Free Shipping Price Calculator

Enter your current price, your shipping cost, and your platform's fee percentage. The calculator grosses up the shipping so fees on the higher price don't eat your margin — your take-home per order stays exactly the same.

📖 How it works & FAQ

Platform (sets a default fee % — edit it freely below)

Current item price ($)

Shipping cost you'll absorb ($)

Total platform fee (%)

Why "free" shipping needs more than just adding the postage

Shoppers love free shipping — Etsy boosts US listings that offer it, and eBay and Amazon buyers routinely filter for it. But shipping is never actually free: you absorb the cost, so the price has to rise. The catch most sellers miss is that marketplace fees are charged on the new, higher price. If you simply add $4.75 of postage to a $24 item, the platform takes its percentage of that extra $4.75 too, and your profit quietly shrinks on every single order.

This calculator solves it properly. It uses new price = current price + shipping ÷ (1 − fee rate), which grosses up the shipping amount so that after fees come out of the higher price, your take-home per order is exactly what it was before. Everything runs in your browser — nothing you type is uploaded or stored.

How to use it

Pick your platform to load an approximate total fee percentage, or choose Custom.
Enter your current item price — what buyers pay today, before shipping.
Enter the shipping cost you will absorb per order (your average label cost works well).
Adjust the fee % to match your real rate — include transaction and payment-processing percentages. Results update instantly as you type.

Fee figures are approximate defaults you can edit; platforms change fees often, so check your platform's current fee schedule. Estimates only, not financial advice.

FAQ

Why can't I just add my shipping cost to the price?: Because percentage fees apply to the increase as well. Raise a price by $4.75 on a 9.5% platform and you only keep about $4.30 of it — short of your label cost. Dividing by (1 − fee rate) covers the label and the fee on the raise.
What fee percentage should I enter?: Add up every percentage taken from the order total: transaction fee, payment processing, and anything like offsite-ads fees if they regularly apply to you. The presets are rough combined defaults — your real rate may differ.
What about flat fees like Etsy's $0.25 processing fee?: Flat per-order fees are identical at both prices, so they cancel out of the comparison and don't change how much you need to raise the price.
Won't a higher price scare off buyers?: Usually the opposite: one all-in price converts better than a lower price plus a shipping surprise at checkout, and free-shipping listings often get better placement in search.