eBay fees by country: US, UK, Canada and Australia compared
eBay does not charge one global rate. Run an identical order — a 200 item with 15 of buyer-paid shipping, 215 gross — through five eBay sites and you get five different answers: eBay US takes $28.89 (13.25% final value fee plus a $0.40 per-order fee, a 13.44% effective rate), eBay UK takes £27.82 (12.8% plus £0.30), eBay Canada C$28.79 (13.25% plus C$0.30), eBay Australia A$29.11 (13.4% plus A$0.30, GST already inside that rate) and eBay Germany €24.00 (11% plus €0.35, an 11.16% effective rate). The per-order charge is $0.40 in the US and 30 cents or 35 cents everywhere else, in the local currency. Sell across a border and a cross-border surcharge of about 1.65% goes on top; take payout in a currency other than the sale currency and roughly 3% more disappears in conversion. These are the published schedules as of August 2026 — the US numbers are the ones our eBay Fee Calculator uses by default, and you should confirm your own site's rate on eBay's fee page before you price anything.
eBay fees by country at a glance (2026)
| eBay site | Final value fee (most categories) | Per-order fee | Cross-border surcharge | Tax added on top of fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US (ebay.com) | 13.25% | $0.40 | 1.65% when the delivery address is outside the US | None — sales tax is handled separately |
| UK (ebay.co.uk) | ~12.8% for business sellers; private sellers pay no selling fee on most categories | £0.30 | Varies by buyer zone, roughly 0.4%–1.6% | 20% VAT unless a valid VAT number is on file |
| Canada (ebay.ca) | 13.25% | C$0.30 | ~1.65% band | GST/HST by province, 5%–15% |
| Australia (ebay.com.au) | ~13.4%, GST-inclusive | A$0.30 | ~1.65% band | 10% GST already inside the headline rate |
| Germany (ebay.de) | ~11% for business sellers | €0.35 | Varies by buyer zone | 19% VAT unless a VAT ID is on file |
Two things about this table matter more than the percentages themselves.
First, only the US column is stable enough to hardcode. The 13.25% plus $0.40 structure has been eBay's US default across most categories for years. The UK, Canadian, Australian and German schedules move by category and by seller type far more, and eBay restructured private-seller fees in the UK and parts of the EU in 2024–2025. Treat the non-US rows as a realistic starting point, not gospel.
Second, the base the percentage applies to is the same everywhere: the item price plus whatever shipping the buyer pays. Charge 200 for the item and 15 for postage and eBay's fee is calculated on 215, not 200. Sales tax, VAT or GST that eBay collects from the buyer and remits itself is not part of that base. That is exactly how our calculator models it — revenue is item price plus buyer-paid shipping, and the fee comes off that combined figure.
The same order on five eBay sites
Here is the 215 order worked all the way through to profit. Assume the item costs you 80 to buy and 12 to ship, in whatever currency the site trades in — so 92 of real cost against 215 of revenue.
| Site | Final value fee | Per-order fee | Total eBay fee | Effective rate | Net profit | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eBay US | $28.49 | $0.40 | $28.89 | 13.44% | $94.11 | 43.77% |
| eBay UK | £27.52 | £0.30 | £27.82 | 12.94% | £95.18 | 44.27% |
| eBay Canada | C$28.49 | C$0.30 | C$28.79 | 13.39% | C$94.21 | 43.82% |
| eBay Australia | A$28.81 | A$0.30 | A$29.11 | 13.54% | A$93.89 | 43.67% |
| eBay Germany | €23.65 | €0.35 | €24.00 | 11.16% | €99.00 | 46.05% |
The spread between the cheapest and most expensive site is 2.38 percentage points of gross — €24.00 in Germany against A$29.11 in Australia on identical numbers. Over a year at 20 orders a month that is a real gap, and the next section prices it.
