1 July 2026
Etsy Fees in Europe (2026): Complete Seller Fee Breakdown
Ever looked at an Etsy payout and wondered where a third of your sale price went? You’re not the first. If you’re selling from Europe, local VAT rules can affect the fees Etsy charges. The treatment depends on your business status and location, and whether you’ve submitted a VAT ID to Etsy.
So here’s the breakdown, roughly in the order Etsy applies it.
1. Listing fee
A small flat fee per listing, charged in USD and converted to your currency. The applicable VAT treatment depends on your business status, location and whether you’ve submitted a VAT ID to Etsy.
2. Transaction fee
6.5% of your order total. Note that’s item price plus shipping plus gift wrapping, not just the item — a lot of sellers forget shipping counts toward this and wonder why the number doesn’t match what they expected.
3. Payment processing fee
A percentage plus a small fixed amount per transaction. Etsy publishes one rate for each payment-account country; the buyer’s location does not select a higher processing tier. Marketplace-collected buyer tax can still increase the amount on which this fee is calculated, so foreign orders may differ by a few cents if that tax is not included in your estimate.
4. Regulatory operating fee (some countries only)
Need the country list, current rates and VAT treatment? Read our full Etsy Regulatory Operating Fee guide.
A few markets — the UK and France, for instance — have an extra Etsy fee that doesn’t exist elsewhere, meant to cover local e-commerce and consumer-protection compliance. If you’re in one of those countries, it stacks on top of everything else. Your country’s exact rate is on the calculator.
5. VAT on Etsy fees
Etsy’s VAT treatment on seller fees depends on your business status and location. For EU shops outside Ireland, Etsy says that if you have not submitted a VAT ID, applicable fee VAT appears in your Payment account and monthly VAT invoice. If you have submitted one, Etsy says it will not charge VAT on seller fees and will issue a monthly confirmation invoice. Ireland is an exception: Etsy says it charges VAT on applicable fees there regardless of VAT ID. Check Etsy’s VAT-on-seller-fees guidance and our guide to VAT on Etsy seller fees. Any VAT reporting you need to do depends on your own situation.
6. Offsite Ads (conditional)
Etsy sometimes advertises your listings elsewhere — Google, social platforms, that sort of thing. Cross roughly $10,000 in trailing-12-month sales and participation becomes mandatory, but at a lower rate (12%). Below that threshold it’s optional, at a higher 15%, and you can turn it off entirely if you want.
7. Currency conversion fee (conditional)
List in one currency, get paid out in another, and Etsy takes roughly 2.5% for the conversion. Easy to miss because it never shows up on the listing itself, only on the payout.
What this looks like on a real order
In an anonymized domestic order for one physical item, the buyer paid €28.99 with no shipping or sales tax. Etsy showed €25.65 in seller earnings after a €1.88 transaction fee and €1.46 payment processing fee. A separate €0.18 listing renewal left €25.47 before the seller’s own costs. This order-level view does not include any monthly VAT on seller fees, materials or postage paid by the seller. See the full breakdown in our payout statement guide.
The exact numbers vary with your country, business status, buyer location and whether Offsite Ads is involved. Plug your numbers into the Etsy fee calculator for EU sellers above and compare the estimate with your Payment account and monthly VAT invoice.
This article covers Etsy’s general fee structure for informational purposes. Fees change over time — check the calculator for current rates, sourced and dated in our public verification log.
Want your own numbers? Try the free Etsy fee calculator — it applies everything in this article automatically.