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Poshmark fees explained: flat $2.95 vs the 20% cut
Poshmark takes a flat $2.95 on orders under $15 and 20% on orders of $15 or more, as of June 2026. The $15 cliff, offer math, and a live payout calculator.
Poshmark charges sellers one commission with two tiers — in effect since October 24, 2024, unchanged as of June 2026:
Order under $15.00 → flat $2.95 commission
Order $15.00 or more → 20% of the order (you keep 80%)The base is the order price after discounts. Buyer-paid shipping ($6.49 flat) and sales tax are not in it, and there is no listing or payment-processing fee. A $40 sale costs $8.00; a $14.99 sale costs $2.95.
Sell a $40 blazer on Poshmark and $32 lands in your account. The fee schedule fits on an index card — two tiers, no add-ons — but the 20% headline rate is the steepest among the major US resale platforms, and the boundary between the tiers produces some genuinely odd pricing math. This page covers the structure, the discontinuity at $15, what accepting offers does to your profit, and how 20% compares with eBay, Mercari, and Etsy, with a live calculator inline.
Two tiers, nothing else
Since October 24, 2024, Poshmark’s entire US seller-side fee schedule is:
Commission = $2.95 if order < $15.00
Commission = 20% × order if order ≥ $15.00The base is the order price after any discount you gave. Three things are deliberately absent:
- No listing fee. Listing is free; you pay only when something sells.
- No payment-processing fee. Card processing is inside the commission.
- No fee on shipping or tax. The buyer pays a flat $6.49 for a USPS Ground Advantage label (the rate since September 12, 2025), and sales tax on top; neither touches your payout.
One seller-paid extra exists: the overweight label upgrade, effective February 2026. The buyer’s $6.49 label covers up to 5 lb; a 5.1–10 lb package costs you $5, and 10.1–15 lb costs $10, deducted from earnings. Under 5 lb — most clothing — you pay nothing for shipping at all.
The cliff at $15
A flat fee below a threshold and a percentage above it creates a discontinuity. Here is the net payout (no overweight upgrade) around the boundary:
| Order price | Commission | Net earnings | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| $13.00 | $2.95 | $10.05 | 22.7% |
| $14.00 | $2.95 | $11.05 | 21.1% |
| $14.99 | $2.95 | $12.04 | 19.7% |
| $15.00 | $3.00 | $12.00 | 20.0% |
| $16.00 | $3.20 | $12.80 | 20.0% |
| $20.00 | $4.00 | $16.00 | 20.0% |
Three things fall out of the table:
- The crossover is $14.75. That’s where $2.95 equals 20% ($2.95 ÷ 0.20 = $14.75). Below it, the flat fee costs more than 20% — punishingly so at the bottom: $2.95 on a $5 item is a 59% fee, and on a $10 item it’s 29.5%. The narrow band above $14.75 and below $15.00 is the only place on Poshmark where the effective rate dips under 20% — at exactly $14.75 the two structures cost the same.
- $14.99 beats $15.00. Crossing the threshold raises the fee from $2.95 to $3.00, so net drops from $12.04 to $12.00 — the net-per-price curve actually falls as the price rises.
- $15.00–$15.04 is a dead zone. In the 20% tier you keep 80 cents per dollar, so net doesn’t climb back to $12.04 until $15.05 (0.80 × $15.05 = $12.04). Any price in between is strictly worse than $14.99.
A worked example
List a blazer at $40, sourced for $12, shipping weight under 5 lb:
- Commission: 20% × $40 = $8.00
- Net earnings: $40 − $8 = $32.00 — your share is 80% of the price
- Net profit: $32 − $12 = $20.00
- Profit margin: 20 ÷ 40 = 50%
- Breakeven price: $12 + $2.95 = $14.95 — under $15, so the flat tier applies and net is exactly $12.00 there; in the 20% tier you’d need $12 ÷ 0.80 = $15.00
If the item were a 7 lb pair of boots instead, the $5 overweight upgrade drops net earnings to $27.00 and profit to $15.00.
