Etsy Fee Calculator

The listing fee is per listing, not per sale

Etsy charges a small fee each time a listing renews. Treated per sale, it is a fixed cost of having the item up at all - a rounding error on a big order and a real one on a small handmade piece, because the amount does not move with the price.

For a seller renewing one listing per order it is that amount; sellers with multi-quantity listings can divide it across the units a listing actually sells, which is the fairer read of what the fee costs each sale. Either way it is paid before a buyer appears, so it belongs in the cost of the sale even when the listing is old.

The transaction fee is a percentage of price plus shipping

Etsy’s transaction fee applies to the item price and the shipping amount you charge the buyer together. Charging it on the shipping is where the page differs from a casual estimate, and it is the line most sellers notice first in their fee report.

The default 6.5% is Etsy’s published transaction rate as of 2026-09-26. A $22 item with $4.50 of shipping charges the fee on $26.50, not on $22, and folding the postage into the price to advertise free shipping does not take it back out of the base.

That is also why the collected amount is the first row of the table: every percentage below it is measured against the same number, so the arithmetic can be checked without rebuilding it.

Payment processing adds a percentage and a fixed amount

Etsy Payments charges a processing percentage of the same base plus a fixed per-order amount. The fixed part is why a very cheap order can be eaten by fees almost entirely.

Both are entered on the page because the fixed fee varies by the country your payment account is registered in. The default 0.25 is typical of USD accounts and is a starting point, not a rate Etsy guarantees.

Because the fixed amount is charged per order and does not scale with the basket, a $5 order gives up a visibly larger share of its value to fees than a $200 order does. The percentage is proportional; the fixed part is not.

Off-site ads are an opt-in extra on top

When Etsy brings a buyer to your shop through off-site ads, it takes a share of the sale, quoted as a percentage of the item price. It only applies to orders that arrive that way, which is why the default is 0 and the field asks you to set it if your traffic actually comes from ads.

Sellers who use Etsy’s marketing aggressively and leave this at 0 will systematically overstate profit; the page calls that out explicitly. Note that this share is charged on the item price alone, while the transaction and processing percentages are charged on price plus shipping - the rates are not measured against the same base.

A sale with neither a price nor postage has nothing for the fees to be taken from, so the page asks for one of the two instead of printing a negative profit.

From one sale to a month of sales

The fixed parts are charged per order, so they do not shrink with the basket: a hundred orders a month each pay the payment fixed fee and each renew a listing, which is $25 and $20 at the defaults before a single percentage is applied. Divide a month of fees by the number of orders to get the fee per sale you actually pay, and compare that with the clear profit this page prints for one sale - a shop whose average order is small can be profitable per item and still lose money once the per-order charges are counted.

The off-site ad share should be averaged the same way, because it applies only to the orders that arrive through ads: a seller whose traffic is half from ads has an effective rate near half of the published one, not zero and not the full rate. That is why the field is entered rather than assumed, and why the panel names which rows exist for the sale you described. Set the ad rate to your measured share of orders, not to the rate printed on the schedule, and the number stays honest as the traffic mix moves.