Enter your sale price and costs to check your Etsy profit margin
Net Profit ($)
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What you keep after all Etsy fees and your own costs
Profit Margin (%)
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Net profit as a share of the total order value
🧾 Your Etsy Sale Details and Real Costs
Sale Details
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The listed price the customer pays for the item itself, before shipping.
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What you charge the buyer for shipping. Use 0 if you offer free shipping. Etsy fees apply to this amount too.
Your Costs and Ads
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Your cost of goods: materials to make the item, or the price you paid to buy it.
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What you actually pay for postage, packaging, and labels to ship the order.
Charged only when a sale comes from an Etsy offsite ad. 15% standard, 12% for shops over $10k/year.
Visual Receipt: Where Your Money Goes
Start with what the customer pays at the top, then watch each Etsy fee and your own costs come out, line by line, to reach your real net profit.
Total Customer Pays
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Etsy Listing Fee
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Etsy Transaction Fee (6.5%)
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Etsy Payment Processing (3% + $0.25)
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Offsite Ads
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Your Material/Shipping Costs
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Net Profit
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Total Order Value
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Item sale price plus shipping charged
Total Etsy Fees
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Listing, transaction, processing, and ads
Total Seller Costs
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Your item cost plus actual shipping cost
Selling outside Etsy or want a generic markup view? See also the Margin and Markup Calculator for pricing that is not tied to a specific marketplace's fees.
📖 Key Terms Explained
Etsy Listing Fee
A flat 0.20 dollar charge to publish one item for sale on Etsy. The listing stays active for four months or until the item sells, after which it auto-renews and the fee is charged again.
Transaction Fee
Etsy's commission of 6.5 percent charged on the total order value, which includes both the item price and the shipping you charge the buyer, not the item price alone.
Payment Processing Fee
The charge for handling the card payment through Etsy Payments. In the United States this is 3 percent of the total order value plus a flat 0.25 dollars per order.
Offsite Ads
An Etsy program that advertises your listings on outside sites like Google and Instagram. If a buyer clicks an ad and purchases, Etsy charges 15 percent, or 12 percent for high volume shops.
Total Order Value
The grand total the customer pays you, equal to the item sale price plus the shipping charged. Etsy bases its percentage fees on this combined number.
COGS (Cost of Goods Sold)
The direct cost to produce or acquire one sellable unit: the materials to make a handmade item, or the wholesale price you paid for a finished product you resell.
Net Profit
The money you actually keep from a sale after every Etsy fee and all of your own costs are subtracted from the total order value. This is the number that matters most.
Profit Margin
Your net profit expressed as a percentage of the total order value. It shows how much of each dollar the customer pays you actually ends up as profit.
Etsy Payments
Etsy's built-in checkout system that processes credit cards, debit cards, gift cards, and other methods in one place. The payment processing fee is the cost of using it.
Break-Even Sale
A sale where your net profit is exactly zero, because the Etsy fees and your costs together equal the total order value. Price above break-even to profit, below it to lose money.

The Complete Guide to Etsy Fees and Your True Profit

A 25 dollar item with 5 dollars of shipping looks like 30 dollars in your pocket, but experienced Etsy sellers know that several stacked fees come out before you ever see a payout. Between the listing fee, the transaction fee, payment processing, and possible offsite ads, a meaningful slice disappears, and that is before you pay for your own materials and postage. This guide explains the math behind the Etsy fee calculator above, how to read the visual receipt, and what numbers actually make a product worth selling.

How to Use This Etsy Fee Calculator

Work left to right. In the Sale Details panel, enter your Item Sale Price (the listed price of the product) and the Shipping Charged to Customer (use 0 if you offer free shipping). In the Your Costs and Ads panel, enter your Item Cost to Make or Buy (your cost of goods), your Actual Shipping Cost (real postage and packaging), and pick an Etsy Offsite Ads Fee from the dropdown if the sale came from an ad. Everything recalculates instantly as you type, with no submit button to press. The hero shows Net Profit and Profit Margin together, the visual receipt breaks down exactly where your money goes, and the status banner gives you a quick green, yellow, or red verdict.

The Etsy Fee Math, Step by Step

First the engine adds your item sale price and the shipping you charge to get the Total Order Value, which is what the customer actually pays. The flat listing fee is 0.20 dollars. The transaction fee is 6.5 percent of the total order value. The payment processing fee is 3 percent of the total order value plus a flat 0.25 dollars. If you select an offsite ads rate, that percentage is also applied to the total order value. Those four numbers added together are your Total Etsy Fees. Separately, your item cost plus your actual shipping cost make up your Total Seller Costs. Net Profit is simply the total order value minus the Etsy fees minus your seller costs, and Profit Margin is that net profit divided by the total order value. Every dollar figure is rounded to exact cents using floating-point-safe arithmetic so the receipt always adds up.

A Worked Example

Suppose you sell an item for 25.00 dollars and charge 5.00 dollars for shipping, giving a Total Order Value of 30.00 dollars. The listing fee is 0.20 dollars. The transaction fee is 6.5 percent of 30 dollars, which is 1.95 dollars. The payment processing fee is 3 percent of 30 dollars plus 0.25 dollars, which is 1.15 dollars. With offsite ads set to None, the ad fee is 0. That makes Total Etsy Fees of 3.30 dollars. Your item costs 8.00 dollars to make and your actual shipping cost is 4.50 dollars, for Total Seller Costs of 12.50 dollars. Subtract the 3.30 in fees and the 12.50 in costs from the 30 dollar order value and you keep 14.20 dollars in net profit, which is a 47.33 percent profit margin. Because the margin clears 30 percent comfortably, the status banner flags this as a healthy margin.

