Etsy Shipping Calculator
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Etsy fees on your shipping charge
- Shipping charge
- $6.00
- Transaction (6.5%)
- -$0.39
- Payment processing (3%)
- -$0.18
- Etsy fees on shipping
- -$0.57
Enter what postage costs you to see what you keep. Use your carrier's calculator if you don't know it yet.
The whole order
- Order total
- $36.00
- Item price
- $30.00
- Shipping charge
- $6.00
- Etsy fees
- -$3.87
- Listing ($0.20)
- -$0.20
- Transaction (6.5%)
- -$2.34
- Payment processing (3% + $0.25)
- -$1.33
Assumptions
- One item per order. Processing is 3% + $0.25, the rate for a bank account in United States.
- The $0.20 listing fee and the flat processing fee are charged per order whether or not you charge shipping, so they don't count as fees on shipping.
- Listing and bank currency are both USD, so there is no currency conversion fee. No sales tax.
- VAT on Etsy's fees isn't included. Etsy charges it to shops in the UK, the EU and some other countries. If you pay it and can't reclaim it, enter your rate under Your shop.
Uses the same fee rates as our Etsy Fee Calculator, checked against Etsy's Help Center on Nov 12, 2026. Postage comes from you, not from us. Etsy's fee list
How Etsy shipping fees work
Etsy doesn't sell you postage unless you buy a label on Etsy. But it does take a cut of the shipping you charge. The transaction fee, payment processing fee and, in some countries, a regulatory operating fee are all charged on the item price plus shipping. If the sale came from an Offsite Ad, that fee is on the order total too.
| Fee | Charged on shipping? | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Transaction fee | Yes | 6.5% of the order total, shipping and gift wrap included |
| Payment processing | Yes | A percent of the total including shipping, plus a flat fee per order. 3% + $0.25 in the US |
| Regulatory operating fee | Yes, in some countries | A percent of item price plus shipping and gift wrap, by seller location |
| Offsite Ads | Yes, on attributed orders | 15% or 12% of the order total, never more than $100 an order |
| Listing fee | No | $0.20 per listing, the same with or without shipping |
For a US seller, that is 9.5% of every shipping charge before Offsite Ads. The regulatory operating fee applies to sellers in Canada 0.5%, France 1.14%, Hungary 1.97%, India 0.05%, Italy 0.8%, Spain 0.88%, Türkiye 1.67%, United Kingdom 0.48%, Vietnam 1.24%.
The flat part of the processing fee and the listing fee are charged per order whether you charge shipping or not, so the calculator leaves them out of the fees on shipping and counts them in the whole order instead.
How much to charge for shipping on Etsy
Start from what the parcel really costs you: the label, plus the box, mailer and filler. Then remember the fees. A shipping charge that only matches your label loses money once Etsy takes its share.
Here is a US seller who charges $6 shipping on a $30 item. Say the label costs $5.20 and packaging $0.80.
| Line | How it's worked out | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Shipping charge | What the buyer pays | $6.00 |
| Transaction fee | 6.5% × $6.00 | -$0.39 |
| Payment processing | 3% × $6.00 | -$0.18 |
| Postage | Example label cost | -$5.20 |
| Packaging | Mailer and filler | -$0.80 |
| Kept on shipping | Charge minus fees and costs | -$0.57 |
The charge looks like it covers the costs exactly, yet the seller loses $0.57 on shipping. On the whole order they keep $26.13 before materials and time.
To find your own number, look up the postage with your carrier and enter it above with your packaging. The calculator then shows the break-even shipping charge: the lowest charge that covers postage, packaging and Etsy's fees on it. For this seller that's $6.63. To price the item itself, the craft pricing calculator adds up materials and your time.
Should you offer free shipping on Etsy?
Free shipping doesn't have to cost you anything. Add the shipping charge to the item price and the buyer pays the same total. Because Etsy's percentage fees are charged on item price plus shipping, the fees stay the same too, and so does what you keep.
In the example above, $30 plus $6 shipping becomes $36 with free shipping. The seller keeps $26.13 either way. Switch the calculator to Free shipping to see the same working for your own numbers.
What Etsy says about free shipping today:
- Free shipping guarantee. If you turn it on, US buyers get free shipping on any item, or any order, of $35 USD and up. It works for shops inside and outside the US that ship to US buyers. Buyers outside the US still pay the shipping in your profiles.
- Search. On its search visibility page, Etsy says US listings with domestic shipping prices lower than $6 will be prioritized in search.
- Upgrades still cost extra. A buyer who picks a faster shipping upgrade pays for it, even on a free shipping order.
Free shipping is a pricing choice, not a discount. Whether it suits you depends on how your buyers compare prices, so try it on a few listings first.
