Etsy fee and profit calculator
See what is actually left after fees, materials and postage — with your rates, not a guess at someone else's. Free, no signup, and your numbers never leave this computer.
The sale looked fine until the payment account disagreed
Most sellers do the sum in their head: price, minus materials, minus postage. The marketplace does a different one. It charges a percentage of the whole order — including the shipping you collected — then a processing fee with a fixed part that hurts most on small items, then a listing fee whether or not anything sold, and then, on some orders, an advertising cut you did not choose. Four subtractions, three of which are invisible until the money lands.
This calculator does that stack in the order the marketplace does it, and shows each bite as it happens. The bar chart is the point: you can see which fee is eating the order, rather than being handed one number to trust.
What it tells you that a spreadsheet does not
- The break-even price. Not "cost plus a bit" — the price where this order, with these fees, makes exactly nothing. Under it you are paying for the privilege of packing a parcel.
- The shipping shortfall. Charge six, pay eight, and the item price silently covers the difference on every order. That gap gets its own line.
- What the fees really take. As a share of what the buyer paid, which is the number worth knowing before you decide a 12% margin is fine.
- Multi-item orders. Quantity changes the per-unit fee, the cost and the profit per piece, so it is priced the way it actually sells.
Then price the thing properly
A fee calculator tells you what a price survives. It cannot tell you what to charge, because that starts with what the work costs you, including your time. That is the craft pricing calculator, and the two are meant to be used back to back: price the item, then run it through the fees and see whether the price still stands up.
Questions
Why do I have to type my own fee rates in?
Because yours are not the same as everyone else's. Payment processing is set per country, offsite ads are charged at one rate for small shops and another once you pass a sales threshold, and every rate changes when the marketplace decides it should. A calculator with the numbers welded in is right for one seller in one country until the day it quietly isn't. You enter yours once, this browser remembers them, and the answer is about your shop. Etsy publishes its fee list here.
Is the transaction fee really charged on shipping?
On Etsy, yes: the transaction fee applies to the total order amount, and that includes what you charge for shipping and gift wrapping. It is the single most common reason a seller's own sums come out better than their payment account does. The switch is on by default here for that reason, and you can turn it off if your marketplace works differently.
What does "break-even price" mean here?
The item price at which this exact order makes you nothing: fees paid, materials paid, postage paid, zero left. Anything under it is a sale you are paying to make. It is worked out by solving the whole fee stack backwards, not by subtracting a flat percentage.
Does it handle free shipping?
Set what you charge to zero and put the real postage in as a cost. The shortfall line then shows exactly what "free" shipping costs you per order, which is the number to carry into the item price rather than hope about.
Is this an official Etsy tool?
No. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Etsy, eBay, Shopify or any marketplace. It is arithmetic that runs in your browser, with rates you supply, which is why it works for any of them.
Do my numbers leave my computer?
No. There is no account, no server call and no analytics on your figures. The rates you enter are kept in this browser only, so clearing site data clears them.