What this Depop calculator tells you
Model a US Depop sale with payment processing and optional promotion while keeping cost basis and actual shipping visible.
The headline number is the effective fee rate on a US sale, which is not zero even where no selling fee applies — payment processing and any boost still come out before you see a payout.
How the Depop calculator works
Depop removed its selling fee for US sellers on qualifying newer listings, but payment processing still applies. Sellers outside the US and older or exceptional transactions can follow different rules.
Money is converted to integer cents before any fee is calculated. Percentage charges round at the fee boundary, and totals are assembled from those already-rounded lines. That mirrors how a transaction statement reads and avoids the floating-point drift that produces an unexplained penny.
Depop US payment-processing rates and optional promotion
These figures are the checked-in US schedule, shown with its verification date, official source, and next review. They do not describe sellers outside the US or listings governed by an older structure; for those, read the receipt rather than this page.
| Category | Modeled formula | Fixed charge | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|
| US sale, no boost | 3.3% payment processing + $0.45 | $0.45 | |
| US sale on a Boosted Listing | 12% boost fee + 3.3% payment processing + $0.45 | $0.45 |
Rates verified Jul 28, 2026 against the published Depop fee schedule (effective Jul 15, 2024). Archived evidence. Next review by Oct 31, 2026.
Depop fees explained
Boosted listing fees, payment method, seller country, refunds, disputes, shipping labels, tax on fees, and listing eligibility can change the actual payout. Confirm the receipt instead of applying this US estimate globally.
The selling fee Depop removed, and what it did not remove
Depop removed its selling fee for US sellers on qualifying newer items, and the change is real — but it is frequently reported as though selling on the platform became free, which it did not. Payment processing still applies to every sale, and any promotion is charged on top. The effective rate on this page is not zero, and it should not be modeled as zero.
Qualification matters. The removal applies to US sellers under the current structure; sellers in other countries and transactions governed by older or exceptional terms can follow entirely different rules. If you are outside the US, this page describes a structure that is not yours, and the receipt is the only authority worth trusting.
The practical reading is that Depop moved its cost from a selling percentage into the surrounding charges rather than eliminating cost. That is still a meaningful improvement for most US sellers — it just is not the same thing as a free platform, and pricing as though it were will produce a shortfall on every order.
Payment processing
Processing is charged as a percentage plus a fixed amount per transaction, and with no selling fee in the picture it is the dominant platform cost on a US sale. That makes the fixed component unusually visible here: on cheap items it is most of what you pay.
The percentage applies to the money that moves, which includes what the buyer pays for shipping. Sellers who model the item price alone will be short by a percentage of postage — small in absolute terms, but consistently in the same direction, and larger on the heavy items where margins are already thin.
Processing is also where payment method and account setup can change the outcome. Confirm the rate against your own payment account rather than assuming the published headline applies to your configuration, particularly if anything about your account is non-standard.
Boosted Listings and promotion
Boosting is optional and charged as a percentage of the sale when a boosted item sells. It is a real acquisition cost and it sits on top of processing, so a boosted sale carries a materially higher effective rate than an unboosted one at the same price.
Judge it against contribution rather than revenue. On a garment sourced cheaply the boost may be easily affordable; on a thin-margin resale it can consume most of what was left. The calculator shows the profit remaining after everything else, which is the number the boost rate should be measured against.
Compare boosted and unboosted inventory that is genuinely similar. Boosting the items that were going to sell anyway produces flattering attribution and no incremental profit, and it is the most common way a promotion budget quietly becomes a discount.
Shipping arrangements and who pays
Shipping on Depop can be arranged in more than one way, and who buys the label changes both the cost and the fee base. A seller-arranged label is a direct cost; a buyer-paid platform label changes what flows through the transaction and therefore what processing applies to.
Model the arrangement you actually use rather than the one that is easiest to enter. The difference is not enormous per order, but it is systematic, and a shop shipping several hundred items a year will feel it in the annual figure even if no single order looks wrong.