These figures are not converted between currencies. They show what each site charges on the same nominal amount, which is the honest comparison when you are deciding where to list. Converting them would mix in an exchange rate that has nothing to do with eBay's fee schedule.
eBay US fees by sale amount ($25 to $3,000)
Most people searching for this arrive with a number in mind. Below is the US schedule — 13.25% plus $0.40 — applied to common sale totals. "Gross" means item price plus any shipping the buyer paid, because that is the base eBay charges on.
| Gross sale | Final value fee (13.25%) | Per-order fee | Total fees | You keep | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25 | $3.31 | $0.40 | $3.71 | $21.29 | 14.84% |
| $50 | $6.63 | $0.40 | $7.03 | $42.97 | 14.06% |
| $100 | $13.25 | $0.40 | $13.65 | $86.35 | 13.65% |
| $250 | $33.13 | $0.40 | $33.53 | $216.47 | 13.41% |
| $500 | $66.25 | $0.40 | $66.65 | $433.35 | 13.33% |
| $1,000 | $132.50 | $0.40 | $132.90 | $867.10 | 13.29% |
| $2,000 | $265.00 | $0.40 | $265.40 | $1,734.60 | 13.27% |
| $3,000 | $397.50 | $0.40 | $397.90 | $2,602.10 | 13.26% |
The flat $0.40 is what makes small orders disproportionately expensive: it is 1.6% of a $25 sale and 0.013% of a $3,000 one. That is why the effective rate falls from 14.84% to 13.26% as the order grows, and why bundling two $25 items into one $50 order saves $0.40 of pure fee every time.
One caveat for large sales. In many US categories eBay applies the headline percentage only to the portion of the sale up to $7,500 and a much lower rate — around 2.35% — above it. Our calculator applies a single flat rate, so a $10,000 sale reads as $1,325.40 of fees when a tiered category would charge roughly $1,052.90 (13.25% on the first $7,500, 2.35% on the remaining $2,500, plus $0.40). Below $7,500 the tier never bites, which covers the overwhelming majority of orders. Above it, check your category's threshold on eBay's own page before trusting any calculator, ours included.
Which eBay site charges you — the listing site, not the buyer's country
This is the single most common misunderstanding, and it costs sellers money because they price against the wrong schedule.
The fee schedule that applies is the one for the eBay site your account is registered on and where the listing lives. A US-registered seller listing on ebay.com pays US fees on every sale — 13.25% plus $0.40 — whether the buyer is in Ohio or Osaka. A buyer in Berlin does not put you on the German 11% schedule. What the Berlin buyer does trigger is the international fee, covered in the next section.
The confusion comes from eBay's international site visibility, which surfaces your ebay.com listing to shoppers browsing ebay.co.uk or ebay.de. That is a discovery feature. It changes who sees the listing; it does not move the listing to another site or change which eBay entity invoices you.
If you genuinely want to be billed under another country's schedule, you need an account registered on that site, with an address and bank account eBay accepts for it, and you take on that country's tax registration obligations. For most sellers that is a bigger project than the fee difference justifies — the arithmetic at the end of this article shows why.
The 1.65% international fee and when it applies
For US sellers, eBay adds an international fee of 1.65% of the total amount of the sale when the buyer's registered delivery address is outside the United States. It applies to the same base as the final value fee — item plus buyer-paid shipping — and it stacks on top, so the combined percentage becomes 14.90%.
That is exactly how to model it in the eBay Fee Calculator: type 14.90 into the final value fee field instead of 13.25.
| Gross sale | Combined 14.90% fee | Per-order fee | Total fees | Effective rate | Extra vs domestic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $50 | $7.45 | $0.40 | $7.85 | 15.70% | $0.82 |
| $100 | $14.90 | $0.40 | $15.30 | 15.30% | $1.65 |
| $215 | $32.04 | $0.40 | $32.44 | 15.09% | $3.55 |
| $500 | $74.50 | $0.40 | $74.90 | 14.98% | $8.25 |
| $1,000 | $149.00 | $0.40 | $149.40 | 14.94% | $16.50 |
| $3,000 | $447.00 | $0.40 | $447.40 | 14.91% | $49.50 |
On the $50 row the extra reads $0.82 rather than the $0.83 you get from 1.65% of $50, because rounding a single combined percentage to the cent lands a penny below rounding two separate percentages. Real eBay invoices show the same class of one-cent difference depending on how the line items are grouped. Do not build a reconciliation process that expects the two methods to agree to the penny.
