Etsy Profit Calculator (2026)

From sale price to actual profit

An Etsy sale's profit is what's left after three separate deductions, and sellers who only track the first one price themselves into loss. The full chain: revenue → minus Etsy fees → minus item cost → minus your shipping cost → profit. This Etsy profit calculator runs the whole chain — open the advanced inputs for your cost and postage, and the result ends with profit and margin percentage, not just fees.

The fee layer (what Etsy takes)

Before any of your costs: a $0.20 listing fee per item sold, 6.5% transaction fee on the item plus shipping charged, and 3% + $0.25 US payment processing on the total including tax. On a $30 item with $5 shipping charged, that's $3.73 off the top — about 10.7% of the order. If the sale came through an Offsite Ad, add another 12–15% of the order total and watch the margin collapse in the result above — that one toggle is the cheapest stress test in e-commerce, and it's why profitable-on-paper products die in ad reports.

The cost layer (what you spend)

Materials and time are obvious; the killers are the quiet ones: postage you pay (versus what you charged), packaging, and the listing fee's renewal cadence on slow movers ($0.20 every four months adds up across a big catalog). The calculator's cost fields are where honest materials and shipping your margin estimate stays honest. A useful habit: price every new listing with a 5% cost buffer for the materials you forgot to count — labels, boxes, tissue, the tape you never think about.

Pricing backwards from a target margin

The cleanest Etsy pricing habit: pick the margin you need (handmade sellers typically aim for 40–60% after everything), then solve for price instead of guessing. With $12 of combined costs and a 50% target, the math lands near $29.70 — and any Offsite Ads attribution pulls that price up by another few dollars. The FAQ below has the formula; the calculator verifies it against the live fee schedule instantly.

Worked example: the $45 candle

A candle sells at $45 with $6 shipping charged; wax, vessel, and wick cost $9; the label costs you $5. Etsy takes $0.20 (listing) + 6.5% of $51 ($3.32) + 3% + $0.25 of the total ($1.78) — $5.30 in fees. Profit: $51.00 − $5.30 − $9.00 − $5.00 = $31.70, a 62% margin. Now flip on the Offsite Ads toggle: another 15% of $51 ($7.65) drops profit to $24.05 (47%) — still fine. If your margin only works with ads off, the product is fragile; the toggle makes that visible in one click.

When "profitable" isn't

A sale that looks 45% margin at your desk can be 15% after an Offsite Ad and negative after a refund. Run three scenarios on any hero product: organic sale, ad-attributed sale, and worst-case (ad + partial refund). If only the organic case works, the product isn't profitable — it's lucky. The Offsite Ads toggle exists precisely for that stress test.

Etsy profit vs other platforms

The same item's profit swings hard across platforms because fees do. On a $30 sale with $12 of costs, Etsy leaves roughly $14.27 profit; Depop closer to $16.50; Poshmark $11.00. The strip under your result reprices the whole chain everywhere else — and the all-platform comparator runs all ten at once. And because profit depends on your costs, not just fees, bring your real cost numbers — a platform that wins on fees can still lose on what your item costs to ship.