Reverb’s headline is a 5% selling fee, but every sale through Reverb Payments also pays a processing fee, and the two are charged on different amounts. The 5% comes off the price plus shipping; processing comes off everything the buyer pays, including the sales tax Reverb collects for the state. Bump, cross-border, currency conversion and Safe Shipping fees can stack on top. The calculator above applies each fee to exactly the amount Reverb names, rounds each line to the cent and shows the arithmetic, so you can price a listing or check a payout line by line.
Every Reverb fee at a glance
These are the fees for a seller in the United States paid through Reverb Payments. Pick another country in the calculator to see its rates.
| Fee | Amount | Charged on | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selling fee | 5% (min $0.50, max $500.00) | Sale price + shipping (not sales tax or VAT) | Only when an item sellssource |
| Payment processing | 3.19% + $0.49 | Order total incl. shipping and sales tax | Every Reverb Payments salesource |
| Preferred Seller processing | 2.99% + $0.49 | Order total incl. shipping and sales tax | Existing Preferred Sellers (closed to new sellers)source |
| Cross-border fee | 1% | Transaction total | Buyer in another countrysource |
| Bump | Your rate, 1%–30% | Sale price + shipping (not tax) | Only if a Bumped listing sells; brand-new Direct Offer sales max 1.5%source |
| Safe Shipping | 1%–3.5% | Item sale price | Optional with a Reverb label; required $1,500–$10,000source |
| Listing, renewal, membership | Free | Every listing | Alwayssource |
What catches sellers out:
- It isn’t 5%. With processing, a typical sale costs a little over 8%: $27.11 on a $300 item with $25 shipping. Reverb’s own pricing page puts it at 8.19% + $0.49.
- Shipping is charged too. Both fees apply to the shipping the buyer pays, so free shipping built into the price costs the same.
- Processing is charged on sales tax. You never receive the tax, but 3.19% of it still comes out of your payout.
- Bump can apply without you noticing. Auto-Bump rules Bump matching listings automatically, and an offer is billed at the Bump rate in effect when it was made, even if you lowered the rate before accepting.
- Partial refunds don’t return processing or Bump. Only the 5% selling fee comes back, in proportion to the refund.
What you keep at common prices
Each row assumes a US seller, a domestic buyer, no separate shipping charge, no sales tax and no Bump.
| Sale price | Total fees | Fee rate | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10.00 | $1.31 | 13.1% | $8.69 |
| $25.00 | $2.54 | 10.2% | $22.46 |
| $50.00 | $4.59 | 9.18% | $45.41 |
| $100.00 | $8.68 | 8.68% | $91.32 |
| $250.00 | $20.97 | 8.39% | $229.03 |
| $500.00 | $41.44 | 8.29% | $458.56 |
| $1,000.00 | $82.39 | 8.24% | $917.61 |
| $5,000.00 | $409.99 | 8.20% | $4,590.01 |
| $15,000.00 | $978.99 | 6.53% | $14,021.01 |
The $0.49 processing fee and the $0.50 minimum weigh most on cheap items: a $10 sale gives up 13.1%. Between $250 and $10,000 the rate settles at about 8.2% to 8.4%, and above $10,000 the $500 cap pulls it down, to 6.5% on a $15,000 sale.
How the fees add up on one order
A $300 item with $25 shipping, sold to a buyer who pays 8% sales tax:
- Buyer pays$351.00
- Selling fee5% × $325.00−$16.25
- Payment processing3.19% × $351.00 + $0.49−$11.69
- You keep$297.06
The buyer pays $351.00. The 5% selling fee is charged on the $325.00 of price and shipping: $16.25. Processing is 3.19% of the whole $351.00 plus $0.49, which comes to $11.69, or $0.83 more than the same sale without tax. You keep $297.06 before your label and other costs, and Reverb passes the $26.00 of tax to the state.
Bump: what promoted listings cost
Bump is Reverb’s advertising. You set a rate between 1% and 30%, and Reverb usually suggests 4.5%. Nothing is charged unless the listing sells; then the rate applies to the price plus shipping, not tax. At 4.5%, the $300 item with $25 shipping pays another $14.63, and total fees rise from 8.3% to 12.8% of the sale.
Two rules matter once offers are involved. The rate is locked in when an offer is made, so lowering it before you accept doesn’t lower the fee. And a brand-new listing sold through a Direct Offer pays at most 1.5% ($4.88 on the same sale), whatever its rate. If a listing is Bumped and you didn’t Bump it yourself, check your Auto-Bump rules.