Packaging is a cost regardless of who pays for postage. Mailers, tissue, tape, and the branded extras that fashion resale tends to encourage are all real, and on a fifteen-dollar item they can be a larger deduction than the platform takes.
Refunds, disputes, and returns
A refunded order does not cleanly reverse. Processing charges may not return in full, any boost spend is gone, and the outbound label is already bought. In fashion resale, where fit and condition drive a meaningful share of returns, this is a recurring cost rather than an occasional one.
Disputes carry a time cost as well as a money one. Accurate measurements, honest condition notes, and photographs that show flaws rather than hide them are the cheapest dispute prevention available, and they cost nothing but attention at listing time.
Build an expected return rate into pricing rather than treating each return as an exception. If one in twelve items comes back, that is a cost of the whole cohort, and a shop priced without it will look profitable in aggregate right up until the returns arrive.
Seller country and why this page is a US model
Fee structures differ by country, and Depop is a platform where that difference is substantial rather than cosmetic. A seller elsewhere may face a selling fee that US sellers no longer pay, alongside different processing terms and different currency treatment.
This calculator uses the checked-in US schedule and says so. It is a structural guide for a seller in another market — the shape of the arithmetic holds — but the rates do not transfer, and applying them would produce a confidently wrong number rather than an approximate one.
If you sell across borders, model the markets separately. An average built from two different fee structures describes neither, and the market with the higher rate is usually the one where the pricing error matters most.
Bundles and multi-item orders
A buyer purchasing several items in one order pays one set of fixed charges instead of several, which matters disproportionately on the low prices that dominate secondhand clothing. Two ten-dollar items sold separately carry two fixed processing components; the same two sold together carry one.
That makes bundling one of the few genuine cost levers on this marketplace. It also compresses shipping cost, because one parcel replaces two, and the saving there is usually larger than the fee saving.
Enter the bundle total rather than the item price when you model one. The effective rate the calculator reports will drop noticeably, and that drop is the real reason to encourage multi-item orders rather than any change in the underlying schedule.
Payouts, timing, and holds
Funds from a sale are not immediately spendable. Payout schedules, verification requirements on newer accounts, and holds on individual orders all sit between a completed sale and available cash.
For a seller reinvesting into sourcing, that delay is a constraint the fee model never shows. A closet that turns over quickly can be entirely profitable and still leave nothing to buy with on any given weekend.
Nothing on this page models timing. It answers what a completed sale leaves you with, which is the right question for pricing and the wrong one for planning a sourcing budget.
Sourcing, condition, and the cost of a listing that never sells
Secondhand clothing has a high proportion of stock that never sells at any price. The cost of those pieces does not disappear — it sits against the ones that do, and a closet evaluated only on completed sales looks far healthier than the sourcing spend justifies.
A practical correction is to divide total sourcing spend for a haul by the number of items that actually sold, rather than by the number bought. On a typical thrift haul that raises the effective cost basis substantially.
Condition drives most of that split. Items with flaws that were not photographed generate returns; items sourced optimistically simply sit. Both are sourcing errors rather than pricing errors, and neither is visible in a fee calculation.
Enter the corrected cost basis if you want this page to describe your business rather than a single lucky sale. The margin will drop and the number will be usable.
Refreshing listings, search visibility, and the hours behind a sale
Visibility here is driven by activity. Refreshing listings, posting consistently, and keeping the shop looking current all affect how often items are seen, and none of it appears anywhere in a fee schedule.
For an active seller that time is the largest input in the whole model. An hour spent refreshing and messaging is an hour that has to be earned back somewhere, and on ten-dollar items it takes a considerable number of sales to do it.
The practical consequence is that the cheap end of a closet is often unprofitable on a fully loaded basis even though every individual sale shows a positive contribution. The fee is not what makes it unprofitable; the handling time is.
If you want this page to describe your business rather than a single transaction, put a realistic per-sale time cost into the cost basis. The margin will fall and the number will finally be comparable to other things you could do with the hour.
