Lemon Squeezy Fee Calculator
Model a Lemon Squeezy payment from the price your customer pays to the payout you receive. Start with the 5% plus $0.50 planning scenario, turn on international card, PayPal, subscription, or non-US payout charges when they apply, and keep your own delivery and marketing costs visible without adding sales tax or VAT twice.
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Estimate what Lemon Squeezy keeps from each sale before you set a price or list a product. It covers Lemon Squeezy merchant-of-record transaction fees, optional surcharges, payout fees, and digital product take-home.
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Inputs
Values update results instantly. Adjust fee assumptions to match your seller dashboard.
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Payment details
Choose the digital offer in this payment scenario.
Subscription surcharges apply only when this is set to recurring.
Amount charged for one payment before your own costs.
Successful one-time orders or recurring payments in the period.
Your costs
Content, license, or delivery cost allocated to each payment.
Hosting, software, support tools, or other delivery cost per payment.
Creator-side reserve against gross sales. It is not an extra Lemon Squeezy tax or platform fee.
Blended acquisition or promotion cost allocated to each payment.
Lemon Squeezy assumptions
Editable planning default of 5%. Check current Lemon Squeezy terms before relying on it.
Editable planning default of $0.50 per payment.
Optional surcharges
Enable when the payment falls under the international-card terms you are modeling.
Editable planning default of 1.5% when enabled.
Enable for payments processed through PayPal when the surcharge applies.
Editable planning default of 1.5% when enabled.
Enable for recurring subscription or membership payments when the surcharge applies.
Editable planning default of 0.5%, applied only to recurring payments.
Payout
Enable when your payout geography is subject to the fee you are modeling.
Editable planning default of 1%, applied to the payout amount after transaction fees.
Tax treatment
A note for your scenario. This selection does not add a tax fee to the model.
Results
Live estimates based on your inputs and editable fee assumptions.
Gross order value
$725.00
Base Lemon Squeezy fee
$36.25
International-card surcharge
$0.00
PayPal surcharge
$0.00
Subscription surcharge
$0.00
Fixed Lemon Squeezy fees
$12.50
Non-US payout fee
$0.00
Total Lemon Squeezy cost
$48.75
Net payout before creator costs
$676.25
Effective Lemon Squeezy fee rate
6.7%
Net payout per transaction
$27.05
Net after creator costs
$626.25
What this means
Digital download produces 626.25 after Lemon Squeezy charges and selected creator costs. Lemon Squeezy keeps 6.7% of gross in this scenario, before your own delivery and marketing costs.
Lemon Squeezy payment cost breakdown
Interactive breakdown of fees, costs, and remaining profit.
Distribution
- Base platform fee$36.255.1%
- Creator costs$50.007.0%
- Net after costs$626.2587.9%
Total $712.50 · 3 segments · interactive
Line-item breakdown
Dollar amounts, share of revenue, and visual proportion.
- Gross order value
- $725.00
- Base Lemon Squeezy fee
- $36.25
- Selected surcharges
- $0.00
- Fixed fees
- $12.50
- Non-US payout fee
- $0.00
- Total Lemon Squeezy cost
- $48.75
- Net payout
- $676.25
- Net after creator costs
- $626.25
- Effective Lemon Squeezy fee rate
- 6.7%
- Net payout per transaction
- $27.05
Assumptions used
- • Digital download, 25 one-time payments at 29.00 each.
- • Lemon Squeezy transaction fees are 48.75 and payout fee is 0.00.
- • Creator costs are 50.00, including product and infrastructure 50.00, reserve 0.00, and marketing 0.00.
- • No separate transactional sales-tax or VAT fee is added; verify current merchant-of-record terms and your own tax obligations.
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Generated 9/11/2026, 2:13:36 AM · Currency USD
Inputs
- Product type: digital
- Payment type: oneTime
- Order value per payment: 29
- Payments in scenario: 25
- Product cost per payment: 1.5
- Infrastructure cost per payment: 0.5
- Base Lemon Squeezy fee (%): 5
- Fixed Lemon Squeezy fee per payment: 0.5
- Include international-card surcharge: false
- International-card surcharge (%): 1.5
- Include PayPal surcharge: false
- PayPal surcharge (%): 1.5
- Include subscription surcharge: false
- Subscription surcharge (%): 0.5
- Include non-US payout fee: false
- Non-US payout fee (%): 1
- Refund or reserve (%): 0
- Marketing cost per payment: 0
- Customer tax and VAT treatment: morHandled
Results
- Gross order value: $725.00
- Base Lemon Squeezy fee: $36.25
- Selected surcharges: $0.00
- Fixed fees: $12.50
- Non-US payout fee: $0.00
- Total Lemon Squeezy cost: $48.75
- Net payout: $676.25
- Net after creator costs: $626.25
- Effective Lemon Squeezy fee rate: 6.7%
- Net payout per transaction: $27.05
Interpretation
Digital download produces 626.25 after Lemon Squeezy charges and selected creator costs. Lemon Squeezy keeps 6.7% of gross in this scenario, before your own delivery and marketing costs.
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
- 1Multiply payment value by the number of payments to find gross order value.
- 2Apply the base percentage and each enabled surcharge to gross order value.
- 3Apply the fixed fee once per payment.
- 4Apply the non-US payout rate to the payout amount left after transaction fees when selected.
- 5Total Lemon Squeezy cost combines transaction fees and payout fee. Creator costs are shown separately.
- 6Net payout equals gross order value minus Lemon Squeezy cost. Net after creator costs subtracts product, infrastructure, reserve, and marketing inputs.
Formulas
- Gross = order value × payments
- Base fee = gross × base fee%
- Selected surcharge = gross × surcharge%
- Fixed fees = payments × fixed fee
- Payout fee = (gross − transaction fees) × non-US payout%
- Lemon Squeezy cost = base + selected surcharges + fixed fees + payout fee
- Net payout = gross − Lemon Squeezy cost
- Effective fee rate = Lemon Squeezy cost ÷ gross × 100
Important assumptions
- The starting Lemon Squeezy planning scenario is 5% plus $0.50 per payment. All rates are editable and should be checked against your current account terms, region, payment method, and payout setup.
- International-card, PayPal, and subscription surcharges are optional inputs. The subscription surcharge applies only when Payment type is set to recurring.
- The non-US payout fee is modeled as a percentage of the amount remaining after transaction percentage and fixed fees. Select it only when the payout geography and current terms support that scenario.
- Product, infrastructure, refund reserve, and marketing costs are creator-side planning costs. No monthly Lemon Squeezy platform charge is added by default.
- Lemon Squeezy acts as merchant of record for transactional sales tax or VAT in its service model, so this calculator does not add a second sales-tax or VAT expense. Income or corporate tax is outside this fee view.
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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
25 digital product payments
A $29 digital product with 25 one-time payments, the editable 5% plus $0.50 base scenario, $1.50 product cost, $0.50 infrastructure cost, and no optional surcharges, payout fee, reserve, or marketing.
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