How Much Does Etsy Take From a $250 Sale?
On a $250 sale, Etsy takes $24.20 — 9.7% of the order — and you keep $225.80 before materials, packaging or your own time. At this order size the fixed fees are a rounding error (0.18% of the sale), so the rate has converged on the 9.5% floor and will not fall much further however high you price.
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Listing fee | $0.20 |
| Transaction fee (6.5%) | $16.25 |
| Payment processing (3% + $0.25) | $7.75 |
| Total Etsy fees | $24.20 |
| You keep | $225.80 |
US seller, no shipping charged, no Offsite Ads attribution. Change any input below to see your own numbers.
Try it with your own numbers
Pre-filled with the same assumptions used above: $24.20 of fees, $225.80 net. The Offsite Ads selector is the one worth testing — 15% attributed on this order would add more to the fee than the listing, transaction and payment charges combined at lower price points.
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Listing fee | — |
| Transaction fee (6.5%) | — |
| Payment processing | — |
| Offsite Ads | — |
| Total Etsy fees | — |
Where the $$24.20 actually goes
At $250 the fixed portion of Etsy's fees — $0.20 listing plus $0.25 of payment processing — is 0.18% of the sale. That is close enough to zero to ignore: the fee is now essentially the percentage stack and nothing else.
Etsy's percentage fees total 9.5% for a US seller (6.5% transaction plus 3% payment). Your effective rate here is 9.7%, so you are 0.20% above the floor and there is almost no structure left to optimise — only the base rate itself.
Which is why high-ticket Etsy sellers migrate, and low-ticket ones do not. At this order size the platform is taking $24.20 a sale; the decision is no longer about shaving points, it is about whether the marketplace traffic is worth $24.20 an order.
What it takes to net $1,000 a month
Because the fixed fee is charged per order, the number of sales you need to clear a monthly target depends on price in a way that is not linear. At $225.80 net per sale you need 5 sales to net $1,000 in a month — $1250.00 in gross revenue, against $121.00 paid to Etsy.
That is 0.2 orders a day, every day. If that number looks uncomfortable, the lever is price, not traffic: at $338.92 a sale you would need only 3 orders for the same $1,000.
What a 15% discount does at this price
A 15% discount on a $250 item drops the price to $212.50. The percentage fees fall with it, but the $0.45 fixed pair does not, so your net falls from $225.80 to $191.86 — a 15.0% hit to profit for a 15% cut to price.
You would need 17.7% more orders to make the same money. The gap between the discount (15%) and the profit hit (15.0%) is the fixed fee — at higher price points that gap narrows, which is one more reason discounting hurts cheap listings more than expensive ones.
Charging shipping vs building it in
Charging $6.00 shipping separately and baking $6.00 into the item price produce identical fees, because Etsy applies the 6.5% transaction fee to shipping as well as the item. Separate shipping on a $250 item: $24.20 in fees. Free shipping with the price raised to $256: $24.77. The difference is $0.57.
So the free-shipping-versus-charged-shipping decision is not a fee decision at all. It is a conversion decision — and separately, whether a $6.00 higher order value changes how buyers compare you.
Etsy versus your own store at $250
The comparison that actually decides this is not the fee percentage — it is the volume at which a flat monthly fee beats a per-order one. On this $250 order Etsy takes $24.20; a Shopify store on Shopify Payments (2.9% + $0.30) would take $7.55. Etsy costs you $16.65 more per order.
Against a $39/month Basic plan, that gap covers the subscription at 3 orders a month — about 0.1 a day. Below that volume the marketplace is genuinely cheaper, and the traffic Etsy brings is free. Above it, you are paying $10.95 a month for the privilege of listing.
Net per order if you moved: $242.45 against $225.80 here, plus the $39.00 subscription — which is the whole calculation. It is not a moral question about marketplaces, it is whether 3 orders a month clears $39.00 in fees.
What Offsite Ads would do to this order
Offsite Ads is the one Etsy charge that can more than double the bill, and it is the reason two sellers on identical margins can have completely different economics. On this $250 order, a sale attributed to Etsy's ads takes fees from $24.20 to $61.70 at 15%, or $54.20 at the 12% rate. That is 2.5 times the unattributed total.
Net falls from $225.80 to $188.30 on an attributed order, so the same listing is worth 17% less on those sales. If any meaningful share of your traffic is attributed, the average fee you actually pay sits between the two figures, not at the headline one.
Sellers under $10,000 in the past 365 days can opt out. Above that threshold it is mandatory at 12%%, which is a reason to model it in before you scale rather than after — the fee cannot be switched off once you cross.
How much material cost this price can carry
Fees are only half the equation. On a $250 sale you keep $225.80 before materials, so the material cost is what decides whether this price works at all. At 20% materials ($50.00) you clear $175.80; at 50% ($125.00) you clear $100.80.
If a 40% net margin is the target, your material cost cannot exceed $125.80 on this price — 50.3% per unit of room. That is the number to take to a supplier, not the sale price, because Etsy's cut is already fixed and the material cost is the only variable you control.
| Material cost | % of price | Profit per sale | Net margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| $50.00 | 20% | $175.80 | 70.3% |
| $75.00 | 30% | $150.80 | 60.3% |
| $100.00 | 40% | $125.80 | 50.3% |
| $125.00 | 50% | $100.80 | 40.3% |
Nearby price points
| Sale price | Etsy fees | Effective rate | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $175 sale | $17.08 | 9.8% | $157.92 |
| $200 sale | $19.45 | 9.7% | $180.55 |
| $250 sale | $24.20 | 9.7% | $225.80 |
| $300 sale | $28.95 | 9.7% | $271.05 |
| $500 sale | $47.95 | 9.6% | $452.05 |
All rows use the same assumptions: US seller, no shipping charged, no Offsite Ads. The rate falls as the price rises because the fixed $0.45 is spread thinner.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Etsy take from a $250 sale?
Etsy takes $24.20 from a $250 sale: $16.25 transaction fee (6.5%), $7.75 payment processing (3% + $0.25) and the $0.20 listing fee. That is 9.7% of the order, leaving $225.80.
What percentage does Etsy take in total?
For a US seller on a $250 order it works out to 9.7% — but that is not a fixed percentage. Etsy's percentage fees are 9.5%; the rest of the gap is the $0.45 of fixed fees spread across the order. The same seller on a $100 sale pays closer to 10%.
What price do I need to net $25 after Etsy fees?
About $28.12. Solving for $25.00 net means dividing (target + $0.45) by 0.905, the share of the order you keep once the percentage fees are applied. Anything below $28.12 nets less than $25.
How many sales do I need to net $1,000 a month at $250?
5 sales, at current fees — about 0.2 a day. That is $1250.00 in revenue, of which $121.00 goes to Etsy.
Does Etsy charge fees on sales tax?
No. Sales tax collected by Etsy is not part of the order value the transaction fee is calculated on. It is also not money you keep — it passes straight through.
Can I avoid Etsy's Offsite Ads fee?
Only if you have sold under $10,000 in the past 365 days — those sellers can opt out. Above that threshold participation is mandatory at 12% on attributed orders, and the 15% rate applies to smaller sellers who stay opted in. None of the numbers on this page include Offsite Ads.
Last reviewed: October 2026. Rates are Etsy's published US fee schedule; regional regulatory operating fees, currency conversion and Offsite Ads are not included. See the full Etsy fee calculator for the complete input set.