How Much Does Etsy Charge?

Every Etsy sale carries three separate charges: a listing fee, a transaction fee, and a payment processing fee. None is huge on its own, but together they typically take somewhere between 8% and 15% of what the buyer pays. Knowing all three before you price anything is the difference between a healthy margin and an unpleasant surprise at payout.

Etsy charges a flat $0.20 to publish a listing, and again each time it renews — after a sale, or automatically every four months. It's small, but it's charged whether or not the item sells, so slow-moving listings quietly cost you over time. On one sale it's a rounding error; across a big shop full of unsold listings, it adds up.

This is the big one: 6.5% of the total the buyer pays. The catch most new sellers miss is that "total" includes the shipping you charge, not just the item price. Charge $25 for an item and $5 for shipping, and the 6.5% applies to the full $30 — so the fee is $1.95, not $1.63.

When a buyer pays, Etsy Payments takes a cut for handling the card: in the US, about 3% plus a flat $0.25 per order. Like the transaction fee, it's calculated on the full amount including shipping. On that same $30 order, processing is $1.15. The flat $0.25 matters most on cheap items, where it's a large share of the total.

On a $30 order (item + shipping): listing fee $0.20, transaction fee (6.5% of $30) $1.95, payment processing (3% of $30 + $0.25) $1.15. Total Etsy fees: $3.30.

That's 11% of the sale gone before you've paid for materials or postage.

For most US sellers, total Etsy fees land between 8% and 15% of revenue. Cheap items skew higher because the flat $0.25 is a bigger slice of a small total. Add Etsy Ads or Offsite Ads and the percentage climbs further — Offsite Ads alone can add 12–15% on the orders they drive.

The fix is simple: build the fees into your price from the start instead of discovering them at payout. Work out your total fee percentage, add your material and shipping costs, then set a price that leaves the profit you actually want.