eBay fee calculator

The fee eBay DE charges when an item sells. It is a percentage of the total amount of the sale, set per category. The percentage is published per category and this page computes it from the stored rate-card row.

The total amount of the sale, which eBay DE defines as a single total rather than a list of parts - its rate card names the quantity and not the components of it. Postage is part of that base, so an item sold with postage charged separately pays a larger fee than the same item sold at the item price alone. The shipping price field above is what puts it in the base, and the breakdown shows the figure the rate was taken against.

Not on every category. eBay DE publishes two shapes, and the published schedule below says which one each category uses: one rate at every price, and a rate per price portion where each band's rate applies only to the part of the sale inside it. The difference is not small on a high-value item, which is why the shape is read from the rate card rather than assumed.

No. A eBay Shop subscription is charged whether or not any particular unit sells, so dividing it into one unit would mean guessing how many units you sell. It is reported separately under the breakdown as an account-level cost, with the figure eBay DE publishes for the tier you selected.

eBay DE publishes two separate waits and both are read from its own documentation: how long a sale's proceeds take to become available for payout, and how long an initiated payout takes to reach a bank account. The payout section below lists every disbursement path eBay DE publishes, fastest first, and the working capital figure is built from the two published waits with the rows it used named beside it. No payout cadence is stated, because a cadence is a schedule you choose rather than a wait.

Every figure is computed from a stored rate-card row with the date it was last checked against eBay DE's own published page, and the breakdown states the date it resolved the rates against. Rows are selected against that date, so a card that has ended and one that has not started yet are both excluded. The source count and the last verification date are in the footer.

Two charges on each sale, and the category decides the larger of them. eBay DE charges a final value fee set per category and a fixed per-order fee, both taken on the total amount of the sale, so buyer-paid postage raises the first and can move which of the two published per-order fee amounts applies. An eBay Shop subscription is charged monthly against the account on top, where you have one. eBay UK charges a third per-sale fee that eBay DE does not, so a figure from a UK eBay calculator does not transfer. Enter a price and a category above to see both charges computed from the published rate card.

On four categories it moves a threshold, and on the other eighteen it changes nothing in the breakdown above. eBay DE publishes its final value fee schedule against the Shop subscription, and all four Shop levels select the same one - so the level you are on never changes a rate. What the Shop does change, on the four categories that publish the split, is where the price band edge sits: the same percentage applies up to a lower sale value for a Shop subscriber than for a business seller without one. That makes the Shop a worse deal on a high-value item in those categories and no different anywhere else, which is the opposite of what a tier usually buys. The monthly charge is reported under the breakdown as an account-level cost.

A different card, and which of two depends on where the account is registered. eBay DE publishes one final value fee and one per-order fee for a private seller registered in the EEA and another pair for one registered outside it, and the difference between them is the whole of the fee rather than a few percentage points. The private option is in the subscription control above, and taking it asks where the account is registered, because the page cannot price the sale without that answer and will not pick one for you.

A general ceiling is published for a business seller without an eBay Shop, and this page applies it: once the computed final value fee reaches the published cap the breakdown above shows the cap rather than the percentage, with the row it came from. For a Shop subscriber eBay DE states in the same sentence that lower caps apply without publishing the per-category figures, so the breakdown names the cap as not computed and quotes eBay DE's own wording instead of applying the general ceiling. Applying it would overstate a Shop subscriber's ceiling; leaving it unsaid would understate their fee.

Because eBay DE publishes one on four category sections and does not publish, in a form this page can read, which items qualify for it. The lower column's rates are in the rate card and are quoted in the breakdown above as not computed. The condition that attracts it is in source wording that has not been captured, so the page does not tell you whether your item qualifies and does not assume that it does. The percentage the breakdown charges is the ordinary one.

eBay DE publishes no payment processing fee at all - not a rate and not a zero row - so nothing for it appears in the breakdown above and nothing is added. Its own glossary describes managed payments as the route a buyer's payment takes to your eBay payment account and then to your bank, without naming a charge for it. What eBay DE does publish beside that route is a seller currency conversion charge, taken over the base exchange rate when a payout is converted. This page does not ask what currency your payout is in, so no figure for it is computed either.

No, and the page says so rather than adding it. The business rows carry eBay DE's own statement that the stored rate is the published rate and that the published rate excludes VAT, so VAT on selling fees is named under the breakdown and no amount is added to the total either way - whether it is a cost at all depends on your VAT registration, which this page does not ask for. The private rows say something weaker: eBay DE's wording for that schedule does not establish which reading applies, and the breakdown says that instead of choosing one.

The two per-sale charges are computed; the rest are named rather than guessed. Insertion fees, optional listing upgrades, classified ad fees and vehicle listing fees are charged for listing rather than for selling, so they do not follow from one unit's sale price. Promoted Listings is seller-configured, and the ad spend field above is where that cost enters the figures. The international fee needs the delivery destination and the currency conversion charge needs the payout currency, neither of which this page collects. And eBay DE publishes a second final value fee card entirely - the commission that replaces this one once it rates an account's service status Below Average or its not-as-described return rate Very High - which this page neither prices nor shows in the schedule below, because it is not what a seller in good standing pays.