Every 2026 Etsy fee, your real profit, and the price to charge. US, UK, Canada, Australia and EU shops, physical or digital. Rates last checked: November 1, 2026
Matches your USD payout. No conversion fee.
Per item, before discount.
Items in this order.
Sale or coupon.
Etsy's 6.5% applies to this too.
Etsy keeps and remits it, but charges processing on it. Find it on the order receipt.
Your costs
Materials, printing, labour.
Optional: on-site ad budget ÷ sales.
Fees that depend on the sale
Your fees & profit
United States · USD · Physical
Profit
$15.45
Margin
51.5%
Etsy fees
$3.30
Fees % of sale
11.0%
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Etsy doesn't take one flat cut. Every sale carries a handful of separate fees, each charged on a slightly different amount. That's why “Etsy takes 6.5%” is never the whole story: on a typical $25 order, a US seller actually loses about 11% to fees before any ads.
| Fee | Rate | Charged on |
|---|---|---|
| Listing fee | $0.20 per listing | Charged when you list, every 4 months on renewal, and again for each item sold. |
| Transaction fee | 6.5% | Item price + shipping + gift wrap, after discounts. Not charged on sales tax. |
| Payment processing | US 3% + $0.25 · UK 4% + £0.20 | The buyer's full total, including shipping and any sales tax or VAT. |
| Offsite Ads | 15% or 12% | Only on orders from an Etsy ad on another site, within 30 days of the click. Capped at $100.00 per order. |
| Regulatory operating fee | UK 0.48%, FR 1.14%, CA 0.5%… | Item + shipping + gift wrap, for sellers in certain countries. Not charged in the US. |
| Currency conversion | 2.5% | When your listing currency differs from your payout (bank) currency. |
| VAT / GST on fees | UK 20% | Added to Etsy's fees for UK, EU, CA, AU and NZ sellers without a VAT/GST number on file. |
The listing fee is a flat $0.20(charged in USD and converted for non-US shops). It's paid whether or not the item sells, renews automatically every 4 months, and is charged again for each extra unit sold from the same listing.
The transaction fee is 6.5% of everything the buyer pays you except tax: the discounted item price, shipping and gift wrap.
Payment processing depends on where your bank account is: 3% + $0.25 in the US, 4% + £0.20in the UK, and 4% + €0.30 across the eurozone. Canada, Australia and New Zealand pay 3% on domestic orders and 4% on international ones. Unlike the transaction fee, it is charged on the buyer's full total, sales tax included.
The regulatory operating fee applies only to sellers in certain countries. After the June 22, 2026 update the rates are United Kingdom 0.48%, Canada 0.5%, France 1.14%, Italy 0.8%, Spain 0.88%.
Some new shops also pay a one-time setup feewhen they open. Etsy says the amount varies by location and shows it during sign-up, so it isn't part of the per-sale maths above.
These three examples come straight from the calculator's test suite, so the numbers below always match what the tool shows.
A $25 mug with $5 shipping, $2.10 sales tax collected by Etsy, $6 to make, a $4.50 label and $0.75 of packaging.
Etsy takes $3.36 (11.2% of the $30.00 order). You're paid $26.64, and after $11.25 of costs your profit is $15.39, a 51.3% margin.
A £15 print with £3.50 shipping, £4 to make, a £2.70 Royal Mail label and £0.50 packaging, sold by a seller who is not VAT-registered.
Etsy takes £2.86 (15.5% of the £18.50 order). You're paid £15.64, and after £7.20 of costs your profit is £8.44, a 45.6% margin.
A $5 printable planner sold in the US. No shipping, no materials, no sales tax.
Etsy takes $0.93 (18.6% of the $5.00 order). You're paid $4.07, and after $0.00 of costs your profit is $4.07, a 81.4% margin.
Etsy advertises listings on Google, Meta, Pinterest, Bing and partner sites. You pay nothing up front, but if a buyer clicks one of those ads and buys from your shop within 30 days, Etsy charges an Offsite Ads fee on that order, on top of every normal fee.
The Compare tab shows any sale with and without an Offsite Ad side by side. If an ad sale would wipe out your profit, raise your price until both columns are positive, or opt out while you still can.
Adding fees on top of your costs doesn't work, because most Etsy fees are a percentage of the price itself: raise the price and the fees rise too. The Pricing tab solves this the other way round. Enter your costs and the margin or profit you want, and it finds the lowest price, to the cent, that hits it after every fee, including VAT and the Offsite Ads cap. It also shows your breakeven price.
A sensible rule of thumb: price so that you still make money on an Offsite Ads sale. If you only break even with ads switched off, every ad sale costs you money.
The rates are identical, but the maths changes. Digital products have no shipping, so fees are charged on the item price alone, and there's no label or packaging to pay for. That makes margins look excellent, often above 80%.
The catch is the fixed fees. The $0.20 listing fee and the $0.25 processing fee don't shrink with the price, so on a $2 printable they eat far more of the sale than on a $20 bundle. Bundling several downloads into one listing is the easiest fix.
For a US seller, Etsy takes a $0.20 listing fee, a 6.5% transaction fee on the item price plus shipping and gift wrap, and 3% + $0.25 payment processing on the buyer's total. On a $25 item with $5 shipping that comes to $3.36, or about 11% of the order. Offsite Ads add 15% or 12% when a sale comes from one.
Yes. The 6.5% transaction fee, the payment processing fee, Offsite Ads and any regulatory operating fee are all charged on the shipping you charge the buyer, not just the item price. Offering "free shipping" and building the cost into the price leaves the total fee the same.
It is charged per listing, and the listing renews for another $0.20 every 4 months or each time an item sells. If a buyer orders three of the same item, you pay $0.20 for each one, so $0.60 in total.
It is a percentage Etsy charges sellers in certain countries to cover the cost of local digital-services rules. It applies to the item price, shipping and gift wrap. Current rates are: United Kingdom 0.48%, Canada 0.5%, France 1.14%, Italy 0.8%, Spain 0.88%. Sellers based in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland do not pay it.
Partly. The transaction fee is charged before tax, but the payment processing fee is charged on the full amount the buyer pays, including any sales tax or VAT Etsy collects. That is why this calculator asks for the tax on the order.
Only while your shop has made less than $10,000 in any 365-day period. Once you cross that line, Offsite Ads become mandatory at 12% for the life of the shop. Either way the fee for a single order never exceeds $100.00.
UK sellers who have not given Etsy a VAT number are charged 20% VAT on top of their Etsy fees, and cannot claim it back. VAT-registered sellers who add their VAT number to Etsy are not charged it and account for it themselves under the reverse charge.
The rates are the same, but there is no shipping, so fees are charged on the item price alone, and you have no label or packaging costs. Because the $0.25 processing fee and the $0.20 listing fee are fixed, they take a bigger share of cheap downloads.
It is free, needs no sign-up, and runs in your browser. Rates come from Etsy's Help Center and were last checked on November 1, 2026. Each fee is rounded to the cent the way it posts to your Payment account, so results can differ from your statement by a cent, plus any exchange-rate difference on USD-denominated fees.
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