Facebook Marketplace fee calculator

Rates verified 2026-10-24 against the official pages: Facebook Help Center: Get paid for selling with shipping on Marketplace (10%, $0.80 minimum, on item + shipping + sales tax; no fee on local pickup) · Facebook Help Center: About shipping on Facebook Marketplace. If a rate changes upstream, we update the constant and this date together. Estimates, not tax or accounting advice.

One line, and only on orders with shipping and checkout. Meta's help on selling with shipping says a selling fee of 10%, with a minimum of $0.80 per order, is deducted from your payout, and that the fee is based on the total of the item price, the shipping cost and the sales tax. The same page says the fee helps cover payment processing, customer support and Purchase Protection, so no separate processing line sits on top of it.

Listing an item costs $0.00, and Meta's help on fees names no other charge on a sale. Leave the tax box at zero and you keep 90% of the price and the shipping, before the label and what the item cost you. With tax entered, the fee rises a little and your share of the price and shipping falls by the same amount.

Meta's own example on its fee page: an item at $20 with $5 of shipping and $1 of sales tax pays 10% of $26, which is $2.60. The dollar of tax is the buyer's payment toward sales tax, not part of your price, yet the fee is charged on it as well. The effect on one order is small, a tenth of the tax, but a calculator that leaves tax out will not match what Facebook deducts.

So this calculator has a box for the sales tax rate your buyer pays. Leave it at zero and the fee is 10% of the price and the shipping. Enter the rate where your buyer lives and the fee grows by a tenth of the tax, while your revenue stays the price and the shipping. Rates differ by state and often by city, so use the one shown at checkout on a recent order if you have one.

When the price, shipping and tax together come to less than $8.00, a tenth of them is less than $0.80, so the minimum applies instead. A $5 item shipped free pays $0.80, which is 16% of its price. Orders that small are rare once shipping is charged, because the shipping alone usually lifts the total past $8.00, but cheap items shipped free can sit under it.

Meta's help sets the minimum per order, not per item. Several small things sold to one buyer in one order pay one fee on their total, so a seller of low-priced items keeps more by grouping them than by shipping each on its own.

Meta's help says there is no selling fee for items that are picked up locally, or where the buyer pays the seller without using shipping and checkout. Tick the box above and the fee becomes $0.00: what you keep is the price, less what the item cost you. This is the Marketplace most local sellers know, where furniture, tools and anything too bulky to post changes hands at the door.

The fee is what pays for processing, customer support and Purchase Protection on a checkout order, Meta's help says. A payment made in person happens outside checkout. Agree how the buyer will pay before you meet, and count the cash or check the transfer before the item leaves your hands.

Meta's help on shipping says some shipping features are not available to all eligible sellers, and its help on labels says prepaid shipping labels are offered to select sellers. So before you price a shipped sale, check that your listing form offers shipping at all. If it does not, every sale you make on Marketplace is a local one, and the fee is $0.00.

When you do ship, the shipping you charge sits inside the fee base, so the calculator asks for it, and the real label goes in your costs. Charging less for shipping than the label costs moves money from your side of the sale to the buyer's, and the fee is still worked out on what the buyer paid, not on what the label cost you.

The waterfall above runs the reference sale used across all 19 calculators: a $40 item, $6 of shipping charged and $12 of materials, shipped through checkout with no sales tax entered. Facebook takes 10% of the $46, the rest reaches your payout, and the materials come off after that. Like every row on the hub, it leaves the label at zero so the rows stay comparable.

Sell the same item to a buyer who collects it and pays in person and you keep all $40, or $28 after the materials, because there is no fee and no shipping. The gap between the two, the fee plus the label, is what it costs to reach buyers beyond driving distance.

With the fee set, the listing is what you control. Meta's help on finding items says buyers type what they want or browse by category, then sort by Suggested, Distance or Date listed. So the title has to hold the words a buyer types, and the category has to be the right one. Meta publishes no title length for a personal listing: Facebook's listing form stops it at 99 characters, which we read in the form on 24 October 2026 in an account outside the US.

Meta's help on selling asks for a detailed description of the item and its condition and for several original photos. Price against what the same item is listed for near you, since a buyer sorting by distance sees your listing beside the local ones.

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.