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Facebook's shipped-order fee is one rule with three exceptions: 10% of the buyer-paid total, an $0.80 minimum below an $8 total, and a $20 penalty on a disputed order. Holding all three in your head on every sale is where a mental estimate usually loses to a payout statement.
| Rule | Doing it by hand | This calculator |
|---|---|---|
| 10% shipped-order rate | Usually remembered | Applied every time |
| Shipping and tax count toward the fee base | Often forgotten -- easy to fee only the item price | Included by default |
| $0.80 minimum below an $8 total | The rule most often skipped entirely | Applied automatically, and flagged when it is the binding fee |
| $20 dispute penalty | Rarely factored in until it happens | An explicit toggle |
| Price for a target profit | Requires solving the fee formula backwards by hand | Solved directly, across the minimum-fee floor |
A $5 item with no buyer-paid shipping: a mental estimate of "10% of $5" gives $0.50, and a payout of $4.50. The fee Facebook actually charges is the $0.80 minimum, since 10% of a $5 total falls short of it -- so the real payout is $4.20, thirty cents lower than the quick estimate. On a single sale that is small change; run the same shortcut across a weekend of listings and it adds up to a number a seller notices on the deposit.
Most often the $0.80 minimum fee on a small shipped sale -- 10% of a $5 total is $0.50, but the fee actually charged is $0.80, and a quick mental calculation defaults to the flat percentage. Buyer-paid shipping and any sales tax Facebook collected also count toward the fee base, not just the item price, which a mental estimate built around "10% of what I'm charging for the item" leaves out.
The percentage itself is simple. What is not simple in your head is remembering, on every single sale, to check whether the $0.80 minimum applies instead, whether shipping and tax belong in the base, and whether a dispute penalty changes the number -- four rules to hold at once rather than one.
For a quick, rough estimate where being off by the price of a coffee does not matter. For pricing a listing to hit a specific take-home number, or checking a payout that already landed, the minimum-fee floor and the dispute penalty are exactly the kind of detail mental math drops first.
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser. Item prices, costs, and payouts are never uploaded, and the optional usage counter records only which features were used and the day, never your numbers.