Try your own numbers
$20.00
$12.00 profit after your $8.00 cost · 48.0% margin
Poshmark keeps $5.00 — the 20% commission, 20.0% of this price. Your share is 80.0%. The buyer's $6.49 shipping and sales tax never touch your payout.
| Offer | Price | Fee | Your profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| −10% | $22.50 | $4.50 | $10.00 |
| −20% | $20.00 | $4.00 | $8.00 |
| −30% | $17.50 | $3.50 | $6.00 |
- Commission
- $5.0020% of the order total
- Your share
- 80.0%net earnings / sale price
- Breakeven price
- $10.95profit = 0 at this price
- Net profit
- $12.00earnings − item cost
Prefer the full page? The standalone Poshmark fee calculator runs the same math with the complete breakdown.
Offer math: what −10%, −20%, −30% really costs
Poshmark runs on offers, and the commission is charged on the accepted price, not the listing price. On the $40 blazer with a $12 cost:
| Accepted offer | Price | Commission | Net earnings | Net profit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full price | $40.00 | $8.00 | $32.00 | $20.00 |
| −10% | $36.00 | $7.20 | $28.80 | $16.80 |
| −20% | $32.00 | $6.40 | $25.60 | $13.60 |
| −30% | $28.00 | $5.60 | $22.40 | $10.40 |
Each 10 points of discount removes $3.20 of net — 8% of the listing price, because you keep 80 cents of every price dollar. But profit shrinks faster than price: −10% on the price is −16% on profit here, and −30% on the price cuts profit nearly in half (−48%). The thinner your margin, the sharper that multiplier.
One trap: an offer can knock the order back under $15, where the flat fee bites harder than 20% would. Accept −20% on an $18 listing and the $14.40 order pays the flat $2.95 — $0.07 more than 20% would have been. Below the $14.75 crossover, every accepted offer is charged an effective rate above 20%. Your breakeven price is the natural floor for what to accept.
How 20% compares with eBay, Mercari, and Etsy
Approximate platform fees on the item price alone (free shipping assumed), as of June 2026 — eBay modeled at ~13.6% + $0.40 with processing bundled, Mercari at 10%, Etsy at ~6.5% + 3% + $0.45 in fixed fees. The bases differ across platforms (eBay and Etsy also fee shipping, and eBay rates vary by category), so treat these as directional:
| Item price | Poshmark | eBay | Mercari | Etsy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10 | $2.95 (29.5%) | $1.76 (17.6%) | $1.00 (10%) | $1.40 (14.0%) |
| $25 | $5.00 (20%) | $3.80 (15.2%) | $2.50 (10%) | $2.83 (11.3%) |
| $50 | $10.00 (20%) | $7.20 (14.4%) | $5.00 (10%) | $5.20 (10.4%) |
| $100 | $20.00 (20%) | $14.00 (14.0%) | $10.00 (10%) | $9.95 (10.0%) |
Poshmark is the most expensive line at every price point, and the flat $2.95 makes it especially rough under $15. What the 20% buys is simplicity: no per-order fee, no listing fee, no processing line item, and shipping that is the buyer’s problem up to 5 lb. The other platforms claw some of their advantage back elsewhere — eBay adds $0.40 per order and fees the shipping you charge, Etsy charges $0.20 to list — so the honest comparison is net payout on your item, not headline rates. Run the same sale through the eBay profit calculator, the Mercari fee calculator, and the Etsy fee calculator to see where it nets best.
Go deeper:
- Poshmark fee calculator — the standalone version of the calculator above, with the full payout breakdown.
- Mercari fees explained — the flat-10% structure and why free shipping is fee-neutral there.
- eBay profit margin: the fees most resellers miss — the full reseller ledger, including time cost and returns.
- Etsy fees explained — the stacked-fee model at the other extreme from Poshmark’s one-line schedule.
Educational content, not financial or tax advice. Figures reflect Poshmark’s US fee structure effective October 24, 2024 (commission), September 12, 2025 (buyer shipping), and February 2026 (overweight tiers), confirmed as of June 2026; competitor rates are approximate. Platforms change fee schedules — verify against current policy pages. Reselling income is taxable.