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Etsy takes about $5.20 on a $50.00 sale. After the product, shipping and packaging, $21.30 is left — a 43% margin.
Selling something for $50.00 on Etsy costs $5.20 in platform and payment fees. Add $15.00 for the product itself, $6.00 to ship it and $1.00 to pack it, and the order leaves $21.30 — a margin of 43%. To break even, the same order would have to sell for at least $25.66.
Etsy charges 6.5% of the total the buyer pays including shipping, plus payment processing of about 3% and $0.25, plus $0.20 to list the item — and again every four months if it does not sell. Sellers over $10,000 a year also pay a mandatory Offsite Ads fee of 12% on any sale that came from Etsy advertising. The number that decides whether a product works here is not the fee percentage but what is left after fulfilment: that remainder is your entire budget for advertising, returns and profit combined. On this order it is $21.30, so any promotion costing more than that per sale loses money. The calculator below opens with the Etsy fee structure loaded — change the price, the cost and the shipping to your own.
Margin, Break-Even Price & ROAS
Net Profit
Strong margin · Net Margin: 28.9%
Order Revenue vs Costs
Profit Summary
Platform Fee Amount
$3.58
Payment Fee Amount
$1.95
Return Reserve
$1.10
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Product cost held at 30% of the sale price, $6.00 shipping and $1.00 packaging on every row, 3% return reserve. Fixed fees hurt small orders most.
| Sale price | Etsy fees | Profit | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| $15.00 | $1.88 | $1.18 | 8% |
| $25.00 | $2.83 | $6.93 | 28% |
| $50.00 | $5.20 | $21.30 | 43% |
| $100.00 | $9.95 | $50.05 | 50% |
| $150.00 | $14.70 | $78.80 | 53% |
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