Poshmark Fees Calculator

What this computes

Poshmark's pitch to sellers is simplicity: listing is free, and on most sales you keep 80%. The 80% is real, but it is the end of a short chain of arithmetic that is worth running before you price — especially near $15, where the fee structure has a genuine discontinuity, and before you accept an offer, where the commission is recomputed on a smaller number.

This calculator takes your sale price (the listing price, or the offer you are about to accept), what the item cost you, and the package weight tier. It returns the commission Poshmark keeps, your net earnings (the deposit Poshmark actually sends), your net profit after item cost, margin, your share of the sale, the breakeven price, and a what-if table for offers at 10%, 20%, and 30% off.

How Poshmark fees work (June 2026)

The commission has two tiers, in effect since October 24, 2024, when Poshmark reverted from a brief experiment with lower commissions plus buyer-side fees:

• Orders under $15.00: a flat $2.95 commission, whatever the price.
• Orders of $15.00 or more: 20% of the order total — you keep 80%. Note that $15.00 exactly is in this tier: the fee is $3.00, not $2.95.

The commission base is the order price after discounts. Two things buyers pay are not in the base: shipping — a flat $6.49 USPS Ground Advantage label, the rate in effect since September 12, 2025 — and sales tax, which Poshmark collects and remits itself. Neither touches your payout.

One seller-paid extra is worth modeling. The buyer's $6.49 label covers packages up to 5 lb. Heavier packages require a label upgrade, deducted from your earnings: +$5 for 5.1–10 lb and +$10 for 10.1–15 lb, per the tiers effective February 2026. The upgrade does not change the commission — it comes out after the commission is computed.

And that is the whole list. No listing fee, no payment-processing fee, no subscription, no store tiers. Where an eBay seller stacks a 13.25% final value fee, a $0.40 flat fee, and optional ad fees, and an Etsy seller stacks three separate charges, Poshmark's 20% is the all-in number.

The math

Commission       = $2.95                    if order total < $15.00
                 = 20% × order total       if order total ≥ $15.00
Net earnings     = Order total − Commission − Label upgrade
Net profit       = Net earnings − Item cost
Profit margin    = Net profit / Order total
Your share       = Net earnings / Order total
Breakeven price  = Item cost + Upgrade + $2.95   if that sum < $15.00
                 = (Item cost + Upgrade) / 0.80  otherwise

A worked example

You sell a blazer for $25. It cost you $8 at a thrift store, and it ships under 5 lb, so there is no label upgrade.

• Commission: $25 × 0.20 = $5.00
• Net earnings: $25 − $5.00 = $20.00
• Net profit: $20.00 − $8.00 = $12.00
• Margin: $12.00 / $25 = 48.0%
• Your share: $20.00 / $25 = 80.0%
• Breakeven: $8.00 + $2.95 = $10.95 (under $15, so the flat fee applies at that price)

Now a heavier item: a $40 wool coat that cost $12 and ships at 7 lb, requiring the +$5 upgrade. Commission is $40 × 0.20 = $8.00 — the upgrade does not enter the base. Net earnings are $40 − $8.00 − $5.00 = $27.00, net profit is $15.00, margin 37.5%, and your share drops to 67.5%. Breakeven moves to ($12 + $5) / 0.80 = $21.25, because $17 of fixed costs can no longer be recovered below the $15 line.

Below $14.75, the flat fee costs you more than the 20% it replaces.

The flat $2.95 and the 20% rate cross at exactly $14.75, where both formulas give $2.95. Below that price the flat fee is the worse deal, and it gets worse fast: 29.5% of a $10 sale, 59% of a $5 sale, 98.3% of a $3 sale — Poshmark's listing minimum. Cheap single items are where this structure quietly takes the largest share.

The $15 discontinuity

Most marketplace fees are continuous: price a dollar higher, pay a few cents more. Poshmark's two-tier structure is not. At $14.99 the fee is $2.95; at $15.00 it jumps to $3.00. Raising your price one cent lowers your payout by four cents. Here is the seam, computed straight from the formulas above (net is before item cost):

Two practical readings. First, $14.99 is a local maximum: it is the single best price in the flat tier, carrying the lowest effective rate Poshmark offers anywhere — 19.7%. Second, the prices from $15.00 through $15.04 are a dead zone that nets less than $14.99; $15.05 is the first price that ties it, and only from $15.06 up does crossing the line actually pay. If your target is near $15, the math says list at $14.99 or move well past the seam — never park at $15.00 or $15.50-style tokens just above it without checking the net.

Offer and bundle math

Offers are where Poshmark sales actually happen, and the fee is recomputed on the accepted price — tier included. Take a $20 listing for an item that cost $8:

• 10% off: $18.00 order, $3.60 fee, $14.40 earnings, $6.40 profit
• 20% off: $16.00 order, $3.20 fee, $12.80 earnings, $4.80 profit
• 30% off: $14.00 order — under $15, so the flat $2.95 applies (21.1% effective), $11.05 earnings, $3.05 profit

The 30% case is the one to notice: the discount drops the order into the flat tier, where the fee is a higher share of a smaller number. A common pattern follows: price the listing so that the offer you expect to accept still clears the seam. If you intend to take 20% off, a $19 listing accepts down to $15.20 and stays in the 80%-payout tier; an $18 listing accepts down to $14.40 and hands back the flat fee's worse rate.

Bundles run the same logic in the sellers' favor. The commission applies once, to the order total. Three $10 items sold separately cost 3 × $2.95 = $8.85 in fees; the same three items as one $30 bundle cost $30 × 0.20 = $6.00 — and the buyer pays one $6.49 shipping charge instead of three. For low-priced inventory, a bundle discount that looks generous can still net more than three flat fees.

What this calculator doesn't model

• Returns and cases. Poshmark sales are final except when the buyer opens a case for misrepresentation or damage. Case rates are lower than typical eBay return rates, but a lost case refunds the order and you may eat the shipping. Portfolio-level math should haircut realized profit a few percent.
• Advertising. Optional promotion spend (such as Promoted Closet) is billed separately and varies by campaign; if you use it, subtract it from net profit yourself.
• Your time. Photographing, listing, sharing, and the relisting ritual are hours of work the per-item number hides. Run your monthly profit through the True Hourly Wage calculator to see what closet-flipping pays per hour.
• Tax. Net profit here is pre-tax. Profit on items sold is generally taxable income; losses on personal items are generally not deductible. 1099-K reporting thresholds have changed repeatedly — check current IRS guidance rather than folklore.
• Packages over 15 lb and non-US sales. The weight tiers here stop at 15 lb, and the fee structure modeled is US-only; Poshmark Canada and other markets have their own schedules.