Etsy Fee Calculator

This Etsy fee calculator is for US sellers who need a clear split between the $0.20 listing fee, the 6.5% transaction fee, and the Etsy Payments processing fee of 3% + $0.25. Those three charges are often mashed together in casual advice, which is how a $40 sale turns into a surprise. We transcribed the figures on 11 November 2026 from official Etsy Help articles. The calculator also handles Offsite Ads at 15%, or 12% once a shop has made $10,000 in any consecutive 365-day period, with a $100 cap per order. It is not an Etsy product, and it will not pretend otherwise.

The three fees that show up on almost every US sale

Etsy Help lists a $0.20 listing fee for each listing, charged when the listing is published or auto-renewed, whether or not it sells. Listings last four months. If you sell an extra quantity from a multi-quantity listing, another $0.20 can apply to that additional quantity. This calculator includes the $0.20 by default for a single sale; uncheck it if you are modelling a sale from a listing whose fee you already treat as a sunk cost, but do not forget it when you look at a month of renewals.

The transaction fee is 6.5% of the total order amount in your listing currency and, per the Help article, applies to shipping and gift wrapping if you charge for those. It is distinct from the payment-processing fee. For US sales we apply 6.5% to item price + shipping + gift wrap, and we do not apply it to sales tax collected on the order. The public Help article is more detailed about shipping and gift wrap than about tax; we state that assumption in the methodology so you can compare it with your Payment account.

Payment processing for a US bank account is 3% plus $0.25 USD, taken from the total sale price including shipping and any applicable sales tax. That comes from the payment-processing Help table we fetched the same day. A $50 item with $8 shipping and $3.48 tax therefore pays a $0.20 listing fee, a $3.77 transaction fee on $58, and a $2.09 processing fee on $61.48. Adding those together is the only honest way to talk about 'Etsy fees' on that order.

Offsite Ads are a different decision

listing fee = $0.20 per listing (optional to include on a single-sale model)
transaction fee = 6.5% × (item + shipping + gift wrap)
processing fee = 3% × (item + shipping + gift wrap + tax) + $0.25
Offsite Ads = 15% or 12% × (item + shipping + gift wrap), capped at $100 per order

Offsite Ads are charged only when Etsy attributes an order to one of those ads. Shops that have never reached $10,000 USD in any consecutive 365-day period can opt out. Shops that have reached that threshold are automatically enrolled and, according to the Help article, required to participate for the life of the shop, at the discounted 12% rate. The fee is calculated on the amount you made from the sale before the advertising fee, and it will not exceed $100 on a single order. Tick the boxes in the calculator only when you are modelling an attributed Offsite Ads sale; leaving them off is the right default for a regular on-site order.

A worked US example

If that $50 item cost you $18 and postage cost you $5, your payout after tax remittance and the $6.06 in standard fees is $52.94, and profit is $29.94 before any Offsite Ads. Add a 15% Offsite Ads fee and the profit drops by $8.70. That is why a 'good' Etsy price can still be a mediocre price once ads are involved, and why this page keeps ads optional instead of burying them in a single blended percentage.

Mistakes that are expensive on Etsy

• Quoting '6.5% plus 3%' as if both percentages used the same base. Processing includes tax; our transaction-fee base does not.
• Forgetting the $0.20 when you renew dozens of listings that never sell.
• Assuming you can opt out of Offsite Ads after the shop has already crossed $10,000 in a 365-day window.
• Comparing Etsy with Shopify or a PayPal invoice without putting processing on both sides of the comparison.
• Treating Etsy Shipping Label cost as a fee percentage. Label prices are shipping costs; enter them in the shipping-cost field.

What this page does not do

It does not price Pattern, Etsy Ads (the on-site advertising product with a daily budget), VAT for non-US sellers, or currency-conversion fees. It is a US shop calculator. OpenFeeCalculator is not affiliated with Etsy. If your Payment account shows a different processing row because your bank is outside the United States, use the official table for that country rather than this page.

How to use this calculator

1. Enter price, shipping and tax. Use the amounts the buyer actually pays for the item, postage and gift wrap, plus any sales tax collected. Those fields drive both fee bases.
2. Decide whether the $0.20 belongs in this sale. Leave it on when you want the full cost of making the listing visible in the profit figure. Turn it off only when you are isolating the selling fees of an already-paid listing.
3. Add Offsite Ads only when they apply. If the order is attributed to Offsite Ads, tick that box. If the shop has made $10,000 in a 365-day period, tick the 12% box. Otherwise leave both off.
4. Read the fee lines separately. Do not stop at a single 'Etsy took X' number until you have seen listing, transaction, processing and ads as their own rows. That is how you catch a wrong base.

Frequently asked questions

Sources and updates

• What are the Fees and Taxes for Selling on Etsy? – Etsy Help, checked 2026-11-11.
• What are Payment Processing Fees for Selling on Etsy? – Etsy Help, checked 2026-11-11.
• How Etsy's Offsite Ads Work – Etsy Help, checked 2026-11-11.