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Etsy 3D print pricing: price for the fees, not around them

Etsy takes several separate fees from every sale. Each is small. Together, on a low-priced print, they can be the largest cost after your own time. This guide lists them with sources, then shows how to build them into the price.

Published 11 November 2026 · fee figures checked against Etsy's own policy pages on 11 November 2026 · by Spool & Margin

What Etsy charges

Sources: Etsy's Fees & Payments Policy (marked "last updated 5 October 2026" when we read it) and Etsy Payments Policy (marked "last updated 31 July 2026").

A few payment processing rates from the same Etsy Payments Policy table, to show how much the country matters:

• United States: 3% + $0.25
• United Kingdom: 4% + £0.20
• Eurozone countries listed in the policy (for example France, the Netherlands, Austria): 4% + €0.30
• Canada: 3% + 0.25 CAD for domestic orders and orders from the US, 4% + 0.25 CAD for other international orders
• Australia: 3% + 0.25 AUD domestic, 4% + 0.25 AUD international

Things the policies also describe that we do not put a number on here, because they vary by seller or we could not confirm the exact current figure: when a listing fee is charged again (renewals and additional quantities sold from one listing), a regulatory operating fee for sellers in certain countries, VAT on seller fees, optional Etsy Ads budgets, and subscription plans. Read the policy for the ones that apply to you and add them to your own fee settings.

About Offsite Ads

According to the Fees & Payments Policy, shops that have not reached $10,000 in sales over the past 365 days pay 15% on attributed orders and may opt out of the program. Shops that have reached that threshold pay 12% and are required to take part from then on, even if sales later fall back below it. You do not know in advance which orders will come from an ad, so it is a cost you plan for on average, not per order.

Turning that into three calculator fields

Any pricing calculator needs the fees in three parts: a percentage of the price, a fixed amount per order, and a fixed amount per item. For a seller with a United States bank account that is:

• Fee %: 9.5% (6.5% transaction + 3% payment processing)
• Fixed fee per order: $0.25 (the flat part of payment processing)
• Fee per item: $0.20 (the listing fee)

These are the defaults in our calculator and spreadsheets. For a UK bank account the same logic gives 10.5% and a £0.20 fixed fee, plus the $0.20 listing fee converted to pounds.

Two details make the real figure slightly higher than these fields suggest, and you should know about them even if you choose to ignore them:

• Shipping is in the fee base. If you charge the buyer $5.00 for shipping, the 9.5% applies to that too: another $0.48 that comes out of your side. Add it to "Packaging and extras", or price shipping to include it.
• Payment processing is charged on the gross amount including tax. When sales tax or VAT is collected on an order, the processing percentage applies to that part as well, even though the tax is not your revenue.

Why fees hit cheap prints hardest

The fixed fees do not shrink when the price does. Using three sample products from our free spreadsheet and the US figures above:

The headline rate is 9.5%. The effective rate on an $8 item is over 15%. Small 3D printed items are often priced in exactly this range, which is why a "roughly 10%" mental estimate regularly comes up short.

The price formula

The true cost is everything it takes to make and pack one item: material, machine wear, electricity, your hands-on time, a failure allowance and packaging. Our guide on how to price 3D prints goes through each layer.

Take the phone stand. Its true cost is $3.59 (45 g of PLA, a 2-hour print, 5 minutes of labor at $20 per hour, $0.60 of packaging). For a 40% margin after Etsy's fees:

At the sample listing price of $11.99, the stand earns $6.81 after $1.59 of fees, a margin of 56.8%. That is comfortably on target.

Why divide instead of adding 40% on top? Because the percentage fee is taken from the price. Adding 40% to $3.59 gives $5.03; after fees, that leaves $0.51, a margin of about 10%.

What an Offsite Ads order does to the margin

Add 15% of the order to the fees and recalculate:

The phone stand has enough room: even an ad order stays above the 40% target. The cable clips are on target for a normal order and drop to 27.6% on an ad order. Neither loses money, but a product priced right at its target has no cushion.

You have three reasonable ways to handle this:

1. Accept it as the cost of a sale you might not have had otherwise, as long as the ad-order profit is still positive.
2. Price for it everywhere. Enter 24.5% as the fee percentage (9.5% + 15%). The phone stand's price for a 40% margin becomes $11.99 in place of $8.99. Every non-ad order then earns more than the target.
3. Price for the average. If, say, one order in ten comes from an ad, add a tenth of the ad fee: 9.5% + 1.5% = 11%. Use the share you actually see in your shop's statements, not this illustration.

Shipping, free shipping and sales

• Free shipping is a cost. If you pay the postage, add it to "Packaging and extras" before calculating the price. The fees then apply to the higher item price, which the formula already handles.
• Charged shipping carries fees. As noted above, budget 9.5% of whatever you charge for shipping (US figures).
• Discounts come out of your margin, not Etsy's. A 20% sale on the $11.99 phone stand brings the price to $9.59 and the profit to $4.64. Run the sale price through the calculator before you schedule the sale. The fixed fees stay the same and the true cost does not move.
• Multi-item orders pay the flat per-order part of payment processing once, so the second item in an order is slightly more profitable than the first.

A five-minute routine for an Etsy listing

1. Open Etsy's fee pages and note your transaction percentage, your country's processing rate and flat fee, and the listing fee.
2. Enter them as fee %, fixed fee per order and fee per item.
3. Enter the product's grams, print time, hands-on minutes and packaging (plus postage if shipping is free).
4. Read the suggested price and the break-even price.
5. Type in the price you plan to list at, then test it again with the fee % raised by your Offsite Ads rate. If the result says LOSING MONEY, the price is too low for that product on Etsy.

For requests outside your listings, see our guide to pricing custom orders. If you also sell laser-engraved products, the same fee logic is used in how much to charge for laser engraving.

Questions

Etsy is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. Spool & Margin is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Etsy. Fee information is a summary for calculation purposes and may be out of date or not apply to your country; Etsy's own policy pages are the authority. Not tax or financial advice.