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Marketplace margin calculator

Find out what one sale leaves you after commission, payment fees, shipping and packaging, and the lowest price that still breaks even. Enter your own figures. The ones shown are examples.

General information, not legal, tax or accounting advice. Check figures and rules with the agency or a professional before you act on them.

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All figures are examples.

Your figures, for one sale

What the buyer pays for the item.
What one unit costs you to buy or make.
Percent of the selling price. Find it in your seller dashboard.
Percent charged on the payment. Use 0 if there is none.
Shipping you pay and do not charge the buyer.
Packaging, labels or anything else per sale.

Example figures, not any platform’s real rates. Enter your own.

One sale

Commission
₱28.00
Payment fee
₱8.75
All fees and costs besides product
₱83.75
Profit per sale
₱86.25
Margin
24.6%
Break-even price
₱253.63

You keep ₱86.25 of every ₱350.00 sale.

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How it is worked out

  • Fees and costs besides the productprice × commission % + price × payment fee % + shipping + packaging and other
  • Profit per saleprice − product cost − fees and costs
  • Marginprofit ÷ price, shown as a percentage
  • Break-even price(product cost + shipping + packaging and other) ÷ (1 − (commission % + payment fee %))

The break-even price is the lowest price at which profit is zero, if your fees stay a fixed percent of the price. When the two percentages add up to 100% or more, no price breaks even and the calculator shows a dash.

Three worked examples

ExamplePriceProduct costFees and costsProfit per saleMarginBreak-even price
Example 1: An everyday item
8% commission, 2.5% payment fee, ₱35.00 shipping, ₱12.00 packaging and other
₱350.00₱180.00₱83.75₱86.2524.6%₱253.63
Example 2: A thin-margin item
10% commission, 2% payment fee, ₱30.00 shipping, ₱5.00 packaging and other
₱120.00₱70.00₱49.40₱0.600.5%₱119.32
Example 3: A sale that loses money
12% commission, 3% payment fee, ₱60.00 shipping, ₱25.00 packaging and other
₱800.00₱600.00₱205.00-₱5.00-0.6%₱805.88
Invented numbers to show the arithmetic. They are not any platform’s rates. Example 2 earns under a peso a sale; example 3 loses money at its current price.

What it leaves out

Taxes, returns and refunds, advertising, vouchers you pay for, and your own time are not included. Ask your accountant or the BIR which taxes apply to you.

Platform fees change. Use the current rates from your own seller dashboard each time. This page does not list any platform’s rates.

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