$25 is one of the most common price points on Etsy — a print, a piece of jewelry, a small home item. It feels like a tidy, round number, but the payout that lands in your account is not $25. Here's exactly what Etsy takes from a $25 sale in 2026, worked out to the cent, plus the two situations that make it cost noticeably more.
The three standard fees on a $25 US sale
For a US-based seller, a straightforward $25 order paid through Etsy Payments — no Offsite Ads, US bank account — is charged three fees:
- Listing fee — $0.20. A flat charge to publish the listing, renewed automatically each time the item sells.
- Transaction fee — 6.5% = $1.63. 6.5% of the whole order total. Note this is charged on what the buyer pays including any shipping and gift wrap — not just the $25 item price.
- Payment processing — 3% + $0.25 = $1.00. For US sellers, 3% of the total ($0.75) plus a fixed $0.25.
Add them up: $0.20 + $1.63 + $1.00 = $2.83 in fees. Your payout on a clean $25 US sale is about $22.17 — roughly 11.3% gone before you count a single cent of what the item cost you to make. The two fixed fees ($0.20 and $0.25) matter more here than on a big order: on a $25 sale they're about 1.8% on their own, which is why cheaper items lose a bigger percentage than expensive ones. (Compare with a $5 sale, where the fixed fees dominate, and a $100 sale, where they barely register.)
Where does shipping fit in?
If the buyer pays $25 for the item plus, say, $5 shipping, the total Etsy charges fees on is $30 — so the transaction fee becomes $1.95 and processing becomes $1.15, not the numbers above. Etsy applies its percentage fees to the shipping the buyer pays, which surprises a lot of sellers. More on that in does Etsy charge fees on shipping.
What if the sale came from Offsite Ads?
This is the one that changes the math most. If Etsy placed an ad that led to your $25 sale, it adds an Offsite Ads fee: 15% if your shop made under $10,000 in the last 365 days, or 12% if you're over that threshold. On $25 that's $3.75 (at 15%) or $3.00 (at 12%), stacked on top of the $2.83 above. So an Offsite-Ads $25 sale can cost around $6.58 in total fees, leaving roughly $18.42 — about 26% gone. You only pay it when a sale is actually attributed to one of those ads, but on a low-priced item it's a heavy hit. See is Etsy Offsite Ads worth it.
What if you're not a US seller?
The transaction fee and listing fee are the same worldwide, but payment processing changes with your bank's country, and quieter fees stack on top:
- Processing differs: the UK is 4% + £0.20, much of the EU is 4% + €0.30, Türkiye is 6.5% + 14 TRY — all higher than the US 3% + $0.25.
- Regulatory operating fee: in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Türkiye and others, Etsy adds a small percentage (usually under ~1.2%) that no calculator shows. See the regulatory operating fee explained.
- Currency conversion — 2.5%: if you list and get paid in different currencies. See currency conversion fee explained.
- VAT on the fees: in many countries Etsy charges VAT on the fees themselves, so the effective bite is higher than the headline rates. See does Etsy charge VAT on your seller fees.
Stack those and a $25 sale for a non-US seller loses more than the ~$2.83 a US seller pays. The hidden costs for non-US sellers guide walks through a full example.
And that's still not your profit
Everything above is only what Etsy takes. Your actual profit also subtracts what the item cost to make, the shipping you really paid, and packaging. A $25 sale that nets $22.17 after Etsy fees might leave $10 or less after materials — and at that point a single Offsite Ads hit can wipe out most of it. To find the point where a $25 item actually makes money, see how to find your break-even price and what a good profit margin looks like.
See the exact number for your sale
You can estimate any single order with our free Etsy fee calculator — it includes the regulatory and currency-conversion fees most calculators skip. But a calculator works from published rates; your real charges differ once refunds, ad attribution, exact processing amounts and VAT-on-fees are in play. That's what Seller Profit Lens does: it connects to your shop read-only, reads the fees Etsy actually charged you on every order to the cent, and subtracts your own costs to show real profit — no estimating. It's free in beta right now. Join the waitlist →