US Etsy Fee Assumptions & Sources

Included fee assumptions

Listing fee

• Modeled value: $0.20 per listing-fee unit allocated to the order
• Base: user-entered count of listing fees
• Confidence: High for the published amount
• Note: Auto-renewal and multi-quantity rules can create more than one charge.
• Official source: Etsy — What are the Fees and Taxes for Selling on Etsy?

Transaction fee

• Modeled value: 6.5%
• Base: item price + buyer-paid shipping + buyer-paid gift wrap
• Confidence: High
• Official source: Etsy — What are the Fees and Taxes for Selling on Etsy?

US payment processing fee

• Modeled value: 3% + $0.25 per order
• Base: item price + buyer-paid shipping + buyer-paid gift wrap + entered buyer sales tax
• Confidence: High
• Official source: Etsy — What are Payment Processing Fees for Selling on Etsy?

Offsite Ads fee — 15% scenario

• Modeled value: 15%, capped at $100 per order
• Intended scenario: an attributed order for a shop below Etsy’s described $10,000 threshold
• Confidence: High for rate and cap; medium for component-level base
• Attribution note: ProfitPerSale does not determine whether a sale was attributed.
• Official source: Etsy — How Etsy’s Offsite Ads Work

Offsite Ads fee — 12% scenario

• Modeled value: 12%, capped at $100 per order
• Intended scenario: an attributed order for a shop at or above Etsy’s described $10,000 threshold
• Confidence: High for rate and cap; medium for component-level base
• Attribution note: ProfitPerSale does not determine whether a sale was attributed.
• Official source: Etsy — How Etsy’s Offsite Ads Work

Rounding method

ProfitPerSale converts USD entries to cents. Each percentage-derived fee is rounded independently to the nearest cent using decimal half-up rounding. Exact fixed fees are then added, and the $100 Offsite Ads cap is applied after percentage rounding.

This is an explicit estimation assumption. The accessible official help articles reviewed for this version did not state Etsy’s exact cent-rounding method, so the calculator must not be expected to reconcile exactly with an Etsy Payment account.

What is not included

• One-time or location-dependent shop setup fees
• Etsy Ads spend, unless you allocate it to “Other advertising cost”
• Shipping labels, unless you enter the actual shipping and label cost
• Currency conversion; v0 is US/USD only
• Regulatory operating fees outside the US scope
• VAT on seller fees
• Refunds, credits, reserves, chargebacks, deposit fees, and taxes on seller fees
• Income tax, self-employment tax, or other business taxes

US-ETSY-2026-08-07-v1 — August 7, 2026

Initial US/USD fee set. Added published listing, transaction, US payment-processing, and Offsite Ads rate assumptions; documented excluded fees and the unverified cent-rounding method.

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