Poshmark Fees Explained: The $15 Line, the 20% Cut, and Shipping

Poshmark's fee structure is refreshingly simple compared with some marketplaces, but the simplicity hides a couple of edges that catch sellers out, especially on lower-priced items and on offers. This guide lays out exactly what Poshmark takes, where the boundaries are, and how the choices you make on an offer feed through to the amount that actually lands in your account. The figures here were verified 2026-07-22 and are shown with a date on the calculator page for the same reason.

The commission has two tiers

Poshmark's seller commission depends on the sale price. On any sale under $15, the fee is a flat $2.95. On any sale of $15 or more, the fee is 20 percent of the sale price. That is the whole rule. There is no separate listing fee, no monthly subscription, and no payment-processing surcharge on top; the commission is the cost of selling. What trips people up is the jump at the boundary. A $14.99 sale costs you $2.95, leaving $12.04. A $15.00 sale costs you $3.00, leaving $12.00. So crossing that single cent actually leaves you with slightly less, because the percentage on $15 is fractionally more than the flat fee just below it.

The 20 percent applies to the whole price

A common misunderstanding is that the 20 percent applies only to the portion of a sale above $15, the way a tax bracket works. It does not. Once a sale is $15 or more, the full 20 percent applies to the entire sale price. A $15 sale costs $3.00; a $50 sale costs $10.00; a $200 sale costs $40.00. This is why the percentage tier feels heavier as prices rise, and why the flat fee is such a good deal on genuinely cheap items. It is also why bundling several cheap items into one higher-priced sale changes the math: three $10 items sold separately each pay the flat $2.95, but bundled into a single $30 sale they pay $6.00 total, which is more, though bundling saves you shipping and effort. Neither approach is always right; it depends on the items.

Who pays for shipping, and when you cover it

By default the buyer pays a flat expedited shipping fee, currently $7.97 for a package weighing up to five pounds, and Poshmark provides the prepaid label. That means for a standard sale you do not pay shipping at all; it sits on the buyer's side of the transaction. The wrinkle appears when you send an offer to likers, because an offer lets you fund a shipping discount to sweeten the deal. You can offer a partial discount or cover the full amount as free shipping. Anything you cover is deducted from your payout, so a free shipping offer effectively adds close to eight dollars to the cost of the sale on your side. On a $60 item that is a rounding error; on a $20 item it is the difference between a decent margin and almost none.

What your payout actually looks like

Put the pieces together and your take-home on any sale is the sale price, minus the commission, minus any shipping you chose to cover. Take a $40 listing sold at full price with no shipping discount: the fee is $8.00, you keep $32.00, and the buyer separately paid their own shipping. Send a 10 percent offer instead, so the sale is $36: the fee is $7.20 and you keep $28.80. Add free shipping to that same offer and you also hand back $7.97, so you keep $20.83. The list price never changed, but your take-home moved by more than eleven dollars depending on the offer and shipping choices. Seeing those outcomes side by side is exactly what the calculator is for.

Fees can change, so check the date

Poshmark has adjusted its fee and shipping structure in the past, and it can do so again. That is why every figure this site uses lives in one dated module and why the calculator page prints the verification date next to the fee table. If you are reading this well after the date shown, treat the specific numbers as a starting point and confirm the current rates on Poshmark before you price an offer. The rules of thumb - flat fee on cheap sales, a percentage above the line, shipping funded out of your net - tend to hold even when the exact figures move.

Ready to run your own items? The calculator on the home page applies all of this automatically, and the offers-to-likers strategy guide covers how to price so the fees never take you by surprise.

This article is general information, not financial advice, and is not affiliated with Poshmark. Fees and shipping figures are verified as of the date shown on the tool page; confirm current figures on Poshmark.