PayPal Fee Calculator v4.0 released
Posted January 26th, 2009 by Ryan Olbe eBay Tools, Fee Calculators, Web-Based Tools Add comments
Here's my newly redesigned PayPal Fee Calculator. PPCalc, as I call it, is a free web-based tool that allows people to calculate what their PayPal fees would be to receive a certain amount or to reverse calculate their fees to determine what amount a person would have to send them for them to receive a certain amount after fees.
Visit PPCalc version 4.0 (January 26, 2009)
With this new re-design I decided to go for a more simplistic approach. I opted for a centered, fixed-width design, with large fonts and text boxes so that people could easily see and enter their amounts. I also completely eliminated the Calculate and Clear buttons, because both are unneccassary if you can have your fees calculated "on-the-fly" as you type. Also, rather than including built-in fee rates, where you would select your source country, destination country, and monthly sales volume from a drop-down list and the calculator would tell you your fee rate, I decided it would be easier just to include a large editable textbox that included the default fee rate for each country and a "help me decide" link that leads to PayPal's fee page. That way people can easily find their fee rate on the official PayPal.com fees page if they don't know.
To accomodate people from other countries I placed flag icons underneath the editable fee rate box. If you click on one of these flag icons the default fee rate for that country is loaded into the calculator. So for example, if you are from Australia, all you have to do is click on the Australia flag and your default fee rate of 2.4% + $0.30 AUD is loaded into the calculator. If you have amounts already entered in, the new fee rate is instantly reflected in them as well. From a usability perspective I think this is a lot easier than having to open and sift through a drop-down list of 100+ countries trying to find the country you're looking for.
This time I also chose to put links to PayPal.com, eBay.com, and the PayPal fees page in the top-right corner of the page so people could easily jump to those places after using the calculator instead of having to scroll down.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or ideas for the calculator I would love to hear them. Just leave a comment on this page or e-mail me directly and let me know!
Thanks for putting in the links to the old versions!
Thank you so much for this valuable tool. I will make sure that I share it.
Such a simple site but so helpful for my transactions. Thanks!
Nice calculator and very simple+ comprehensive, GOOD WORK done here! A++
it is great just what I was looking for, simple easy to use.thank you
I am confused. If I am a merchant selling a product for $100, and the buyer uses their PayPal to pay, will the amount I eventually receive be the same whether PayPal uses the buyer's MC/Visa account or a Debit card number that gets the funds from the buyer's checking account?
Thanks,
Tom
The amount you receive after fees is not affected by how the buyer makes payment, it's determined by what type of account you have, what country you do business in and how much you receive every month via PayPal. Some PayPal fee calculators may have an option for "eCheck" only because PayPal states...
Fees for receiving eCheck payments will not exceed $5.00 USD per transaction.
You can read more about PayPal fees on the Official PayPal Fees Page or read the Mahalo.com article, How to Use PayPal: Basics and Beyond for a great step-by-step guide on how to use PayPal.
Wow, the PayPal fee calculator is such a great tool.
Very useful and extremely easy to use.
Thanks for taking the time to create it.
With the recent changes to the PP fee structure, will you be making any amendments to the current advanced version? I've used it many times and it's always off by a few cents up to a dollar or so. Either way, many thanks to you for developing it! It has saved me a lot of time! Would love to hear from you about updates regarding the PPcalc in relation to changes to the PP fee structure:)
cheers
As a new seller on eBay, this PayPal fee calculator is great.
Thank you for designing a very user friendly tool!
have just set up an ebay shop, this is an excellent tool, well done and good luck.
Hey, thanks for very useful calculator.
Have a tip:
It was going to lead ann up the number of transactions that are included in the sum. Whether I will calculate a sum of NOK 50,000, and it contains 50 single purchase, so it would given a more accurate answer. I hope you consider this.
Wow, what a great resource! I am a new seller and have been having a heck of a time with trying to figure out paypal fee's as so to list my product prices correctly. I have been in the ballpark for my pricing, but this calculator gets the amount right on so far.
As said in earlier posts - THANKS for such a USEFUL tool!
I want to apply for an ATM Debit Card. Please guide me
If you're referring to the PayPal Debit Card you can apply here...
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/account/DCIntro-outside
UBER EXCELLENT RYAN !!! I tried out your app with several of my invoices that were already completed, and compared the results. EVEN Totals are 100% accurate. With an ODD total, it's off by a penny. Knowing this, when a client owes me $49.95, I know to add One Cent to the calculated Paypal fee. VERY SIMPLE and FAST! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! This will add up to saving me a lot of calculator time over the years!! If Paypal was smart, they'd buy this app from you!!! WELL DONE!
Hey. I got a 502 gateway error earlier today when I tried to access this page. Anyone else had the problem?
You can try pressing SHIFT + Refresh to reload the page or try accessing from http://www.ppcalc.com. Let me know if you still see the problem.
Many thanks for PPCalc, very useful!
It's current missing some currencies that have recently been added such as TWD (Taiwan Dollar). Could you add this next time you update?
Yes, I'm currently working on version 5.0 and that will be one of the new things I will add. I'll make a new blog post when it's done. Thanks for telling me.
I use this tool regularly, it's simple, clear and perfectly presented, well done and many thanks
Just one query, is it possible to go straight to a specific currency, for example having a url variable to preselect the desired one, eg; http://www.rolbe.com/paypal.htm?currency=uk
Not right now, but in version 5.0 it will be possible, which I hope to have done within the month.
Please include Brazilian Reais (BRL) in your currency list.
I suggest you don't use underlined text (in the advanced calculator) because on the Web, underlined = hyperlink, which is not the case here.
Thanks.
Just wanted to say thanx for having a great online calculator - I've used it for a long time and really enjoy it.
Have you heard of being able to make a shopping cart page that auto-adds the paypal fees to the total? I run a couple of non-profits, and we allow people to pay for services, but we pass the paypal fees along to the buyer. I currently do this manually on each shopping cart item (by using your calculator, of course), but I'm wanting to create a page where the buyer can specify a custom amount and then the page calculates the handling fee to be the paypal fees.
I haven't seen paypal support the "pass the fee to the buyer" yet, and I don't want to make it a static % since paypal does the transaction fee + a percentage.
Let me know if I'm not making sense, or better yet, if you have heard of a solution to this -- ideally, one that keeps up with paypal's fee schedule. As a non-profit, we enjoy a lower percentage rate, for example.
I wonder why Paypal does not offer a service as useful as they offer you. We have a lot of money doing personal exact charges and having to pay the difference. Now thanks to you, our customers pay by Paypal. Thanks
In my humble opinion, PayPal should buy your script and integrate it into their interface. This would simplify the usability of the site 10-fold for those requiring quick mathematical assessments.
On another note, I would like to see conversion on the advanced calculator for India.
Thanks for an incredible tool. Twitter'ed, Facebook'ed and Bookmark'ed.
thanks a lot, this is very useful to send money via paypal!
Honestly this version is a LOT better than the whole complicated interface you have now. That one doesn't even tell us the total off the top!