eBay Fee Estimate
Free eBay Fee Estimate calculator with clear step-by-step results.
About eBay Fee Estimate
eBay charges its final value fee on the total the buyer pays including shipping, which is the detail that surprises sellers who price postage separately. Fees are deducted from that combined figure, then your real shipping cost and item cost come off to give the profit actually left.
Formulas
Final value fee
Fee = (sold price + buyer-paid shipping) x fee rate + fixed per-order fee
Profit
Profit = payout - actual shipping cost - item cost
Worked example
With the default values below, eBay Fee Estimate returns Profit after fees, shipping and cost of $55.11. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Sold priceminimum 0.01 $
- 120 $
- Shipping paid by the buyerminimum 0 $
- 12 $
- Final value fee rateaccepts 0–30 %
- 13.25 %
- Fixed per-order feeminimum 0 $
- 0.4 $
- What shipping actually costs youminimum 0 $
- 14 $
- Cost of the itemminimum 0 $
- 45 $
Results
- Profit after fees, shipping and cost
- $55.11
- eBay final value fees
- $17.89
- Payout before your costs
- $114.11
- Shipping surplus or shortfall
- -$2.00
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Final value fee
- 3Profit
- 4Profit after fees, shipping and cost= $55.11
- 5eBay final value fees= $17.89
- 6Payout before your costs= $114.11
- 7Shipping surplus or shortfall= -$2.00
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 6 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
- eBay fee rates vary by category, store subscription level, seller performance and marketplace, and promoted-listing fees are additional. Verify against your current fee schedule.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
eBay fee rates vary by category, store subscription level, seller performance and marketplace, and promoted-listing fees are additional. Verify against your current fee schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does free shipping save on fees?
No. Whether postage is charged separately or built into the price, the fee applies to the total the buyer pays, so the fee is the same either way.
Why is my shipping surplus negative?
You are charging the buyer less than postage costs you. That is a valid strategy to win the sale, but the shortfall has to be priced into the item, not ignored.