Why the Shipping You Charge Is Not Free Money

One of the most common and costly mistakes new sellers make is treating the shipping they charge as pure income. Etsy applies the transaction fee, the payment processing fee, and any offsite ads fee to the total order value, which includes shipping. That means every dollar of shipping you collect is also taxed by those percentages. On top of that, your actual postage almost always costs more than the neat round number you charged. Switching to free shipping does not escape the fee either, because folding the postage into a higher item price simply raises the order total that the same percentages are charged on. The practical rule is to set your shipping so it covers your real postage plus the extra fees it triggers, and to always check the net profit here rather than assuming shipping breaks even on its own.

Reading the Status Banner and Visual Receipt

A green Healthy Margin banner means your profit margin is above 30 percent, the level where your pricing absorbs Etsy's fees comfortably and leaves room for the occasional sale or surprise cost. A yellow Low Margin banner means you are still making money, but the cushion is thin, so a small rise in shipping or supply costs could erase the profit. A red Unprofitable banner means your costs and Etsy's fees together exceed what the customer pays, so you lose money on every order. The visual receipt below the hero exists to make one truth obvious: the amount the customer pays at the top is almost never what you keep. Watch how each Etsy fee and your own costs stack up against that total, and you will quickly build an instinct for pricing your products so they actually pay you for your work.

Frequently Asked Questions

Etsy charges several stacked fees on every sale, and together they typically take somewhere between 10 and 25 percent of the total order value once you account for everything. There is a flat listing fee of 0.20 dollars per item to put the product up for sale, which renews every four months or when the item sells. There is a transaction fee of 6.5 percent charged on the full order total, including the shipping you charge the customer. There is a payment processing fee, which in the United States is 3 percent of the order total plus a flat 0.25 dollars, charged for handling the card payment through Etsy Payments. And if your sale came from Etsy Offsite Ads, there is an additional advertising fee of 12 or 15 percent on that order. The big surprise for new sellers is that these percentages apply to the combined item price and shipping, not just the item price, so the real cut is larger than the headline 6.5 percent suggests. This calculator stacks all of these fees together so the net profit you see is what you would actually keep.
Yes. This trips up almost every new Etsy seller. Etsy calculates the 6.5 percent transaction fee on your total order value, which means the item price plus the shipping price you charged the buyer, not the item price alone. The same is true for the payment processing fee and any offsite ads fee, which also apply to the full order total including shipping. So if you sell a 25 dollar item with 5 dollars of shipping, the transaction fee is 6.5 percent of 30 dollars, which is 1.95 dollars, not 6.5 percent of 25 dollars. Because of this, the common trick of offering free shipping and baking the postage into the item price does not let you avoid the fee, since the fee is charged on the grand total either way. The practical takeaway is to always price your shipping with these fees in mind, and to make sure the shipping you charge actually covers both your real postage cost and the extra Etsy fees it triggers. This calculator charges all percentage fees on the full order value, exactly the way Etsy does, so your shipping is never quietly left out of the math.
Offsite Ads is a program where Etsy advertises your listings on external platforms such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Bing. When a shopper clicks one of those paid ads and then buys from your shop within 30 days, Etsy charges you an advertising fee on that order. The fee is 15 percent for most sellers and a reduced 12 percent for high volume shops, which Etsy defines as those that have made more than 10,000 dollars in sales over the past 365 days. The catch is that whether you can opt out depends on your sales volume. Sellers under the 10,000 dollar threshold are enrolled by default but are allowed to turn Offsite Ads off in their shop settings. Sellers who have crossed 10,000 dollars in trailing twelve month sales are permanently enrolled and cannot opt out, though they do get the lower 12 percent rate as a trade-off. Offsite Ads fees are also capped, so Etsy will never charge you more than 100 dollars in advertising fees on any single order. Use the dropdown in this calculator to model None, the standard 15 percent rate, or the high volume 12 percent rate, and see exactly how much the ad fee eats into a given sale.
A healthy handmade or print-on-demand Etsy shop generally aims for a net profit margin of at least 30 to 40 percent on each sale after all Etsy fees and the cost of materials and shipping. Many experienced sellers price so that the item sells for at least three to four times the cost of goods, because that markup leaves enough room to absorb Etsy's stacked fees, offer the occasional sale or coupon, pay for supplies, and still take home a real profit. A margin in the 0 to 30 percent range is not necessarily a failure, but it is fragile: a single rise in postage costs, a supply price increase, or an offsite ads charge can push a thin margin into a loss. Anything negative means you are paying to make the sale, which can occasionally be acceptable as a deliberate loss leader to win reviews on a brand new shop, but is not sustainable as a default. The right target also depends on your category and labor: low effort digital downloads can run very high margins because they have almost no per-unit cost, while labor-intensive handmade goods need a healthy margin to fairly pay for your time. Use the status banner on this tool as a quick green, yellow, or red signal on whether your current pricing leaves enough cushion.
No. Every calculation runs entirely inside your own browser using client-side JavaScript. The sale price, shipping charged, item cost, actual shipping cost, and offsite ads selection you enter are never transmitted, saved, or shared with any server. Nothing you type leaves your device, so your pricing strategy and profit numbers stay completely private.