Etsy Fee Calculator

Calculate Etsy fees by country instantly. Enter your price to see exact transaction, listing and payment fees plus net profit and margin.

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Etsy's transaction fee — 6.5% in most countries
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12% for most sellers, 15% for shops under $10k/year sales

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How Etsy Fees Work in 2026

Every Etsy sale carries four stacked fees that quietly eat into your take-home profit. Together they typically take 9–13% of revenue on a direct sale and 21–28% when Offsite Ads is involved. Pick your country above to auto-fill payment processing rates for the US, UK, EU, Australia or Canada, or switch to Custom to enter your own.

  • Listing fee ($0.20): Flat per-item fee, charged on listing and re-charged at every 4-month renewal.
  • Transaction fee (6.5%): Applied to the full buyer total — item price plus shipping charged.
  • Payment processing: Country-dependent. 3% + $0.25 in the US; 4% + £0.20 in the UK; 4% + €0.30 in the EU.
  • Offsite Ads (12–15%): Triggered when Etsy sources the buyer via an external ad click. Mandatory above $10,000/year in sales.

What are Etsy fees?

Etsy charges sellers four distinct fees on every sale. The listing fee is a flat $0.20 per item posted, valid for four months or until the item sells. The transaction fee is 6.5% of the total order value, including the price the buyer pays and any shipping you charge them. The payment processing fee varies by country — roughly 3% plus a fixed amount per order in the US, slightly different in the UK, EU, Canada and other markets. The Etsy Ads fee is optional but mandatory if the sale comes from an Offsite Ads click — 12% or 15% of the order total depending on your annual revenue.

Add them together and the platform's effective cut on a typical sale sits between 9% and 13% for sellers who don't run Offsite Ads, and 21% to 28% for sales attributed to Offsite Ads. The big variable is shipping: because the 6.5% transaction fee applies to shipping charged, free-shipping listings are taxed on a higher base than buyer-pays-shipping listings.

How to calculate Etsy fees

Total Etsy fees on a single sale are the sum of four components. The transaction fee applies to the entire order value — item price plus shipping charged to the buyer:

Formula: Total fees = Listing + (Item + Shipping) × 0.065 + (Item + Shipping) × payment_pct + payment_fixed + Ads

Where payment_pct and payment_fixed depend on the seller's country (US sellers pay 3% + $0.25; UK sellers 4% + £0.20; EU sellers 4% + €0.30), and Ads is 15% × order value if Offsite Ads triggered the sale (12% for sellers over $10,000/year in revenue), otherwise zero.

Worked example. A US seller lists a candle for $30 with $5 shipping charged. The order subtotal is $35. Listing fee is $0.20. Transaction fee is $35 × 0.065 = $2.275. Payment processing is $35 × 0.03 + $0.25 = $1.30. With no Offsite Ads, total Etsy fees are $0.20 + $2.275 + $1.30 = $3.78, or 10.8% of the order. If the buyer arrived via Offsite Ads, add $35 × 0.15 = $5.25, pushing the platform's cut to $9.03 — roughly 26% of the order.

Subtract fees from order value, then subtract product cost and shipping cost paid to the carrier, and you have estimated profit per sale.

How to use this calculator

Pick your country from the top selector — it auto-fills the payment processing fee for the right market. Enter the item price (what the buyer sees on the listing), the shipping charged (zero if you offer free shipping and absorb the cost into the price), and your shipping cost (what you actually pay the carrier).

Toggle Offsite Ads on if you want to model the worst-case fee scenario — that's the fee Etsy charges when an external ad click leads to a sale. The advanced section lets you override defaults (different transaction fee for certain category exemptions, custom payment fees for edge-case currencies). Results update live: total Etsy fees, estimated profit, and profit margin so you can sanity-check pricing in real time.

Real-world examples

Example 1 — US seller, low-ticket print. $12 art print, $4 shipping charged, $1.50 actual postage, $2 production cost. Order subtotal $16. Listing $0.20, transaction $16 × 0.065 = $1.04, payment $16 × 0.03 + $0.25 = $0.73. Total Etsy fees $1.97. Profit = $16 − $1.97 − $1.50 − $2 = $10.53 per sale (65.8% margin). Healthy because production cost is low and shipping is buyer-paid.

Example 2 — UK seller, mid-ticket free-shipping listing. £45 ceramic mug listed with free shipping, £6 actual postage, £8 production cost. Order subtotal £45 (no shipping line because it's free). Listing £0.16, transaction £45 × 0.065 = £2.93, payment £45 × 0.04 + £0.20 = £2.00. Total fees £5.09. Profit = £45 − £5.09 − £6 − £8 = £25.91 (57.6% margin). Note the seller absorbs full shipping cost — every £1 of carrier postage above the £6 estimate erodes margin directly.

