ETSY FEE CALCULATOR
ETSY FEE Calculator
All five Etsy fees down to what actually stays with you, and why a VAT-registered seller pays a sixth less for exactly the same fees.
Etsy Fee Calculator
Listing, transaction, payment processing, the regulatory operating fee and Offsite Ads, down to what actually stays with you. Etsy bills UK sellers from Ireland, so what VAT does to your fees works the opposite way round to every other marketplace.
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Fill in an item price to see the answer.
The buyer pays –
VAT you hand to HMRC –
Your revenue –
Listing fee –
Transaction fee –
Payment processing –
Regulatory operating fee –
Offsite Ads –
Etsy fees, before VAT –
VAT Etsy adds to them –
What the fees actually cost –
Fee rate on the sale –
Materials, postage and packaging –
Margin on what the buyer paid –
Rates are the UK ones current in August 2026 and every one of them is editable, because Etsy changes them. Take yours off a recent bill rather than off anybody's article, including this one.
Why there is no VAT reclaim line on an Etsy bill
Etsy bills UK sellers from its Irish company. If you give Etsy a VAT number, the reverse charge applies and Etsy adds no VAT to its fees at all. You record the same amount as output tax and input tax on your return, which nets to nothing.
If you give Etsy no VAT number, it charges you 20 per cent UK VAT on every fee, and you cannot recover any of it because you are not registered.
So the fee bill is exactly a sixth cheaper once you are registered. Amazon and eBay reach the same place by charging the VAT and letting you reclaim it. Etsy gets there by never charging it, which is why sellers looking for a reclaim line on their Etsy statement never find one.
Registration is still usually a net cost, because the VAT you hand over on the sale is far larger than what you save on the fees. The figure above shows both sides of that rather than only the flattering one.
Take this calculator into Excel
The workbook runs one order in full and then fifteen listings at once, ranked by what each actually leaves, with the Offsite Ads column beside them so you can see which listings can carry an ad and which cannot.
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