Bandcamp Fee Calculator

Bandcamp Fees at a Glance

Bandcamp charges its fees on the sale price.

Fee	Percentage	Flat	Notes
Revenue share (digital)	10%	—	15% on physical merchandise
Payment processing	4.4%	$0.30	—

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	$1.02	$3.98	20.40%
$20.00	$3.18	$16.82	15.90%
$50.00	$7.50	$42.50	15.00%
$100.00	$14.70	$85.30	14.70%
$500.00	$72.30	$427.70	14.46%

Two Rates, One Threshold

Bandcamp takes a revenue share on top of payment processing, and the digital rate drops permanently once an artist crosses a lifetime sales threshold.

Sale type	Revenue share
Digital, before $5,000 lifetime	15%
Digital, after $5,000 lifetime	10%
Physical merchandise	15%

The threshold is cumulative and per artist, not per release, so a back catalogue counts toward it.

Why the Share Is Higher Than a Store Platform

Bandcamp is a marketplace with its own audience, editorial coverage and discovery, not a storefront you drive traffic to. The comparison is not against a 2.9% processor — it is against Spotify's per-stream economics, where the equivalent of one $10 album sale requires thousands of plays.

Channel	Artist take on $10
Bandcamp digital album	~$7.90
Own store with Stripe	~$9.41
Streaming equivalent	Thousands of plays

Bandcamp Fridays

On days when Bandcamp waives its revenue share, the entire share goes to the artist and only processing is deducted. Fans know the dates; timing a release around one is a genuine and legitimate revenue decision.

Physical Sales Carry Real Costs

The 15% on merchandise is charged on the item and shipping. Add manufacturing, packaging and your time before reading the margin — vinyl in particular has a long payback.

Charging to Hit a Target Payout

Adding 14.40% 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	$117.17
$1,000.00	$1,168.57

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.

The digital share drops to 15% lifetime after $5,000 of sales; merch is 15% throughout.