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Use this Etsy shipping calculator to compare the shipping price you charge with actual postage, packaging, insurance, and extra fees. See when paid shipping covers its cost, how free shipping changes the blended result, and which amount belongs in your Etsy Fee Calculator for take-home profit.
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Use this when the question is how much Etsy shipping should cost, whether your shipping price covers postage, or what free shipping does to margin. Compare buyer-charged shipping with postage, packaging, insurance, and your paid or free order mix. For marketplace fees and take-home after fees, use Etsy Fee Calculator.
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Charged
USD
What the buyer pays for shipping on paid-shipping orders.
Your costs
USD
Carrier label cost you pay.
USD
Box or mailer plus wrap per order.
USD
Shipping insurance, signature, handling surcharge.
Free shipping
USD
Order total at which you offer free shipping. For reference only.
Average quantity per order. Helps if you bundle.
USD
Typical cart total before shipping.
%
Share of orders where shipping is free due to promo or threshold.
Results
Live estimates based on your inputs and editable fee assumptions.
Shipping charged
$4.99
Per paid-shipping order.
Total shipping cost
$6.00
Postage + packaging + insurance.
Shipping profit/loss
-$1.01
Charged minus cost per paid-shipping order.
Shipping margin
-20.2%
Profit/loss as % of shipping charged.
Cost of free shipping orders
$120.00
Expected monthly cost if percentage applies per 100 orders.
Net shipping per 100 orders
-$200.80
Blended profit/loss across paid and free shipping orders.
What this means
Per paid order you lose $1.01. With 20% free shipping, blended loss is $2.01 per order, about $-200.80 per 100 orders.
Shipping profit/loss per order
Interactive breakdown of fees, costs, and remaining profit.
Distribution
- Charged$399.2037.0%
- Shipping cost paid$480.0044.4%
- Free shipping cost$120.0011.1%
- Shipping loss$80.807.5%
Total $1,080.00 · 4 segments · interactive
Line-item breakdown
Dollar amounts, share of revenue, and visual proportion.
- Shipping charged (paid)
- $4.99
- Postage
- $5.25
- Packaging
- $0.75
- Insurance/extra
- $0.00
- Total shipping cost
- $6.00
- Profit/loss per paid order
- -$1.01
- Shipping margin
- -20.2%
- % free shipping
- 20.0%
- Free orders cost (per 100)
- $120.00
- Blended per order
- -$2.01
- Net per 100 orders
- -$200.80
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525.0%
75.0%
0.0%
600.0%
101.0%
12000.0%
200.8%
20080.0%
Assumptions used
- • Total cost $6.00 = postage + packaging + insurance
- • Charged $4.99 only on 80% paid orders
- • 20% of orders free — modeled as full cost loss
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Generated 9/9/2026, 5:53:09 PM · Currency USD
Inputs
- Shipping profile preset: custom
- Shipping charged to buyer: 4.99
- Actual postage cost: 5.25
- Packaging materials: 0.75
- Insurance / extra fees: 0
- Free shipping threshold: 35
- Items per order average: 1
- Average order value: 29.99
- % orders with free shipping: 20
Results
- Shipping charged (paid): $4.99
- Postage: $5.25
- Packaging: $0.75
- Insurance/extra: $0.00
- Total shipping cost: $6.00
- Profit/loss per paid order: -$1.01
- Shipping margin: -20.2%
- % free shipping: 20.0%
- Free orders cost (per 100): $120.00
- Blended per order: -$2.01
- Net per 100 orders: -$200.80
Interpretation
Per paid order you lose $1.01. With 20% free shipping, blended loss is $2.01 per order, about $-200.80 per 100 orders.
How it works
How the Etsy Shipping Calculator works
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
- 1Total shipping cost = actualPostageCost + packagingMaterialsShip + insuranceCost.
- 2Shipping profit/loss per paid order = chargedToBuyer − totalShippingCost.
- 3Effective shipping margin = (profitLoss ÷ chargedToBuyer) × 100 when charged > 0.
- 4Free shipping orders cost monthly = totalShippingCost × (percentFree/100) × 100 orders illustrative.
- 5Blended net per order = (profitLoss × (1−percentFree/100)) − (totalCost × percentFree/100).
- 6Net per 100 orders = blended per order × 100.
- 7Chart shows charged vs cost and highlights profit or loss slice.
Formulas
- TotalCost = postage + packaging + insurance
- ProfitLossPaid = chargedToBuyer − totalCost
- Margin = profitLossPaid ÷ chargedToBuyer ×100
- FreeCostPer100 = totalCost × %free ×100
- BlendedPerOrder = profitLossPaid×(1−%free) − totalCost×%free
- Net per 100 = blendedPerOrder ×100
Important assumptions
- Total shipping cost = postage + packaging + insurance.
- Charged to buyer applies only to orders that pay shipping; free shipping orders incur full cost as loss.
- Percent free shipping drives blended result across a batch of orders.
- Results are pre-Etsy-fees — Etsy transaction and processing fees on shipping charged are calculated in profit calculators, not here.
- Free shipping threshold field is informational; it does not auto-calculate free shipping percent, you set that from shop data.
- Single carrier cost model — mixed carriers per order need manual averaging.
Sources & review
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Calculator model reviewed: August 9, 2026
Official references
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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
Worked example for Etsy Shipping: Etsy shipping cost example: paid versus free shipping
You charge $4.99 shipping on paid orders. Postage is $5.25, packaging is $0.75, and insurance is $0, for a total shipping cost of $6.00. Twenty percent of orders receive free shipping through a $35 threshold.
This Etsy shipping cost is $6.00 per order. Paid orders lose $1.01 on shipping because buyers pay $4.99. With 20% free shipping, the blended result is a $2.01 loss per order, or about $201 across 100 orders. Use Etsy Fee Calculator to add marketplace fees to the take-home view.
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