eBay Seller Fees Calculator

This eBay seller fees calculator helps you see how much eBay keeps in selling fees and how much you actually take home on each order. It combines final value fees and payment fees into one simple model, so you can quickly estimate net proceeds, check margins, and stop underpricing your listings. It is useful for casual sellers, side hustlers, and high-volume eBay businesses that want a fast, neutral way to test prices before they list.

1. Start with what the buyer pays (item price + shipping)

In the first field, enter the total amount the buyer pays in USD. For most eBay categories this is what eBay uses as the basis for final value fees, so it makes sense to treat it as one combined number: item price plus any shipping you charge. The calculator then estimates the total eBay fees and your net proceeds after those fees.

2. Add your target net if you know how much profit you need

If you already know how much you want to keep after fees — for example, to cover product cost, packaging, and profit — use the “You want to keep after eBay fees” box. When you enter a target net, the tool works backwards and shows the minimum buyer charge required to hit that goal. This is handy when you are reverse-engineering prices from a specific margin or from wholesale cost.

3. Plug in an eBay fee rate that matches your situation

eBay fee tables vary by category, store subscription, and updates over time, but they typically fall in the low-to-mid-teens as a percentage of the sale plus a small per-order amount. Use the percentage fee input for your blended final value + payment rate and the fixed fee box for the per-order charge. You can keep the default values as a rough average, or overwrite them with the exact numbers from eBay’s fee pages for your category and store level.

4. Read the breakdown and sanity-check your margins

The results card highlights a headline number: either your net proceeds on the sale you entered or the minimum amount to charge to reach your target net. Under that, you get a clear breakdown: buyer pays, total eBay fees, net to you, and the effective fee rate as a percentage of the sale. This lets you see at a glance whether an item still makes sense after fees, especially for low-priced or heavy products where shipping eats into profit.

5. Use it when pricing, relisting, or testing promotions

Use this eBay fee calculator when you create new listings, send offers, switch from auction to Buy It Now, or experiment with promotions. Try different prices, fee percentages, and target nets to see how much room you have for coupon codes, volume discounts, or Promoted Listings. The Copy summary button generates a clean, text-only breakdown you can paste into notes, spreadsheets, or messages with partners and co-sellers.

Remember that this tool focuses on core selling fees only. It does not include category-specific thresholds, store subscription costs, optional upgrades, dispute fees, or tax obligations. Always confirm your actual costs in your eBay account and talk with an advisor or accountant before making bigger pricing or business decisions.

Under the hood, this calculator treats eBay selling costs as a combination of a percentage fee on the sale and a fixed fee per order. Let G be the total amount the buyer pays in USD on eBay (item price plus shipping), r be the percentage fee as a decimal (for example 0.1325 for 13.25%), and f be the fixed per-order fee in USD (for example 0.40).

The total selling fee is:

eBay fees = G × r + f

After those fees are taken, the amount that lands in your balance is:

Net proceeds = G − (G × r + f)

When you enter a target net amount instead of (or as well as) a sale price, the calculator rearranges the same relationship to solve for the total buyer charge. If N is the net you want to keep, the minimum amount the buyer must pay so that N remains after fees is:

Required charge = (N + f) ÷ (1 − r)

Finally, the effective fee rate shown in the breakdown is simply:

Effective fee % = eBay fees ÷ total sale × 100

That single number makes it easy to compare eBay to other marketplaces and payment processors on an apples-to-apples basis, or to see how adding shipping or raising your price changes the slice that fees take out of each order.

• eBay selling fees (official help page) – Detailed overview of how eBay calculates final value fees, per-order charges, and other selling costs.
• eBay Seller Center: Seller fees – High-level guide to insertion fees, store benefits, and how fees change with higher volume.