Guides
Worked numbers, no jargon, and the searched question answered on the page — not teased. Start with the fee walk if you have never seen your whole statement explained.
Every Etsy fee for 2026 explained in plain words, with a $30 sale walked through line by line so you can see what you actually kept.
How much Etsy actually takes from a sale at $20, $50 and $100, what changes the percentage, and why any single percentage answer is only half true.
The Etsy transaction fee is 6.5 percent, but it is charged on shipping and gift wrap too — here is what it covers, what it does not, and where to find it.
Etsy's payment processing fee is charged per order, on the full total including sales tax — here are the rates by country and why the shape of the fee matters.
What Etsy's regulatory operating fee is, why it exists, the full rate table by country including the 22 June 2026 changes, and how it shows up on a sale.
How Etsy's Offsite Ads fee works — 15 percent or 12 percent, the 30-day window, the $100 cap, when you can opt out and the honest math of doing it.
UK sellers pay a different fee stack: 4% + 20p processing, a 0.48% regulatory fee, and VAT on Etsy's fees if you are not VAT-registered. One £30 sale walked through, line by line.
An Etsy profit calculator that only knows fees lies by omission. What a real one must count — materials at true cost, every fee, per product — and where spreadsheets break.
How to price handmade items so you actually keep what you planned — margin versus markup, a formula with worked numbers, and why ad sales break prices set for ordinary sales.
Why a fee calculator for one sale cannot tell you which products make money — fees are per order, statements come by month, and materials live outside Etsy entirely.
What counts as cost of goods sold for a maker — the materials in the piece — what does not count, and how weighted-average costing works with a real example.
Where an Etsy maker's numbers go on Schedule C Part III — inventory, purchases, materials and ending inventory — and what to hand your tax preparer in January.
Leaving Craftybase — now Stocksmith — for another tool? The checklist that matters: fee itemization, per-product profit, a tax worksheet, buy-once versus renting, and where your data lives.