An Etsy fee calculator that counts the whole stack — and corrects two numbers most calculators get wrong
Etsy does not take one fee; it takes a stack. A $0.20 listing fee per item, a 6.5% transaction fee on the discounted price plus the shipping and gift wrap you charge, Etsy Payments processing on top of that, and — only on ad-attributed orders — an Offsite Ads fee that can dwarf the rest. Sellers who price from the headline 6.5% alone discover the other lines at settlement. This calculator itemises every fee, adds your own product, shipping and packaging costs, and then runs the maths backwards: the exact list price that leaves the profit you ask for.
Net profit = fee base − Etsy fees − your costs. Percentage fees are charged on the fee base; the listing fee is per item and the $0.25 processing fixed fee is once per order.
Worked example
At the defaults — a $30 item, quantity 1, no discount, free shipping to the buyer, no Offsite Ads, with $10 item cost, $5.00 shipping cost and $0.50 packaging — Etsy takes $3.30: $0.20 listing + $1.95 transaction + $1.15 processing + $0.00 regulatory. Your costs are $15.50, so the order keeps $11.20 — a 37.3% margin, with Etsy’s fees equal to 11.0% of what the buyer paid. The reverse solver, asked to protect a $10.00 profit at the same costs, sets the floor at a $28.68 list price.
How to use this calculator
- Enter the item price and quantity, then your seller discount — Etsy charges its percentage fees on the discounted price, so the discount belongs in the maths, not in a footnote.
- Add the shipping and gift wrap you charge the buyer. Both sit inside the fee base; neither is a pass-through.
- Check the fee rates against your seller country. The defaults are the US rates; the regulatory rate is editable because it depends on where your shop is based, not where the buyer is.
- Choose an Offsite Ads tier only if this order was actually attributed to an offsite ad — most orders are not.
- Read the reverse price before you list: it is the lowest price that survives the full stack and still leaves your target profit.
The fee defaults used here — including two corrections
Listing: $0.20 per item (first quantity at listing; each additional quantity auto-renews at $0.20 as it sells). Transaction: 6.5% of the discounted item total plus shipping and gift wrap charged. Etsy Payments (US bank account): 3% + $0.25 per order. Two widely copied numbers are deliberately not used as defaults. First, the Regulatory Operating fee is 0% in the United States: Etsy’s official list covers Canada, France, Hungary, Italy, India, Spain, Türkiye, the United Kingdom and Vietnam — the US is not on it. Second, the Offsite Ads cap is $100 per attributed order, as Etsy’s policy words it — not per item. One stated simplification: processing is applied to the same base as the transaction fee and excludes buyer sales tax, because this page takes no tax input; Etsy’s official processing base includes tax charged on the listing where applicable.