Folksy fee calculator

Rates verified 2026-10-25 against the official pages: Folksy help: How much does it cost to sell on Folksy? (6% + VAT on the item price, not postage; £0.15 + VAT per listed unit; Stripe and PayPal rates as quoted) · Folksy Fees and Subscription Policy (Folksy Plus £7.50 a month or £75 a year). If a rate changes upstream, we update the constant and this date together. Estimates, not tax or accounting advice.

Three lines at most. Folksy's help on costs says it charges 6% + VAT sales commission on the selling price of every item, and that commission is not charged on postage. On a Basic account it adds a listing fee of £0.15 + VAT per unit of quantity, with the first three listings free when you join. Then the buyer's payment goes through Stripe or PayPal, and the provider takes its own processing fee from what you receive.

VAT is part of every Folksy fee, not an extra that only some sellers pay: Folksy's help says 20% VAT is added to the subtotal of your listing and selling fees. That is why the commission works out at 7.2% of the item price and the listing fee at £0.18. Folksy bills its fees once a month for the month before, and a bill under £2 rolls into the next month.

Folksy works one sale through on its help page: an item at £10 with £2.50 of postage. The commission is 6% of the £10 with VAT on top, which is £0.72, and the £2.50 of postage adds nothing to it. The calculator above reproduces that number exactly, which is the check that the rate it uses is Folksy's and not a rounding of it.

So on Folksy where the money sits changes the commission. Free postage folded into a higher item price pays commission on the postage too, while the same total split into a lower price and separate postage does not. The payment processor is different: Stripe and PayPal take their percentage of everything the buyer pays, postage included, so the postage you charge still shows up in the processing line.

Folksy's help counts the listing fee per item quantity: list ten of the same mug on a Basic account and you pay for ten, £1.80 with VAT, when the listing goes live. A listing lasts 120 days unless it sells out first, and re-listing it, which Folksy allows at most once a day, is charged again on Basic.

The calculator treats the listing fee as £0.18 per unit sold, because every unit you sell was paid for when you listed it. Units that never sell are a cost the per-sale breakdown can't show: a listing of twenty that sells five has cost you fifteen fees with nothing to set them against. On Basic, list the quantity you expect to sell within the listing's life, not your whole stock.

Folksy Plus costs £7.50 a month or £75 a year, and Folksy's help says it gives unlimited listings and free re-listing. The commission stays the same 6% + VAT, so the only fee Plus removes is the listing fee. On the listing fee alone, the monthly plan pays for itself at 42 listed units a month, and the yearly plan at 417 units a year, re-lists counted. That is our arithmetic from Folksy's prices, not a number Folksy publishes.

A shop that lists a few one-off pieces a month pays less on Basic. A shop with a deep catalogue, several units of each item, or the habit of re-listing often crosses the line quickly. Plus also lifts the photo limit from 5 to 10 a listing and adds listing video, and Folksy's Etsy import is free for Plus sellers, so a seller moving a whole Etsy shop across has a reason to pay for at least the month of the move.

Buyers pay through Stripe or PayPal, and Folksy's help quotes their rates as accurate at the time of writing: through Stripe, 1.5% + 20p for a standard UK card, 1.9% + 20p for a premium UK card, 2.5% + 20p for a card from the EEA and 3.25% + 20p for an international card. Through PayPal, 2.9% + 30p of the amount you receive. These are the providers' prices, not Folksy's, so they can change without Folksy's page changing. Check the current rate in your Stripe or PayPal account before you rely on one.

The calculator offers the two rates most UK sales meet, a standard UK card through Stripe and PayPal, and applies them to the item and the postage together, since the provider takes its cut of the whole payment. On the same sale PayPal costs more than a standard UK card through Stripe, and the gap grows with the price. If most of your buyers pay with premium or overseas cards, add the difference to your costs by hand.

The waterfall above runs the reference sale used across all 19 calculators, read in pounds for Folksy: a £40 item, £6 of postage charged and £12 of materials, on a Basic account, one unit listed, paid by a standard UK card through Stripe. The commission is worked out on the £40 alone, the listing fee is one unit's £0.18, and Stripe takes its share of the whole £46. Like every row on the hub, it leaves the postage label at zero so the rows stay comparable.

Switch the same sale to Folksy Plus and the listing fee drops to nothing, with the subscription paid separately each month. Switch it to PayPal and the processing line grows. What does not move with either switch is the commission, which only the item price changes.

With the fee set, the listing is what you control. Folksy's help says the title has the highest weighting in its search, and it can be up to 80 characters with the most important words first: what it is, its colour and material, its style and the occasion it suits. A listing takes 15 tags, all of them together inside 255 characters, and Folksy says search engines read mostly the first 40 to 50 words of the description.

Folksy also asks for descriptions that are unique to Folksy, not pasted from another marketplace. A seller who lists the same item on Etsy saves time with one text and loses the search it was meant to win, which is the gap Sellura closes by writing each marketplace's version separately.

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.