Facebook Marketplace looks free, and for local pickup it is. The fee only appears when a buyer pays through Facebook checkout and you ship the item: 10%, with a $0.80 minimum per order. The catch is what the 10% is charged on. Meta takes it from everything the buyer pays, including the shipping label and the sales tax, money that never reaches you. A $25 item with an $8 prepaid label and 7% sales tax pays $3.53, which is 14.1% of your price, not 10%. The calculator above applies the fee to that full total and shows how much of it comes from shipping and tax.
Every Facebook Marketplace fee at a glance
These are Meta’s fees for individual sellers in the US, where shipping and checkout are available.
| Fee | Amount | Charged on | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selling fee | 10%, min $0.80 per order | Everything the buyer pays: item + shipping + sales tax | Orders with shipping and checkoutsource |
| Local pickup or paid directly | $0 | — | Local pickup, or the buyer pays you outside checkout (cash, PayPal…)source |
| Listing fee | $0 | — | Every listing; nothing to pay if it doesn’t sellsource |
| Prepaid shipping label | Label price (commercial rates) | Paid by the buyer, or taken from your payout if you cover shipping | UPS or USPS prepaid labelssource |
| Carrier adjustment | The difference the carrier charges | Taken from your payout | Package heavier or bigger than you enteredsource |
| Chargeback fee | $20 per chargeback | Held with the order amount from your balance or payment method on file | A buyer files a chargeback (both returned if decided in your favor)source |
| Facebook & Instagram Shops checkout | Discontinued | Shops now use your own website’s checkout | Since September 2025source |
Four things catch sellers out:
- The 10% includes shipping and sales tax. Meta’s own example is a $20 item with $5 shipping and $1 tax: the fee is 10% of $26, or $2.60, not $2.00.
- There’s a $0.80 minimum per order. Any order under $8.00 in total pays $0.80. On a $2 item with free shipping and no tax, that’s 40% of your price. Items shipped together count as one order, so the minimum applies once per package.
- Free shipping comes out of your payout. If you choose to cover the prepaid label, Facebook deducts it from what you receive. Labels are charged at commercial rates, and Meta may keep any discount it negotiates with the carrier.
- Not everything can ship. Shipped items must be priced $2 to $500, fit one of the eligible categories (furniture doesn’t), and go to the continental US. New accounts may not see the option.
What you keep at common prices
Each row assumes the buyer pays an $8 prepaid label and 7% sales tax.
| Item price | Total fees | Fee rate | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $1.39 | 27.8% | $3.61 |
| $10.00 | $1.93 | 19.3% | $8.07 |
| $15.00 | $2.46 | 16.4% | $12.54 |
| $20.00 | $3.00 | 15.0% | $17.00 |
| $25.00 | $3.53 | 14.1% | $21.47 |
| $35.00 | $4.60 | 13.1% | $30.40 |
| $50.00 | $6.21 | 12.4% | $43.79 |
| $75.00 | $8.88 | 11.8% | $66.12 |
| $100.00 | $11.56 | 11.6% | $88.44 |
| $200.00 | $22.26 | 11.1% | $177.74 |
| $500.00 | $54.36 | 10.9% | $445.64 |
Measured against your item price, Facebook never takes just 10%: because the label and the tax are in the base, the share falls from 27.8% on a $5 item to 10.9% at $500, the highest price you can ship.
How the fees add up on one order
Meta’s own example: a $20 item, $5 shipping paid by the buyer, and $1 of sales tax.
- Buyer pays in total$26.00
- of which shipping (prepaid label) (paid by the buyer)Added at checkout$5.00
- of which sales tax (paid by the buyer)Amount you entered$1.00
- Sale amount$20.00
- Selling fee10% × $26.00 ($20.00 item + $5.00 shipping + $1.00 tax)−$2.60
- You keep$17.40
The buyer pays $26.00. Facebook takes 10% of the whole amount, which is $2.60. The $5 pays for the label and the $1 goes to the state, so you receive $20.00 minus $2.60, or $17.40. Sixty cents of the fee was charged on money you never see.
Who pays for shipping changes what you keep
When you list with shipping you choose who pays for the label. Facebook offers its prepaid labels to select sellers; others ship with their own label and enter the tracking number. Here is a $40 item with an $8 label, sold to a buyer who pays 7% sales tax:
- Buyer pays the prepaid label: the fee is $5.14 and you keep $34.86.
- You cover the label (free shipping): the fee is $4.28, the $8.00 label comes out of your payout, and you keep $27.72.
- Your own label, charging the buyer $8: the shipping comes to you with the sale, so you receive $42.86 and keep $34.86 after paying $8 for postage.
- Local pickup: no fee, so you keep the full $40.00.
Free shipping doesn’t have to cost you more. List the item at $48, cover the label, and you keep $34.86, the same as buyer-paid shipping. That assumes Meta leaves a label you pay for out of the 10%, which its pages don’t spell out. If it counts the label, you keep $34.06. The calculator shows both figures when you pick “Me (free)”.
Getting paid, refunds and chargebacks
Facebook starts your payout 15 days after you mark the item shipped, or 5 days after delivery is confirmed, and the money can take up to 5 more days to reach your bank. That’s up to 20 days in all. With PayPal as your payout account, funds arrive 4 days after delivery confirmation. Creating a prepaid label marks the order as shipped automatically.
You can refund a buyer in full or in part before you’re paid out; after that only Facebook can, for example after a Purchase Protection claim, and the refund is taken from your balance, then from future sales. Meta’s pages don’t say whether the 10% fee is returned on a refund.
A chargeback costs more. Facebook holds the order amount plus a $20 chargeback fee until the card issuer decides. You get both back if it rules for you. If the buyer wins, or you don’t respond within 10 calendar days, you lose both. Meta covers chargebacks it finds were fraudulent payments.
Once your checkout sales reach $499, Facebook may ask for your full Social Security number or ITIN, and holds bank payouts until you provide it.
Facebook and Instagram Shops checkout ended in 2025
Shops on Facebook and Instagram used to let buyers pay inside the app. As of September 2025, Shops use website checkout instead: buyers tap through to your own site and pay there. Meta no longer processes payments for Shops, so a Shops sale carries no Meta selling fee. What you pay now is your store platform’s and payment processor’s fees; the Shopify fee calculator and the Stripe fee calculator cover those. Marketplace checkout for individual sellers is separate and still charges 10%.
Ways to keep more of each sale
- Sell locally when you can. Local pickup and payments outside checkout have no Facebook fee at all.
- Ship items together. One package is one order. With 7% sales tax, two $10 items in one box with one $8 label pay $3.00 in fees; sold separately, with a label each, they pay $3.86.
- Enter the exact package weight. An estimated weight can mean a pricier label, which raises the 10% as well, and an under-reported weight can bring a carrier adjustment later.
- Price for the whole order. Check what you keep with the label and tax included, especially under $15, where the label is a big part of the total. The Mercari fee calculator and the eBay fee calculator show how other marketplaces treat the same sale.
Recent Facebook Marketplace fee changes
- September 1, 2025Checkout on Facebook and Instagram Shops ended in September 2025: Shops now send buyers to the seller’s own website to pay, and Meta stopped processing payments for Shops, so Shops orders no longer pay Meta a selling fee. Marketplace shipping & checkout (10%, $0.80 minimum) is unaffected.source
Meta’s help pages don’t give a start date for the current 10% and $0.80 rate. If your payout breakdown shows something different, use the “Something’s off” button under the result.