Poshmark Seller Profit Calculator

The simplest fee structure of the big resale platforms

Poshmark keeps the fee model brutally simple:

• Sales under $15: flat $2.95 fee
• Sales $15 and over: 20% of the sale price

No payment processing fee. No final value fee. No insertion fee. No bumps. Just one line item, taken at sale.

profit = sale price − Poshmark fee − cost of item Return on cost, sometimes written ROI = (profit ÷ cost of item) × 100

A $35 sale of an $8 thrift find:

• Poshmark fee: $35 × 0.20 = $7.00
• After fee: $28.00
• After cost: $20.00 profit
• ROI: 250% on cost

Shipping, and Poshmark’s distinctive choice

The buyer pays a flat $7.97 for shipping (regardless of item size or distance) which goes straight to Poshmark. Poshmark provides the seller a prepaid USPS Priority Mail label. The seller pays zero shipping. This works because Poshmark mostly handles small soft goods (clothing, accessories) where Priority flat-rate boxes or padded mailers fit easily.

If you sell something genuinely heavy (boots in a box, a coat with hanger), you are still covered, because Priority Mail rates are bundled into the buyer’s flat $7.97. Anything truly oversized you upgrade with an upgrade label and pay the difference.

That flat rate is the single biggest reason the fee comparison below flips. Every other platform in it leaves the postage on your side of the ledger.

The $15 fee cliff

The flat $2.95 below $15 against 20% at $15 creates a strange little pricing zone. A $14.99 sale costs you $2.95, so you keep $12.04. A $15.00 sale costs you $3.00 and you keep $12.00. Raising the price by a penny costs you four cents.

The zone is narrow, and it is worth being exact about how narrow, because plenty of reselling advice gets this wrong in the other direction. At $15.05 the two are dead level, both leaving you $12.04, and from $15.06 the higher price is ahead. So $14.99 beats only the five prices from $15.00 to $15.04. Above that the higher price always wins, and it wins by more the further up you go. Do not talk yourself into listing an $18 item at $14.99 to “miss the cliff”: at $18 you keep $14.40, which is two dollars thirty-six better.

The other number worth knowing is $14.75, where a 20% fee would have equaled the flat $2.95. Between $14.75 and $15 the flat fee is quietly costing you more than a percentage would have, which is the part nobody mentions.

Where Poshmark wins (and where it loses)

The 4-hour-a-day reality

Successful Poshmark closets typically share their listings 100 to 500 times per day across their own closet, follower closets, and Posh Parties. The algorithm rewards activity. Most $1,000+/month Poshmark sellers are putting in 2 to 4 hours daily on sharing, following, and listing. Without that activity, listings sink in search results and sales dry up within weeks.

Poshmark vs Depop vs eBay (same $40 item, same $5 cost)

Every figure comes from this site’s own calculator for that platform, so if one of them ever disagrees with its page, the page is the one to trust and this table is the one that needs fixing.

Poshmark looks the worst on raw fees by a wide margin. Then you add the postage back on the other three and it wins by more than five dollars, which is a fifth of the take on a $40 item. For fashion under $50 in the US, Poshmark is the most net-profitable of the four once shipping is counted.

Two caveats, and they cut against Depop and Mercari specifically. Both moved their seller fee onto the buyer for US sellers, Depop in 2023 and Mercari the year after, so a US seller on either may see no percentage taken at all while a UK or EU seller still does. Check a recent payout rather than any table, this one included. And eBay’s 13.25% already contains the card processing, which is why it has no separate percentage line here.

Tax (US)

Poshmark issues a 1099-K when sales exceed federal thresholds. All marketplace income is taxable. Track cost basis on everything sold. Buying for $40 and selling for $50 is $10 of taxable profit, not $50.