Printful Profit Calculator — Etsy Fees, Shipping & Margin
Free Printful calculator for Etsy sellers: enter your product and shipping quote to see Etsy fees, profit and margin per order before you set a price.
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Approximate costs (US domestic, June 2025). Verify on provider site.
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US seller using Etsy Payments. Listing fee ($0.20) treated separately. Offsite Ads fee not included — add 12% or 15% if applicable.
Costs & Pricing
For Shopify include your plan cost divided by expected orders. Product quotes are illustrative; replace with your current provider quote.
0, 15 or 12 percent; $100 USD cap modeled.
Full refunds assumed; product, shipping, fees and ads remain paid.
Profit Breakdown
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The cost most Printful + Etsy sellers miss: tax on fulfillment
Printful charges tax on each fulfillment order based on where your customer lives. This is not the sales tax Etsy collects from the buyer — Etsy handles that and it never reaches your payout. Printful's charge is on what you buy from Printful, so unless you have an approved exemption, it comes straight out of your margin.
A US seller can submit a resale certificate in the Printful dashboard. Printful stops charging tax only on orders placed after the certificate is approved, so file it before your first sale. Until then, add the tax to the production cost in the calculator.
Worked example: a $34 hoodie with free shipping
The listing has free shipping, so revenue is the item price, $34. The Printful quote is $15.25 plus $4.75 shipping. The 7.0% tax rate is an example; your rate depends on the customer's address.
| No certificate | Resale certificate | |
|---|---|---|
| Order revenue | $34 | $34 |
| US Etsy fees | −$3.68 | −$3.68 |
| Printful product + shipping | −$20 | −$20 |
| Printful tax (7.0%) | −$1.40 | $0.00 |
| Contribution | $8.92 | $10.32 |
| Margin | 26.2% | 30.4% |
The tax alone moves margin by 4.1% on this order — more than the Etsy listing and processing fees combined on many items.
Other Printful costs to enter
- Extra print placements. A sleeve or back print is priced on top of the base product. Quote the exact design.
- Branding. Inside labels, pack-ins and branded packaging are charged per order.
- Samples. A sample order is a one-time launch cost. Record it separately rather than adding it to every order.
- Fulfillment location. The facility that prints the order affects shipping cost and delivery time. Set Etsy processing time to Printful's production time.
The Etsy side uses US rates: 6.5% transaction fee, 3% + $0.25 processing and $0.20 per sold listing, with optional Offsite Ads capped at $100 per order. For other countries use the Etsy fee calculator.
Printful Growth: when the subscription pays back
Growth is $24.99 a month, with up to 33% off products and 9% off branding. It becomes free once your yearly sales through Printful reach $12,000. Before that, it pays back only when the monthly difference between your Free and Growth quotes is more than $24.99. Enter the Growth quote as production cost and the subscription per order in the allocation field.
Sources: Printful pricing and Printful taxes guide, checked November 7, 2026; Etsy fees, checked October 11, 2026.
Next step
Run the same product through the Printify vs Printful comparison to see whether the higher quote is worth it for your product, or check the Printful Shopify calculator if you also sell from your own store. Weighing a switch to the cheaper provider? Is Printify worth it? sets out what the lower base cost buys you and what it costs in print quality and shipping times.
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