Etsy fee & profit calculator

The calculator Etsy's fees, and what you keep

Estimate based on the fees you entered. It does NOT include Offsite Ads (12–15% on some sales), sales tax some states charge on Etsy's fees, or other conditional fees — add those yourself. Sales tax the buyer pays isn't your money (Etsy collects and remits it), so it's left out of revenue. Etsy's fees change; enter your current rates from Etsy's own fees page.

Pricing to survive Etsy's fees, not just cover your cost, is the pricing discipline in Print on Demand: Basics →

How to read it The profit that's left after Etsy takes its cut

Etsy doesn't take one fee — it takes several, and some of them are charged on your shipping as well as the item. This tool adds up the fees you enter, subtracts them from what the buyer pays, then subtracts your cost, and shows an estimate of the profit and margin left. It's the difference between a listing that pays you and one that quietly doesn't.

The buyer pays the item price plus any shipping you charge — that whole total is your revenue, and it's what Etsy's percentage fees are worked out on. So a "free shipping" listing at a higher item price and a lower-price-plus-shipping listing are charged the same percentage fees; only the total matters.

The formula, in full

Revenue = item price + shipping you charge. Etsy fees (the ones entered) = listing fee + revenue × (transaction% ÷ 100) + revenue × (1 + sales tax% ÷ 100) × (processing% ÷ 100) + the fixed processing fee + revenue × (regulatory% ÷ 100). Estimated left = revenue − fees. Profit = the estimated left − your cost. Margin = profit ÷ revenue, shown as a percentage. The transaction fee, the processing percentage and the regulatory fee all apply to the item price and the shipping, which is why shipping is folded into revenue before the percentages are taken. Processing is also charged on any sales tax the buyer pays, which is why the tax rate nudges it up.

A worked example

A $20 item with $4 shipping is $24 of revenue. On the standard US rates — a $0.20 listing fee, 6.5% transaction, 3% processing and a $0.25 fixed processing fee, with no sales tax entered — the fees are $0.20 + $1.56 + $0.72 + $0.25 = $2.73. The estimated left is $24 − $2.73 = $21.27. Take off an $8 cost and the profit is $13.27, a margin of $13.27 ÷ $24 = 55.3%. Change any rate and every figure moves with it — which is why the boxes ask for your current rates, not a stand-in.

Edge cases the calculator handles

• A price and shipping of zero leaves no revenue to work a margin out from, so the margin shows "—" rather than a divide-by-zero figure.
• A cost above the estimated left gives a negative profit and a negative margin — a real result, and a sign the listing loses money at that price.

Common questions

What fee rates should I put in?

Your own, from Etsy's official fees page — not a comparison article, because Etsy's fees change and differ by country. The defaults here are the standard US figures (a $0.20 listing fee, 6.5% transaction, 3% + $0.25 processing, no regulatory fee). Outside the US, processing rates differ and some countries add a regulatory operating fee — look up the current numbers for your own shop.

Does this include every possible fee?

No — these are the standard per-sale fees you enter. Etsy's Offsite Ads fee (a further ~12–15% on sales that come through Etsy's advertising) can apply to some orders and isn't included here unless you fold it in, and neither is any sales tax your state charges on the fees themselves. The listing fee is charged to create or renew a listing — a multiple-quantity listing renews after each item sells — so treat the numbers as an estimate of the standard fees on one sale, not an all-in permanent total.

Is this financial advice or a guarantee?

No. It's arithmetic on numbers you enter. What you actually earn depends on Etsy's current fees, your costs and your buyers — none of which this box controls. It just shows what's left after the standard fees so you can price with your eyes open.