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Single Order Etsy Reserve Calculations
In Payment
Account
In Reserve
Customer
Paid
Item(s) Cost
$1350.00
Shipping Cost (for Customer)
Taxes charged
0
# of Items in Order
1
Before Tax/Fees
$945.00
$405.00
$1350.00
Taxes
$0.00
Transaction fee 6.5%
-$87.75
Processing fee 3% plus .25
-$40.75
Shipping Transaction fee
$0.00
Listing Fee(s)
$0.00
Offsite Ad Fee 12%
$0.00
Total Taxes/Fees
-$128.50
After Tax/Fees
$816.50
$405.00
Enter order data in yellow
cells at right (hover for tips):
The rest of the numbers
calculate. Check bottom
row against numbers in
your Etsy shop.
30
%
is reserved based on total sale amount, including
fees and taxes.
Etsy fees and taxes come out of the seller's 70
%
-
around 11-17
%
of a normal sale, or around 23-29
%
of
any sale "attributed" to Etsy's Offsite Ads program.
After subtracting off fees and taxes, the seller could
receive as little as 41
%
of the buyer's payment.
True Percentages
In Reserve
Taxes and Fees
Seller Receives
$405.00
$128.50
$816.50
This tool was created by an all-volunteer nonprofi t organization dedicated to helping sellers
just like you -
the Indie Sellers Guild.
We hope you found it helpful!
It all started when one of our members whose shop was in reserve noticed the numbers
weren't adding up, and it didn't seem like Etsy was paying the correct amount. She dived in
and kept playing with calculations until she fi gured out Etsy's fancy reserves math. Read
the story here on our blog (coming soon!)
Once she had solved the mystery, she and ISG president Kristi Cassidy collaborated in Mac
Numbers on a way to make the info accessible to everyone. The result: this spreadsheet-
based-tool anyone can use to understand what's going on.
Feel free to use this tool to take screenshots to help explain to others how much you're
actually receiving from Etsy while your payment account is on reserve. To take a screenshot
of a portion of your screen on a Windows, use Windows Button - Shift - S. To take a
screenshot of a portion of your screen on a Mac, use Shift - Command - 4.
Feel free to share this tool with others! Icloud collaboration URLS are a handful, so we set
up a redirect for it:
https://indiesellersguild.org/etsyreservemath
If this tool didn't work for you, please let us know so we can investigate and fi nd ways to
make it better! If you're on Discord, you can join our server from:
indiesellersguild.org/discord
Or, you can reach us via email at
info@indiesellersguild.org
.
Finally,
please join the guild!
Membership is free, and we are collaborating to build a better
internet for creative indie sellers.
We are stronger together!
This volunteer-created tool is designed to demystify Etsy's complicated Payment Reserves
math - and help creative business owners understand what's happening to their income
while on reserve. If you see not-zero numbers in the yellow cells, that means someone else
is using it. Please head to the next tab - 30
%
Reserve 2. When you're fi nished, please
change the yellow cells back to "0" so the tool is ready for the next person!
You can fi nd more information and instructions on using this tool at the end of this page.
Click here to sign our petition telling Etsy "Pay your makers NOW!"
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