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eBay fee calculator

Every fee a UK business seller pays on a sale, in one place: the final value fee, the per-order fee and the regulatory operating fee. Pick a category and the rate fills itself in from eBay's published rate card.

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Sets the final value fee below. Override it if your own rate differs.

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What the buyer pays for the item, including VAT

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Set to 0 for free postage. eBay charges fees on this too

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Charged on item price plus postage

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Set to 0 if you are not VAT registered

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What you pay for the item

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What postage and packing actually cost you

What eBay takes

Order total
£28.98
Final value fee
£3.45
Regulatory fee
£0.10
Per-order fee
£0.40
Total eBay fees
£3.95
Profit
£8.30
Margin after fees
34.37%

How it works: eBay charges the final value fee and the 0.35% regulatory operating fee on the whole order total, which is the item price plus any postage the buyer pays. The per-order fee is £0.30 on orders up to £10 and £0.40 above it. VAT is divided out of the price the buyer paid, not added on top. Profit is what is left after your item cost, your own postage and every eBay fee.

Selling on more than one marketplace? Compare it against the OnBuy fee table, or work out the lowest price you can hold.

Rate card

eBay UK final value fees by category

Business seller rates for eBay.co.uk. Every figure is exclusive of VAT, and a per-order fee applies on top of each one. Rates verified 26 August 2026 against eBay's own fee page, which was last updated 4 August 2026.

Category Final value fee
Antiques 10.9%
Art 10.9%
Baby 10.9%
Books, Comics & Magazines 9.9%
Business, Office & Industrial 12.5%
Cameras & Photography 9.9%
Clothes, Shoes & Accessories 11.9%
Coins 10.9% up to £450, lower above
Collectables 10.9%
Computers, Tablets & Networking 9.9%
Crafts 12.9%
Dolls & Bears 10.9%
Event Tickets 12.9%
Films & TV 9.9%
Garden & Patio 10.9%
Health & Beauty 10.9%
Holidays & Travel 7.9% up to £650, lower above
Home, Furniture & DIY 11.9% up to £500, lower above
Jewellery & Watches 14.9% up to £1,000, lower above
Mobile Phones & Communication 9.9%
Music 9.9%
Musical Instruments & DJ Equipment 10.9%
Pet Supplies 12.9%
Pottery, Ceramics & Glass 10.9%
Sound & Vision 9.9%
Sporting Goods 10.9%
Sports Memorabilia 10.9%
Stamps 10.9%
Toys & Games 10.9%
Vehicle Parts & Accessories 9.5% up to £750, lower above
Video Games & Consoles 9.9%
Wholesale & Job Lots 12.9%
Everything Else 12.9%

Some subcategories carry their own rate — trainers over £100, mobile phones, laptops and televisions among them. Where a category drops to a lower rate above a threshold, only the portion above that threshold is charged at the lower rate. This calculator applies one flat rate, so treat it as accurate for a typical order and check eBay's page for high-value items.

Background

What eBay actually charges a business seller

There is no single "eBay fee". A UK business seller pays three separate transaction charges on every sale, and two of them are easy to forget when you are pricing a listing.

The final value fee is charged on postage as well

This is the one that catches people out. The final value fee is a percentage of the total amount of the sale, and eBay defines that as the item price plus postage plus any applicable taxes. Sell at £24.99 with £3.99 postage in a 11.9% category and the fee is £3.45, not £2.97. Offering free postage does not avoid the charge; it moves the postage into the item price, where it is still charged at the same rate.

The per-order fee steps up at £10

On top of the percentage, eBay adds a flat per-order fee. It is 30p on orders of £10.00 or less and 40p on orders above £10.00. On a £6 item that flat 30p is 5% of the sale on its own, which is why low-value listings are so much harder to make work than the headline percentage suggests. Selected Collectables and Home, Furniture & DIY listings qualify for a reduced 10p per-order fee on orders up to £10.

The regulatory operating fee is small and permanent

eBay charges a further 0.35% of the total sale amount to cover regulatory compliance costs. It is not optional and it applies to every sale, so in practice your real percentage is the category rate plus 0.35.

Published rates exclude VAT

Every rate on eBay's fee page is quoted before VAT. If you are VAT registered you pay 20% on top of each fee and reclaim it, so your profit is unaffected. If you are not VAT registered, the VAT on those fees is a real cost you never get back — set the VAT field above to 0 and the calculator will show revenue without dividing VAT out of it.

Things that change your rate

eBay Top-rated Sellers get a 10% discount on the variable part of the final value fee for Premium Service listings, but not on the per-order fee. Sellers rated Below Standard pay an extra 6 percentage points, rising to 7 after four consecutive months. Selling to a buyer outside the UK adds an international fee of 1.05% to 2.0% depending on the destination. None of those are applied above, so adjust the percentage field if any of them apply to you.

Worth saying plainly: Re-Pricer reprices listings on the OnBuy marketplace and on Amazon. It reads eBay prices as a competitor signal, but it does not reprice eBay listings yet. This calculator is free to use either way.

Hold your margin without doing this by hand

Re-Pricer works out this sum on every listing you sell, on every pricing cycle, and refuses to price below the floor your costs set.