After redesigning my PayPal Fee Calculator a few weeks ago I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of all the PayPal fee calculators I could find just to see what else is out there and to show people all of their available options. I've separated them into two categories, "Online" and "Offline" and I've organized them by date going from newest to oldest. If you know of another PayPal fee calculator that's not on this list, leave a comment on this page and I'll be sure to add it.

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Because I'm mainly focusing on my web-based verison now, I thought I would release the source code to my old Visual Basic version of PPCalc just in case anyone wants it or can learn something from it. I originally wrote this tool on November 04, 2005 using Visual Basic 6. This verison of the calculator marked the first time where you could type in what you wanted to receive in one currecy and the calculator could tell you what someone would have to send you in a second, different currency to receive that amount. Performing this type of calculation though requires currency conversion and the currency exchange rates used by the calculator are still from 2005. If you want more up-to-date rates you should try my advanced web-version, as that's the one I update most frequently now. Although it's not much use as a currency converter, you can still use it to calculate and reverse calculate PayPal fees as much as you want in an offline format. Enjoy!

Download PPCalc 2.2 Source Code (Nov 04, 2005)

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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. This tool has actually been around a while. I originally wrote it back in May of 2005 as a way of learning HTML and Javascript for the first time. Back then it was very primative, crudely designed, and only supported a single fee rate. I've since improved it vastly and learned more about writing cleaner, more efficient HTML and Javascript code in the process.
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