Poshmark's fee isn't one number — it's a $15 cliff. Below it you pay a flat $2.95 (29.5% of a $10 sale!), above it 20%. See your effective fee rate and true profit per sale. No processing fee, no listing fee — the commission is the whole story.
Fee = $2.95 (price < $15) OR 20% × price (price ≥ $15); Net Profit = Price − Fee − Item Cost − Your ShippingPoshmark applies a two-tier commission: a flat $2.95 below the $15 threshold and 20% at or above it. There are no other seller-side fees — no listing fee, no processing fee, no per-order fee. Buyer-paid shipping bypasses your payout entirely, so revenue equals the sale price.
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| $2.95 | Flat commission for any sale priced under $15 |
| 20% | Commission rate for sales of $15 or more — absorbs payment processing |
| Effective Rate | Fee ÷ price × 100 — exposes how the flat fee penalizes low-priced sales |
| Your Shipping | Shipping you volunteer to cover in an offer; 0 on standard sales |
Our calculations are based on established financial and scientific formulas. The following sources inform the default values and methodology used in this calculator:
Poshmark's commission is flat $2.95 on sales under $15 and 20% at $15 or more. Most thresholds on marketplaces work one way: cross the line, pay more. This one works the other way near the boundary. At $14.99 the flat fee is a bargain — you keep $12.04. At $15.00 the commission becomes $3.00 and you keep $12.00. Raising your price by a penny costs you four cents, because the fee jumps 5¢ on a 1¢ price rise.
| Sale price | Commission | Effective fee rate | You keep (before costs) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10.00 | $2.95 | 29.5% | $7.05 |
| $14.00 | $2.95 | 21.1% | $11.05 |
| $14.99 | $2.95 | 19.7% | $12.04 |
| $15.00 | $3.00 | 20.0% | $12.00 |
| $16.00 | $3.20 | 20.0% | $12.80 |
Commission only — no processing, listing, or per-order fee exists on Poshmark, so these are the complete platform fees.
The practical pricing rule that falls out of this is narrow but real: if an item's natural price lands between about $13 and $15, price at $14.99 rather than $15.00 (or push meaningfully past it). At $15.01 you are back ahead — the commission grows 20¢ per dollar from there while the flat fee sits still. The cliff is only a cliff in the dollar-two-ninety-five sense: what actually varies is the effective rate, and that is why the calculator reports it as its own readout instead of leaving you to divide.
Do not over-apply the rule. $14.99 beats $15.00 by four cents; it does not beat $16.00, where you keep $12.80. And below roughly $13 the flat fee stops being a bargain and starts being a tax — which is the subject of the next section.
Poshmark describes its commission as 20%, and that is true only for items at $15 or more. Below the threshold the flat $2.95 is a regressive fee — the cheaper the item, the larger the share it takes. On a $10 sale Poshmark keeps 29.5%. On a $5 sale it keeps 59%. Sellers who price everything "20% plus my cost" are silently losing money on every low-priced listing, because the quote is only accurate in the upper tier.
| Sale price | Commission | Effective fee rate |
|---|---|---|
| $5 | $2.95 | 59.0% |
| $8 | $2.95 | 36.9% |
| $10 | $2.95 | 29.5% |
| $12 | $2.95 | 24.6% |
| $14 | $2.95 | 21.1% |
| $15+ | 20% of price | 20.0% |
The effective rate converges to 20% from above as the price approaches $14.99 from below — $2.95 ÷ $14.99 is 19.7%.
The standard escape from a regressive flat fee is consolidation. Two $10 items sold separately pay $5.90 in commission — 29.5% of $20. Bundled into one $20 sale, the same goods pay $4.00 — 20%. Poshmark's bundle feature exists partly for this reason, and the arithmetic is why heavy thrift resellers hold listings back for bundle offers instead of letting them sell one at a time.
The breakeven price where the flat fee stops hurting is higher than most sellers guess. To keep $10 before item cost on a commission of $2.95, you need a $12.95 sale — where the fee is still 22.8%. Enter your item cost and a target profit into the calculator and read the effective rate at that price: if it is far above 20%, the item belongs in a bundle, a lot, or a different price tier entirely.
On eBay and Mercari, the shipping a buyer pays flows through your settlement and is charged a fee on the way. On Poshmark it never reaches you at all: the buyer buys the $7.97 prepaid label (up to 5 lb) directly, and your revenue is the item price alone. That is why this calculator has no "buyer-paid shipping" input and why the commission is 20% of the item — there is no shipping in the base because there is no shipping in your gross.
It is worth seeing that this is bookkeeping, not generosity. Run the same $25 item both ways: on Poshmark you gross $25.00, pay $5.00, keep $20.00. On eBay you gross $32.97 (item plus a $7.97 shipping charge), pay 13.6% plus $0.40 — $4.88 — and then buy the $7.97 label yourself, keeping $20.12. After everyone's fees and labels, the two models land within twelve cents of each other.
| Platform | Your gross | Platform fees | Label | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poshmark | $25.00 (item only) | $5.00 (20%) | paid by buyer | $20.00 |
| eBay (13.6% + $0.40) | $32.97 (item + shipping) | $4.88 | $7.97 | $20.12 |
Same $25 item, same $7.97 postage, before item cost and taxes. eBay fee base includes buyer-paid shipping; Poshmark's never sees it.
The shipping input in this calculator exists for the one case where Poshmark shipping does cost you money: offers. When you send an offer to a liker with a discounted shipping promotion, you pay the gap between the discounted label and the standard $7.97 out of your proceeds. Enter that gap in the shipping field and the profit readout will price the offer honestly instead of flattering it.
Offer-to-liker discounts are Poshmark's main conversion lever, and the commission follows the discounted price, not the list price. That has a consequence sellers routinely misjudge. Take a $25 item that cost you $12: at list, you keep $20.00 − $12.00 = $8.00. Send a 20% offer at $20 and the commission drops to $4.00 but your net drops to $16.00 − $12.00 = $4.00 — half your profit, for a "20%" discount. Percentage discounts on the price are percentage discounts on your profit, because the 20% commission scales down with them.
| Offer price | Commission | You keep | Profit on a $12 item |
|---|---|---|---|
| $25.00 (list) | $5.00 | $20.00 | $8.00 |
| $22.00 (12% off) | $4.40 | $17.60 | $5.60 |
| $20.00 (20% off) | $4.00 | $16.00 | $4.00 |
| $17.00 (32% off) | $3.40 | $13.60 | $1.60 |
All prices at or above $15, so the 20% tier applies throughout. Below $15 the flat fee changes the shape again.
The flat-fee zone adds a hard floor to this table. With a $12 item cost, no price under $15 can clear even $1 of profit — the best case in the entire zone is $14.99, which nets $12.04 − $12.00 = $0.04. Sellers of low-cost goods habitually probe downward in negotiations without noticing that under $15 the negotiation is over before it starts: the item simply cannot be discounted into a profit.
Before sending any offer, run the offered price through the calculator and read the profit line, not the discount line. If the discount-to-liker feature is defaulting to a percentage, remember Poshmark's own 10% bundle discount plus a shipping discount plus the commission's 20% cut can consume the entire margin on an item that looked profitable at list. The calculator's job on this page is to make that visible before the offer goes out, not after the sale ships.
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Rates verified 2026-10-09 · Sourced from official seller fee schedules