Every Etsy fee, in order
- Listing fee: US$0.20 (about €0.18) per listing, every 4 months, whether or not it sells.
- Transaction fee: 6.5% of the price plus postage and gift wrapping.
- Payment processing: 4% + €0.30 per order for shops with a bank account in Ireland, on the total including postage.
- VAT: 23% on Etsy’s fees. Etsy says it must charge VAT on fees to shops in Ireland whether or not you give it a VAT number. If you’re VAT registered, you can usually claim it back.
Offsite Ads
If a sale comes from one of Etsy’s ads on other sites, you pay an Offsite Ads fee of 15% of the order (12% for shops with over US$10,000 of sales in a year), capped at US$100 (about €86) per order. Tick “Etsy sale came from an Offsite Ad” in the calculator to include it.
What you can sell
Etsy only allows handmade items, vintage items at least 20 years old, and craft supplies. The calculator marks Etsy as unavailable for anything else.
Is Etsy worth the fees?
Etsy’s fees are higher than Vinted’s and a little higher than eBay’s, but its buyers come looking for handmade, personalised and vintage pieces, often as gifts, from all over the world, and expect to pay more for them. Compare what you’d keep at the price each site’s buyers will pay, not at the same price.