Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and
today I'm going to tell you all about Etsy fees. Now if you found your way to this video, you
probably are looking at starting an Etsy shop, but you want to know how much it's going to cost
you...and this will not include advertising fees. I might cover that in a later video though. And
I also want to say that if you are planning to start a shop, I have a link in my description
where you can get 40 free listings from Etsy, and I will also get 40 free listings! So it's
great for you, and it's great for me too! All right, let's get started. Okay, so generally
speaking, for most of us in 2020, Etsy charges, #1, a listing fee of 20 cents. So when you list a
new item, you're automatically charged 20 cents. And by the way, this is not my listing. So this 20
cent fee is before anyone buys it, and it's good for four months, or until somebody buys the item.
So if the listing sits there for four months, and no one buys it, it will expire. And then if you
want to relist it, you can have Etsy automatically do that, or you can do it manually, but either
way, Etsy is going to want another 20 cents. Now, if your item sells, and you list another -
you have the exact same item or just another item in general - you're going to be charged another
20 cents. So you can have, say, a PDF of something you're selling, you can have your quantity set to
like 100. But every time it sells, you're going to be charged 20 cents when you relist it. And
so your stock, for example, would go to 99, and you'd be charged another 20 cents. There are also
fees called Auto Renew and Multi Quantity fees. But those are actually just listing fees. So Auto
Renew is when you set a listing to auto-renew if it expires, and that means you're going to
be charged that 20 cent fee, like I mentioned earlier. Multi Quantity is the same thing. So
let's say somebody buys three of the exact same hairbow. For example, Etsy sees that as three
renewed listings. It's all the same concept but with different names. So just know that if
you list something, you'll be charged 20 cents and that fee is once per listing or per quantity
every four months or until it sells. You're not going to be charged 20 cents three times for
the same single item or anything like that. The second fee is a transaction fee. This one
comes only when you sell something, and it's 5% on the cost the customer paid + the shipping.
If you have a sale going on in your store for 1/2 off, say, you'll only get charged
5% of what the customer paid in total, not the price before sale and coupon.
The third fee is the Etsy Payments fee. This fee comes from using Etsy Payments system,
which is called Etsy Payments. If you're in the list of countries that accepts Etsy Payments, you
HAVE to have Etsy payments as an option in your shop. Here are the countries eligible for Etsy
payments. It is a lot of countries. So there's a really good chance that you will probably have
this fee, and you CANNOT opt out of Etsy payments. If you're not, there are some other payment
options available for you, and you won't have to pay this fee. But in the USA, the fee
for using Etsy payments is 25 cents plus 3%. The percentage is based on what your buyer paid,
so it includes shipping. Okay, let's look at a couple of examples. Let's say I live in the
USA and I want to sell some agate earrings. By the way, all the listings that you're seeing in
this video are just ones that I happened upon, I don't know the sellers or anything like that. I'm
going to fill out my listing, and I'll put my sale price at $45.20 with free shipping. Now once I hit
Publish, when I'm in the back end creating this listing, I'll be charged 20 cents right off the
bat. Now let's say this sits out there for a week, and then someone buys it. So here's the fee
breakdown. I'm including that original listing fee, even though I've already paid it, because
I want to include all the fees for this listing. So we'll have $45.20, which is the total +
shipping, we'll have our listing fee of 20 cents, the transaction fee of $2.24 which is the 5%,
and then $1.60 which is the Etsy payments fee. So for this $45.20 listing, I will get
$41.16. So Etsy takes about $4 in this case. Now normally whatever your shipping comes
to will be deducted from your profit. But in the first example we don't know what
that shipping would come to because the seller has decided to cover it. And taxes and VAT etc.
are not included here. But long story short, Etsy collects those for you, and sends them where
they need to go. So they're not something you have to worry about if you use Etsy Payments, which
probably at least 90% of you will. Now let's look at another item. This one does have a shipping
fee, and it's on sale right now for $12.12, you can see you're saving 30%, you're saving
$5 right off the top, and that's a sale that is being run by the store. Now this designer is only
offering free shipping when you spend $35 or more. And let's say we don't want to do that, so
we're going to be paying the shipping fee. I've already figured out what that is, and it's
$3.31. For this shirt, the total plus shipping is $15.43. We've got a listing fee of 20 cents, the
transaction fee of 5%, which is 77 cents, that 5% is coming from the total + the shipping, so that's
$15.43. There is also an Etsy payments fee of 3% plus the 25 cents, and that is 71 cents. So
the amount that the person will get is $13.75. So basically, although it seems like there are
a lot of Etsy fees, they don't really come to a lot of the total. And if you do find that
you're not making enough profit with Etsy, you need to just increase your prices. And that
might not sound like something you really want to do, but you do need to make a profit on
the site, otherwise, it's just not worth it. So that is a rundown of all of the fees that
Etsy has and charges us sellers. All right, that's my video for this week. If you liked
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