Back on the 215 order with 92 of costs, the international fee takes net profit from $94.11 to $90.56 and margin from 43.77% to 42.12%. That is the number to add to your international shipping price, not to absorb.
The other eBay sites have equivalent cross-border charges, but they are banded by the buyer's region rather than being a single flat figure, and the bands have been repriced more than once. We are not going to quote a specific UK, Canadian, Australian or German percentage here, because the honest answer is that it depends on the buyer's zone and your category. Find "international fee" on the fee page for your own eBay site and read the band table.
What currency conversion costs when your payout currency differs
If the sale settles in one currency and your bank account is in another, eBay converts it and takes a currency conversion charge — commonly around 3% built into the exchange rate, though the exact figure varies by site and payout corridor. This is the cost sellers forget entirely, and it is bigger than most of the fee differences between countries.
| Scenario | Gross | eBay fees | Proceeds before conversion | ~3% conversion charge | You actually receive | Total eBay take | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US seller, US site, USD payout | $215 | $28.89 | $186.11 | — | $186.11 | $28.89 | 13.44% |
| US seller, UK site, USD payout | £215 | £27.82 | £187.18 | £5.62 | £181.56 | £33.44 | 15.55% |
| UK seller, US site, GBP payout | $215 | $28.89 | $186.11 | $5.58 | $180.53 | $34.47 | 16.03% |
Selling on the UK site takes eBay's cut from 12.94% to 15.55% the moment your payout currency is not GBP. The conversion charge is applied to your proceeds, not to the fee, so it scales with the whole order — which is why it outweighs a 0.5-point difference in the headline rate at every price point.
Two practical responses. Hold a local-currency account for the site you sell on, so eBay pays out in the same currency it collected and there is nothing to convert. Or convert deliberately through a cheaper rail; our Wise vs PayPal vs Payoneer Calculator compares what each provider costs on a given transfer size. Either way, do not let the marketplace convert by default and call it a rounding error.
GST, VAT and sales tax: the biggest hidden difference between sites
The headline rate is only comparable between countries once you know whether tax is inside it, added to it, or absent from it. Here is the 215 order again with tax on fees applied.
| Site | Fee before tax | Tax treatment of fees | Fee including tax | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eBay US | $28.89 | None. Sales tax is collected from the buyer by eBay as marketplace facilitator and sits outside the fee base | $28.89 | 13.44% |
| eBay UK | £27.82 | 20% VAT added unless a valid VAT number is on file | £33.38 | 15.53% |
| eBay Canada (5% GST) | C$28.79 | 5% GST added | C$30.23 | 14.06% |
| eBay Canada (13% HST) | C$28.79 | 13% HST added | C$32.53 | 15.13% |
| eBay Australia | A$29.11 | 10% GST already inside the 13.4% headline rate | A$29.11 | 13.54% |
| eBay Germany | €24.00 | 19% VAT added without a VAT ID | €28.56 | 13.28% |
Germany's 11% looked like a 2.3-point saving over the US. With 19% VAT on fees it lands at 13.28% — 0.16 points below the US site, not two points. That single row is the reason "just list on the cheaper site" is bad advice for anyone who cannot reclaim the tax.
If you are VAT- or GST-registered, the tax on eBay's fees is usually recoverable as input tax, so your real cost is the pre-tax rate and the comparison flips back toward Germany and the UK. If you are not registered, the tax is a dead cost. That is the actual decision point, and it has more to do with your own registration status than with eBay. Use the VAT Calculator or the Sales Tax Calculator to work out what you can and cannot claim back on a given fee invoice.
