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Facebook Marketplace charges a 10% selling fee on a shipped checkout order, applied to the buyer-paid total -- the item price plus any buyer-paid shipping, and sales tax where Facebook collects it -- with an $0.80 minimum fee per sale. A sale arranged for local pickup instead carries no selling fee at all. The rate has changed more than once in the last two years, so a number quoted from an old blog post or forum thread may already be stale.
fee = max(10% × (item price + buyer-paid shipping), $0.80)
payout = item price + buyer-paid shipping − fee − your own shipping-label cost
Local pickup skips the formula entirely: the fee is $0, so the payout is simply the item price minus whatever you spent on the item and packaging.
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Item price | $50.00 |
| Selling fee (10% of $50.00) | $5.00 |
| Payout | $45.00 |
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Item price | $5.00 |
| 10% of $5.00 would be | $0.50 |
| Selling fee actually charged ($0.80 minimum) | $0.80 |
| Payout | $4.20 |
Not $4.50 (item price minus 10%) -- once the buyer-paid total falls under $8, the $0.80 minimum is the binding fee, not the 10% rate. This is the detail sellers who mentally calculate "just take 10% off" get wrong on small sales.
A $50 item with $10 in buyer-paid shipping pays 10% of the combined $60, which is $6.00 -- not 10% of the $50 item price alone. The payout is $54.00 ($60.00 collected minus the $6.00 fee), assuming you did not also pay for your own shipping label.
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Item price | $50.00 |
| Selling fee | $0.00 |
| Payout | $50.00 |
No selling fee, listing fee, or subscription cost applies to a sale arranged for local pickup rather than Facebook's shipped checkout.
The Facebook Marketplace fee calculator runs this same arithmetic on your own item price, shipping, and costs, flags when the $0.80 minimum is the binding fee, models a disputed order's flat $20 chargeback penalty, and solves for the price you need to hit a target profit. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
For a shipped checkout order with no buyer-paid shipping: 10% of $50, which is $5.00, leaving a $45.00 payout.
10% of $5 would be $0.50, but Facebook charges an $0.80 minimum fee on every shipped order, so the fee is $0.80, not $0.50 -- leaving a $4.20 payout instead of the $4.50 a flat 10% calculation would suggest.
Nothing. Local pickup sales carry no selling fee, listing fee, or subscription cost -- the full item price is the payout, minus whatever you spent on the item and packaging yourself.