Enter your sale price and see every fee broken down — and your real profit per sale.
Your PromptlessPress listing comes with a suggested price and your estimated net after Etsy’s fees — before you publish.
✦ Make one priced right →Every time you sell something on Etsy, they take a cut from three separate charges. Here's what each one is:
| Fee | What it is | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Listing fee | Charged when you create or renew a listing | $0.20 per listing (every 4 months) |
| Transaction fee | Etsy's cut of every sale including shipping | 6.5% |
| Payment processing | Card processing (varies by country) | 3% + $0.25 (US) |
| Offsite Ads | Only applies if Etsy ran an ad that led to your sale | 12% (shops over $10k/yr) or 15% |
For digital products, there are no packaging, postage, or material costs — so your profit margins can be very high. A $5 digital printable typically leaves you around $3.80–$4.20 after all Etsy fees.
The Offsite Ads fee only applies when Etsy specifically placed an ad for your product on Google, Facebook, or Pinterest and a buyer came through that ad. You can opt out if your shop earns under $10,000 a year — our full Offsite Ads breakdown covers the 30-day attribution window and when the fee genuinely isn't worth it.
Same formula this calculator uses — $0 production cost, US payment processing, no Offsite Ads:
| Sale price | Total Etsy fees | You keep |
|---|---|---|
| $3.99 | −$0.83 | $3.16 (79%) |
| $7.99 | −$1.21 | $6.78 (85%) |
| $9.99 | −$1.40 | $8.59 (86%) |
| $14.99 | −$1.87 | $13.12 (88%) |
| $19.99 | −$2.35 | $17.64 (88%) |
| $24.99 | −$2.82 | $22.17 (89%) |
The fee percentage shrinks as price rises because the $0.20 listing fee and $0.25 processing fee are flat — they matter less on a bigger sale. Plug in your own exact price above for the precise breakdown rather than rounding to the nearest row here.
Short answer: roughly 9.5% of the sale price plus about $0.45 in flat fees, for a US digital-download seller not using Offsite Ads or Etsy Plus. That works out to keeping 80–89% of a typical sale, with the exact percentage rising slightly as your price goes up, since the flat fees matter less on a bigger sale. There's no single flat "Etsy fee" — it's always the sum of the listing fee, transaction fee, and payment processing, which is exactly what the calculator above breaks out line by line.
This tool shows what Etsy takes. PromptlessPress makes what's left to sell — the designs, the lifestyle mockups, the title, all 13 tags and the description, priced to hit the margin you just calculated, sent to your shop as a draft you approve.
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