Overall Etsy Profits

[BrushStrokeOrnaments]

My husband recently asked me how much etsy makes off my store in a given year. I went back and looked for last year and I was really surprised. I suppose I knew this at tax time... but it didn't really register.

When looking at my total sales figure, etsy "made" 21% (between listing fees and sales fees). Seems like a pretty good profit to me! For this year, I'm at about 22.5%, so far. I'm not really complaining. Etsy is a wonderful platform to sell my items. But if I knew I was going to be doing this for many years, I would certainly want to consider my own website...

I was curious how others stack up.

[MerlinMN]

Um, check your math, dear. Etsy is taking twenty cents when you list and/or renew. When the item sells, they take 3.5%.
At most, its less than 5%.

I think you multiplyed instead of divided. I had to do it a couple of times too {@..@} and don't do math under stress, haha!

[CelesteCraft]

Unless you have lower cost items and renew them frequently. If that's the case, you will want to re-think that strategy and work on other ways to get found in Search. (Haven't looked at your SEO, so I can't say, but renewing doesn't do the job most of the time.)

[Former_Member]

Did you factor in the fact that shipping charges aren't included in revenue stats? Does the 21% include shipping labels?

[maydaylabels]

yup, you might be including shipping.

Etsy doesn't include shipping revenue in our shop stats, but it is included in your bill if you use Etsy's Shipping Labels ( which we do exclusively), so it looks like they take about 10% more from us than they do.

21% is very high. We pay Etsy about 7-8%, including direct checkout fees and search ads.

[BrushStrokeOrnaments]

duh! I feel so stupid. I forgot that etsy includes the shipping labels in the bill!!! Thanks, all, for clarifying things for me. It's so good to know I'm not paying 20%. :)

[RandomWish]

I like Etsy a lot better than other sights. I used to sell digital art on cafepress, and I only got to keep 10%. It was fun, but seemed like a waist of time, so I'm really glad I discovered Etsy.

[Former_Member]

My spreadsheet shows that over the past 5 years, Etsy gets between 5% and 6% of the selling price.