Etsy Fee & Profit Calculator
Etsy’s fees stack in layers — and most sellers underestimate them. Our free Etsy fee calculator breaks down the $0.20 listing fee, 6.5% transaction fee, payment processing and offsite ads, so you know exactly what you keep on every order.
Your listing numbers
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Fee breakdown
Per order, at your numbers above.
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Transaction fee applies to item price + shipping charged. Processing applies to the order total. Offsite Ads fee is capped at $100 per order. Without ads, a typical order loses ~10% to fees; with an offsite ad, 20–30%+.
Fee sources: Etsy Help — fees and taxes for selling on Etsy
Rates checked on 10 November 2026
What this tool does not include: the regulatory operating fee Etsy charges in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Türkiye, Canada and several other countries, the 2.5% currency conversion fee, Etsy Ads spend, and Etsy's one-time shop set-up fee — none of these are in the breakdown above.
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Etsy pricing calculator: work backwards from your margin
Most sellers price forwards \u2014 pick a number, subtract the fees, hope what remains is enough. Pricing mode inverts that. Give it the margin you actually want to keep, and it solves for the item price that survives the whole documented Etsy fee stack on this page: the $0.20 listing fee, the 6.5% transaction fee, payment processing, and the Offsite Ads rate you selected above. It uses your costs and rates from the calculator above, so change those and the price updates with them.
Pricing mode \u2014 set your margin
Your product cost, shipping and fee rates come from the calculator above.
The answer is the item price to list. The shipping you charge the buyer stays whatever you set in the calculator above, and the Offsite Ads fee keeps its $100-per-order cap.
Your Etsy price
The price that leaves your target margin after every fee.
Paste the price into the item price field above to see the full line-by-line fee breakdown.
How to use this calculator
Enter price & shipping
Your list price plus any shipping you charge. Digital sellers: leave shipping at $0.
Check the fee rates
Defaults match Etsy's 2026 US schedule — adjust if you sell from the UK, EU or Canada where processing rates differ.
Toggle Offsite Ads
Select the offsite-ad option only for orders Etsy attributes to its external ads — it can more than double your fees on that order.
2026 Etsy fees used here
Etsy's own fees page (linked below the results) sets the stack this calculator models: a $0.20 listing fee per listing, expiring after 4 months; a 6.5% transaction fee on the total order amount — item price plus shipping and gift wrap; payment processing that varies by country (the US rate, 3% + $0.25, is the editable default here); and Offsite Ads at 15% of the order total for shops under $10,000 in the last 365 days, or 12% above that, capped at $100 per order. Etsy also charges a 2.5% currency conversion fee when your bank account currency differs from your payment account currency.
| Fee | 2026 reference (US) | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Listing fee | $0.20 | Per listing / renewal (4-month expiry) |
| Transaction fee | 6.5% | Total order amount incl. shipping |
| Payment processing | Varies by country (US default 3% + $0.25) | Order total |
| Offsite Ads | 15% / 12% (cap $100) | Attributed orders only |
Source: Etsy's official fees help page — What are the fees and taxes for selling on Etsy? (checked 10 November 2026).
Worked example: a candle, priced forwards and backwards
Invented round numbers \u2014 type them into the calculator and check us. A candlemaker lists a candle at $45 and charges the buyer $6 shipping, so the order total is $51. The candle costs $14 to make and the shipping label costs $5.50. Forwards first, at the 2026 US rates above: listing fee $0.20; transaction fee 6.5% of $51 = $3.32; payment processing 3% of $51 + $0.25 = $1.78. Total Etsy fees: $5.30. Profit: $51.00 \u2212 $5.30 \u2212 $14.00 \u2212 $5.50 = $26.20 \u2014 a 51.4% margin.
Now backwards, with pricing mode. Suppose the candlemaker wants a 55% margin instead. The fixed fees are $0.20 + $0.25 = $0.45, the percentage fees take 9.5% of the order total, and her costs are $19.50 \u2014 so the order total she needs is ($19.50 + $0.45) \u00f7 (1 \u2212 0.095 \u2212 0.55) = $56.20, which means an item price of $56.20 \u2212 $6.00 shipping = $50.20. Check: fees at a $56.20 order total are $0.45 + 9.5% of $56.20 = $5.79, profit is $56.20 \u2212 $5.79 \u2212 $19.50 = $30.91, and $30.91 \u00f7 $56.20 = 55.0%. That is the whole idea of a pricing calculator: pick the margin first, and let the fee stack tell you the price.
Common Etsy fee mistakes
Forgetting fees apply to shipping too. The 6.5% transaction fee is charged on the item price plus the shipping you charge the buyer, not the item price alone — "free shipping" listings priced without that maths quietly donate margin.
Ignoring the $0.20 renewal. Every unit sold from a multi-quantity listing renews at $0.20, and unsold listings renew every four months. On low-priced items sold in volume, renewals are a real cost line, not a rounding error.
Assuming Offsite Ads is optional. Shops above $10,000 in yearly sales are enrolled mandatorily (at the 12% rate). If you are near that threshold, price with the ad fee already in the margin.
Pricing digital products like physical ones. Digital items carry no shipping or label costs, so the same fee percentages leave a very different margin — model them separately in the calculator.
Etsy fees in plain numbers: a $25 sale and a $75 sale
The rates above, applied to two item prices (item price only — if you charge the buyer shipping, the transaction and processing percentages apply to that too):
| Fee line | On a $25.00 sale | On a $75.00 sale |
|---|---|---|
| Transaction fee (6.5%) | $1.63 | $4.88 |
| Payment processing (3% + $0.25) | $1.00 | $2.50 |
| Listing fee | $0.20 | $0.20 |
| Total Etsy fees | $2.83 | $7.58 |
| You keep (before product and postage costs) | $22.17 | $67.42 |
| Effective fee rate | 11.3% | 10.1% |
Two lessons hide in that table. The fixed pieces — the $0.20 listing fee and the $0.25 processing element — punish cheap items, which is why the effective rate falls as the price rises. And the table assumes no ad drove the sale: an Offsite Ads fee of 12–15% can arrive uninvited on top of it, so build every fee into the price from the start, not after the first payout disappoints.
Frequently asked questions
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