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Is this sale worth it?

Type in your item, your costs and the discount. You'll see one order at full price and one on sale, each with the fees at its own price, and how many more orders the sale needs to keep the same profit a month.

Where you sell it

Before shipping and before the discount.

From 1% to 90%. It comes off the item price only.

0 if free. The discount doesn't change it.

On Amazon, what each unit costs you landed.

0 if Amazon ships it for you.

Do these orders come from an Offsite Ad?

Etsy charges that fee only on orders an Offsite Ad brought.

Add more detail (optional)2 of 2 filled

Box, tissue, tape. Blank uses a typical $1.

Adds the orders you'd need a month.

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To keep the same profit a month

93% more orders

At your numbers each order keeps $9.70 on sale instead of $18.75, so you'd need at least 58 orders a month instead of 30, if costs stay the same.

One order at full price

  • Item price

    $40.00

  • Listing fee

    $0.20 for each item sold

    −$0.20

  • Transaction fee

    6.5% × $40.00

    −$2.60

  • Payment processing

    3% × $40.00 + $0.25

    −$1.45

  • Fees

    the fees above

    −$4.25

  • Materials or product cost

    −$11.00

  • Packaging

    −$1.00

  • Shipping label

    −$5.00

  • Kept on one order

    $40.00 − $4.25 fees − $17.00 costs

    $18.75

One order at 25% off

  • Sale price

    $40.00 − $10.00

    $30.00

  • Listing fee

    $0.20 for each item sold

    −$0.20

  • Transaction fee

    6.5% × $30.00

    −$1.95

  • Payment processing

    3% × $30.00 + $0.25

    −$1.15

  • Fees

    the fees above

    −$3.30

  • Materials or product cost

    −$11.00

  • Packaging

    −$1.00

  • Shipping label

    −$5.00

  • Kept on one order

    $30.00 − $3.30 fees − $17.00 costs

    $9.70

What the sale changes

  • Discount

    25% × $40.00

    −$10.00

  • Fees fall by

    $4.25 − $3.30

    $0.95

  • Less kept on each order

    $18.75 − $9.70

    −$9.05

  • Orders on sale for each order now

    $18.75 ÷ $9.70

    1.933 times

  • More orders needed

    1.933 − 1

    93%

A month

  • Orders a month now

    30

  • Profit a month now

    30 × $18.75

    $562.50

  • Orders needed on sale

    $562.50 ÷ $9.70, rounded up

    58

  • Profit at that many orders

    58 × $9.70

    $562.60

  • If orders stay at 30

    30 × $9.70

    $291.00

  • The sale costs a month

    $562.50 − $291.00, if orders don't rise

    −$271.50

Good to know

  • The discount comes off the item price only.
  • Etsy charges its fees on the price the buyer pays, so a discount lowers them too; the listing fee and the 25¢ processing fee stay.
  • A coupon Etsy pays for itself doesn't come out of your pay. This is for sales and coupons you fund.
  • A sale can bring new buyers who come back, reviews and search rank. This doesn't count them: it compares profit a month at the same costs.
  • Buyers who'd have paid full price get the discount too, and some sale orders are orders that would have come later at full price. The extra orders have to be new ones.

Etsy fees as of October 5, 2026 (Fees & Payments Policy) and July 31, 2026 (Payments Policy), checked October 13, 2026. Fixed formulas; no AI computes a number.

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