eBay Shipping Calculator
Shipping quietly eats eBay margins. Enter what buyers pay, what you actually pay the carrier, plus packaging and insurance, and see per-order profit or loss on shipping. Add your free shipping share and monthly order volume to see monthly shipping economics and true cost per order.
Instant calculations · Editable fee assumptions · Export-ready results
Inputs
Values update results instantly. Adjust fee assumptions to match your seller dashboard.
Shipping charged
Flat shipping you charge when not free.
Your shipping costs
Carrier label cost per order.
Box, mailer, tape, inserts.
Add insurance or signature fee per order if used.
Free shipping mix
Share of orders where shipping is free.
Monthly order volume to model.
Results
Live estimates based on your inputs and editable fee assumptions.
Charged per paid order
$4.99
Shipping revenue when not free.
True cost per order
$6.00
Postage + packaging + insurance.
Shipping P&L per paid order
-$1.01
Positive means you earn on shipping, negative means loss.
Free orders per month
8
Estimated free shipping orders.
Monthly free shipping cost
$48.00
Cost of free shipping orders per month.
Net monthly shipping result
-$90.42
Paid shipping profit minus free shipping cost.
Effective cost per order
$1.81
Abs net monthly shipping divided by total orders.
What this means
You spend about $90.42 more on shipping per month than you collect. Per paid order you lose $1.01. Free orders 8 out of 50 cost $48.00.
Monthly shipping economics
Interactive breakdown of fees, costs, and remaining profit.
Distribution
- Postage$262.5067.2%
- Packaging$37.509.6%
- Shipping loss$90.4223.2%
Total $390.42 · 3 segments · interactive
Line-item breakdown
Dollar amounts, share of revenue, and visual proportion.
- Charged per paid order
- $4.99
- True cost per order
- $6.00
- P&L per paid order
- -$1.01
- Total orders / month
- 50
- Free orders / month
- 8
- Paid orders / month
- 42
- Free shipping monthly cost
- $48.00
- Paid shipping revenue
- $209.58
- Paid shipping cost
- $252.00
- Net monthly shipping
- -$90.42
- Effective cost per order
- $1.81
Assumptions used
- • True cost $6.00 = postage $5.25 + packaging $0.75 + insurance $0.00
- • Free 15% → 8 free of 50
- • Net monthly $-90.42
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eBay Shipping Calculator
Generated 7/29/2026, 2:50:48 AM · Currency USD
Inputs
- Shipping charged to buyer (per paid order): 4.99
- Actual postage per order: 5.25
- Packaging materials per order: 0.75
- Insurance or signature per order: 0
- Percent of orders with free shipping: 15
- Average orders per month: 50
Results
- Charged per paid order: $4.99
- True cost per order: $6.00
- P&L per paid order: -$1.01
- Total orders / month: 50
- Free orders / month: 8
- Paid orders / month: 42
- Free shipping monthly cost: $48.00
- Paid shipping revenue: $209.58
- Paid shipping cost: $252.00
- Net monthly shipping: -$90.42
- Effective cost per order: $1.81
Interpretation
You spend about $90.42 more on shipping per month than you collect. Per paid order you lose $1.01. Free orders 8 out of 50 cost $48.00.
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
- 1True cost per order = actualPostageCost + packagingMaterials + insuranceCost.
- 2Shipping P&L per paid order = shippingCharged minus true cost per order.
- 3Free orders = round(avgMonthlyOrders × freeShippingPercent / 100).
- 4Paid orders = avgMonthlyOrders minus freeOrders.
- 5Free shipping monthly cost = freeOrders × true cost per order.
- 6Paid shipping revenue = paidOrders × shippingCharged.
- 7Paid shipping cost = paidOrders × true cost per order.
- 8Net monthly = paidRevenue − freeCost − paidCost.
- 9Effective cost per order = abs(netMonthly) ÷ avgMonthlyOrders.
Formulas
- True cost = postage + packaging + insurance
- P&L per paid = charged − true cost
- Free orders = avgOrders × free% ÷ 100
- Free cost = freeOrders × true cost
- Paid revenue = paidOrders × charged
- Net monthly = paidRevenue − freeCost − paidOrders×true cost
- Effective cost per order = abs(netMonthly) ÷ avgOrders
Important assumptions
- Shipping cost per order equals postage plus packaging materials plus insurance/signature.
- Paid orders count equals total monthly orders minus free shipping share.
- Free shipping orders generate no shipping revenue but still incur full shipping cost.
- Net monthly shipping equals paid shipping profit minus free shipping cost.
- Effective cost per order shows magnitude of shipping economics spread across all orders.
- This does not include eBay fee impact on shipping charged, which is modeled in profit calculator.
Worked example
Mixed free and flat shipping
Charge $4.99 flat when not free, postage $5.25, packaging $0.75, insurance $0, 15% free, 50 orders per month.
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