How is this different from the eBay fee calculator?

The fee calculator answers what eBay keeps and what reaches your account. This one carries on: what the item cost you, the label you bought, the packaging, the ad spend and the returns you should expect. One ends at the payout, the other at the profit.

What return rate should I use?

Your own, from your own history, by category. A 6% provision on this sale is $20.10 set aside; guessing low here is the most common way an eBay month comes in under plan.

Do promoted listings come out of the same money?

Yes — the ad rate is charged on the sale, so it stacks on top of the selling fee. On the turntable that is another $15.50, and it is the field most worth experimenting with before accepting a thinner margin.

eBay profit calculator

Ship a turntable for $310.00 with $24.95 of postage charged, pay the 13% fee, put 5% behind promoted listings and set aside 6% for returns: $76.80 is left. Getting that sale out of the door cost $258.15, so the margin is 22.93% and the return on the money laid out 43.01% — and below $208.94 the sale is not worth making.

Profit$10.78

Threshold: This sale stops earning at a price of $12.60. You are $12.39 above it. Right now the sale leaves $10.78.

Profit per unit: $10.78
Margin: 35.97 %
Return on what you laid out: 75.40 %
Costs: $19.20
Revenue excluding VAT: $29.98
Break-even price: $12.60

Where the money goes

Marketplace fees: $3.50
Payment fee: $1.40
Goods: $9.50
Shipping: $4.20
Packaging: $0.60

The rates are yours to enter: this site publishes no marketplace tariff. Take them from your own invoice.

How the number is worked out

“Profit” and “payout” are different questions, and the gap between them is where most eBay sellers lose the argument with themselves.

What the calculator does

It starts where the fee calculator ends — with what eBay leaves you — and then subtracts everything eBay never sees: the item, the shipping label, the packaging, the promoted-listing spend and a provision for returns. The result is the profit on one sale, with every cost line shown separately.

The threshold it adds

The turntable stops earning below $208.94. That is the number an offer should be measured against, not the sale price: on this item the label, the ads and the return provision already take a large part of the difference.

What it will not do

It will not fill in the fee for you. The category percentage, the promoted rate and the return rate are yours, and they are exactly the three numbers that differ most between sellers on the same platform.

Worked example

A vintage turntable at $310.00 with $24.95 of shipping charged, a 13% fee, 5% promoted listings and a 6% return rate on this category.

Profit$76.80

Threshold: This sale stops earning at a price of $208.94. You are $101.06 above it. Right now the sale leaves $76.81.

Profit per unit: $76.80
Margin: 22.93 %
Return on what you laid out: 43.01 %
Costs: $258.15
Revenue excluding VAT: $334.95
Break-even price: $208.94

Marketplace fees: $43.95
Promoted listings: $15.50
Returns: $20.10
Goods: $145.00
Shipping: $28.40
Packaging: $3.20
Other costs: $2.00

Open this case in the calculator

Worked out by Markupo with the same engine as the calculator above.

What is different in the United States

An American eBay seller has no separate payment fee to subtract, because managed payments fold it into the selling percentage — so the two lines that decide this page are the ones eBay does not charge: the label and the promoted listing. On a heavy, fragile item like a turntable the label is the largest single cost after the goods themselves, and a promoted rate chosen in a hurry is the quiet one.

Questions sellers ask

How is this different from the eBay fee calculator?: The fee calculator answers what eBay keeps and what reaches your account. This one carries on: what the item cost you, the label you bought, the packaging, the ad spend and the returns you should expect. One ends at the payout, the other at the profit.
What return rate should I use?: Your own, from your own history, by category. A 6% provision on this sale is $20.10 set aside; guessing low here is the most common way an eBay month comes in under plan.
Do promoted listings come out of the same money?: Yes — the ad rate is charged on the sale, so it stacks on top of the selling fee. On the turntable that is another $15.50, and it is the field most worth experimenting with before accepting a thinner margin.

Last updated: 2026-09-20 · Sources: eBay — selling fees (official) (2026-09-20)

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The percentages in the calculator are your own numbers, not a published tariff. Fees differ by category, by store subscription and by promotion, so take them from your last payout statement and type them in; the tool does the arithmetic on what you enter. This site publishes what your own inputs produce — one number, one band, one threshold — and never reproduces a marketplace's or a carrier's fee table.