How Much Does OfferUp Take From Your Sale? (Local: $0)

Quick answer: OfferUp takes $0 from a local sale

Two sentences carry the whole verdict. OfferUp takes $0 from an in-person transaction — its help center says it "doesn't charge fees or take a commission from your in-person transactions" (What is OfferUp, page updated 2026-08-31). And there is no shipped-sale take left to calculate, because shipping itself ended in late 2025 — everything else OfferUp can charge a seller is optional flat spend, never a cut of a sale.

United States, USD, as of 2026-10-31. The rest of this page unpacks that three-line ledger, then works a $50 example to the cent. For the complete cost overview, see OfferUp seller fees; this page answers only the take question.

The local take: $0 commission on in-person sales

In take-rate language: on a local sale, OfferUp's cut is 0% and its dollar take is $0.00. The What is OfferUp help page (updated 2026-08-31) states OfferUp "doesn't charge fees or take a commission from your in-person transactions." You agree a price, meet the buyer, and they hand you the money directly — nothing routes through an OfferUp checkout where a percentage could be withheld. After the shipping retirement, every listing is local-only, so this is the only commission line that exists on OfferUp today. The full schedule of seller costs lives on the OfferUp seller fees hub.

Is there a shipped-sale take? Not anymore

If you remember pages saying OfferUp takes a service fee on shipped orders, that math describes a product that no longer exists. Per the Nationwide shipping ending help article (page updated 2026-09-22), new listings became local-only from 2025-09-23, and shipping was removed from all remaining listings by 2025-10-21. Local pickup is now the only way to complete a sale, so there is no shipped checkout and no shipped take to calculate — that ledger line is N/A, not a percentage we had to look up.

What was the old rate? Not publicly available. OfferUp's current help pages do not publish the historical shipped-checkout seller percentage, and this page will not invent one. A specific shipped take rate quoted anywhere today is stale by definition unless the source also says shipping ended in 2025.

Promote Plus and paid listings: spend, not take

The only money OfferUp can receive from a seller is advertising you opt into, billed flat rather than taken from a sale. Promote Plus (Promote+) is an optional advertising subscription at $19.99 per month or $99.99 per year, with a 3-day free trial the first time you subscribe (Promote Plus subscription, page updated 2025-09-11); on our arithmetic the annual plan works out to about $8.33 per month equivalent. A subscription cannot be a percentage of a sale and is never deducted from the money a buyer hands you, which is why it sits outside the take ledger above. One-time promotes and paid listings exist too; their dollar prices are shown at purchase in the app, not published on help, so this page names them without guessing figures. The full breakdown lives in the Promote+ cost deep dive.

Free listing allotment: staying at $0 take

The take stays $0 under conditions you can check before you list: stay within the free monthly allotment for your category, sell locally, and skip promotion. Per the free listing limits help page (updated 2025-04-02), allotments refresh on the first of each calendar month and unused listings do not roll over.

Go past the allotment and paid listings become available — a flat, in-app-priced spend that still is not a take from any sale. How to keep every cost line at zero is a tactics question with its own page; this one sticks to stating what is taken.

Worked example: sell a $50 item at a local meetup

One sale, every line traced. A US individual seller lists a $50 item within the category's free monthly allotment, meets the buyer locally, takes payment in person, and buys no promotion.

That is the entire deduction chain: zero. If you happened to be on Promote+ that month, the $19.99 is a subscription cost you would pay whether or not this sale happened — it does not come out of the $50, and the take on the sale itself stays $0.00. The table is our arithmetic from the published $0 rule; confirm the rule on the linked help pages before pricing your own item.

Static take math, not a Feebrief calculator

There is no calculator on this page, and Feebrief has no live calculator for OfferUp at all — the platform is outside the comparer's fee data set (fees.json, last reviewed 2026-10-26). Every figure here is either a published OfferUp fact with its source and page-updated date, or derived arithmetic from the locked $0 local take, checked 2026-10-31. See how Feebrief sources fee data, the Feebrief disclosure, and resale marketplace fees compared for the platforms the comparer does cover.

Related reading

• OfferUp seller fees (full guide): the hub page this take-rate answer sits under, with the complete cost overview.
• OfferUp seller fees explained: every cost line defined in one glossary.
• OfferUp Promote+ cost: the deep dive on the subscription this page files under spend, not take.
• How to reduce OfferUp fees: the tactics page — deliberately kept off this one.
• Facebook Marketplace vs OfferUp fees: the cross-marketplace comparison, not made here.
• Resale marketplace fee comparison: how take-home compares across the platforms Feebrief covers.