Australia is the odd one out in a useful way: because the 13.4% is GST-inclusive, a GST-registered Australian seller is effectively paying about 12.18% before tax, which is cheaper than the US site rather than more expensive. The headline rate says the opposite.
eBay fees by amount in each country's currency
| Gross sale | eBay US | eBay UK | eBay Canada | eBay Australia | eBay Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $13.65 | £13.10 | C$13.55 | A$13.70 | €11.35 |
| 500 | $66.65 | £64.30 | C$66.55 | A$67.30 | €55.35 |
| 1,000 | $132.90 | £128.30 | C$132.80 | A$134.30 | €110.35 |
| 3,000 | $397.90 | £384.30 | C$397.80 | A$402.30 | €330.35 |
Figures are before any cross-border surcharge and before tax on fees. Each column is in that site's own currency at that site's own nominal amount.
Scaled to a working seller at 20 orders a month of the 215 example, the annual fee bill is $6,933.60 on the US site, £6,676.80 on the UK site, C$6,909.60 in Canada, A$6,986.40 in Australia and €5,760.00 in Germany. Add the international fee to every US order and it becomes $7,785.60 — $852 a year more than domestic-only, on the same 51,600 of gross sales.
Managed payments payout timing
eBay runs managed payments on all five sites, so the mechanics are similar, but the timing differs enough to matter for cash flow:
- Funds are initiated after the order is confirmed, typically once tracking shows the item shipped or delivered, not at the moment of purchase.
- Payout schedules are daily or weekly to a linked bank account on most sites. Daily payouts still take one to three business days to land depending on your bank and country.
- New sellers face holds. eBay commonly holds funds from early orders for up to 21 to 30 days while the account establishes a track record, and reinstates holds after a spike in cases or returns. This applies on every site.
- Refunds and disputes claw back from future payouts, so a bad week can produce a payout of zero rather than a bill.
- Fees come out before payout, which is why your bank statement never matches your gross sales figure and why reconciling from bank deposits alone will understate revenue.
Exact hold windows and cut-off times change by site and by account, so confirm yours in Seller Hub rather than assuming the US behaviour applies to your ebay.co.uk or ebay.com.au account.
If you list on more than one eBay site
The instinct after seeing an 11% German rate next to a 13.25% US rate is to move listings. Price it properly first, on that same 215 order:
| Route | eBay fee | Conversion charge | Total eBay take | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US seller, US site, USD payout | $28.89 | — | $28.89 | 13.44% |
| US seller, German site, USD payout | €24.00 | €5.73 | €29.73 | 13.83% |
| US seller, US site, buyer in Germany | $32.44 | — | $32.44 | 15.09% |
Listing on ebay.de to capture the 11% and then converting €191.00 of proceeds back to dollars costs more than staying on ebay.com, before you have spent a minute on German VAT registration. The arbitrage does not exist for a single-currency seller.
What does make multi-site selling worth it is demand, not fee rates. If a meaningful share of your buyers are already in a market, a local listing gets local search placement, local shipping expectations and a local returns address — and those move conversion far more than 2 percentage points of fee. Decide on demand, then treat the fee difference as a rounding adjustment.
If you go ahead, three things need setting up before the first listing: a payout account in that country's currency, the right tax registration (UK VAT, EU OSS or IOSS, Australian GST on low-value imports), and a landed-cost model for the goods themselves. Our Landed Cost Calculator covers duty, freight and import handling, which on cross-border orders routinely dwarfs anything eBay charges.
For sellers weighing eBay against other channels entirely, the Marketplace Fee Comparison Calculator runs one order through every major platform at once, and Etsy vs eBay vs Amazon fees walks through where each one wins. If your goal is simply to pay less on the channel you already use, how to reduce seller fees is the practical list.
