The "order total" on your Etsy dashboard is not what lands in your bank account. Etsy charges a 6.5% transaction fee on the total sale price (including shipping), plus a separate $0.20 listing fee per item (charged again every time a listing renews or auto-renews), plus payment processing fees (typically around 3% + a small fixed fee, varying by country). Sellers who only mentally track the headline 6.5% number are consistently surprised by how much smaller their actual deposit is once listing renewals and processing costs stack on top.
Etsy's Shop Manager shows you an "order total," and it's easy to assume that number, minus roughly 6.5%, is what you keep. It isn't. A seller with $2,000 in monthly Etsy sales loses roughly $140 to the transaction fee alone — before listing fees, payment processing, and shipping or materials costs are even factored in.
Two costs that regularly blindside sellers aren't in this calculator at all, because they're conditional rather than automatic: Offsite Ads fees (12-15% on any sale Etsy attributes to one of its own ads on Google, Facebook, or Instagram — mandatory for shops over $10,000 in trailing annual sales, optional below that), and regulatory operating fees that some jurisdictions require Etsy to collect on top of everything else. Neither shows up until you're reconciling your Payment Account and see a deduction you don't recognize.
This tool is built for Etsy shop owners who want to know what a sale actually nets after the transaction fee, listing fees, and payment processing — not just the transaction fee everyone quotes.
Etsy's fee load looks different from Amazon Handmade's or Shopify's — the Platform Fees Comparison lays out a side-by-side. If you regularly ship internationally and get paid in a currency different from your bank account, the Currency Take-Home tool breaks down what conversion actually costs. To see exactly when your Etsy deposits land, check the Etsy Payout Calendar. To track take-home pay across all your shops and platforms automatically, our Income Tracker gives you a unified dashboard.