Free Etsy fee and profit calculator. Enter item price, shipping, cost of goods, and Etsy's listing, transaction, and payment-processing fees; outputs net profit per sale, margin percentage, and a monthly profit projection.
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Use before listing a new product, or whenever Etsy's fee structure or your supplier costs change, to confirm your price still leaves a healthy margin.
Etsy's own fee breakdown appears line-by-line after each sale, but this calculator lets you test prices and quantities before you list, instead of finding out your margin after the fact.
Fee defaults reflect Etsy's published US rates — verify current rates on etsy.com/sell before pricing.
On a $25.00 item with $5.00 shipping, you keep $14.70 (49.0%) after Etsy's fees.
Revenue per sale = item price + shipping charged to the buyer, since Etsy's transaction fee is calculated on that full amount.
Fees = listing fee + (revenue × transaction fee %) + (revenue × payment processing %) + processing flat fee + (revenue × ad spend %).
Net profit = revenue − item cost − actual shipping cost − fees. Monthly profit multiplies net profit per sale by your monthly quantity.
A $0.20 listing fee (renewed every 4 months or when an item sells), a 6.5% transaction fee on the item price plus shipping, and a payment processing fee of about 3% + $0.25. Sellers over $10k/yr trailing sales may also be enrolled in Offsite Ads at 12–15% on those referred sales. Rates change occasionally — verify current numbers on etsy.com/sell.
Etsy charges its 6.5% transaction fee on the total amount the buyer pays, which includes the shipping charge, not just the item price. That's why this calculator adds price and shipping together before applying fee percentages.
Raise your price, reduce COGS or actual shipping cost, or cut discretionary spend like Etsy Ads. Because payment processing has a flat $0.25 component, raising your price also slightly improves your percentage margin since the flat fee is diluted across a bigger sale.
It's charged per listing, per 4-month renewal period or automatically whenever the listing sells and Etsy renews it. This calculator treats it as a per-sale cost since renewal-on-sale is the common case for made-to-order sellers.
Input
$25 item, $5 shipping, $8 COGS, $4 actual shipping, 20 sales/mo, default fees.
Output
Revenue $30.00 → fees ~$3.16 → net profit ~$14.84/sale (49.5%), ~$296.80/mo.
Revenue ($30) minus item cost ($8), actual shipping ($4), and total fees (~$3.16 from listing, transaction, and payment processing) leaves ~$14.84 profit per sale, times 20 monthly sales.
The model applies the four charges Etsy levies: a $0.20 listing fee, a 6.5% transaction fee, payment processing at roughly 3% plus $0.25, and offsite ads where they apply. Defaults reflect the published US schedule and all four are editable, because processing rates differ by country.
The one that surprises people is that the transaction fee applies to the shipping you charge as well as to the item price. Charging $5 shipping does not put $5 in your pocket — the transaction fee takes its percentage of that too, so "free shipping" absorbed into the item price and shipping charged separately are not fee-equivalent.
Offsite ads deserve their own attention because participation becomes mandatory once a shop passes a revenue threshold, and the fee is charged on attributed orders at a materially higher rate than the standard fees. A shop that has crossed that line and prices as though it has not is losing margin on a subset of orders it cannot predict.
The tool defaults offsite ads to 0% because most shops are below the threshold. If yours is above it, set the rate and look at the result on your actual attributed share rather than on the whole order book.
Fee schedules change. Check the current rates against Etsy's own fees page before pricing a range around them.
This calculator applies rates set by someone else, and they change. Check them against the source below before pricing anything that matters.
The listing, transaction, payment processing and offsite-ads fees this calculator applies.
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