Poshmark: the $2.95 case
Poshmark charges $2.95 flat under $15 and 20% from $15 — a cliff, not a slope.
Short answer
Poshmark charges $2.95 flat under $15 and 20% from $15 — a cliff, not a slope. On a $14.99 sale that is $2.95 in fees — 19.7% of the sale — leaving $12.04. There is no taper between the two. A $14.99 sale costs $2.95 and a $15.00 sale costs $3.00 — one cent more in price, five cents more in fee. Because the sub-$15 fee is flat, the effective rate on a cheap sale is higher than the headline 20%: $2.95 on a $10 item is 29.5%.
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Net payout
$12.04
- Total fees
- $2.95
- Effective fee rate
- 19.7%
- Net profit
- $12.04
- Buyer pays
- $14.99
Fee breakdown
- Marketplace commission · under $15
$2.95−$2.95
What $2.95 actually costs
On the default sale above, Poshmark takes $2.95 — 19.7% of the price, leaving $12.04 in the seller's account.
There is no taper between the two. A $14.99 sale costs $2.95 and a $15.00 sale costs $3.00 — one cent more in price, five cents more in fee. Because the sub-$15 fee is flat, the effective rate on a cheap sale is higher than the headline 20%: $2.95 on a $10 item is 29.5%.
Every line is itemised below with the arithmetic that produced it, so each figure can be checked against the published rate card.
The $0.30 floor, and the categories that do not have it
Read the referral line on its own here. On a $1 electronics item Amazon computes 8% = $0.08, then charges $0.30 because that category carries the published minimum. The same $1 item in grocery is charged 8% and nothing more, because the official rate card prints "--" in the minimum column for grocery, media, video games, consoles, gift cards and fine art.
The floor is not a rounding rule, it is a per-unit charge. It only disappears once the percentage overtakes it — at 8% that happens at $3.75, so everything below that price pays $0.30 in referral fee no matter how low the percentage would be.
Professional selling plan, with the $39.99 monthly fee spread over 100 orders ($0.40 per order). On a $1 item that plan fee is larger than the referral fee, which is exactly why a sub-$2 sale is not viable on this plan.
The same price on every other platform
This is what makes the $2.95 figure unusual: at $14.99, the platforms rank like this.
Amazon (US): $2.65 (17.7%).
eBay (US): $2.44 (16.3%).
Etsy: $1.87 (12.5%).
Mercari: $1.50 (10.0%).
Depop (US): $0.94 (6.3%).
Rates last verified 2026-10-06.
Rate table
| Sale under $15the same fee whether the item sells for $5 or $14.99 | $2.95 flat |
|---|---|
| Sale of $15 or more | 20% of the item price |
| Listing fee | None |
| Payment processing | None charged to the seller |
| Shippinga seller-funded discount comes out of your payout | buyer-paid flat rate |
| Canada | C$3.95 under C$20, then 20% |
- Rates last verified
Formula
20% (flat $2.95 under $15) — applied to this case it comes to $2.95 on $14.99What each term means
commission- $2.95
Assumptions
- Poshmark US marketplace, USD, one third-party seller.
- Professional selling plan where the platform has one, with the monthly fee spread over 100 orders so the per-order figures stay visible.
- The buyer pays no shipping, so the fee base is the item price alone.
- Postage, item cost and packaging are excluded from the fee and shown only in the profit line.
- Advertising is a budget the seller sets, not a published fee, so it is not included.
Worked examples
The same item listed at $10
- Buyer pays
- $10.00
- Total fees
- $2.95
- Effective rate
- 29.5%
- Net profit
- $7.05
Fee breakdown
- Marketplace commission · under $15
$2.95−$2.95
$2.95 in fees — 29.5% of the sale. the flat fee is 29.5% of the sale.
The same item listed at $14.99
- Buyer pays
- $14.99
- Total fees
- $2.95
- Effective rate
- 19.7%
- Net profit
- $12.04
Fee breakdown
- Marketplace commission · under $15
$2.95−$2.95
$2.95 in fees — 19.7% of the sale. one cent below the cliff.
The same item listed at $15
- Buyer pays
- $15.00
- Total fees
- $3.00
- Effective rate
- 20.0%
- Net profit
- $12.00
Fee breakdown
- Marketplace commission · $15 and above
20% × $15.00−$3.00
$3.00 in fees — 20.0% of the sale. one cent above it — the fee jumps to $3.00.
Every figure above is computed from the rate schedule on this page for Poshmark, using the same engine as the calculator — not typed in by hand.
Common mistakes
Assuming the headline rate applies at $2.95
There is no taper between the two. A $14.99 sale costs $2.95 and a $15.00 sale costs $3.00 — one cent more in price, five cents more in fee. Because the sub-$15 fee is flat, the effective rate on a cheap sale is higher than the headline 20%: $2.95 on a $10 item is 29.5%.
Reading a percentage when the fee has a fixed component
A flat charge does not scale down with the sale. It is why the effective rate on a cheap sale can be several times the published percentage, and why quoting the percentage alone understates the cost badly.
Questions
- Why does Poshmark charge $2.95 here?
- There is no taper between the two. A $14.99 sale costs $2.95 and a $15.00 sale costs $3.00 — one cent more in price, five cents more in fee. Because the sub-$15 fee is flat, the effective rate on a cheap sale is higher than the headline 20%: $2.95 on a $10 item is 29.5%. The figure is taken from the current published rate card, verified 2026-10-06.
- What does Poshmark charge on a $14.99 sale?
- $2.95, which is 19.7% of the sale, leaving $12.04. Every fee is listed separately above with the formula behind it.
- How do the fees change as the sale price rises?
- $10 → $2.95 (29.5%); $14.99 → $2.95 (19.7%); $15 → $3.00 (20.0%).
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Poshmark — 20% (flat $2.95 under $15). Rates last verified: . the marketplace's own fee page.