Etsy seller fees (US): $0.20 + 6.5% + 3% + $0.25, plus Offsite Ads

Short answer: four fees, four different bases

Etsy seller fees for a US seller paid through Etsy Payments are four separate lines, and each is charged on a different amount. Quoting “about 6.5%” leaves out most of what comes off a payout.

• Listing fee: $0.20 per listing published or renewed, charged on no sale at all.
• Transaction fee: 6.5% of item price plus shipping plus gift wrap; US sales tax is excluded.
• Payment processing: 3% + $0.25 per order on the gross order, including shipping and tax when applicable.
• Offsite Ads: 15% (opt-out allowed) or 12% (mandatory) of the order amount, only on orders attributed to an offsite ad.

On a $50 item with $5 buyer-paid shipping and no sales tax, the order-side fees are $5.48 (about 9.96% of the $55.00 order) and the payout is $49.52, after the separate $0.20 listing fee already paid.

Etsy seller fee table (US, as of Oct 2026)

Sources: Etsy legal fees, Etsy Payments policy and Etsy Help on fees and taxes, compiled 2026-10-31. Rates apply to US sellers using Etsy Payments with a US bank account.

What each fee is charged on

The useful comparison is the base column, not the rate column. The listing fee is paid whether or not anything sells. The transaction fee and the processing fee both include buyer-paid shipping, but they differ on tax: the 6.5% excludes US sales tax and the 3% + $0.25 includes it, so the two percentages sit on bases that differ by exactly the tax amount. Offsite Ads applies to the sale amount of an attributed order and is capped at $100 per order.

Compare eBay seller fees and take-home estimator: eBay charges one final value fee on item plus shipping, plus a per-order fee, so there is no separate processing line to add.

Worked example: $50 item + $5 shipping

Examples assume a US seller on Etsy Payments with a US bank account, buyer-paid shipping included in the fee base, no gift wrap, no sales tax, no Etsy Ads, no Etsy Plus or Pattern subscription, and payout equal to the order total minus order-side fees. Each fee line is rounded half-up to the cent; Etsy’s live rounding may differ by a cent. The $0.20 listing fee is shown separately because it is charged at publish or renewal, not deducted from the order. See how Feebrief estimates seller fees.

On a $50 item with $5 buyer-paid shipping and no sales tax, a US Etsy seller keeps $49.52 after the 6.5% transaction fee and the 3% + $0.25 processing fee, having already paid $0.20 to list. Counting the listing fee, total cost is $5.68, about 10.33% of the $55.00 order.

Same order with Offsite Ads attributed

If that order came from an Offsite Ad while the shop is under $10k in trailing sales, Etsy also takes 15% of $55.00, or $8.25, and the payout drops to $41.27. That is an effective order-side rate of about 24.96%, against about 21.96% at 12%. The 12% row is our arithmetic from the published rate, not an Etsy-published example; check it against a real payout.

Offsite Ads fee: 15% or 12%, opt-out, 30-day attribution, $100 cap

Offsite Ads is the fee US sellers most often misread. These are the four rules in one place, per Etsy’s Offsite Ads help article and the legal fees page (compiled 2026-10-31):

• Under $10k in trailing 365-day shop sales: 15% on attributed orders, and you can opt out.
• At $10k or more in any 365-day window: 12% on attributed orders, and participation is mandatory thereafter. Treat the $10k threshold as a one-way door.
• Attribution: the buyer clicks an offsite ad, then orders from the shop within 30 days. If the last click is an Etsy Ads click, only the Etsy Ads cost applies.
• Cap: the fee never exceeds $100 on an individual order. At 15% that cap binds above a $666.67 sale amount; at 12%, above $833.33.

The share of a shop’s orders that are attributed is specific to each shop and is not published, so this page does not assume one.

Informational page: not a Feebrief calculator

Feebrief’s interactive fee comparer currently covers eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Depop, Vinted and Whatnot only. Etsy is not in that data set, so the figures on this page are static worked examples from Etsy’s published fee pages, not a live Feebrief calculator. See resale marketplace fees compared for the platforms Feebrief does cover, and how Feebrief estimates seller fees for our method. Feebrief is not affiliated with Etsy and is not an official calculator; see the Feebrief disclosure. Rates change, so confirm on the linked Etsy pages before pricing.

What is not in these examples

• Etsy Ads (onsite) budget: not publicly available as a rate; it is budget-based.
• Etsy Plus subscription and Pattern: no price stated here.
• Currency conversion and regulatory operating fees outside the US: not modeled; the examples assume none apply.
• Shipping label cost: depends on a carrier quote and would be a separate line.
• Payout schedule: not stated here.
• Sales tax: examples use $0; the one tax line shown is hypothetical, and the rate depends on the buyer’s state.

Related fee guides

• Etsy fee calculator: the math by hand: static net grid and the list price that nets a target.
• How to reduce Etsy fees: the Offsite Ads lever and what cannot be reduced.
• Etsy vs eBay fees: the same sale on both platforms.
• Etsy vs Poshmark fees: four Etsy lines on item + shipping against Poshmark’s 20% on item only.
• Resale marketplace fees compared: how take-home works across the six platforms Feebrief covers.
• eBay vs Poshmark fees: a live pair where the fee base differs between the two sides.