Depop Fee Calculator

How much does Depop take?

Less than you've heard. Depop took a 10% selling fee for years, so most sellers, and most calculators online, still assume that's the number. It isn't. Depop removed the selling fee in 2024, the UK first and then the US on 18 July 2024. There's no commission on a normal Depop sale today. What you actually pay is a payment-processing fee on the money that moves through Depop Payments, and that's it, unless you choose to advertise.

In the US that processing fee is 3.3% plus $0.45 per transaction. In the UK it's 2.9% plus £0.30. It's charged on the full amount the buyer pays, which means the item, the shipping you charge, and any sales tax Depop collects. On a $50 item with $5 shipping that's about $2.27in fees, the figure Depop uses in its own example. The only thing that can push your cost higher is Boost, Depop's optional advertising. Boost is a flat 12% and you only pay it when a boosted listing actually sells. The calculator above does the whole sum, including the part most tools get wrong, and shows what you keep.

Depop seller fees at a glance (US & UK, 2026)

There's no category table on Depop and no store tier. Only the first two rows ever touch your payout. Boost is opt-in, and the buyer fee is your buyer's money.

Processing applies to the full transaction (item + shipping + sales tax). Boost is charged on the item price only and only when a boosted listing sells; the US rate moved to 12% from 8% on 23 March 2026, with earlier boosts grandfathered at 8%. The buyer marketplace fee funds buyer protection and never comes out of your payout. Source: Depop's official fee pages, verified 28 Jun 2026.

How Depop seller fees work in 2026

Depop is the simplest fee model in resale. There's no category table, no store tier, no seller-level rate. Only the first two cards ever touch your payout. The third is optional. The fourth is your buyer's money, not yours.

Real Depop sale examples

Is Depop Boost worth 12%?

Boost is the only fee you control, so it's the only one worth thinking hard about. It's a flat 12% on the item, charged only when a boosted listing sells. The honest way to look at it is the gap it opens up. On a $50 item with free shipping, your fees go from $2.10 unboosted to $8.10 boosted, an effective rate of about 4.2% versus 16.2%. That 12 points is real money off your margin on every boosted sale.

So Boost earns its keep only when the extra reach genuinely sells an item that would otherwise have sat, or sells it fast enough that the turnover is worth the cut. It isn't a tax you have to pay. On thin-margin pieces it can wipe out your profit. On slow stock you're desperate to move, or a hot item where speed matters, it can pay off. Run both numbers in the calculator before you switch it on. We don't publish a "boosted items sell X% faster" claim, because Depop hasn't published one we can stand behind.

What counts as a good profit on Depop?

There's no official "good" margin, but Depop makes the math unusually clean, because there's no selling fee to model. Your profit is your sale price plus the shipping you charged, minus the processing fee, minus Boost if you used it, minus what the item cost you and what shipping cost you to send. Sales tax is collected from the buyer and remitted by Depop, so it never counts as your income, even though it sits inside the processing base.

The calculator gives you three numbers to judge a sale by. Net profit is the dollars left in your pocket. Margin is that profit as a share of the sale. ROI measures it against what you actually spent to source and ship the item. Flipping clothing, fast-moving stock can work on a thin margin because you turn it over quickly, while slow stock needs a fatter one to earn its space in your closet. Use the breakeven price the calculator gives you as your floor, then price above it by the margin you want. The find-my-price mode works backwards: tell it the profit you want and it returns the price to list at.

How to pay less in Depop fees

• ✓Know the selling fee is gone. Depop dropped its 10% commission in 2024, so don't price as if it's still there. If your old spreadsheet subtracts 10%, you're underpricing yourself.
• ✓Skip Boost on thin-margin items. At a flat 12% of the item, Boost can eat most of a small profit. Turn it on only when the extra reach is worth the cut.
• ✓Don't pad your fee math with the buyer marketplace fee. That's your buyer's cost at checkout, not yours, so leave it out of your payout sum.
• ✓Remember processing is charged on shipping and tax too, not just the item, so factor the full transaction in when you price.
• ✓Bundle sensibly. One order means one $0.45 fixed fee instead of one per item, so combining items for a single buyer saves the per-order portion.

Depop fee calculator FAQ

Depop fee terms, in plain English

Selling fee

The commission a platform takes on each sale. On Depop this is 0% since 2024.

Payment processing

The fee on money moving through Depop Payments. 3.3% plus $0.45 in the US, 2.9% plus £0.30 in the UK.

Boost

Depop's optional advertising. A flat 12% on the item price, charged only when a boosted listing sells.

Buyer marketplace fee

A fee the buyer pays at checkout, up to 5% plus up to $1. Funds buyer protection. Never a seller cost.

Processing base

What the processing fee is charged on: item plus shipping plus any tax, the full amount the buyer pays.

Boost base

What Boost is charged on: the item price, not the tax. A different base from processing.

Breakeven price

The sold price where your profit is exactly zero. Price above it to make money.

Net profit

What you keep: sale plus shipping charged, minus Depop fees and all of your own costs.

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