Selling outside the US
The 5% selling fee is the same everywhere. What changes is processing, the cross-border fee and tax on Reverb’s own fees. The table shows a sale of 300 plus 20 shipping in each market’s own currency, with VAT added to the fees where a seller hasn’t given Reverb a VAT ID.
| Market | Sale | Fees | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 United States | $320.00 | $26.70 8.34% | $293.30 |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | £320.00 | £19.20 6.00% | £300.80 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | CA$320.00 | CA$26.70 8.34% | CA$293.30 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 320,00 € | 31,77 € 9.93% | 288,23 € |
| 🇫🇷 France | 320,00 € | 32,04 € 10.0% | 287,96 € |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | 320,00 € | 32,57 € 10.2% | 287,43 € |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | 320,00 € | 32,31 € 10.1% | 287,69 € |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | € 320,00 | € 32,31 10.1% | € 287,69 |
| 🇮🇪 Ireland | €320.00 | €32.84 10.3% | €287.16 |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | CHF 320.00 | CHF 26.71 8.35% | CHF 293.29 |
| 🇸🇪 Sweden | 320,00 kr | 37,26 kr 11.6% | 282,74 kr |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | 320,00 kr. | 36,45 kr. 11.4% | 283,55 kr. |
| 🇳🇴 Norway | 320,00 kr | 29,36 kr 9.18% | 290,64 kr |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | 320,00 zł | 34,33 zł 10.7% | 285,67 zł |
- United Kingdom: an all-in 5% with no processing fee. Buyers outside the UK, including the EU, add 1%, and sellers without a VAT ID pay 20% VAT on Reverb’s fees.
- Euro countries: 3.19% + €0.49 processing. Sales anywhere in the European Economic Area count as domestic; buyers in the UK, Switzerland or the US add 1%.
- Canada: 3.19% + C$0.49, with the selling fee capped at C$680 (the Billing Policy says C$675). Listing in US dollars while you’re paid in Canadian dollars costs another 2.5%, and GST/HST on Reverb’s fees may come on top, depending on your tax status.
- Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Poland first appear in Reverb’s fee table in October 2026: 3.19% + CHF 0.50 in Switzerland, and 3.3% plus NOK 2.80, SEK 3.25, DKK 2.60 or PLN 1.35 elsewhere. Their minimum and maximum selling fees are the US-dollar equivalents of $0.50 and $500.
- Paid through PayPal? Where Reverb Payments isn’t available, PayPal charges its own processing fee instead of Reverb’s (see our PayPal fee calculator). Since May 13, 2026, Reverb’s 5% and any Bump fee come straight out of the PayPal payout, which is released only after you add tracking.
Ways to keep more of each sale
- List in the currency you’re paid in. That alone avoids the 2.5% conversion fee.
- Bump on purpose. Review your Auto-Bump rules, and set the rate you want before offers arrive, since an offer locks it in.
- Let buyers request refunds through Reverb. Only seller-initiated full refunds count toward the monthly limit; from the sixth in a month, the processing fee isn’t refunded.
- Measure the outside of the box. Carriers audit labels, and any adjustment lands on your monthly statement later. Reverb suggests a proper scale and tape measure, rounding each outside dimension up to the next inch.
- Add your VAT ID if you’re VAT-registered, so Reverb stops adding VAT to its fees.
- Compare before you list. The same sale on eBay is one click away in the eBay fee calculator.
Recent Reverb fee changes
- October 13, 2026Reverb Payments’ fee table now lists sellers in Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Hungary and Czechia (absent from the July 2, 2026 version): processing is 3.19% + CHF 0.50 in Switzerland and 3.3% plus a local fixed fee elsewhere (NOK 2.80, SEK 3.25, DKK 2.60, PLN 1.35, HUF 90, CZK 10). Reverb hasn’t published a launch date; this is when the table was updated.source
- October 6, 2026Reverb’s Bump rules are rewritten: rates run from 1% to 30%, Auto-Bump rules can Bump matching listings automatically, and a brand-new listing sold through a Direct Offer pays a Bump fee of at most 1.5%.source
- May 13, 2026Sellers paid through PayPal move to the Reverb Payments timeline: Reverb’s fees come straight out of the PayPal payout instead of a month-end card charge, and tracking is required before payment is released.source
- September 9, 2025UK sellers move to an all-in 5% fee: payment processing for UK shops drops from 3.19% + £0.49 (Preferred Sellers 2.99% + £0.49) to 0%. Reverb hasn’t published the start date; this is when its Billing Policy was updated.source
- October 27, 2022Payment processing raised from 2.7% + $0.25 to 3.19% + $0.49 (Canada C$0.25 → C$0.49, euro countries €0.25 → €0.49, UK £0.25 → £0.49 with the same rates; Preferred Sellers 2.5% → 2.99%).source
We re-check Reverb’s fee pages every day and update this calculator when they change. If your Earnings page shows something different, use the “Something’s off” button under the result.