Fee Changelog
Platform fees move, and a calculator that quietly keeps using last year's numbers is worse than no calculator. Follow this page by RSS feed if you want to hear about changes without giving anyone an email address. Every rate change we apply is logged here with its official source, and every fee record carries the date we last checked it. Records past their review interval are flagged on the calculator itself — not silently ignored.
Verification status
All 35 fee records within their review interval. Oldest: 2026-09-11.
| Platform | Fee | Verified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon FBA | FBA Fulfillment | 2026-09-26 | Current (22d of 90d) |
| Amazon FBA | Fuel surcharge | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Amazon FBA | Professional selling plan | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Amazon FBA | Referral Fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Amazon FBA | Refunds | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Amazon FBA | Storage Fee | 2026-09-26 | Current (22d of 90d) |
| Dropshipping | Disputes | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 365d) |
| Dropshipping | Import duties | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 365d) |
| Dropshipping | Payment gateway | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 365d) |
| Dropshipping | Platform Fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 365d) |
| eBay | Buyer sales tax basis | 2026-10-18 | Current (0d of 90d) |
| eBay | Final Value Fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| eBay | General ad tax basis | 2026-10-18 | Current (0d of 90d) |
| eBay | Insertion fees | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| eBay | Per-order fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| eBay | Refunds | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| eBay | Store subscription | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Etsy | Listing Fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Etsy | Offsite Ads | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Etsy | Payment Processing | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Etsy | Refunds | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Etsy | Transaction Fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Print on Demand | Print provider cost | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Print on Demand | Subscription | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Shopify | Chargebacks | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Shopify | Payment Processing | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Shopify | Refunds | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Shopify | Shopify Plan | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Shopify | Third-party gateway fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| TikTok Shop | Creator commission | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 60d) |
| TikTok Shop | Referral Fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 60d) |
| TikTok Shop | Refunds | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 60d) |
| Walmart Marketplace | Referral Fee | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Walmart Marketplace | Refunds | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
| Walmart Marketplace | WFS fulfilment | 2026-09-11 | Current (37d of 90d) |
Change history
Subscribe by feed →- Calculator update amazon
Make Amazon fee estimation immediate and add a local Fee Preview audit
The Amazon calculator now opens its package estimate by default and places it immediately after the price inputs. A separate size-tier checker compares published normal and holiday base rates. The new Fee Preview audit reads Amazon's estimated-fee export locally, combines optional SKU costs, compares an earlier export by SKU, and exports a review list. A prominent Amazon toolkit now appears above the working area on each Amazon page and near the top of the homepage, with links also in the navigation, footer and related pages. Fee Preview amounts are estimates rather than historical charged fees; missing product costs remain explicit. Published FBA rates were last checked September 26; this September 27 entry records the tool and navigation update.
- Calculator update amazon
Add package-based FBA and storage estimates with maximum buy cost
The Amazon calculator can estimate 2026 U.S. FBA base fulfillment fees from packaged dimensions, weight, product type and fulfillment season for supported standard and bulky products up to 50 lb. It can also estimate monthly base storage from packaged volume, average units held and storage season. Both estimates are opt-in; seller quotes remain available and automatically serve as fallback for unsupported packages. The new maximum buy cost view works backward from a target margin, profit or ROI. The fee guide links its examples to prefilled calculator scenarios. Base storage excludes utilization and aged-inventory surcharges, and the existing fuel toggle applies separately.
- Calculator update ebay
Separate jewelry threshold pricing from watch bands
Jewelry excluding watches uses a whole-price threshold at $5,000. Watches now have their own $1,000/$7,500 marginal bands. Non-Store pricing, tax omissions and seller-performance surcharge exclusions are disclosed.
- Calculator update tiktok
Replace unsupported 8% assumption with the public category schedule
Public TikTok Academy documentation lists 6% for most US categories. The default is corrected to 6% and remains editable. Referral refund administration is modeled at 20%, capped at $5 for a one-SKU order. Creator commission excludes shipping; refunds conservatively assume it was already paid. This corrects our August claim that no public schedule was available.
- Calculator update amazon
Correct category thresholds and fuel-surcharge instructions; add holiday planning
Clothing, beauty, baby and grocery select a rate on the full price. The guide removes obsolete tier prices and uses ASIN quotes. The fuel toggle already adds 3.5%; do not add an inclusive quote with the toggle on. Holiday peak fulfillment runs October 15, 2026–January 14, 2027, with fuel applied on top. See the revised Amazon guide for sources.
- Verification All platforms
September content and fee review across all calculators and guides
Reviewed US schedules and page copy, corrected guide modification dates, and distinguished seller inputs from published rates. All five guides and regional templates were reviewed. Shopify PayPal exemptions, Plus assumptions, Etsy currency conversion, eBay refund eligibility and regional limitations are now explicit. Original publication dates and historical changelog entries remain historical. The September notes supersede earlier instructions.
- Calculator update All platforms
Saved scenarios, multi-SKU analysis, printable reports, embeds, and a fee feed
Scenarios can now be named and stored in your browser. A new multi-SKU page prices a whole pasted catalogue at once and counts how many products lose money per order. Results print to a clean one-page report. Any calculator can be embedded on another site with one line of HTML. And the changelog is now published as an RSS feed, so fee changes can be followed without handing over an email address. Currency amounts are also formatted properly for each currency instead of a symbol glued to two decimal places.
- Verification tiktok
TikTok Shop's referral rate is an input, not a cited rate
TikTok publishes its US fee schedule inside Seller Center rather than on the open web, so we cannot cite it the way we cite every other rate here. The calculator defaults to the 8% standard non-food rate widely reported since August 2026 and leaves it editable, and the fee note says plainly that it is not verified at source. If TikTok publishes an open schedule, this becomes a normal verified rate.
