Poshmark Fee Calculator

Poshmark's US seller fee is unusually easy to state and unusually easy to mis-price around. The official Get Started guide we fetched on 11 November 2026 says: for sales under $15, Poshmark charges a single flat rate of $2.95 and you keep the rest; for sales of $15 or more, it charges 20% of the listing price and you keep 80%. Listing is free. This calculator applies that rule to the final listing price after offers or discounts, and it does not take 20% of buyer-paid shipping or sales tax, because the official wording is 'listing price' and 'sales under $15' or 'sales of $15 or more'. The result is an estimate; the earnings shown in your closet are authoritative.

The $15 line is the whole policy, and it has a trap

A $14.99 sale pays $2.95 and leaves $12.04. A $15.00 sale pays 20%, which is $3.00, and leaves $12.00. That is not a typo: crossing the threshold can reduce what you keep, and you do not catch up with a $14.99 payout until the listing price is about $15.05. If you habitually accept $15 offers on low-priced clothing, you may be choosing the worse side of the line on purpose. The calculator will show this as soon as you type the two prices; you do not need a spreadsheet.

The official guide also says Poshmark handles the financial transaction, including credit card fees, and provides a prepaid, pre-addressed shipping label. That is why this page does not add a separate payment-processing percentage on top of the $2.95 or the 20%. If you are modelling a sale where you somehow pay extra postage — for example a package over the included label weight — put that cost in the shipping-cost field so profit falls, but do not invent a second commission.

if listing price < $15: seller fee = $2.95
if listing price ≥ $15: seller fee = 20% × listing price
payout = listing price − seller fee  (sales tax is remitted, not kept)
profit = payout − cost of goods − any shipping cost you still pay

Worked numbers

A $50 clothing sale leaving $40 is the house example everyone quotes, and it is correct under this rule. What people skip is the shipping and tax story. The buyer pays for the prepaid label and for sales tax in the usual US flow described by Poshmark. Those amounts should not be added to your payout, and they should not be run through the 20% unless your closet statement says otherwise. Enter tax in the tax field so it can be remitted in the payout line, and leave shipping charged at $0 when the buyer is paying Poshmark for the label rather than paying you.

When Poshmark beats or loses to eBay and Mercari

Because the fee is a flat $2.95 under $15 and a clean 20% at $15 and above, Poshmark is often cheaper than a 13.6% plus $0.40 eBay sale on mid-priced clothing — but only after you put real postage on the eBay side and remember that Poshmark's label is typically paid by the buyer. On a $12 sale, Poshmark's $2.95 is a heavy percentage. On a $200 sale, 20% is $40, which can be more than eBay on the same item if the eBay category is 'most categories' and you charge shipping separately. Use the comparison pages rather than a rule of thumb. This calculator will not hide Poshmark's $15 quirk to make the platform look simpler than it is.

Limits of this page

We did not use a third-party blog as the rate source. The Get Started guide is the official wording we could fetch and read on 11 November 2026. The Legal Center is a script-heavy document that did not yield a clean standalone fee table in the same fetch, so we do not pretend we have line-by-line legal-policy excerpts beyond what the public guide states. Bundle discounts, Posh Parties, and any state-specific tax on seller fees are outside the basic model. OpenFeeCalculator is not affiliated with Poshmark.

A note on prepaid labels and 'shipping charged'

Poshmark's official seller fee is described on the listing price, and many sellers never type a separate shipping amount the way they do on eBay. If you are comparing Poshmark with a platform that puts postage in the fee base, set shipping charged to zero when the buyer pays Poshmark for the prepaid label, and still enter the postage you personally pay only if you actually pay it. Mixing a $6 eBay-style shipping charge into a Poshmark 20% column is how a comparison quietly punishes Poshmark for a fee it does not assess that way. The $15 breakpoint still comes first: run $14.99 and $15.00 before you write a rule of thumb.

How to use this calculator

1. Enter the accepted listing price. Use the price after offers, drops or bundle discounts. That is the number the official 20% or $2.95 is applied to.
2. Keep buyer-paid labels out of the fee base. If the buyer pays Poshmark for the prepaid label, leave shipping charged at zero and put any extra postage you still owe in shipping cost.
3. Watch the $15 line. Type $14.99 and $15.00 once so you see the payout dip. Then price around it rather than on it.
4. Compare before you relist. If the item could also go on eBay or Mercari, run the same cost and tax through the comparison pages instead of assuming 20% is always worse or better.

Frequently asked questions

Sources and updates

• Guide to Poshmark, checked 2026-11-11.