Etsy calculated shipping explained
Calculated shipping lets Etsy work out the shipping price for each buyer instead of you typing in a fixed rate. It is available to sellers in the US and Canada who ship with USPS, Global Postal Shipping or Canada Post.
- Etsy combines your location, the buyer's location and the item's size and weight to price each order.
- Buyers can preview shipping by entering their zip or postal code, or their country. Etsy defaults to the cheapest service that fits the weight and size.
- You set it up in a shipping profile by choosing Calculate them for me, entering the zip or postal code you ship from, then adding the weight and packed size to each listing.
- Since March 19, 2025 you can't add handling or package fees to calculated shipping. Etsy suggests moving those costs into the item price instead.
- Combined shipping discounts don't apply, because Etsy works out the real cost of shipping several items together.
Calculated shipping only prices the postage. Etsy's fees still apply to whatever the buyer pays for shipping, so use the calculator above with a typical shipping charge to see your share.
Etsy shipping profiles
A shipping profile saves your shipping settings so you can reuse them across listings: where you ship from, processing time, the services you offer and what you charge for each country. Edit a profile and every listing that uses it updates. Each listing can use one profile.
With fixed prices you set a One item price and an Additional item price. On a multi-item order, Etsy takes the highest One item price in the cart and adds the Additional item price of everything else. A print that costs $4 to ship alone and $1 more with other items charges $4 on its own and $5 for two.
Profiles are also where you offer free shipping to buyers outside the US, add shipping upgrades for faster delivery, and choose the countries you don't sell to.
Etsy international shipping
Set a rate for each country you want to sell to, or one rate for Everywhere else. Etsy notes that many buyers only see listings that ship to their country, so a missing rate can hide your listing from them.
- Processing can cost more. Sellers in Australia, Canada and New Zealand pay a lower processing rate on domestic orders than on orders from abroad. A Canadian seller pays 3% on orders from Canada or the US and 4% on other international orders. Pick Elsewhere as the buyer location to see it.
- Duties and import fees. Etsy's Seller Policy requires orders shipped to the United States to be sent with a Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) method. It rules out Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU) shipping, or anything else that leaves the buyer paying extra fees after purchase. For other countries, Etsy recommends carriers that let you prepay duties and import fees.
- Free domestic shipping, fair international price. If you build domestic shipping into your price, Etsy suggests lowering your international rate by the same amount so buyers abroad don't pay for it twice.
- Different prices by destination. Sellers outside the US and India can set a different listing price for domestic and international orders.
Etsy shipping labels
In some countries you can buy and print labels straight from the order page in Shop Manager. Etsy offers labels for USPS, UPS, FedEx, Global Postal Shipping, Canada Post, Chit Chats, Royal Mail and Evri, and lists access to some postage discounts and refunds for unused labels. Etsy also says labels bought on Etsy count in your favor for the Star Seller shipping score.
Label costs are taken from your Etsy balance when you buy them. They are your cost, not an Etsy fee on the sale, so enter what you paid as Postage or label above. To see every fee on the sale with your materials and time, use the Etsy fee calculator.
Alura brings your Etsy shop data into one place, so you can price and plan with real numbers. Create a free Alura account.
Yes. The 6.5% transaction fee, the payment processing fee and, in some countries, the regulatory operating fee are all charged on the item price plus the shipping you charge. An order from an Offsite Ad also pays 15% or 12% of the order total.
For a US seller, 9.5% of the shipping charge: 6.5% transaction fee and 3% payment processing. On $10 of shipping that is $0.95. Other countries pay their own processing rate, and some add a regulatory fee.
Add your shipping charge to the item price. The buyer pays the same total, Etsy charges the same fees because they are a percent of item price plus shipping, and you keep the same amount. Free shipping mode in the calculator shows the new price and the working.
Yes. If you turn it on in your shipping settings, US buyers get free shipping on any item or order of $35 USD and up. It applies to shops in and outside the US that ship to US buyers. Buyers in other countries still pay the shipping in your profiles.
Etsy's search visibility page says US listings with domestic shipping prices lower than $6 will be prioritized in search. Etsy doesn't say more than that, so we don't either.
Etsy works out the shipping price for each buyer from your location, theirs, and the item's size and weight. It is open to sellers in the US and Canada who ship with USPS, Global Postal Shipping or Canada Post. Since March 2025 you can't add handling or package fees to it.
A saved set of shipping settings, like where you ship from, processing time, services and prices by country, that you can apply to many listings. Change the profile and every listing using it updates.
Set a rate for each country you sell to, or one rate for everywhere else. Look up the real postage with your carrier first, and remember sellers in Australia, Canada and New Zealand pay a higher processing rate on orders from abroad. Pick Elsewhere as the buyer location to see it.
No. Postage depends on the carrier, size, weight and destination, so you enter your own. Links to the USPS, Royal Mail, Canada Post and Australia Post calculators sit under the postage field.
