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TikTok Shop Fee Calculator

Referral commission, creator affiliate fees, and ad spend — netted out per order and per month.

Quick answer

On a $25 order at an 8% referral fee with a 15% creator commission, TikTok Shop and your affiliate take $5.75 between them — 23.0% of the order before product cost, shipping, or ads. The creator cut is usually the larger number, and unlike the referral fee you do not get it back on a refund.

Quick-start scenarios

Your saved scenarios

Stored in this browser only — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create.

Revenue per order

What the buyer pays you for one order.

TikTok Shop charges its percentage fees on this too.
Taken off the sale price before fees are calculated.

Costs per order

Costs you pay every time an order ships.

Monthly

Charged monthly, whatever your order volume — kept out of per-order margin.

Assumes one item per order.

TikTok Shop settings

How TikTok Shop treats your account, and how often orders come back.

Check your own rate in Seller Center — TikTok does not publish it openly.
Affiliate rate you offer, charged on orders creators drive.
Fees the platform credits back are netted off automatically.

Per order

Order revenue
$25.00
TikTok Shop fees
$2.00
Net profit
$9.13
Margin
36.5%
Strong margin

After TikTok Shop fees, product and shipping costs, and $1.88 of ad spend per order. Monthly plan and storage costs are handled below.

Where your money goes

Per month at 80 orders
Profit
$730.00 · 36.5%
Platform fees
$160.00 · 8.0%
Cost of goods
$640.00 · 32.0%
Shipping
$320.00 · 16.0%
Ad spend
$150.00 · 7.5%

Monthly totals

Revenue$2,000.00
TikTok Shop fees−$160.00
Product and shipping costs−$960.00
Ad spend−$150.00
Net profit$730.00 · 36.5%

Fee detail

Per order

Referral Fee$2.00
Total per order$2.00
Break-even price
$15.08

The sale price where one order nets exactly zero — covering percentage fees, per-unit and flat fees, your costs, and this order's share of ad spend.

Orders to cover monthly costs
14

Needed to cover $150.00 of monthly ad spend and fixed costs. You're planning 80.

Ad economics

An order can pay at most its contribution — revenue after fees and variable costs — to win a customer. Spend more than that and the order is bought at a loss.

Max cost per order
$11.00
Break-even ROAS
2.27x
Your cost per order
$1.88
Headroom
$9.13

You can pay up to $11.00 per order in ads and still break even — currently $1.88.

How TikTok Shop fees work

TikTok Shop's fee structure is short but front-loaded. A referral commission comes off every order — in the US that single charge also covers payment processing — and on top of it sits whatever affiliate rate you offer creators.

That second number is the one that decides the business. A 15% creator commission on top of an 8% referral fee means 23% of the order is committed before product cost, shipping, or paid ads, and the creator's share is not recovered when the buyer returns the item. High-refund categories with generous affiliate rates can look profitable per order and lose money per month, which is exactly what the monthly view here is for.

One honest caveat: TikTok publishes its US fee schedule inside Seller Center rather than on the open web. Every other rate on this site links to a public page with a verification date. Rather than present an unverifiable number as though it were verified, this calculator makes the referral rate an editable field, defaulted to the standard rate reported since August 2026. Confirm yours in Seller Center and change it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does TikTok Shop charge sellers?+
A referral commission on each order, which in the US also covers payment processing. TikTok publishes its US schedule inside Seller Center rather than openly, so this calculator treats the rate as an input rather than citing one: the 8% default reflects the standard non-food rate widely reported since August 2026, with beauty and some electronics higher and jewellery lower. Check your own rate and change the field.
How does creator commission work?+
Affiliate commission is a rate you set, paid to the creator whose content drove the sale. Sellers commonly offer 5-20%. It stacks on top of the referral fee, so a 15% creator rate on an 8% referral fee means 23% of the order is gone before you have paid for the product.
Do I get fees back when an order is refunded?+
Referral fees are generally credited on a refunded order. Creator commission on a refunded sale is not something you recover, which is why a high affiliate rate combined with a high refund rate is more punishing than either alone. Set both here and the monthly view shows the combined drag.
Why is your TikTok rate an input when other calculators fix theirs?+
Because every other rate on this site links to a page the platform publishes openly, with the date we checked it. TikTok does not publish its US fee schedule outside Seller Center, so hardcoding a number would mean presenting an unverifiable figure with the same confidence as a verified one. The input keeps the tool useful without pretending.

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