Since January 6, 2025, Mercari charges one selling fee of 10% and no separate processing fee on new and edited listings. Enter your price, shipping, and costs to see what lands in your balance.
Fees last verified: (US sellers)Official Mercari fee page(opens in a new tab)
Enter what the buyer pays for shipping. Leave 0 if you offer free shipping.
$3 per cash-out, not per sale. Direct deposit is free.
What you paid for the item or to make it.
If you offer free shipping, this is the label you pay for.
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Selling fee10% of item + shipping | $2.50 |
| Total fees | $2.50 |
| Buyer paid (before tax) | $25.00 |
| Your costs (item, shipping, packaging) | $10.79 |
Estimates only. Platform fees change; confirm on the official site before pricing.
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Mercari's selling fee is 10% of the item price plus any shipping the buyer paid. There is no listing fee, and for listings created or edited since January 6, 2025 there is no separate payment processing fee. Buyers pay a 3.6% Buyer Protection fee at checkout, which does not come out of your payout.
Your shipping choice changes where the 10% lands. If the buyer pays shipping, it joins the fee base, so you pay 10% on the label money too. If you offer free shipping, the label comes out of your earnings instead and the fee is 10% of the item price alone.
Getting paid by direct deposit is free. Instant Pay to a debit card costs $3 per cash-out, not per sale, so the toggle treats this sale as one cash-out. Cash out several sales together and the $3 is shared among them.
Profit is the payout minus the item cost, your label, and packaging. ROI compares that profit with the item cost, the fastest way to judge a sourcing buy.
Selling fee = 10% x (item + buyer-paid shipping). Payout = item + buyer-paid shipping - selling fee [- $3 Instant Pay]
| Fee | Rate | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Selling fee10% of item price plus buyer-paid shipping, for listings created or updated since Jan 6, 2025. No separate processing fee. | 10% of item + shipping | Always |
| Instant Pay cash-outPer cash-out (up to $600 a month). Counted here as if this sale is cashed out alone. | $3.00 | Cash out with Instant Pay |
Source: www.mercari.com/us/help_center/article/169/ and Mercari: changes to our fee structure. Checked September 30, 2026. Listings created before January 6, 2025 and never edited still follow the older structure; editing a listing moves it to these fees.
You pay the $5.39 label yourself, and the 10% fee applies to the $20 only. Fee and label together take $7.39, more than a third of the price.
| Buyer pays (item + shipping, before tax) | $20.00 |
|---|---|
| Selling fee (10% of item + shipping) | -$2.00 |
| Net payout | $18.00 |
| Costs (item $4.00, shipping $5.39, packaging $0.30) | -$9.69 |
| Profit | $8.31 (41.6% margin, 208% ROI) |
The buyer covers the label, but Mercari's 10% now includes the shipping, so the fee is $5.30 rather than $4.50.
| Buyer pays (item + shipping, before tax) | $52.99 |
|---|---|
| Selling fee (10% of item + shipping) | -$5.30 |
| Net payout | $47.69 |
| Costs (item $12.00, shipping $7.99, packaging $0.50) | -$20.49 |
| Profit | $27.20 (51.3% margin, 227% ROI) |
On a high-ticket item the $3 Instant Pay charge is minor next to the $30 selling fee. Free direct deposit saves it if you can wait.
| Buyer pays (item + shipping, before tax) | $300.00 |
|---|---|
| Selling fee (10% of item + shipping) | -$30.00 |
| Instant Pay cash-out (flat fee) | -$3.00 |
| Net payout | $267.00 |
| Costs (item $180.00, shipping $14.00, packaging $2.00) | -$196.00 |
| Profit | $71.00 (23.7% margin, 39% ROI) |
Examples are recalculated from the fee data above every time the page is built.
$10 with free shipping, leaving you $90 before your label and costs. If the buyer also pays $10 shipping, the fee becomes $11 because shipping is part of the base.
Not to sellers on listings created or edited since January 6, 2025. Older listings that were never edited keep the previous setup, where the buyer pays 2.9% plus $0.50 in processing until the listing is updated.
For fees it makes no difference: 10% of a $30 item with $8 buyer-paid shipping equals 10% of a $38 item with free shipping. Decide on what sells faster in your category and price the label into the item if you go free.
The item price, shipping if you did not offer it free, sales tax, and a 3.6% Buyer Protection fee on item plus shipping. None of that Buyer Protection fee is taken from your earnings.
Direct deposit is free, once per day, though a failed deposit costs $2. Instant Pay costs $3 per cash-out, for up to $600 a month to an eligible debit card.
Use the target-profit mode and enter 10. With the default $5 item cost, a $5.39 label you pay, and $0.40 packaging, the answer is $23.10: Mercari keeps $2.31 and your costs take $10.79.
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