OfferUp Seller Fees Explained: A Plain-English Glossary

Quick answer: what OfferUp charges US sellers

The whole glossary in one table. The two facts most stale pages get wrong: local sales carry no commission, and the shipping path — the thing that used to carry a checkout fee — was retired in 2025. For the full seller-fees overview, see the OfferUp seller fees hub; this page defines each line, that one lays out the whole picture.

Sources: the What is OfferUp, Nationwide shipping ending, Promote Plus subscription, Promote your items and free listing limits pages on OfferUp Help, checked 2026-11-01. Two honesty notes: no legacy shipping percentage is quoted because none appears on current help; and in-app-only prices are shown as exactly that rather than guessed.

Local / in-person commission: $0, defined

"Commission" here would mean a percentage OfferUp keeps when a sale completes. For local, in-person sales, that number is zero: OfferUp's help center states it "doesn't charge fees or take a commission from your in-person transactions" (What is OfferUp, page updated 2026-08-31). The buyer hands you money directly, and nothing is routed through an OfferUp checkout that could take a cut. Since every current listing is local-only after the shipping retirement, this $0 line is the only commission line that exists. The glossary entry stops there; the OfferUp seller fees hub carries the full overview.

Shipping fee: N/A — OfferUp ended nationwide shipping

Many "OfferUp fees explained" pages still walk through a shipped-sale checkout fee. That product is gone. Per OfferUp's help article on nationwide shipping ending (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. There is no shipped-checkout seller fee today because there is no shipped checkout at all — local pickup is the only fulfillment path.

What about the old rate? The historical shipping checkout percentage is not publicly available on OfferUp's current help pages, and this page will not quote one. Recycling a legacy figure without a current source describes a product sellers can no longer use. If a page cites a specific shipped-sale percentage for OfferUp, check whether it also mentions that shipping ended in 2025 — if it doesn't, the number is stale by definition.

Promote Plus: optional advertising, not a sale commission

Promote Plus (written "Promote+") is a flat advertising subscription: $19.99 per month or $99.99 per year, per the Promote Plus subscription help page (updated 2025-09-11). It comes with a 3-day free trial the first time you subscribe — one trial per app-store account — and it promotes one item at a time. It is never "OfferUp takes X% because of Promote+": a subscription billed monthly or annually cannot be a percentage of a sale, and it is not deducted from anything a buyer pays you.

On the annual plan, OfferUp's help page claims 58% savings. Our own arithmetic: $99.99 ÷ 12 is about $8.33 per month equivalent, and twelve monthly payments would cost 12 × $19.99 = $239.88, so the annual plan saves $239.88 − $99.99 = $139.89 — roughly 58.3%, consistent with the help page's claim, which we leave attributed to OfferUp. Whether advertising is worth it at all is a separate question with its own Promote+ cost deep dive.

One-time Promote (1 Day / 3 Days): exists, priced in-app

Below the subscription sits a per-promotion option: a one-time Promote in 1-Day and 3-Day lengths, described on the Promote your items help page (updated 2025-05-16). The dollar price is not published on that page — it is shown at purchase in the app. So the honest glossary entry is: flat, optional, exists, price varies by item and is displayed before you buy. We do not quote a dollar figure for the same reason we refuse the legacy shipping rate: no current public source states one.

Free listing allotment and paid extras

OfferUp limits how many listings you can post free each month, by category — a limit sellers meet before they ever meet a fee, which is why it belongs in a fees glossary. Per the free listing limits help page (updated 2025-04-02), the allotment refreshes on the first of each calendar month and unused listings do not roll over.

Past the allotment, OfferUp sells paid single listings and listing subscriptions. Their prices vary by category and package and are not publicly listed on the help pages — the app shows them at purchase. Same honesty rule as the one-time Promote: defined here, priced there, not guessed anywhere.

One worked example: $50 item, local meetup

A single sale threading the glossary. US individual seller lists a $50 item within the free monthly allotment for its category, meets the buyer locally, takes payment in person, and buys no promotion.

That is the entire deduction chain: zero. The optional Promote+ line sits outside the sale, which is why it is listed separately rather than netted against the $50. For the take-rate and net-math framing of this same sale, see how much OfferUp takes; this glossary defines the lines, that page works the math.

Informational page: not a Feebrief calculator

There is no live 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 above is a static fact or arithmetic with its source shown, checked against OfferUp's published help pages as of 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 glossary sits under, with the complete overview.
• OfferUp Promote+ cost: the deep dive on the subscription this page defines in one entry.
• How much does OfferUp take: the take-rate and net-math view of the same $50 local sale.
• How to reduce OfferUp fees: which levers move each cost line — this page defines them, that one tunes them.
• Facebook Marketplace vs OfferUp fees: the cross-marketplace comparison, deliberately kept off this page.
• Resale marketplace fee comparison: how take-home compares across the platforms Feebrief covers.
• Does OfferUp charge a listing fee: listing allotments vs commission (static guide, not a live calculator).