Etsy Profit Calculator for 3D Prints
Every Etsy fee on your sale — including the ones charged on shipping and tax — and the price that leaves the profit you want.
A $26 printed planter with $6 shipping leaves you about $12.52 on Etsy once the listing, transaction and processing fees, the postage label and the make cost are paid. If an Offsite Ad brought the buyer, it leaves $7.72. The receipt below shows every line for your own sale. Tell it the profit you want and it gives you the price to list at.
Did an Offsite Ad bring this sale?
12% applies once a shop passes $10,000 in a year. Capped at $100 an order.
Run it backwards
So list it at
$23.21
One Etsy sale
Planter, medium
Item$26.00
Shipping$6.00
Tax 7% (to the state)$2.24
Listing fee−$0.20
Transaction 6.5%−$2.08
Processing 3% + 25¢−$1.28
Postage label−$5.96
Made, checked, packed−$9.96
You keep$12.52
48% of the item price
The line people miss
Etsy takes its percentage of your shipping, too.
Etsy’s own policyThe transaction fee is 6.5% of the price plus shipping. Processing is 3% + 25¢ of the whole order, sales tax included.
Every Etsy fee on a 3D-print sale
- Listing fee
- $0.20 for each item listed, and again each time one sells.
- Transaction fee
- 6.5% of the item price plus whatever you charge for shipping and gift wrap.
- Payment processing
- In the US, 3% + $0.25 of the gross order, which Etsy defines as including shipping and tax.
- Offsite Ads
- 15% of price plus shipping on an order that came from one of Etsy’s ads elsewhere, capped at $100. It drops to 12%, and becomes mandatory, once a shop passes $10,000 of sales in a year. Below that you can opt out.
- What is not here
- Etsy Ads you choose to run on Etsy itself, currency conversion, and the optional Share & Save refund. Add them if you use them.
Fees are from Etsy’s Fees & Payments Policy (last updated 13 February 2026) and Etsy Payments Policy. Etsy changes them from time to time, so check the policy before you set prices for a year.
Price from the profit, not from the cost
Most sellers add a margin to the make cost and hope. The receipt works the other way: name what you want to keep from each sale, and it solves for the price that leaves exactly that after every fee and cost. Try it with the Offsite Ads switch on. A price that works for a normal sale can leave very little on an ad-driven one, and the few dollars between the two is the gap to decide on before those sales arrive, not after.
What the make-cost line pays for
The make cost on the receipt is the whole job, not just a print. It covers the material and machine time on our production printers, a person checking the part, a remake on our time if it fails, and packing with your shop’s name on the slip and nothing of ours inside. If the product has magnets, inserts or several parts, choose assembly and we fit and assemble them for $1 a part; the hardware adds its own price. Etsy counts an original design made by a production partner as your product, as long as the listing says so. See the rules, quoted. The make cost of any everyday product is in our Make-Cost Index.
FAQ
A $0.20 listing fee, 6.5% of the price plus shipping, and in the US 3% + $0.25 of the whole order including shipping and tax. On a $26 item with $6 shipping and 7% tax, that is $3.56. If an Offsite Ad brought the sale, add 15% (or 12% for larger shops) of price plus shipping, capped at $100.
Yes. The 6.5% transaction fee and the payment processing fee both apply to what you charge for shipping, and processing also applies to the sales tax Etsy collects.
Only while your shop has made under $10,000 in the past 365 days. Once it passes that, Offsite Ads are mandatory at 12% for the lifetime of the shop.
Start from the profit you want per sale and work backwards through the fees, the postage and the make cost. The calculator above does it for you, and shows how much an Offsite Ads sale changes it.
The last line on the receipt is ours to make.
Printed, checked, assembled if you ask, and packed under your shop’s name. Etsy is one of eleven storefronts the same product can sell on.
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