Whatnot fee calculator
Enter one sale and see what each fee takes, and what is left for you.
Your total sales across every category in a four-week period set the tier you pay in the next one, from 21 September 2026 for existing sellers and a week later for new ones. Standard is what you pay below the first threshold, and what most sellers pay.
Caps the commission base at the first $1,500 of the item's price. It covers cards, comics, toys, coins, bags and jewellery, and excludes sports breaks and surprise products, so it is ticked by default only in the categories it reaches.
US: a few states tax one or both fees at local rates. Canada: GST or HST and provincial taxes apply on fees for sales to buyers outside Canada. Australia: 10% GST, charged only to sellers not registered for GST. Leave empty if none applies to you.
8% of $100.00
2.9% of $105.00 plus $0.30
How Whatnot's fees are calculated
Two fees come out of a sale, and they are charged on two different numbers. That is the single fact worth taking away from this page.
Commission is charged on the item price alone. Buyer-paid shipping and buyer-paid tax are not part of its base, so a $100 card with $5 shipping is charged commission on $100. The rate depends on your market, your category and, from 21 September 2026, your tier: a US seller at the Standard tier pays 8% on cards and 4% on coins and money, the same seller at the top tier pays 6.50% on cards, and Belgian and French card sellers pay a flat 4%. Pick yours above.
Payment processing is charged on the total order value, which is everything the buyer paid: the item price plus their shipping plus their tax. In the US, Canada, Australia and Japan that is 2.9% of the total plus a fixed amount ($0.30, or 50 yen); in the UK and EU it is 2.42% plus 25 pence or cents. The fixed part is why a $2 sale keeps a much smaller share than a $200 one. Pick your region above and the calculator uses the right schedule.
Your estimated payout is the item price less commission, less payment processing, less any tax charged on those fees. Buyer-paid shipping and tax are not in the payout because they were never yours to keep.
The full walkthrough, promos and worked example included, is in the guide: Whatnot fees explained. What that fixed part does to the cheapest cards is worked at seven prices in is a one dollar card worth selling on Whatnot, and who charges the buyer-paid tax in the field above is in does Whatnot collect sales tax for sellers. Every tier and threshold Whatnot publishes is tabled in does Whatnot lower your commission when you sell more. To check a whole show against the schedule rather than one sale, the Whatnot show report is the file to export. The one cost this calculator cannot price is the one Whatnot does not publish a rate for, which is worked in what promotion costs on Whatnot.
The high-value commission cap
The checkbox above caps the commission base at your region's high-value threshold: $1,500 in the US, Canada and Australia, £1,500 or €1,500 in the UK and EU, and ¥225,000 in Japan. In the US case, a $3,000 single is charged commission on $1,500. Whatnot applies the cap automatically when a sale qualifies, which is why the checkbox is on by default; the full story of the promotion, running since 14 January 2026, is in the guide linked below.
Untick it when you are pricing a break spot or a surprise product: the promotion covers the singles subcategories and select categories like comics, TCG, coins and toys, and it explicitly excludes sports breaks and surprise products. It caps commission only; payment processing is still charged on the whole order.
Tax on the fees, by country
In many countries, tax is charged on the fees themselves rather than on the sale: GST in Australia, VAT in the UK and EU, JCT in Japan, and in a handful of US states a local sales tax on one or both fees. Whatnot reports it as two separate lines, tax on commission and tax on the payment processing fee, so the rate you enter above is applied to each fee and rounded on its own, exactly as the Weekly Order Report carries them.
Who actually pays it matters as much as the rate. In the UK, EU and Australia, Whatnot charges tax on fees only to sellers who are NOT VAT or GST registered (Irish sellers are charged regardless); registered sellers are not charged and handle their own obligations, so for them the honest entry is an empty box. Japanese sellers are charged 10% JCT, with a tax invoice for businesses. Canadian sellers see GST or HST and provincial taxes on fees for sales to buyers outside Canada.
Common questions
Does Whatnot charge listing fees?
No. Whatnot charges nothing to create, store or manage listings. Fees apply only when something sells: a commission on the item price and a payment processing fee on the buyer's total.
Do giveaways have seller fees?
No. A giveaway carries no commission and no payment processing fee, because the buyer pays nothing. You do pay the giveaway's shipping, which is why giveaways appear as small negative amounts in your reports.
What percentage does Whatnot take?
It depends on your market, the category and, from 21 September 2026, your tier. A US seller at the Standard tier pays 8% commission on cards, 4% on coins and money, plus 2.9% of the buyer's total and $0.30. Commission falls as four-week sales grow, to 6.50% on US cards at the top tier. Pick your market and tier above for your own rate.
What are Whatnot's seller fees in the UK?
In the UK, Whatnot charges 6.67% commission on the item price in standard categories and 4% on coins and money. Payment processing is 2.42% of everything the buyer paid plus 25 pence. Sellers who are not VAT registered also pay VAT on both fees; registered sellers are not charged it.
Does the high-value commission cap apply to breaks?
No. Since 14 January 2026 commission in select categories applies to the first $1,500 of an item's price only, but the promotion explicitly excludes sports breaks and surprise products. A break spot pays full commission at any size. Singles subcategories, comics, TCG, coins and toys are covered.
What this does not cover
This is one sale in isolation. Shipping labels you buy, giveaways you shipped for nothing, refunds, and what the inventory cost you in the first place are all real money and none of them are here. Pricing before you list? The break-even calculator runs this maths backwards. Costing a whole night rather than one sale? The profit calculator runs it across a show and takes the inventory cost off.
Fee rates checked 18 September 2026 against Whatnot's published schedule, and the tax-on-fees rules against its taxes article as revised 17 July 2026. The schedule itself is dated 17 September 2026; the commission tiers were captured 18 September 2026 and the processing rates 31 August 2026. Actual fees can differ with promotions, categories and taxes, so this is an estimate. Everything you type stays in this browser tab; there is no submit and nothing is stored.
BreakCount does the rest of the arithmetic on your whole week. Import your Whatnot Weekly Order Report, add one cost per purchase lot, and every show ends with a real net profit instead of a guess.