eBay Stores Fee Calculator v2.0 released
Posted February 8th, 2009 by Ryan Olbe Fee Calculators, Web-Based Tools, eBay Tools Add comments
Since a lot of people have been requesting it lately, here's my new eBay Stores Fee Calculator. If you look at the fees page for eBay Stores, you'll notice their fee structure is very different from eBay.com. This is because having an eBay Store requires you to pay a monthly subscription fee and Store listings have an increased duration of 30 days. Store listings also have slightly different visibility on eBay.com, which you can read more about on their FAQ page. Since the fees for eBay Stores are so much different I thought it would be better to make a entirely new calculator just for them rather than adding them as an option into my existing eBay fee calculator.
As you can see, this calculator is divided into 2 parts. On the right side you have the actual fee calculator itself where you enter your item’s price and it tells you what your fees are, and on the left side you have optional stuff like listing upgrades and choosing whether or not you want to include PayPal fees or a Powerseller Discount. If you're not sure if you qualify for eBay's Powerseller Discount or if you don't know what your PayPal fee rate is you can click on each option's respective help icon 
to find out.
Let's say I was selling an item on eBay Stores for $10 and I wanted to know what my fees would be. In this example, let's say I was thinking of charging $5 for Shipping & Handling and I knew my actual cost of postage to be $4.50. By entering those amounts into the calculator, I can see my eBay fees would be $1.23, my PayPal fees would be $0.74 and that I would receive $8.53 after fees.
But what if I wanted to receive $10 after fees? By using the built-in reverse fee calculator you can find out. If I enter $10 into the reverse calculator, it shows me that to receive $10 after fees I would need to sell my item for exactly $11.72 or that I would need to charge exactly $6.51 for Shipping & Handling.
As of the time of this writing, February 08 2009, this calculator has been updated with the latest, most up-to-date eBay Stores fee rates, but it’s always a good idea to check out the official eBay Stores fees page every now and then just to make sure you’re using the latest rates.
If you have any suggestions, comments, 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!
Previous Versions
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| Version 1.0 (April 19, 2008) |
Would you be able to include the number of items listed and number of items sold like you had in the previous versions of your software?
The reason I changed the calculator to have only one "Quantity" field is because I learned the number of items you offer for sale doesn't affect your fees on eBay Stores. On the eBay Stores Fees page it says...
"The Insertion Fee covers a single listing (with any quantity of items in the listing), whether you list 1 or 1,000 of the same item."
So all the calculator really needs to know is the number of items you successfully sold, which you would enter in the "Qty" field.
OMG....I just discovered you have an EBAY STORES CALCULATOR! I clicked on your name to see if I could suggest adding it to your current calculator for Fixed Price & Auction. Many times I want to find out what format would be the most economical way to list. Granted, I would still have to use both calculators, but perhaps in the future you can add it so one only has to use =ONE= calculator in order to make a comparison? Thank you!
This is great. I bought a calculator on CD once which was good too but web based is better and up to date. The Paypal fee calculator is greate too. just shows what ebay is earning (they also own Paypal I believe) There are quite a few auction sites that do n ot charge fees such as
http://www.EnergyBook.biz
which is focussed on green products and renewable energy. But EnergyBook still uses PayPal as it seems to work well. Thanks for a great blog and plenty of greate software.
Hi Ryan,
First, THANK YOU for the AWESOME tools you have created to save so much time for EBAY sellers like myself!! And to help us be more productive! I have just found your EBAY stores calculator and I will definitely use this since I am a store owner. I have a request though, can you add something to accomodate the "store referral credit"? EBAY gives store owners a 75% discount on the FVF if the sale is generated from a store owners marketing efforts. Thanks you and keep up the great work!
I must say that the calculator was a huge plus for me. I have also started building my own ebay store websites. Seems to be just as much work as that of having a store on ebay. But it makes me feel like I acutally own something.
Anyways, great work.
Thank you for explaining all this in so much detail lots of info. i have been searching for all this on one website for a while. i have no website yet but my wife and i are thinking about other income streams.We are realtor/mortgage brokers.Any advice always welcome