- Verification ebay
eBay and Walmart fee schedules verified at source
eBay's final value fees, per-order fees, and insertion allowance were taken from eBay's published seller fee page; Walmart's referral fees came from its Marketplace Learn contract-category schedule. Both are dated and linked from every fee row that uses them.
- Calculator update All platforms
Four new marketplaces: eBay, Walmart, TikTok Shop, and print on demand
eBay models final value fees by category (13.6% plus 2.35% above $7,500 for most categories), the $0.30/$0.40 per-order fee, insertion fees past the 250 free listings, Promoted Listings, and Store subscriptions. Walmart models all 32 published contract categories, including the ones that switch rate at a price threshold and the ones charged on the portion inside each band, plus WFS fulfilment and storage. TikTok Shop models the referral commission and creator affiliate cut. Print on demand delegates platform fees to whichever channel you sell through, so its Etsy and Shopify rates can never drift from those calculators.
- Calculator update All platforms
Navigation rebuilt around eight calculators, and the homepage stopped claiming a typed date
The four new marketplaces shipped without the site's own copy catching up: the nav, hero switcher, homepage title, meta descriptions, and structured data all still described a four-calculator site, and a status badge read "Updated for 2026 fee structures — May 2026" because that date was typed rather than derived. Every navigation surface now reads one shared list of calculators, the badge reports the oldest verification date from the fee data, and a test fails if a platform in the fee data is missing from the nav, the sitemap, or the homepage.
- Calculator update All platforms
The hero shows all eight calculators at once instead of hiding three behind a scroller
The platform switcher was a horizontally scrolling strip inside a narrow column, so on most screens three of the eight calculators sat past the right edge with nothing but a clipped sliver to suggest they existed. The chips now span the full hero width and wrap rather than scroll, so every calculator is visible at every width, and the count is stated in the hero, the directory heading, and the navigation menu. Tables that genuinely need to scroll now carry an edge shadow that appears only while there is more to see, and the calculator's mode tabs wrap on phones instead of clipping.
- Calculator update All platforms
Hero preview corrected — it was pricing every platform with Etsy's settings
The homepage preview kept whichever platform's defaults it first loaded with, so switching to another marketplace reused Etsy's inputs. Amazon was previewed with no fulfilment fee at all, showing $7.00 net where its own calculator said $5.08, and eBay, Walmart, TikTok Shop and print on demand were each priced from the wrong scenario. The preview now adopts each platform's own defaults on switch — and keeps the price and cost you typed, if you typed any — so the figure in the hero always matches the calculator it links to. A browser test now compares the two for every platform.
- Verification All platforms
All four fee profiles re-verified against official sources
Etsy ($0.20 listing, 6.5% transaction, 3% + $0.25 US payment processing), Shopify (Basic $39/month, 2.9% + $0.30 online), and Amazon (15% common referral rate) were checked against the platforms' own published schedules. No modelled rate changed.
- Calculator update All platforms
Fee engine rebuilt: order totals, shipping revenue, and monthly costs
Platform percentage fees are now charged on the full order total including shipping you charge the buyer, matching how Etsy, Amazon, and Shopify Payments actually assess them. Recurring costs (Shopify plan, Amazon storage) no longer distort per-order margin — they are applied in a separate monthly view. Break-even price now accounts for per-unit and flat fees instead of percentage fees alone, and every value shown in an input is now used by the calculation.
- Verification All platforms
Offsite Ads, referral categories, and refund policies verified at source
Etsy's Offsite Ads tiers and $10,000 threshold, Amazon's published referral fee schedule and refund administration fee, Shopify's refund policy for card fees, and Stripe's card and dispute rates were each checked against the platform's own documentation and recorded with their verification dates.
- Verification shopify
Shopify plan rates corrected — Grow replaces the Shopify plan at 2.7%
Our Shopify guide quoted 2.6% for the mid plan and 2.4% for Advanced, and named the mid plan "Shopify". Shopify's published pricing shows Grow at $105/month and 2.7% + $0.30, Advanced at $399/month and 2.5% + $0.30, and third-party gateway fees of 2%, 1%, 0.6%, and 0.2% across Basic, Grow, Advanced, and Plus. The guide's break-even maths has been recomputed accordingly: the Basic-to-Grow crossover is about $33,000 in monthly card volume, not $22,000.
- Calculator update All platforms
Platform fee models deepened, and four decision modes added
Etsy now models Offsite Ads at its published 15%/12% tiers with the $100 per-order cap, plus discounts and refunds. Amazon gained its published referral categories with portion-based price bands and the $0.30 minimum, an FBA-versus-merchant-fulfilled switch, the 3.5% fuel surcharge, and the refund administration fee. Shopify gained all four plans with their own card rates, the third-party gateway surcharge, app costs, and chargebacks. Dropshipping gained gateway fees, disputes, and import duty. Alongside them: reverse pricing from a target margin or profit, break-even ROAS and maximum cost per order, sensitivity analysis, and side-by-side scenarios.
- Fee change amazon
3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge added to US and Canada FBA fulfilment fees
Amazon applied a 3.5% surcharge to FBA fulfilment fees in the US and Canada, calculated on fulfilment fees rather than the sale price — roughly $0.17 per unit on average. Multi-Channel Fulfilment and Buy with Prime followed on 2026-05-02. Enter your surcharged per-unit fee in the FBA fulfilment field until the calculator derives it from size and weight.
- Fee change amazon
2026 US FBA fulfilment fees took effect; referral fees unchanged
US FBA fulfilment fees rose by an average of $0.08 per unit, with small standard-size items rising about $0.12. Referral fees were not changed for 2026 and no new FBA fee types were introduced.