		$5.97 — 10.3%
Offsite Ads 15%	$58, when triggered	$8.70
With ads		$14.67 — 25.3%

Offsite Ads Is Not Optional Above $10k

Once you pass $10,000 in Etsy sales over 12 months, Offsite Ads becomes mandatory — the rate drops to 12%, but you can no longer opt out. Any sale attributed to an Etsy-purchased ad carries that fee on top of everything else. Price for it before you cross the threshold, not after.

Free Shipping Is Not Free

Etsy favours listings offering free domestic shipping, but the transaction fee is charged on the total either way. Building $8 of shipping into the item price costs the same 6.5% — the difference is conversion rate, not fees.

Charging to Hit a Target Payout

Adding 9.50% to your price under-recovers, because the percentage then applies to the larger amount as well. The correct gross-up divides:

`` charge = (target + flat fees) ÷ (1 − percentage rate) ``

To receive	Charge
$100.00	$110.99
$1,000.00	$1,105.47

Reducing What You Pay

• Raise average order value. The flat fee is fixed, so bundling two $20.00 orders

into one $40.00 order saves the second flat charge outright.

• Watch the optional surcharges. International and currency-conversion fees stack on top

of the base rate and are easy to miss when you price for a domestic market.

• Negotiate at volume. Most processors will discuss custom rates once you are processing

meaningful monthly volume; the published rate is a starting point, not a law.

• Do not migrate for 0.2%. The engineering and support cost of changing platforms

usually exceeds a small rate difference for years.

US seller rates. Offsite Ads is mandatory above $10k of annual sales.