Printful Profit Calculator US
Published fee rules reviewed:
Sources and calculation assumptions. Payment processing. Regulatory operating fee. Offsite Ads fee. Tax on Etsy fees (%).
Fee review is over 30 days old. Check the official sources and your invoice before relying on this estimate.
Enter valid nonnegative amounts. Choose a buyer-tax amount or a rate, and enter a positive order value.
Other costs per order
Add only costs not already included above. Allocate subscriptions, listing renewals, expected losses and overhead using your own sales assumptions.
Fee assumptions
Use a buyer-tax amount OR rate, never both. The rate scales with price and shipping; a fixed amount stays unchanged in price scenarios. Seller tax is deducted from tax-inclusive revenue. Use costs net of recoverable tax.
Fee tax is a uniform estimate on all modelled fees. Actual taxable fee categories and tax registration can change the amount; reconcile to your Etsy invoice.
Use 2.5% only when listing and payment-account currencies differ. Enter all amounts in the displayed currency; no live currency exchange is performed.
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| Transaction fee (6.5%) | โ |
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| Offsite Ads fee (0%) | โ |
| Tax on Etsy fees | โ |
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| Seller-remitted tax | โ |
| All entered operating costs | โ |
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Price for your target margin
To hit your 40% target margin, charge:
Test the economics
- Break-even listing price
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- Profit with entered costs 10% higher
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- Profit on a 15% Offsite Ads order
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Scenarios use your inputs and assume one completed order. Margin uses gross order revenue. These are sensitivity checks, not sales forecasts or probabilities.
One item per completed order. Use discounted prices and actual costs in the displayed currency. Presets and non-USD fee conversions are illustrative. Tax rates, currency conversion and allocated costs apply only as entered. This is an order estimate, not a tax return or payout reconciliation. Refunds, income tax and payment-provider charges are not automatically determined.
Cost the full Printful fulfilment specification, including the options your customer actually orders. Compare its contribution after Etsy fees and shipping.
Calculate my estimateHow much profit do you keep with Printful and Etsy?
Your estimated order profit is customer revenue minus Etsy fees and the full Printful fulfilment bill. Enter product cost, shipping and any applicable extras or supplier tax. This Printful profit calculator measures the contribution from that order, not the shop's final taxable income.
Regional assumptions: US
US defaults use 3% + $0.25 payment processing, no regulatory operating fee and no tax on seller fees. Additional buyer sales tax can increase processing fees; enter it in the separate field. Your bank-account location determines the processing schedule.
US sales-tax collection by Etsy and tax on a Printful fulfilment invoice are separate items. Enter the former in buyer tax and include non-recoverable provider tax in costs when applicable; do not combine them in the Etsy fee-tax percentage.
Order revenue โ Etsy fees โ entered costs = estimated profit. Margin = estimated profit รท order revenue ร 100.
Separate fulfilment cost from the Etsy remainder
Printful defines retail-price profit in relation to what the customer pays and what fulfilment costs. Selling on Etsy adds marketplace deductions to that comparison. The example below separates the customer payment, Etsy fees and illustrative Printful product-plus-shipping cost.
| Line | Amount | Who takes it |
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| Buyer pays | $27.00 | Etsy checkout |
| Etsy fees (listing, transaction, processing) | โ $3.02 | Etsy |
| After estimated Etsy fees | $23.99 | Etsy |
| Provider base + shipping | โ $17.50 | Printful |
| Estimated order profit | $6.48 (24.0%) | You |
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Table uses the default assumptions, one item, no buyer tax and no Offsite Ads unless shown. Editing the calculator does not change this example.
See Printful's retail-price explanation for the provider-side calculation. The sample costs on this page are not live Printful quotes, and the Etsy remainder is not a prediction of your bank deposit.
Inputs for the Printful profit calculator
A blank product's starting cost is not enough when the order adds print placements, embroidery, labels or other fulfilment options. Build the specification first, then use its actual quote. Where a one-time setup charge applies, decide whether one order bears it or whether you will allocate it across a conservative number of orders.
Include only costs you actually incur and avoid charging the same setup expense twice. Product availability, eligible options and pricing can change, so use the quote for the exact variant and fulfilment destination rather than treating an example T-shirt as representative of every Printful product.
Compare one print placement with an upgraded offer
Imagine a US order sold for $35 with free shipping. A hypothetical base specification costs $14 to produce and $5 to deliver. With the default no-ad, no-tax Etsy assumptions, fees are $3.775 before display rounding and estimated contribution is $12.23.
If an optional decoration adds $3 to production and you keep the price unchanged, contribution drops by $3. If you also raise the price, percentage-based Etsy fees increase too. Test the upgraded offer as its own case instead of adding the full surcharge to expected profit.
Check whether shipping is shared or split
A cart containing different product categories can have a different fulfilment structure from one item. Use the actual order quote to establish shipping, packaging and any separate fulfilment charges. Do not assume the additional-item shipping amount for one product applies to every mixed basket.
For the single-item model here, enter the shipping charge attributable to that item. Multi-item order profitability needs basket-level treatment of shipping, listing quantities and the fixed processing fee, which should not be multiplied once per item without checking.
Evaluate discounts against the actual product mix
If you have access to a discounted rate or paid programme, compare the current quoted cost of the exact item with the alternative. A headline saving is not evidence that your shipping or every optional service receives the same discount.
Allocate any subscription across a realistic order count. As an arithmetic example, a $24 period cost spread over eight orders adds $3 to each order's cost; over 24 orders it adds $1. Use actual programme charges in place of those example numbers.
Keep a record of the offer you priced
Record product, variant, print specification, destination, shipping service, quoted cost and the date. That gives you a clear comparison when an invoice differs from your original estimate. It also prevents an older low-cost configuration from being reused for a more expensive customised listing.
Run the Etsy pricing calculator after changing the specification. For a provider comparison, enter a matching Printify quote in the Printify profit calculator. Compare the same customer offer; the calculator does not make a claim about provider quality.
Sources and calculation assumptions
Fee rules checked 10 September 2026. One item per completed order. Use discounted prices and actual costs in the displayed currency. Presets and non-USD fee conversions are illustrative. Tax rates, currency conversion and allocated costs apply only as entered. This is an order estimate, not a tax return or payout reconciliation. Refunds, income tax and payment-provider charges are not automatically determined.