Example 3 — Offsite Ads attribution. Same UK mug, but the buyer arrived via a Google Ad Etsy ran. Add £45 × 0.15 = £6.75 in Offsite Ads fees. Total Etsy fees jump to £11.84 and profit drops to £19.16 (42.6% margin). For a seller netting under £10,000/year in Etsy sales, Offsite Ads are opt-out — for higher-revenue sellers they're mandatory, so margin planning has to assume the worst case on a percentage of orders.

Common mistakes and benchmarks

The biggest mistake new sellers make is forgetting the 6.5% transaction fee applies to shipping. If you charge $10 shipping on a $30 item, Etsy takes 6.5% of $40, not $30 — an extra $0.65 per order that compounds quickly at volume.

Second is treating Offsite Ads fees as optional when they aren't. If your shop is over the $10,000 USD lifetime sales threshold (or you opted in voluntarily), Offsite Ads cannot be turned off, and roughly 5–15% of your orders will trigger that extra 12–15% fee depending on category. Build it into pricing assumptions — model your recommended sell price as if every order triggered Offsite Ads, and you'll never be surprised by margin slippage.

Healthy benchmarks for an Etsy shop: total platform fees under 12% of revenue without Offsite Ads, gross margin above 40% after product cost and shipping. Anything below 25% gross margin means a $5 increase in carrier shipping rates can wipe out your profit per sale entirely. Use the Etsy break-even calculator to find the volume floor at which fixed costs are covered.

Frequently Asked Questions

Etsy charges four fees in 2026: a $0.20 listing fee per item (renewing every 4 months), a 6.5% transaction fee on order subtotal including shipping, a payment processing fee that varies by country (3% + $0.25 in the US, 4% + £0.20 in the UK, 4% + €0.30 in the EU), and an Offsite Ads fee of 12% or 15% on sales attributed to Etsy's external ads. Total effective rate is typically 9–13% on direct sales, 21–28% when Offsite Ads is involved.

Add four numbers: (1) $0.20 listing fee, (2) order subtotal × 0.065 for the transaction fee, (3) order subtotal × your country's payment percentage plus the fixed payment amount, and (4) order subtotal × 0.15 only if Offsite Ads triggered the sale. The order subtotal includes shipping charged. For a $30 item with $5 shipping in the US: $0.20 + $2.275 + $1.30 + $0 = $3.78 in total Etsy fees, or 10.8% of the order.

Aim for 40% gross margin minimum after Etsy fees, product cost, and carrier shipping. Above 50% is healthy and gives room for ads, returns, and inventory mistakes. Below 25% means a single shipping rate increase or a couple of returns per month can wipe out the shop's profitability. Print-on-demand and digital products typically run 60–80% margin; handmade physical goods 30–50%; reseller models often under 20%, which works only at high volume.

On a $30 item with $5 shipping in the US, Etsy takes about $3.78 (10.8%) without Offsite Ads. eBay's basic plan is roughly 13.25% on the same $35 order plus $0.30 per order — about $4.94, or 14.1%. eBay also has insertion fees beyond your free monthly allotment. Etsy is cheaper headline-rate but adds Offsite Ads (12–15%) on top for sales it sources externally. See the eBay fee calculator for a side-by-side comparison.

Etsy's algorithm favors free-shipping listings in US search results, but you'll pay 6.5% transaction fee on the higher item price either way. The real question is conversion: free shipping typically lifts conversion 10–20% in tests. If your numbers support it, raise the item price by 80–90% of average shipping cost (not 100%, since the buyer was psychologically already accepting some shipping) and absorb the rest as a conversion-rate investment.

Three usual culprits. First, you forgot the 6.5% transaction fee applies to shipping charged, not just the item. Second, an Offsite Ads attribution added 12–15% on top of normal fees — check the order details, Etsy clearly flags Offsite-attributed sales. Third, if you're outside the US, currency conversion can shave 2.5% off the final payout when Etsy converts USD to your bank's local currency. Always model the worst-case fee total when pricing, not the average.

Use the fee calculator when you already have a price and want to verify the net profit and margin — useful for pricing audits, return-on-investment checks, or quick break-even thinking. Use the pricing calculator when you have a target margin and need to reverse-engineer the listing price that achieves it after fees. The two are mirrors: fees-in / profit-out vs profit-in / price-out.

Sales tax and VAT are excluded because Etsy collects and remits them in most jurisdictions — they pass through your account but aren't yours to keep or model as cost. The calculator also excludes income tax (which you pay on profit, not revenue), monthly Etsy Plus subscriptions ($10/month if you opted in), Pattern fees if you use Etsy's website builder, refund processing costs, and currency conversion losses for non-US sellers. For a fuller business picture, layer this against your break-even volume.

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