Creative Market Fee Calculator
Enter a Creative Market product price and test the share you use for planning. Publicly reported planning contexts commonly use a 40% platform commission and 60% seller share, with a 50% alternative in some onboarding or product situations. Those percentages are not a guaranteed current shop agreement, so both the context selector and commission field stay editable. Listing and payment costs remain separate from the platform share.
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Estimate what Creative Market keeps from each sale before you set a price or list a product. It covers Creative Market seller proceeds after an editable commission context, listing cost, discounts, refunds, and payment processing.
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Inputs
Values update results instantly. Adjust fee assumptions to match your seller dashboard.
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Sale
Your product price before discounts, refunds, and fees.
Number of product sales in this scenario.
Average share of listed sales removed by discounts, refunds, or cancellations.
Creative Market terms
Research contexts only. Always check your current Creative Market shop agreement.
Editable commission used in the calculation. The 40% and 50% values are planning contexts, not guaranteed terms.
Other costs
Start at zero when your shop has no listing fee. Replace it with your current cost if applicable.
External payment processing cost, separate from Creative Market commission.
External fixed payment cost per product sale.
Results
Live estimates based on your inputs and editable fee assumptions.
Gross listed sales
$20.00
Listed price times products sold.
Sales after discounts and refunds
$19.00
Gross sales less the entered adjustment rate.
Platform commission
$7.60
Editable Creative Market planning commission.
Seller share before other costs
$11.40
Realized sales less platform commission.
Listing or product fees
$0.00
Entered per-sale listing cost.
Payment processing
$0.85
Rate plus fixed processor costs.
Net seller proceeds
$10.55
Seller share after listing and processor costs.
Seller share rate
60.0%
100% minus the editable platform commission.
Effective deduction rate
44.5%
All modeled deductions divided by realized sales.
Planning context
40% platform and 60% seller planning context
Reminder to verify your current shop agreement.
What this means
At the 40% editable commission, net seller proceeds are 10.55 before product costs and tax. Verify the 40% platform and 60% seller planning context against your current shop agreement.
Creative Market sale breakdown
Interactive breakdown of fees, costs, and remaining profit.
Distribution
- Platform commission$7.6040.0%
- Processing$0.854.5%
- Net seller proceeds$10.5555.5%
Total $19.00 · 3 segments · interactive
Line-item breakdown
Dollar amounts, share of revenue, and visual proportion.
- Gross listed sales
- $20.00
- Realized sales
- $19.00
- Platform commission
- $7.60
- Seller share before other costs
- $11.40
- Listing fees
- $0.00
- Payment processing
- $0.85
- Net seller proceeds
- $10.55
- Seller share rate
- 60.0%
Assumptions used
- • 40% platform and 60% seller planning context; commission field 40.0% is editable
- • Realized sales after 5.0% discount and refund adjustment
- • Listing 0.00; processing 0.85
- • Verify current Creative Market shop terms before relying on the estimate
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Generated 9/9/2026, 11:46:51 PM · Currency USD
Inputs
- Listed sale price: 20
- Products sold: 1
- Discount and refund rate: 5
- Commission planning context: 40
- Platform commission: 40
- Listing or product fee per sale: 0
- Payment processing rate: 2.9
- Payment processing fixed fee per sale: 0.3
Results
- Gross listed sales: $20.00
- Realized sales: $19.00
- Platform commission: $7.60
- Seller share before other costs: $11.40
- Listing fees: $0.00
- Payment processing: $0.85
- Net seller proceeds: $10.55
- Seller share rate: 60.0%
Interpretation
At the 40% editable commission, net seller proceeds are 10.55 before product costs and tax. Verify the 40% platform and 60% seller planning context against your current shop agreement.
How it works
Methodology & formulas
This calculator is transparent by design. Review the steps and formulas so you can trust the estimate and adjust assumptions when your dashboard differs.
Calculation steps
- 1Calculate gross listed sales from price and quantity.
- 2Reduce gross sales by the entered discount and refund rate.
- 3Apply the editable platform commission to realized sales.
- 4Calculate listing cost and external processing separately.
- 5Subtract all modeled deductions to show net seller proceeds.
- 6Report the seller share and effective deductions for comparison.
Formulas
- Gross sales = listed price × quantity
- Realized sales = gross sales × (1 − discount or refund rate)
- Platform commission = realized sales × platform commission%
- Seller share = realized sales − platform commission
- Processing = realized sales × processor% + processor fixed × quantity
- Net seller proceeds = seller share − listing fees − processing
Important assumptions
- The default 40% platform commission and alternate 50% context are researched planning contexts, not guaranteed current Creative Market terms. Confirm your shop agreement and update the editable commission field.
- The seller share is calculated as 100% minus the entered platform commission. It is not a promise about a specific product, shop, or onboarding arrangement.
- Listing fee starts at zero as an editable assumption. Payment processing is modeled separately and may vary by country, payment route, and account.
- Discount and refund rate reduces realized sales before platform commission and processing are calculated.
- Net seller proceeds are before income tax, software, marketing, and product creation costs.
Sources & review
Know what this estimate is built on
This calculator uses planning contexts that may not have one stable public fee page.
Official references
No single official fee page is attached here. The model keeps these inputs editable so you can use the terms that apply to your situation.
Use the current terms
No stable public fee page is attached to this model. Use the editable fields as planning assumptions and confirm the current seller agreement, dashboard, fee schedule, or payout statement before relying on the result.
Defaults are editable estimates. Match them to your current account, provider statement, official authority, lender, or adviser before making a pricing or investment decision.
Calculator model reviewed: August 9, 2026. This date covers the page and calculator guidance, not a guarantee that every live platform rate or term was re-audited on that date.
Worked example
One $20 product sale
The 40% platform planning context is used, the editable commission remains 40%, discounts and refunds reduce sales by 5%, listing fee is $0, and payment processing is 2.9% plus $0.30.
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