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Etsy fee calculator

Put in what the buyer pays and see every fee Etsy charges, line by line, and what actually lands in your account. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and the numbers stay in your browser.

The order
currency
Etsy's fees
your shop is in

Etsy changes these rates and they differ by country, so the preset is only a starting point and every field below is editable. Your exact payment processing rate is in Shop Manager under Finances, and the current rates are in Etsy's own fee policy.

What it costs you (optional)

Fill these in and the calculator turns "what Etsy takes" into "what you actually made".

ETSY TAKES
$0.00
Listing fee0.00
Transaction fee0.00
Payment processing0.00
Offsite Ads0.00
Regulatory operating fee0.00
Currency conversion0.00
What the sale leaves you
Buyer pays0.00
Etsy takes0.00
Lands in your account0.00
And after your costs
Lands in your account0.00
Item and postage cost you0.00
You made0.00
Margin: 0%

Nothing here is sent anywhere. The calculation runs in your browser and nothing is stored.

the fees

What Etsy actually charges

Sellers usually quote one number, the 6.5%, and it is the smallest part of the story. There are three fees on every single order and three more that appear on some of them.

Listing fee

A flat 0.20 USD to publish a listing, charged again every time it renews and every time an item from a multi-quantity listing sells. On a 30 order it is under 1%. On a 6 wax melt it is over 3% before anything else is taken.

Transaction fee, 6.5%

Charged on the total the buyer pays, which includes the shipping you charged and any gift wrapping. This is the one people mean when they say "Etsy takes six and a half percent".

Payment processing

A percentage plus a fixed amount, and it is the fee that varies most by country - roughly 3% plus 0.25 in the United States, closer to 4% plus 0.20 or 0.30 across the UK and the eurozone. The fixed part is why cheap items are disproportionately expensive to sell.

the surprises

The three that ruin the arithmetic

Offsite Ads, 12% or 15%

Charged when the buyer arrived through an advert Etsy paid for on Google, Facebook or elsewhere. It is 15% for shops under 10,000 USD in the last 365 days, who may opt out, and 12% for shops at or above that, who may not. It lands on some orders and not others, which is exactly what makes it hard to price for.

Regulatory operating fee

A percentage of the order charged to sellers in the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Turkey. It is small and it is easy to forget it exists until you reconcile a payout. Rates differ by country and have changed more than once, so put yours in the field above rather than trusting a number you read somewhere.

Currency conversion, about 2.5%

Charged when you list in one currency and get paid into a bank account in another. A euro shop listing in dollars to look friendlier to American buyers is paying this on every order.

the other half

Fees are the half you can look up. The other half is what the thing cost to make.

This page answers what Etsy takes. It cannot tell you whether the order was worth taking, because that depends on what the wax, the jar, the label and the mailer cost you on the day you made it, and on how long you stood there making it. That number moves every time a supplier changes a price, which is why most shops are working from a figure that was true last spring.

If you make what you sell, the candle pricing calculator works out the cost side from your actual material prices and solves backwards for the price that hits the margin you want. And how to price homemade candles walks the whole thing through on one worked example, fees included.

questions

Questions sellers actually ask

How much does Etsy take from a sale?

On an ordinary order, roughly 10 to 11 percent of what the buyer pays plus about half a unit of currency in flat fees. That is a 6.5% transaction fee, payment processing of about 3-4% plus a fixed amount, and a 0.20 listing fee. An Offsite Ads order adds 12% or 15% on top, which can push the total past 25%.

Does Etsy charge fees on shipping?

Yes. The transaction fee and payment processing are both charged on the total the buyer pays, and shipping is part of that total. Charging shipping separately instead of offering free shipping does not avoid the percentage.

What is the Offsite Ads fee and can I switch it off?

It is charged when a buyer reaches your listing through an advert Etsy paid for elsewhere. It is 15% of the order for shops under 10,000 USD in the last 365 days, who can opt out, and 12% for shops at or above that, who cannot. It only applies to orders that came through such an advert, not to every sale.

Do I pay the listing fee even if the item never sells?

Yes. The listing fee is charged when you publish a listing and again each time it renews, whether or not anything sold. This calculator counts one listing fee against one sale, which is the right way to look at a single order, but a shop full of listings that do not sell is paying that fee repeatedly.

Why is my Etsy payout lower than this calculator says?

The usual reasons are an Offsite Ads fee on that particular order, a currency conversion fee when your bank currency differs from your listing currency, a regulatory operating fee in the UK, France, Italy, Spain or Turkey, or sales tax and VAT that Etsy collects and remits. Each of those has its own field above so you can add it and see the real number.

Masto Control is not affiliated with Etsy. Etsy is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. Fee rates change, so treat the defaults here as a starting point and check your own in Shop Manager.

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