Etsy Shipping Calculator
Shipping is where Etsy profits leak silently. This calculator compares charged shipping against real postage, packaging, and insurance, including free shipping orders, so you see your true shipping profit or loss per order.
Instant calculations · Editable fee assumptions · Export-ready results
Inputs
Values update results instantly. Adjust fee assumptions to match your seller dashboard.
Profile
Pick a preset to prefill typical costs, or use custom.
Charged
What the buyer pays for shipping on paid-shipping orders.
Your costs
Carrier label cost you pay.
Box or mailer plus wrap per order.
Shipping insurance, signature, handling surcharge.
Free shipping
Order total at which you offer free shipping. For reference only.
Average quantity per order. Helps if you bundle.
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
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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Etsy Shipping Calculator
Generated 7/29/2026, 2:50:57 AM · 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
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
- 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.
Worked example
Etsy sticker shop
You charge $4.99 shipping. Postage $5.25, packaging $0.75, no insurance. Total cost $6.00. 20% of orders get free shipping via $35 threshold.
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