Etsy Fee Calculator
Etsy stacks more fee layers than any other channel, and the fixed ones punish low prices hardest. Enter your numbers below — the calculator is pre-set to Etsy — to see what actually lands in your bank account.
The complete Etsy fee stack in 2026
Every Etsy sale can carry up to five layers: a $0.20 listing fee (charged again each time a listing renews after a sale or every four months), a 6.5% transaction fee on the order total including shipping, payment processing of 3% + $0.25 per transaction for US sellers, a 15% Offsite Ads fee on sales Etsy drives through its own advertising (mandatory once you pass $10,000 in annual revenue), and the optional Etsy Plus subscription at $10/month.
Why low-priced Etsy items lose money
The fixed fees are the trap. On a $10 sticker: $0.20 listing + $0.65 transaction + $0.55 processing = $1.40 in fees, or 14% of revenue, before a cent of COGS. On a $40 print the same stack is 8.25%. Same shop, dramatically different effective rates — because the fixed components dominate at low prices. If an Offsite Ad drives that $10 sale, Etsy takes another $1.50, pushing total fees to 29%.
The fix: price and bundle for the fee floor
Set a $20 average-order-value floor before listing. That is roughly the price at which Etsy's fixed fees fall to about 2% of revenue and the percentage fees behave like their stated rates. Selling three $8 stickers individually triggers $1.40 in fees three times; selling them as a $24 bundle triggers it once. Use the calculator to find the price where your target margin actually holds.
On low-average-order Etsy shops the killer is not the percentage — it is the fixed fees. When I ran a handmade line at a ~$14 average order, the $0.20 listing + $0.25 processing quietly ate a chunk of every sale. Raising average order value with bundles did more for my take-home than any fee trick, because those flat fees hurt far less as a share of a $28 order. Set your real average order price here, not your list price, and watch the margin move.