What a US Depop sale nets across price points
With a fixed processing charge in the mix, a twelve-dollar sale and a hundred-and-twenty-dollar sale keep very different shares of revenue. The ladder is the fastest way to see where your sourcing cost stops working.
| Item price | Total fees | Net payout | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10.00 | $0.78 | $9.22 | 7.8% |
| $50.00 | $2.10 | $47.90 | 4.2% |
| $100.00 | $3.75 | $96.25 | 3.8% |
| $500.00 | $16.95 | $483.05 | 3.4% |
How much does Depop take from a US sale?
On qualifying newer US listings Depop removed its selling fee, but payment processing still applies and any Boosted Listing is charged on top. Sellers outside the US, and older or exceptional transactions, can follow different rules entirely. Confirm your own receipt rather than projecting this US estimate globally.
The practical answer for a US seller under the current structure is processing plus whatever promotion you opted into, which is genuinely lower than most comparable marketplaces. It is not nothing, and the fixed component of processing makes the cheap end of a closet considerably less attractive than the headline suggests.
For a seller outside the US, or on an item governed by older terms, the answer can be quite different. This page models the checked-in US schedule and says so plainly; anywhere else, the receipt is the only figure worth pricing from.
How to reduce your Depop fees
Treat boosting as an acquisition cost with a ceiling, not as a default setting. Decide what share of the remaining contribution you are willing to spend before you turn it on, and compare genuinely similar boosted and unboosted inventory rather than trusting attributed revenue.
Attack returns before you attack fees. Accurate measurements, honest condition notes, and photographs that show wear are worth more to margin than any promotional decision, because a prevented return saves the item, the outbound label, the processing, and the hour spent resolving it.
Price from the buyer total rather than the item price. Shipping is part of what the buyer weighs and part of what processing applies to, so a low item price with expensive postage is often both less attractive and less profitable than the reverse at the same total.
Watch the cheap end of the catalogue. With a fixed processing charge and no selling fee to dominate it, the sub-fifteen-dollar band is where the effective rate is worst, and bundling or raising the floor is usually a better answer than accepting the volume for its own sake.
Encourage multi-item orders explicitly. Bundling is the one lever on this marketplace that reduces both the fixed fee component and the shipping cost at the same time, and it costs nothing to offer.
Depop pricing and target margin
Low headline fees do not make an item profitable by themselves. Sourcing, cleaning, repair, photography, packaging, and the time spent answering offers are all costs, and on secondhand fashion they routinely exceed what the platform takes. A shop that prices from the fee schedule alone is pricing from the smallest input.
Value your time explicitly, even roughly. Photographing and measuring a garment properly takes real minutes, and at any honest hourly rate a large share of cheap inventory does not clear its own handling cost. That is an argument for a higher floor, not for working faster.
Then model the offer you expect to accept. Depop is a negotiating marketplace, and the list price is a starting position rather than a forecast. Set the price so that the concession you are prepared to make still lands above your floor, and decide that number before a buyer asks.
Price with the expectation of an offer. If most items sell below list, the list price is a negotiating position and the floor is the number that actually needs to clear your costs.
Build the Depop fee base before applying any percentage
The mechanic that decides every other number on this page is that the US model applies payment processing to the relevant order base and adds the fixed processing charge; optional promotion remains a separate acquisition cost. That one sentence tells you which amount belongs in each field. A percentage means nothing until its base is fixed, and marketplaces do not treat item price, buyer-paid shipping, handling, and tax the same way. Where the actual receipt uses a broader base than the model, the receipt wins and the model is what needs correcting.
The discontinuity worth knowing is that this calculator is explicitly a US estimate and does not project the no-selling-fee assumption onto sellers or listings governed by another structure. Test values immediately below, exactly at, and immediately above a threshold whenever a sale lands near one, and do not average the two sides together — the marketplace applies its published formula, and an average conceals the exact dollar difference this page exists to surface. Fixed charges create the mirror-image problem, because their effective rate climbs as the order shrinks.
