Depop Fee Calculator

For years "Depop fees" meant one number: 10% of every sale. That era is over — Depop removed its selling fee for US sellers in July 2024, joining the UK where it had already gone, and the 10% now applies only to sellers outside the UK, US and Australia. What a domestic seller pays today is payment processing through Depop Payments: 3.3% plus $0.45 per order in the US, 2.9% plus £0.30 in the UK, charged on the whole transaction — item price plus shipping plus any tax collected.

The economics moved to the buyer's side at the same time: every UK and US purchase now carries a Marketplace fee of up to 5% of the item price plus a fixed part of up to $1 or £1, shown exactly at checkout and refunded if the order is refunded. On a $50 item that's at most $3.50 — money that never passes through your account but that your buyer absolutely factors into whether your price feels fair against the listing next to yours.

A US seller moves an item at $50 with $5 shipping. Processing is 3.3% of $55 plus $0.45: $2.27. Net payout: $52.73 — an effective 4.1% against the $55 the buyer paid you directly. The same sale in the UK at £50 plus £5 runs 2.9% of £55 plus £0.30 = £1.90, netting £53.10, an effective 3.5%. Compare that with the pre-2024 world, where the same US sale surrendered $5.50 of selling fee before processing — the shake-up roughly tripled sellers' take of the fee pie.

Boosting changes the picture sharply. A Boosted Listing pays an extra 12% of item plus shipping when it sells — for listings created since 23 March 2026, up from the 8% that applied before. Boost the $50 example and $6.60 comes off, dropping the net to $46.13 and the effective rate to 15.9% — worse than old-Depop's flat 10%. Boosting is a bid for placement, not a tax, so the question is whether the boost sells items that wouldn't otherwise sell; the calculator's checkbox puts the boosted and organic numbers side by side so the answer is visible before you opt in.

Because part of Depop's economics rides on the buyer side, your competitive price is not your asking price — it's your asking price plus up to 5% and a fixed part, as the checkout shows it to the buyer. Two $40 listings can land differently at checkout depending on how each seller structured price versus shipping, and buyers comparison-shop the total. If your item is at the low end where the fixed parts bite hardest, a fractionally lower asking price can beat a rival by more than it costs you.

Shipping strategy is the other half. Processing is charged on item plus shipping, so folding postage into a "free shipping" price changes nothing about Depop's take — the base is the same either way — but it does change how the Marketplace fee reads to the buyer, since that fee's percentage part applies to the item price. Pricing $45-with-free-shipping versus $40-plus-$5-shipping yields identical processing for you but a slightly higher buyer-side fee on the first structure. Small, but on thin-margin flips the arithmetic is worth one look, and it's exactly the comparison the calculator makes trivial.

Sales tax rides through the processing base: where Depop collects tax on a US order, the 3.3% + $0.45 applies to the tax-inclusive total, so taxed orders run slightly above the tax-free figures here — the tax itself is remitted, not kept. Sellers outside the UK, US and Australia still pay the old 10% selling fee on item price plus non-label shipping, with PayPal's processing on top; this calculator models the domestic regimes. Payouts via Depop Payments carry no further deduction.

The moving parts to watch are the boost rate and the buyer fee. The boost's move from 8% to 12% for new listings in March 2026 is recent enough that older fee guides still quote 8% — check the rate shown when you enable boosting, since listings created before the change keep their old rate. The buyer Marketplace fee is stated by Depop as "up to" its caps and shown exactly only at checkout, which is why this page reports the maximum rather than pretending to an exact figure. Everything here was read from Depop's official help pages on the stamped date; those pages win any disagreement.