Etsy fee changes in 2026: what actually changed

Updated September 14, 2026 · 6 min read · Sources checked on publication

Search for this and you will find a great many confident articles describing sweeping Etsy fee increases in 2026. Most of them are wrong, and several contradict each other. Here is what actually changed, checked line by line against Etsy’s own policy pages on 13 September 2026 — along with the specific wrong number that keeps getting repeated.

The short version

One fee changed. If you sell from the United States, essentially nothing about your fees moved this year. If you sell from the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Türkiye, India or Hungary, one small percentage on every sale changed on 22 June 2026.

What changed: the regulatory operating fee

This is a percentage Etsy charges sellers in certain countries, based on where your shop is registered rather than where the buyer is. It applies to the item price plus shipping and gift wrap. Etsy announced the revision in late April 2026 and it took effect on 22 June.

Two of the seven went down, which is worth noting because almost every summary of this change describes it purely as an increase. Türkiye’s fell by 0.6 percentage points — the second-largest move of the seven, after France’s 0.67-point rise.

For a UK seller the practical effect is small: on a £38 order the fee went from about £0.12 to about £0.18, roughly six pence. For a French seller it is more than double what it was, and Hungarian sellers are paying it for the first time.

The number that keeps getting repeated wrongly

Several articles state that the UK regulatory operating fee rose to around 1.10%. It did not — the UK rate is 0.48%. The error looks like a confusion with France’s new 1.14%, and it has been copied between sites enough times to look authoritative. A UK seller pricing around 1.10% would be building in roughly twice the fee they actually pay.

The full current list

Only seven countries had a rate change, but the fee applies in nine. Canada and Vietnam charge it too and were not part of the June revision:

If your country is not on this list — including the United States — you do not pay this fee at all.

What did not change, despite what you may have read

• The transaction fee is still 6.5%. It has been 6.5% since 11 April 2022, when it rose from 5%. There has been no change since, and none announced.
• The listing fee is still $0.20 per listing and per renewal, charged whether or not the item sells.
• Offsite Ads is unchanged: 15% for shops under $10,000 in trailing 365-day sales, 12% at or above it, mandatory and permanent for the shop’s lifetime once that threshold is crossed, and capped at $100 per order. See the Offsite Ads guide.
• Payment processing is unchanged — 3% + $0.25 for a US shop, 4% + £0.20 in the UK, 4% + €0.30 in the eurozone. Canadian and Australian shops pay 3% + 0.25 on domestic orders and 4% + 0.25 on international ones.
• The currency conversion fee is still 2.5%, and Etsy Plus is still $10 a month.

Two genuinely new charges — but not seller fees

These get folded into “Etsy raised its fees” write-ups even though Etsy is not the one charging them. They still change what a cross-border order costs, so they are worth knowing.

• A €3 EU customs fee, live since 1 July 2026. It applies to packages shipped into the EU from outside it where the item value is under €150 excluding shipping, charged per unique item per package regardless of quantity. Etsy does not collect it at checkout — carriers collect it when the label is created or on delivery.
• A €2 French import fee that never started. Announced for 1 March 2026, then suspended before it took effect. Etsy said it would no longer charge buyers this fee. If an article lists it as a current cost, that article has not been updated since the announcement.

Separately, from 9 July 2026 sellers shipping to the US must use Delivered Duty Paid shipping and prepay duties; orders without prepaid duties no longer qualify for Etsy Purchase Protection. That is a policy change rather than a fee, but it moves real money.

Why so many summaries of this are wrong

Etsy publishes these rates on pages that block automated access, so a lot of what ranks for “Etsy fees 2026” was assembled from other articles rather than from the source — which is how a single transcription error, like the UK figure above, propagates across a dozen sites and starts to look like consensus. The fix is unglamorous: open Etsy’s Fees & Payments Policy in a browser and read it.

That is also why every fee figure on this site is dated and re-checked against Etsy’s own pages rather than copied, and why the worked examples in these guides are generated by the same fee engine the app bills against — so a rate we have wrong shows up as a wrong number in our own product, not just in an article.

What to do about it

If you sell from one of the seven countries above, the fee on every order changed in June, which means any price you set before then was built on the old number. The honest way to check the damage is not to recalculate a listing — it is to look at what your completed orders actually returned since June.

MakerMargin computes that from the order file Etsy already exports, with the correct rate for your country applied per order. You can also check a single sale with the free fee calculator, which carries the post-June rates, or read the full fee breakdown.

Every before-and-after rate in the first table is quoted directly from Etsy’s own seller announcement, “Regulatory Operating Fee updates for some markets”, which also gives the 22 June 2026 effective date. The current rates by country are from Etsy’s help centre article “What is a Regulatory Operating Fee?”; the unchanged fees from Etsy’s Fees & Payments Policy and Etsy Payments Policy; the 6.5% transaction fee’s history from Etsy’s April 2022 announcement of the rise from 5%; the EU customs and suspended French import fees from Etsy’s announcement forum. All read 14 September 2026.