What we could not verify, and how to check your own rate
Being specific about uncertainty is more useful than being confidently wrong, so here is where the confidence sits:
- High confidence: the US schedule of 13.25% plus $0.40 on item-plus-shipping for most categories, and the 1.65% international fee for US sellers. These are stable, widely documented, and they are what our calculator implements.
- Representative but category-dependent: the UK, Canadian, Australian and German percentages and per-order fees. eBay publishes different rates by category on these sites, restructured private-seller fees in the UK and EU recently, and quotes some rates inclusive of tax and others exclusive. The numbers above reflect the common categories as published in August 2026.
- Deliberately not quoted: exact cross-border surcharge percentages outside the US, and exact payout hold windows per site. Both are banded and both change.
To check your own: open the fee page on the eBay site your account is registered on — not ebay.com if you sell on ebay.co.uk — find your category in the final value fee table, note whether the figure is quoted with or without VAT/GST, and note the per-order amount in your currency. Then put your real numbers into the eBay Fee Calculator and check the output against a recent invoice before you trust it for pricing.
One structural note about using our calculator for non-US sites: the per-order fee is fixed at $0.40, the US amount, and cannot be edited. The percentage can. So for the UK, Canada and Australia the total will read about 0.10 too high in local currency, and for Germany about 0.05 too low. Adjust that one line by hand and the rest of the math holds.
Once you know your true fee rate, the number that actually governs your business is what is left after cost of goods and shipping. The Profit Margin Calculator and the Break-Even Calculator take it from there, and hidden costs that eat ecommerce profit covers the line items that never appear on an eBay invoice at all.
Frequently asked questions
Is there an eBay fee calculator for Canada?
Yes — use the eBay Fee Calculator with the final value fee set to 13.25%, which matches the ebay.ca rate for most categories. The one adjustment: the calculator's per-order fee is fixed at $0.40 while ebay.ca charges C$0.30, so subtract C$0.10 from the total. On a C$215 order that gives C$28.79 in fees rather than the C$28.89 shown.
Does eBay charge the same fees in the US and the UK?
No. eBay US charges 13.25% plus $0.40 per order on most categories; eBay UK charges business sellers around 12.8% plus £0.30, and private sellers pay no selling fee on most categories following the 2024 restructure. On the same 215 order that is $28.89 versus £27.82. UK fees may also have 20% VAT added, which pushes the effective rate to 15.53% for sellers without a VAT number on file.
What are eBay's fees on a $3,000 sale?
$397.90 on the US site — $397.50 in final value fee at 13.25%, plus the $0.40 per-order fee — leaving you $2,602.10 before your own costs. If the buyer is outside the US, the 1.65% international fee brings the total to $447.40. Some categories tier the rate above $7,500, but a $3,000 sale sits well below any threshold.
Do I pay eBay fees in my own currency?
You are billed in the currency of the eBay site your account is registered on. If your bank account is in a different currency, eBay converts your payout and takes a conversion charge of around 3% on the converted amount — roughly £5.62 on a £215 order, which costs more than most of the fee differences between countries. Holding a local-currency account for the site you sell on avoids it.
Does eBay charge extra for international sales?
For US sellers, yes: 1.65% of the item plus buyer-paid shipping whenever the delivery address is outside the US, on top of the standard final value fee. That takes the combined rate to 14.90%, or $32.44 on a $215 order versus $28.89 domestically. Other eBay sites charge banded cross-border fees that vary by the buyer's region, so check the band table on your own site's fee page.
Are eBay fees charged on shipping and on sales tax?
Fees are charged on shipping the buyer pays — charge 200 for the item and 15 for postage and the percentage applies to 215, not 200. Sales tax, VAT or GST that eBay collects from the buyer and remits itself is not part of the fee base. This is why "free shipping" listings are not fee-free shipping: the postage is simply inside the item price and is charged at the same rate either way.
Rates shown are 2026 published schedules; US figures are what TallyCrunch's calculators implement. Confirm your category's current rate on eBay's fee page for your site before pricing. For fee data across every major marketplace, see our seller fee statistics.