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Etsy fee calculator
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Etsy stacks four separate charges on one sale, and two of them are calculated on the order total — which includes the shipping you charged. That is the detail most sellers miss: raising your shipping price raises your Etsy bill. Offsite Ads, when it triggers, is by far the largest single line.
The sale
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On a $51.00 sale, Etsy takes $5.30 — 10.4% of what the buyer paid — and $45.70 reaches you. You keep 89.6% of the order.
Every line of it
| Buyer pays | item + shipping | $51.00 |
Listing fee Charged when you list, and again every four months on renewal. | $0.20 per listing | −$0.20 |
Transaction fee Charged on the order total, shipping included. | 6.5% of $51.00 | −$3.32 |
Payment processing | 3% of $51.00 + $0.25 | −$1.78 |
| Total fees | −$5.30 | |
| Reaches your account | $45.70 | |
On this sale, Etsy ranks 18 of 29 for what reaches you.
Compare all platformsWhat this calculator does not cover
- Payment processing rates are set per country. The 3% + $0.25 used here is the United States rate.
- Shops that pass $10,000 in a 365-day window are enrolled in Offsite Ads permanently and cannot opt out.
- Etsy Plus, Pattern and in-person Square sales carry separate charges not modelled here.
Etsy fees: common questions
How much does Etsy take from a $50 sale?
$5.20 in fees on a $50 sale, leaving you $44.80 — an effective rate of 10.4%. On $100 it is $9.95, leaving $90.05. The effective rate is higher on the smaller sale because part of the fee is a fixed amount per transaction, which weighs more heavily on smaller orders.
What are Etsy's fees, exactly?
On a $50 sale, the fees are listing fee of $0.20 ($0.20 per listing), transaction fee of $3.25 (6.5% of $50.00), payment processing of $1.75 (3% of $50.00 + $0.25). That comes to $5.20 in total. There is no monthly fee.
Does Etsy charge fees on shipping?
Yes. Fees on Etsy sales are charged as a share of the whole payment, which includes the shipping you charged the buyer. A $50 item with free shipping costs $5.20 in fees; the same item with $10 shipping costs $6.15 — $0.95 more, on shipping money that mostly goes to the carrier. Raising your shipping price raises your Etsy bill.
What should I charge on Etsy to keep $50?
Work it backwards rather than guessing: at Etsy's rates you have to charge more than $50 to keep $50, because the fee is taken from what the buyer pays. The what-to-charge calculator solves for the exact price, including any flat per-transaction fee, and rounds up to the cent so you are never left short.
What does this Etsy calculator not include?
Payment processing rates are set per country. The 3% + $0.25 used here is the United States rate.
Are these Etsy fees up to date?
They were read from Etsy's own published fee schedule on September 21, 2026, and the source is linked on this page so you can check it yourself. An automated check re-reads the source pages weekly and flags any that have changed; any page it cannot read is flagged for a manual re-read instead. Fee schedules do move without notice, so where this page and Etsy disagree, Etsy is right.
That is what Etsy takes. What the unit actually earns is another question again, once shipping, advertising and the orders that come back are in the picture — work out the true margin.
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There is no account, no email wall and nothing for sale here, which is deliberate — it is what lets the site publish what platforms actually charge and link to where each rate came from. Re-reading ten fee schedules every week is the unglamorous part, and it is what keeps the numbers worth trusting. If that saved you a bad listing decision, you are welcome to put a little toward the domain and the hosting. If it did not, please do not.
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