Etsy Fee Calculator

Etsy takes $9.95 from a $100 sale in standard fees, leaving $90.05. That is $6.50 transaction fee (6.5%), $3.25 payment processing (3% + $0.25) and the $0.20 listing fee. If the buyer also paid shipping, the 6.5% applies to that too, so the total rises. An Offsite Ads order would add a further $12 or $15.

No. Etsy has no standard $29 fee. The figure usually comes from Etsy Plus, an optional subscription that costs $10 a month, or from a run of fees landing on one statement and being read as a single charge. Open your Payment account and expand the individual entries — listing, transaction, processing and any ads spend are itemised separately there.

That is almost certainly Etsy Plus, an optional subscription billed at $10 per month. It adds listing credits, restock requests and shop customisation options. It is not required to sell, and you can cancel it in your shop settings. If you are not deliberately using its features, the subscription is pure cost on top of the per-sale fees.

For a typical US seller: a $0.20 listing fee per listing and renewal, a 6.5% transaction fee on item price plus shipping, and 3% + $0.25 payment processing. On top of those, optional or conditional charges include Offsite Ads at 12% or 15%, Etsy Ads (your own daily budget), Etsy Plus at $10 a month, and currency conversion if you are paid in a different currency. Always confirm current rates on Etsy’s Fees & Payments Policy.

It depends on your margin, not on the fee percentage alone. Roughly 10.5% plus fixed cents is competitive against most marketplaces, and you are buying access to an audience already searching for handmade and vintage. It works when your item carries enough markup to absorb that and still pay you for materials and time. It does not work on thin-margin, low-priced items, where the flat $0.45 per order dominates.

Fees that rise without notice, Offsite Ads becoming mandatory above $10,000 in trailing sales, and competing against a large number of similar shops on price. Etsy also owns the customer relationship — repeat buyers belong to the marketplace more than to you. Search visibility can shift with algorithm changes you have no control over, which makes revenue harder to forecast than on a site you own.

There is no $29 fee in Etsy’s standard fee structure. The most common explanation is Etsy Plus at $10 a month being confused with another charge, or several separate fees on one statement adding up near that figure. Check the itemised entries in your Payment account — each listing, transaction and processing fee is listed individually rather than bundled.

It is worth it when your pricing has room for it. Run a real item through the calculator above with your actual material cost and postage, and look at the profit margin rather than the headline fee. If the margin holds at a price buyers will pay, Etsy’s audience is worth the roughly 10.5%. If the margin only works by assuming no Offsite Ads order ever lands, the pricing is too tight.