This page assumes a US Depop seller evaluating newer eligible listings under the current no-selling-fee structure while still accounting for payment processing and boosts. Start from one concrete transaction rather than a blended monthly rate: name the item, the price you expect to realize, the buyer-paid shipping, the inventory basis, the label you will buy, the packing supplies, and the seller program. Anything still unknown should stay visible as an assumption instead of being folded into a percentage where nobody can audit it.
Set an offer floor for Depop before you negotiate
The offer rule here is that fashion offers should be modeled at the price likely to be accepted because sourcing and fulfillment do not decline when a buyer negotiates. Enter the price a buyer is likely to actually pay rather than the public list price, then update any seller-funded shipping, promotion, or service that transaction would trigger. Goal-seek mode reverses the question: give it the profit you need and it searches for the minimum item price in whole cents, running the same engine so tiers, caps, and fixed charges stay inside the answer.
On fulfillment, buyer-paid and seller-paid arrangements change presentation, but actual label, packaging, cleaning, measurements, and return freight belong in contribution. Keep the buyer charge and the purchased label as two separate lines. Netting them early hides whether shipping contributes, breaks even, or quietly consumes the item margin, and it corrupts the fee base wherever a marketplace charges on the buyer-paid amount. Weigh and measure the packed parcel rather than the bare item; dimensional weight makes light, bulky boxes cost more than the scale suggests.
The decision worth writing down before you touch an input is whether a boost, offer, free-shipping promise, or trend-driven markdown produces incremental profit rather than only more gross merchandise value. Without a stated decision it is easy to optimize the most visible fee line while ignoring realized price, conversion, handling time, or return exposure. Save three scenarios — expected, conservative, and downside — and set the floor from the conservative one, because a floor built on the expected case breaks the first time an unmodeled charge appears.
Reconcile the Depop estimate against the payout
The minimum evidence set for this channel is the Depop receipt, payment-processing deduction, boost attribution, label charge, original listing date, seller country, item basis, cleaning cost, and refund. Keep it at order level even where the marketplace only summarizes monthly activity: order-level records are what make a fee discrepancy traceable, and they let category, campaign, shipping, and return patterns be compared without guesswork.
Before relying on a result, confirm country, listing eligibility, payment path, boost attribution, buyer-paid total, label, refund status, and the actual payout. Work the reconciliation in order — buyer-paid total, then every fee and credit, then the payout movement — and connect cost basis and fulfillment separately. The arithmetic should explain the gap between gross revenue, net payout, contribution profit, and cash actually received. Timing differences belong in a note, not forced into the wrong order.
The exceptions this model does not try to predict include seller country, listing eligibility date, Boosted Listings, payment method, taxes in the processing base, disputes, refunds, labels, and cross-border treatment. They are named rather than silently averaged in, because false precision is worse than a stated unknown. Decide which belong in the immediate scenario and which should be carried as a reserve built from your own completed-order history. When an actual charge differs, classify the variance before changing any checked-in schedule; an account-specific line stays an exception.
Turn one Depop calculation into an inventory rule
On channel choice, Depop may earn a stronger price for visually distinctive fashion even when another marketplace displays a lower fee, so compare audience fit and sell-through. A fee difference is a research prompt, not a verdict — it says nothing about eligibility, demand, buyer trust, or the probability that the item sells at all. Build a channel-specific expected price from sold evidence, adjust for condition and buyer total, estimate days to sale, and only then compare expected contribution.
An estimate earns its keep when it changes what you source, list, promote, or accept. Tag this Depop scenario with a repeatable cohort — category, price band, source, condition, package class, expected days to sale — and review enough completed orders to tell a durable rule from one lucky result. State the rule in terms you can check from stored order evidence, or it will quietly drift back into intuition.
Revise the rule when the published schedule, the seller program, your packaging method, the category mix, or buyer behavior moves, and keep the effective date so older orders stay explainable. The Depop rates on this page carry their own reviewer and review date; your sourcing and operating costs are private business facts and need a review owner of their own.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Depop take from a $100 sale?
