Etsy fees by country

Transaction fee

A flat 6.5% on the total the buyer pays, the same in every market. And here is the detail most often forgotten: it includes shipping, gift wrapping and personalization. It is not just the item price.

Practical consequence: moving money from the product to the shipping does not save fees, and raising the shipping price is not free either.

iIn the United States, where the displayed price excludes sales tax and the marketplace normally collects it, the calculator does not add that tax to the transaction fee base.

Etsy Payments: payment processing

Taking the card payment has its own cost: a percentage plus a flat amount per order, and both vary by country. The table above has the values for all eight markets.

Like every fee with a flat part, it punishes small baskets. 4% + 0.30 is 1.70 on a 35 order (an effective 4.9%), but 0.62 on an order of 8 (an effective 7.8%). If you sell cheap items, bundling into larger orders has a direct effect on margin.

Canada and Australia are a special case: Etsy applies a different percentage depending on where the order comes from. In Canada, domestic or United States orders carry a lower percentage than international ones; in Australia, domestic versus international. That is why the calculator shows an order-type selector when you pick those two markets.

Regulatory operating fee and its base

A percentage Etsy charges in certain countries to cover costs arising from local regulation. Of the eight markets in this tool, Etsy's official list covers Spain (0.88%), France (1.14%), Italy (0.80%), the United Kingdom (0.48%) and Canada (0.50%). In Germany, the United States and Australia it does not apply: it is not a 0% fee, it simply does not exist there.

iAn important correction in this tool. Etsy's documentation states this fee is charged on the item price and shipping costs, including gift wrap and personalization. An earlier version of this calculator defaulted to applying it to the order amount after extracting tax, which understated it. That is now fixed: the default base is the gross amount, and it remains editable in the advanced options in case your invoice uses a different criterion.

On a 35 order with 21% tax, the difference between charging 0.88% on 35 (0.31) or on 28.93 (0.25) is six cents: small per order, plenty to stop your month reconciling.

Listing fee and your account currency

Etsy charges $0.20 per listing when you publish it and again each time it renews, and converts that to your account currency. The exact amount in your currency depends on the rate Etsy applies, so this tool does not compute it: the field is called “listing fee charged in your account currency”, comes with a starting value, and you adjust it to whatever your payment account shows. There is deliberately no currency API behind it.

It looks trivial, and in a shop with few listings it is. But it is a cost that exists whether you sell or not: a catalog of 500 listings renewing costs money every four months regardless of sales.

Offsite Ads: the big one

Etsy advertises its marketplace products on other platforms. When a sale arrives through one of those ads, it charges a fee on the order total: 15% on the standard rate or 12% on the reduced one, which applies to shops above the trailing twelve-month revenue threshold.

iThe important detail: for shops below the threshold the programme is optional and can be switched off. For shops above it, it is mandatory. In other words: as you grow, you trade a lower rate for the inability to opt out.

15% of the order total is by far the heaviest fee: on a 35 order that is 5.25, more than the four base fees combined. Which is why the same product can be profitable or not depending on where the sale came from.

Every fee has its own base

This is what makes reconciling an Etsy invoice so frustrating: there is no single calculation base.

The bases live in one place in the code and, where there is ambiguity, they are editable from the advanced options. The seller's real invoice always wins.

On top of the fees, Etsy may charge tax on its own fees. Whether it does depends on your account's tax setup, so in the calculator it is a field that starts at zero and you decide: open a real invoice, see whether it appears and at what rate.

Full worked example of one order