Stop guessing your Etsy price. Solve for it.
Set your costs and the margin you want. The solver returns the listing price that still holds up after Etsy's Canadian fees and Offsite Ads.
Find my priceHow do you calculate the right Etsy price in Canada?
Price = (your total costs + C$0.52) รท (1 โ 0.1065 โ tax effect โ your target margin). Canadian sellers pay 10.65% plus C$0.52 before GST/HST on fees, so the price has to cover your margin after roughly 11% in charges. Model 12% more if any orders come from Offsite Ads.
| Listing fee | โ |
| Transaction fee (6.5%) | โ |
| Payment processing | โ |
| Regulatory operating fee (1.15%) | โ |
| Offsite Ads fee (0%) | โ |
| GST on Etsy fees (5%) | โ |
| POD base + shipping cost | โ |
| Total taken from the sale | โ |
Price it right the first time
To hit your 40% target margin, charge:
GST/HST on Etsy fees varies by province (5โ15%); 5% GST shown. Listing fee is billed as $0.20 USD.
What should I charge for a print-on-demand shirt in Canada?
Take the classic example: a Printify tee at roughly C$13 base plus C$6.50 shipping costs you about C$19.50 per order. Etsy then takes its Canadian fees on whatever you charge. The price required for each target margin:
| Target margin | Required listing price | With 12% Offsite Ads modelled |
|---|---|---|
| 20% | $29.07 | $35.59 |
| 30% | $34.01 | $43.29 |
| 40% | $40.98 | $55.24 |
| 50% | $51.54 | $76.31 |
Read the table right to left: if Offsite Ads might bring the order, the ad-safe 30% price is far above the naive one. That is why so many Canadian POD shops quietly lose money on ad orders: they priced for the 0% world.
Three pricing mistakes that quietly eat Canadian Etsy margins
1. Pricing from the sale, not the margin. "I sell it for C$35, it costs me C$19, so I make C$16" ignores the C$4.25+ Etsy removes first. Real margin on that sale is far lower than the paper number.
2. Absorbing shipping without modelling it. Free shipping is a pricing decision, not a marketing one. Every percentage fee applies to the total either way, so fold average shipping into the item price deliberately.
3. Treating Offsite Ads as rare. Any order can carry the 12% to 15% surcharge with no warning in the order screen. If the 12% case breaks your price, your price is wrong, not the ads.