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Seller fees by category

The commission the OnBuy marketplace charges on a sale depends on what you sell. This table is read from the marketplace's own API, not copied from a blog post.

Last read from the marketplace on 2 August 2026.

Category Commission
Arts, Crafts & Sewing 15%
Baby & Toddler 8%
Beer, Wine & Spirits 10%
Books 15%
Business, Office & Industrial Supplies 15%
Car & Automotive Parts 15%
Clothing, Shoes & Accessories 15%
Consumer Electronics 7%
DIY & Tools 13%
Electronic Accessories 15%
Everything else 15%
Food & Drink 8%
Furniture 15%
Games Consoles 8%
Health & Beauty 8%
Jewellery 20%
Large Appliances 7%
Musical Instruments & DJ 12%
Music, VHS, DVD 15%
Pet Supplies 15%
Power Tools 13%
Small Appliances 15%
Software 15%
Sports & Outdoors 15%
Standard Selling Fee 15%
Toys & Games 15%
Video Games 15%
Watches 15%
  • Commission is charged on the delivered total the buyer pays, including any postage they are charged.
  • There is a minimum of £0.25 per sale, so the percentage matters less on very cheap items.
  • A few categories reduce the rate on high-value items. The rate shown against your own listing in your seller control panel is the authoritative one.
  • A monthly seller subscription is charged separately from these rates. Check the current plan prices in your seller account.

Put a rate into the profit calculator or work out your minimum price.

Background

What sellers on the OnBuy marketplace actually pay

There are two charges to plan around: a monthly seller subscription, and a commission taken on each sale. The subscription is the same whatever you sell. The commission is not — it is set per selling category, and the range in the table above is wide enough that a seller working from a single remembered number will be wrong on most of their catalogue.

The rate applies to the delivered total

Commission is charged on everything the buyer pays, postage included. Charging separately for delivery does not move that postage outside the commissionable amount, and offering free delivery does not remove it either — it just moves the cost into the item price, where it is still commissionable. When you compare your costs across marketplaces, compare them on delivered totals or the comparison is meaningless.

There is no listing fee

Listing costs nothing, so a catalogue that does not sell costs nothing to hold beyond the subscription. That makes breadth cheap and makes the per-sale arithmetic the only thing that decides whether a SKU is worth stocking.

Where the numbers here come from

Re-Pricer connects to the marketplace API to reprice listings, and the same connection returns the fee tiers. This page is generated from that data rather than maintained by hand, so it does not go stale the way a written-up fee table does. It shows headline rates only: a small number of categories carry a second, reduced rate above a value threshold, and rather than publish a threshold we cannot verify we leave it out. Always check your own control panel before pricing on a fine margin.

Knowing the rate is the start. Re-Pricer applies it to every listing automatically and will not let a price fall below what your costs and that commission allow.

Price with the real rate, automatically

Re-Pricer knows what each listing is charged and holds a floor that accounts for it, on every cycle.