Whatnot fee calculator
What Whatnot's published US seller fees take from a sale: the commission on the sale price and the processing fee on everything the buyer paid.
$44.00reaches you
$6.00Whatnot fees (10.91% of the price and shipping)
$44.00profit after item cost
Most categories, selling for $50.00 with $5.00 shipping and $3.70 tax: Whatnot’s published fees are $6.00, and $44.00 of the sale price reaches you.
- Commission: 8% × $50.00 = $4.00, rounded to the cent: $4.00
- Payment processing: 2.9% × $58.70 + $0.30 = $2.0023, rounded to the cent: $2.00
What decided this: Commission 8% on the final sale price; payment processing 2.9% + $0.30 on the final sale price, shipping the buyer paid and sales tax the buyer paid.
Whatnot's published US fees
| Transaction | Fee |
|---|---|
| Most categories | 8%; 2.9% + $0.30 |
| Comics, TCG, Sports Singles, Toys & Hobbies, Bags & Accessories or Jewelry & Watches | 8%, maximum $120.00; 2.9% + $0.30 |
| Coins & Money | 4%, maximum $60.00; 2.9% + $0.30 |
| Pallets (wholesale) | 4%; 2.9% + $0.30 |
Where the numbers come from
- Rates
- Whatnot help: Whatnot seller fees; Whatnot help: reduced commission on high-value orders, read 2026-09-13.
- Checked
- The wording of each rate is re-read from Whatnot's pages before publishing, and the arithmetic is run against 4 worked cases, in this page's own script and again in the build.
- Rounding
- Not stated by Whatnot. Its own US example prints 2.9% of $58.70 + $0.30, which is $2.0023, as $2.00: rounding to the cent. Half-up is the assumption; that example does not sit on a half cent.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Whatnot. Whatnot is a trademark of its owner, named here only to identify the fees being calculated.
What this does not decide
- Sales tax some states charge on Whatnot's fees.
- Show Promotion and Boost fees, whose rates Whatnot does not publish on its fee page.
- Premier Shop and Sell More, Earn More rates, which apply to some sellers only.