Marketplace Fee Calculator

From the official fee pages of each platform, linked above the calculator with their effective dates and the date we last reviewed them. Every fee row names its rate AND its base, because the bases differ: eBay includes buyer-paid sales tax in its fee base, Etsy excludes US tax from the transaction fee but includes it in payment processing, and PayPal charges on the amount received. If a category has its own published schedule this tool does not model, the result is blocked with a link instead of a guess.

Because a fee calculator cannot know your full bottom line. It deducts platform fees and the costs you enter (item, shipping, packaging); it does not know your returns, ads outside Etsy Offsite Ads, subscriptions, labor or overhead. The included/excluded lists under every result spell out exactly which is which. Tools that promise your complete profit from two cost fields are flattering you with someone else's definition.

Only from Basic upward, and only in supported categories: Basic and higher Stores pay 12.7% (up to a $2,500 threshold) instead of 13.6% (up to $7,500) in most categories. A Starter Store keeps the no-Store rates, which surprises many sellers paying for one, and this calculator says so explicitly when you select Starter. The monthly subscription itself is a fixed cost to allocate across your volume, not a per-order fee.

Because eBay charges its final value fee on the total amount of sale including marketplace-collected sales tax, and Etsy Payments processing is assessed on the total including tax and shipping. A calculator without a tax input understates fees on every taxed order. Enter the tax your buyer paid and each platform applies it to exactly the components its official policy says.

Because the comparison would be false. PayPal is payment processing for a sale you generated yourself: no marketplace search traffic, no buyer accounts, no storefront. It will almost always show lower fees, and concluding "sell via PayPal" from that ignores the cost of finding the buyer. The compare view here keeps marketplaces and direct-payment processing in separate groups, with no "best" badge across them.

It is solved by running the same forward fee engine repeatedly until the contribution target is met, then verified to the cent, including tier thresholds and per-order fee boundaries. What it cannot include is anything the model excludes (listed under every result) or account-specific variables like promoted listing rates. Treat it as the floor under the modeled fees, which is what a listing-price decision needs.