Etsy fees UK sellers pay are not one number. There are several, charged at different points, and they add up faster than most people expect. Here is each fee and a worked example, so you can price with your real costs in mind.
The main Etsy fees
- Listing fee: $0.20 (about £0.15) each time you list an item.
- Transaction fee: 6.5% of the sale price plus any postage you charge.
- Payment processing fee: 4% plus £0.20 per order.
- Regulatory operating fee: reports say 0.48% of the sale. Check your own statement to confirm the current rate.
- Offsite Ads: an extra fee only when a sale comes from an Etsy-run ad. Check Etsy’s current terms.
Worked example
You sell an item for £20 and charge £3 postage, so the buyer pays £23. Not counting Offsite Ads or the regulatory fee:
- Transaction fee, 6.5% of £23: £1.50
- Payment processing, 4% of £23 plus £0.20: £1.12
- Listing fee: £0.15
- Total: about £2.77, which is 12% of what the buyer paid.
Add the 0.48% regulatory fee and it is about £0.11 more. Then take off the item cost, packaging and postage you pay to see your real profit.
Price with the fees in mind
Work backwards from the profit you want, not forwards from the item cost. Our free Etsy fee calculator does the sums on a single sale, and the Etsy Seller Profit Tracker keeps a log of every sale.
Selling on Etsy can also mean telling HMRC. Our guide to Etsy tax in the UK explains when, and allowable expenses for online sellers lists the costs you can claim.
Etsy changes its fees from time to time, so treat these figures as estimates. Rates checked on 5 November 2026. This is not tax or financial advice.
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