If you’re serious about running a profitable Etsy shop, you already know that fees eat into every sale. The question isn’t whether you’ll pay them, it’s whether you’ve actually done the math on what you keep after Etsy takes its cut.

That’s exactly what our Etsy Fee Calculator is built to answer.

Plug in your item price, shipping charges, cost of goods, and the calculator instantly shows you the exact dollar amount Etsy takes in fees, your gross profit per sale, your effective fee rate, and how many units you’d need to sell to hit a specific monthly income target.

Why Every Etsy Seller Needs a Fee Calculator

Most sellers set prices based on gut feel or competitor research. That works until you realize you’re losing money on every sale because you never accounted for the full fee stack.

Here’s the reality: a typical Etsy sale involves four separate fees layered on top of each other—and that’s before Offsite Ads enter the picture. On a mid-range item without advertising, you’re looking at roughly 10–13% of your total sale price going to Etsy. Turn on Offsite Ads, and that number can jump past 28%.

If you haven’t run those numbers against your actual costs, you don’t have a profit margin. You have a hope.

Our calculator eliminates that guesswork. Enter your real numbers, see your real profit—and adjust your pricing before you learn the hard way.

For a full breakdown of every fee Etsy charges and how they stack up, read our complete guide: Etsy Fees Explained.

How the Etsy Fee Calculator Works

The calculator is split into two panels: your inputs at the top, and your results on the bottom.

What You Enter

Sale Details

• Item Sale Price: The price your buyer pays for the item
• Shipping You Charge Buyer: The shipping amount shown to the customer (set to $0 if you offer free shipping)
• Gift Wrapping Fee: Any additional gift wrap charge
• Quantity Sold: Number of units per calculation

Your Costs

• Cost to Make / Source Item: Materials, labor, packaging — everything it takes to produce or source the product
• Your Actual Shipping Cost: What you actually pay to ship the item, regardless of what you charge the buyer

Fee Options

• Payment Processing Region: US sellers pay 3% + $0.25 per transaction; rates vary by country (UK, Canada, Australia, EU available)
• Offsite Ads Toggle: Flip this on to see the impact of Etsy’s Offsite Ads fee (15% under $10k/year, 12% over $10k/year)
• Free Shipping Toggle: If you’ve baked shipping into your item price, this adjusts the calculation so the transaction fee applies to the full amount

What You Get Back

Gross Profit Per Sale: The big number at the top. This is what you actually keep after all Etsy fees and your product/shipping costs are subtracted from total revenue.

Full Fee Breakdown—every fee itemized:

• Listing fee ($0.20)
• Transaction fee (6.5% of total sale including shipping)
• Payment processing fee (3% + $0.25 for US sellers)
• Offsite Ads fee (if toggled on)
• Total Etsy fees in dollars
• Effective fee rate as a percentage

Where Your Revenue Goes: A visual bar showing exactly what portion of every dollar goes to product costs, Etsy fees, and your profit. When fees and costs exceed revenue, the bar turns red so you can see the problem immediately.

Profit at Scale: Your per-unit profit multiplied across 10, 50, and 100 units. This is how you connect a single listing’s margins to actual monthly income.

Related: Pricing on Etsy – The Ultimate Guide

Breaking Down the Numbers: A Real Example

Let’s walk through the default values in the calculator to show how this works in practice.

The setup:

• Item sale price: $25.00
• Shipping charged to buyer: $5.00
• Gift wrapping: $0.00
• Cost to make/source: $6.00
• Actual shipping cost: $11.95
• Payment processing: US (3% + $0.25)
• Offsite Ads: Off

Total revenue: $30.00 (item + shipping)

Etsy fees:

• Listing fee: $0.20
• Transaction fee (6.5% of $30): $1.95
• Payment processing (3% of $30 + $0.25): $1.15
• Total fees: $3.30 (11% effective fee rate)

Your costs: $6.00 + $11.95 = $17.95

Gross profit: $8.75 per sale (29% margin)

That means you’d need to sell roughly 229 units per month to take home $2,000.

Now toggle Offsite Ads on at 15%. That adds $4.50 to every attributed sale, dropping your profit to $4.25 per unit—nearly cut in half. Suddenly you’d need 471 units to hit that same $2,000.

This is why running the numbers matters.

Pro Tip: Use the Price Spread and features in Marmalead to see how competitors in your niche price their products. If the market supports a higher price point, raising your item price is the single most effective way to dilute the impact of fixed fees like the $0.25 processing charge and the $0.20 listing fee.

What Etsy Fees Are Included in the Calculator

Listing Fee: $0.20

Every time you publish a listing, Etsy charges $0.20. That listing stays active for four months. If it sells, Etsy auto-renews it and charges another $0.20. Sell 50 units from one listing in a month, and that’s $10 in listing fees from a single product.

Transaction Fee: 6.5%

This is Etsy’s core commission. It’s calculated on the total amount the buyer pays, including the item price, shipping, and any gift wrap or personalization fees. If you offer free shipping by building the cost into your item price, the transaction fee applies to that higher number either way.

Payment Processing Fee: 3% + $0.25 (US)

Etsy Payments is mandatory for most sellers. The percentage varies by country, but the flat $0.25 per transaction is the part that hits hardest on lower-priced items. On a $10 sale, that $0.25 alone represents 2.5% of your revenue.

Offsite Ads Fee: 15% or 12%

If Etsy runs an ad on Google, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest and a buyer clicks it and purchases from your shop within 30 days, you pay a 15% fee on the total sale (12% if your trailing 12-month revenue exceeds $10,000). Sellers under $10,000 can opt out. Over $10,000, it’s mandatory.

For a deeper dive on each fee, see our full guide: Etsy Fees Explained.

How to Use This Calculator to Hit Your Goals

The calculator isn’t just for checking a single sale—it’s a useful planning tool.

Step 1: Know your real costs.

Don’t estimate. Add up materials, labor (pay yourself), packaging, and actual shipping costs per unit.

Step 2: Set your target profit.

Not revenue, not sales—profit. What do you want to take home per month after all costs and fees?

Step 3: Run the numbers.

Enter your costs, your planned price point, and toggle Offsite Ads on to model the worst case. If the profit-per-unit number is too thin, adjust your price upward—or find ways to reduce your cost of goods.

Step 4: Play with the variables.

This is where the calculator earns its keep. Try different price points. See what happens if you raise shipping by $1, or if you source materials for $0.50 less per unit. Small changes compound across hundreds of sales.

Step 5: Invest in organic traffic.

Every sale that comes through organic Etsy search instead of Offsite Ads saves you 12–15% in fees. Better SEO means a lower blended fee rate across all your sales. Marmalead’s keyword tools can help you target the search terms that drive organic traffic—so more of your sales come fee-free.

Related: Everything You Need to Know Before You Start an Etsy Shop

Over to You

Etsy fees are the cost of accessing millions of active buyers. They’re non-negotiable, but they’re also not mysterious — once you see the math, you can price around them.

Use the calculator. Run your actual numbers. And if that effective fee rate is higher than you expected, look at two levers: your pricing and your SEO. Both are things you can improve right now.

Now that you know exactly what Etsy takes, make sure every listing is optimized to justify those costs. Marmalead can help you fine-tune your titles, tags, and descriptions so your products rank higher organically — without stacking advertising fees on top.

As always, happy selling!

Legal: Our Etsy Fee Calculator is not a substitute for a professional accountant. As a business owner, you should work with a pro when seeking tax or legal advice. The term “Etsy” is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. This calculator is not endorsed or certified by Etsy, Inc.

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