$3.75 in fees, leaving $96.25 — an effective rate of 3.75% on a $100 item with no shipping charged, in the category this calculator opens on. Fixed per-order charges make that rate move with the price rather than hold steady, so a $20 sale gives up a larger share than a $500 one. The worked ladder further down shows the same sale at several prices.
Does Depop still take 10%?
Depop’s current fee page does not list a 10% selling fee, and the schedule we model from it carries none. What a standard US sale is charged is 3.3% + $0.45 payment processing. A Boosted Listing is the exception: that adds a 12% boosting fee on top, charged on the item sale price and — if you did not use a Depop Shipping label — the shipping cost too. Both figures are quoted from the page, with an archived copy linked under the calculator.
How accurate is this Depop calculator?
The arithmetic is exact: it runs the checked-in, cited Depop schedule in integer cents. It is still an estimate, because your account status, category, seller country, tax treatment, promotions, and order-level adjustments can all change what is actually charged.
Does Instica collect the numbers I enter?
No. The calculation runs entirely in your browser. The financial figures you type are not transmitted to or stored by Instica.
Should Depop profit start from gross sales or payout?
Start from revenue excluding marketplace-collected sales tax, then subtract every Depop charge, the fulfillment you actually paid for, your cost basis, refunds, and any operating cost you allocate per order. Payout is not profit.
Why is the effective Depop rate different from the headline rate?
Fixed per-order charges, tier boundaries, minimums, caps, and the choice of fee base all move the total deduction as a share of revenue. That is why this page reports an effective rate per scenario instead of quoting one Depop percentage.
Can this replace the Depop order receipt?
No. Use it to price and compare before you list, and use the actual Depop order or payment statement for bookkeeping, tax, and any dispute. Where the two disagree, the statement is the record.
What should I do if the Depop rates here are past their review date?
Treat the result as provisional, open the cited official source, and confirm the rate before relying on it. The build fails once a schedule passes its review date, and a page already deployed shows a browser-side caution, so the warning is not something you have to remember to check for.
Does Depop charge a fee on buyer-paid shipping?
Read the formula and rate table on this page rather than assuming. Marketplaces differ: some apply the selling fee to buyer-paid shipping, some apply only payment processing to the broader order total. Either way, the label you buy is a separate seller cost and not a fee.
Are buyer taxes included in this estimate?
Only the fields shown are modeled. Some marketplaces include buyer-paid tax in a processing or final-value-fee base, and tax varies by destination and order. If this Depop calculator shows no buyer-tax field, compare the estimate against the actual order statement before booking it.
How should I model promoted listings or boosts?
Enter an ad rate only when the campaign’s attribution rules would actually charge this sale. Treat promotion as a marginal acquisition cost: compare promoted against unpromoted sell-through, and set the ceiling from contribution profit rather than from what Depop recommends.
Where do cost basis and packing supplies belong?
Cost basis is what the inventory item cost you. The purchased label goes in actual shipping cost, and mailers, boxes, tape, insurance, and cleaning go in the nearest visible cost field. Keep labor and overhead in a separate operating view so this Depop scenario stays a per-order contribution figure.
Can I use this for an accepted Depop offer?
Yes, and usually you should. Replace the list price with the price you expect to accept, then update seller-funded shipping and promotion. Percentage fees and fixed costs apply to the realized transaction, which makes the aspirational price the less useful scenario.
How often are the Depop rates on this page checked?
Every schedule has a named reviewer, a verification date, an archived copy of the official source, and a staggered next-review date. A weekly watchdog re-checks the source evidence, and Git history preserves the artifact each estimate was produced from.
Fee change alerts
Depop against another marketplace
A single schedule tells you what a sale costs here. It does not tell you whether it costs less somewhere else, and the answer changes with the price — so each of these prices the same item on both marketplaces and names the price where the cheaper one swaps.
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