How much does Etsy take per sale?

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

The honest answer is about 10 to 12 percent of what the buyer pays, before any advertising — and closer to a quarter of the sale if Etsy’s ads brought the buyer to you. The reason sellers rarely know their own number is that the cut arrives as four separate charges, on four different amounts, on a statement that reports them by line rather than by order.

The four fees on an ordinary sale

Every Etsy sale carries the same stack. The percentages are small individually, which is exactly why they are easy to underestimate together.

• Listing fee — $0.20. Charged when you publish a listing and again every time it renews, including automatically after a sale. If you list multiple quantities of the same item, Etsy charges $0.20 initially and renews the listing at $0.20 after each item sells — so a single order for three of something carries three renewals, not one.
• Transaction fee — 6.5%. Charged on the item price and on the shipping you charge the buyer. Not on sales tax Etsy collects for you.
• Payment processing — 3% + $0.25 for a US shop. Charged on the full amount the buyer’s card was billed, which does include sales tax. Rates differ by country: a UK shop pays 4% + £0.20.
• Offsite Ads — 12% or 15%, but only on orders Etsy attributes to its own advertising. Capped at $100 per order. This is the one that turns a good month into an average one, and it has its own guide.

What that looks like on a real order

Percentages are abstract; a specific order is not. Here is a mid-priced item with shipping charged separately, at 2026 rates.

Just over a tenth of the sale. Now the same item, but the buyer arrived through one of Etsy’s off-site ads:

The fee rate more than doubles, and nothing about the product changed. This is why a shop average is more useful than the headline rate: what matters is not whether Offsite Ads cost 15%, but what fraction of your orders carry it.

Cheap items are the expensive ones

The two fixed components — $0.20 to list, $0.25 per transaction — do not shrink with the price. On a low-priced item they are a meaningful slice on their own.

Twelve percent against under ten percent, for the same work of packing a box. Sellers who discover this usually respond by raising the floor price of their cheapest line or bundling it, rather than by trying to sell more of it.

Three details that make your math disagree with Etsy’s

If you have ever checked a fee by hand and landed a cent or two away from the statement, one of these is why.

• Etsy rounds twice, not once. The item price and the shipping are billed as separate transaction-fee lines, each rounded to the cent on its own. Multiplying the combined total by 6.5% rounds a single time and can land a cent lower.
• Sales tax is in one fee and not the other. The 6.5% skips it; payment processing does not, because the card was charged for it. This makes processing look like more than 3% of your revenue, and it is — it is 3% of a bigger number.
• Listing renewals are easy to miss. A sold listing renews at $0.20 automatically unless you turned that off, so a product that sells forty times a month carries forty renewals, showing up on the statement well away from the orders that caused them.

The fees are the easy half

Every number above is computable from the order alone, which is why fee calculators exist and why they are not enough. The part that decides whether a product is worth making is the part Etsy never sees: what the materials cost, what the postage label actually cost you against what you charged, and how long the thing took to make.

You can check one sale with our free Etsy fee calculator, which includes the $100 Offsite Ads cap and the 2026 regulatory fees. For the whole shop at once, that is the job MakerMargin does with the CSV Etsy already exports.

Fee rates read from Etsy’s Fees & Payments Policy and Etsy Payments Policy (per-country processing table) on 14 September 2026. The 6.5% transaction fee has applied since 11 April 2022, when Etsy announced the rise from 5%. Worked examples are computed by the same fee engine MakerMargin bills against. Estimates only — your monthly Etsy statement is the final word.