Bonanza fee calculator

Rates verified 2026-10-25 against the official pages: Bonanza Help Center: Bonanza Pricing (final value fee from 11% of the Final Offer Value, 1.5% above $4,000, $0.50 minimum, $0.25 per sale without a membership; read in a browser). If a rate changes upstream, we update the constant and this date together. Estimates, not tax or accounting advice.

Since 1 May 2025 the base is a final value fee of at least 11%, Bonanza's pricing article says, charged on the Final Offer Value of each sale. Sellers without an active membership also pay a flat transaction fee of $0.25 on every sale. A membership removes that line, and nothing else in the sums changes.

Two limits sit around the percentage. No sale pays a final value fee below $0.50, and on the part of a Final Offer Value above $4,000 the rate drops to a flat 1.5%. Everything else Bonanza charges, the set-up fee and the monthly listing fee, is not tied to a sale, so it is described further down and kept out of the calculator's sums.

Bonanza defines the Final Offer Value as what the buyer paid you for the item, plus any part of the shipping charge above $10.00. So a $15 item with $12 of shipping has a Final Offer Value of $17.00, Bonanza's own example: the item, and the $2 of shipping over the line.

For a seller this splits shipping in two. Up to $10.00, the shipping you charge reaches you without a fee on it. Above that, each extra dollar of shipping is charged at your rate like the price. The calculator shows the Final Offer Value it used under the result, so you can check the split on your own numbers. Charge what the parcel costs you to send, since the buyer sees the shipping beside the price.

Bonanza's advertising is opt-in, and it changes the fee rather than adding a separate bill. Its pricing article puts advertising fees at 11% to 30% of the Final Offer Value, depending on the options you choose, and the advertising percentage you select takes the place of the base rate. That is why the calculator has a rate box instead of a fixed number.

Leave the box at 11% if you never opted in. If you did, enter the level you chose and the calculator applies it to the Final Offer Value up to $4,000. One more rule changes the effective cost without changing the bill: a sale you drive through your own referral link earns 100% of its final value fee back, paid as Bonanza Ads credit rather than cash. The calculator leaves that credit out, because it can only be spent on Bonanza's advertising.

On an expensive item the rate falls away. Bonanza's own example is a $5,000 sale: 11% of the first $4,000 is $440, 1.5% of the remaining $1,000 is $15, and the fee is $455.00. Without a membership the sale also pays $0.25, which barely moves a sale that size.

At the other end the floor takes over. A final value fee of 11% reaches $0.50 only at a Final Offer Value of about $4.55, so anything cheaper pays the floor, plus $0.25 without a membership. Type a $3 item with no shipping and the calculator shows the floor line instead of the percentage. Sellers of very cheap items keep more by selling them in lots than one by one.

Two charges are not per sale, so the calculator lists them under the result and leaves them out of the sums. A new seller who opens a booth pays a one-time set-up fee of $14.99. Booths with more than 50 active listings pay $0.03 a month for each listing above that count, at most $20.00 a month, and a booth that reaches the cap gets a $5 Bonanza Ads credit back.

At $0.03 a listing the cap is reached at about 667 listings above the free 50, so a large booth pays the cap every month, while a seller with a few dozen items pays nothing to list. Divide the monthly amount by the sales you make in a month to see what it adds to each one.

The waterfall above runs the reference sale used across all 19 calculators: a $40 item, $6 of shipping charged and $12 of materials, sold by a seller without a membership at the base rate. The $6 of shipping is under $10.00, so the Final Offer Value is the $40 alone, and Bonanza takes 11% of it plus $0.25. Like every row on the hub, it leaves the label at zero so the rows stay comparable.

Put the same sale through eBay and its final value fee of 13.6% is charged on the whole $46, shipping included, with a per-order fee of $0.40 on top. The gap between the two rows is the difference in rate plus the shipping Bonanza leaves out. Open the eBay calculator to compare on your own numbers.

With the fee worked out, the listing is the part you control. Bonanza's listing API caps the title at 80 characters and has no tags field, so the title carries the words a buyer types. Its documented search reads titles by default, and its item traits, label and value pairs such as Brand or Condition, can be used to narrow a search. Bonanza says specifying them brings more traffic, on Bonanza and from search engines.

Set the category yourself rather than leaving it to Bonanza's guesser, since the category decides which item traits you are offered. Then price against what the same item sells for elsewhere, with the fee from this page already taken out.

The fee is the marketplace's decision and it does not move. What the listing says is yours, and that is the part this site was built to write.