Etsy Profit Calculator
Calculate real profit margins for selling 3D prints on Etsy — fees, shipping, materials, discounts and returns, all in one place. Switch between dollars and pesos and everything recomputes.
Product pricing
What you charge and how many you sell.
Production costs
What you actually pay to make one unit.
Shipping
What buyers pay vs what the carrier charges you.
Etsy fees
- Listing fee$0.20
- Transaction fee (6.5%)$1.63
- Shipping transaction fee (6.5% of ship)$0.00
- Payment processing (3% + $0.25)$1.00
- Total Etsy fees$2.83
Optional fees & adjustments
Offsite Ads
Etsy ads on Google, Facebook, Instagram (15% of attributed orders)
Etsy Plus subscription
$10.00/mo — listing credits, custom URL
Return rate
Refunds eat production cost + listing fee
Three pricing rules for Etsy 3D-print shops
The ones that separate profitable shops from ones losing money on every order.
Aim for 50%+ margins
After every fee and cost, you should still keep at least half. Anything less and a single return or a botched print wipes out the order.
Factor in your time
Sanding, packing, photography — every minute counts. Watch your effective hourly rate. If it's under $15/hr, raise prices.
Offer free shipping
Etsy's algorithm boosts free-shipping listings. Set shipping to 0 and bake the cost into your price — most successful shops do.
Selling 3D prints on Etsy
What's the Offsite Ads fee?
Etsy runs ads for your listings on Google, Facebook, Instagram and more. When a buyer clicks one of those ads and purchases, Etsy takes an extra 15% (12% if your shop does over $10k/yr — at that point you're auto-enrolled and can't opt out). It only applies to attributed sales, not every sale.
What's the Regulatory Operating Fee?
A fee Etsy charges sellers in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and India to cover regulatory and compliance costs. Rates range from 0.25% to 1.1% of the total order. It's auto-applied when you pick those regions.
Should I include Etsy Plus in my fee math?
If you subscribe to Etsy Plus ($10/mo), yes — divide that across your monthly orders for a true per-unit cost. At 30 orders/mo it's only $0.33/unit; at 5 orders/mo it's $2/unit.
How does the return rate affect profit?
When a buyer returns an order you lose the sale revenue but already paid for production, packaging, the listing fee, and some unrecoverable payment processing. We approximate that as production cost plus 30% of the payment fee per returned unit.
How does the peso conversion work?
Pick PHP as your currency and set the exchange rate (₱ per $1). All inputs are then treated as pesos and Etsy's fixed fees — listing fee, payment processing fixed fee, Etsy Plus — are converted from dollars automatically. The profit card also shows the dollar equivalent.