The 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator is a free online tool for eBay.co.uk sellers. It works out your selling fees, your net profit and your break-even price the way eBay.co.uk actually charges them, which is not the same as eBay.com: VAT is part of the amount the fee is charged on, business sellers pay a regulatory operating fee, and Shop level changes your insertion fee rather than your final value fee. It also recalculates multi-buy orders. No account, no card, and it runs entirely in your browser.

Watch the one-minute UK walkthrough, then use the sections below as a reference:

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The 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator runs the same engine as the US version with a UK fee table and a VAT layer on top. Five things differ, and all five change the number you get:

There is also an Add. Shipping Fee field for the postage you charge on each additional item in a multi-buy order. It affects the Volume Pricing block only, not the single-item figures above it.

Enter the price before VAT in the Listing Price field (1), at the top of the List Price card, and the 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator shows the + VAT price (2) that UK buyers will actually see. The VAT rate selector offers 20%, 5% and 0% and starts at 20%, so a 100 GBP listing price shows as 120.00 GBP by default; at 5% it shows 105.00 GBP and at 0% it shows 100.00 GBP. If you already know the VAT-inclusive price you want buyers to see, put it in Custom VAT Price instead and leave the rate alone.

Add what the item cost you and what postage costs you, and the eBay UK Sale Overview updates as you type. Break Even (1) is the list price at which the sale neither loses nor earns money, and eBay pays you (2) is the payout before your own costs come out of it. The screenshot below is a 100 GBP list price with 10 GBP of buyer postage, a 40 GBP item cost and 6 GBP of postage cost, still on the calculator's starting category, Everything Else / other categories at 12.9%.

Pick a category and every figure moves. Both columns below are the same sale - a 100 GBP list price, 10 GBP of buyer postage, a 40 GBP item cost and 6 GBP of postage cost, as a business seller with no Shop - so the only difference is the final value fee rate.

The eBay Category selector (1) in the 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator sets your final value fee rate, and the FVF chip directly under it always shows the percentage being applied - 9.9% for Sound & Vision in the screenshot below. The UK list runs to 50 options and the rates vary widely, so this is the field worth getting right before you trust any other number on the page.

A Second Category adds a second insertion fee and repeats the upgrade fees, and eBay charges the higher of the two final value fees. The FVF chip, not the rate tables further down the page, is the number the calculation actually uses.

The eBay UK Fee Breakdown in the 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator is grouped under two headings. When the item sells covers the fees you only pay on a sale - the final value fee, the per-order fee and the regulatory operating fee. When you list (paid even if it does not sell) covers the insertion fee, which you pay whether or not the item ever sells. The screenshot below shows the three selling fees, then that second heading with the insertion fee beneath it, then the total.

The eBay Account Type selector in the 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator offers five options: Private seller; Business seller, no Shop; Business, Basic Shop; Business, Featured Shop; and Business, Anchor Shop. It starts on Business seller, no Shop. Two things about it are worth stating plainly, because the page's own tooltip is misleading here.

The eBay UK Volume Pricing block sits under the main results of the 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator and models a multi-buy order at three sizes. Enter a discount percentage in the Buy 2, Buy 3 or Buy 4 column (1) and only that column recalculates. The volume columns use the same VAT rate (2) as the single-item figures, so a discounted Buy 2 price of 90.00 GBP shows a VAT price of 108.00 GBP.

With a 10% discount on Buy 2 and the example sale, the Buy 2 column (1) recalculates while Buy 3 and Buy 4 stay where they were. Est. Profit, Item Cost and Fees are for the whole order, not per item, and your own postage cost is counted once per order rather than once per item - which is why Buy 2 shows an item cost of 86.00 GBP, that is 40 GBP twice plus 6 GBP of postage once.

The 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator is a modelling tool, not a statement of account. It will not:

Check the VAT rate selector first - it defaults to 20%, and 5% or 0% are available. If you need a specific VAT-inclusive figure rather than a rate, put it in Custom VAT Price; the calculator will use that instead of applying the rate to your list price.

That is correct on eBay.co.uk, and the 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator is right to leave it alone. Shop level changes your insertion fee, not your final value fee, so the FVF chip stays the same and only the Insertion fee line in the breakdown moves - 0.30 GBP with no Shop, 0.10 GBP on Basic, 0.05 GBP on Featured and free on Anchor. The saving from a Shop comes from cheaper and more numerous listings.

Check whether the account type is still set to Private seller. UK private sellers pay no selling fees on most categories, so the calculator shows a zero final value fee. Switch it to the business level that matches your account before you price anything on the result.

Each volume column has its own discount field and recalculates independently, so entering a discount in the Buy 2 column moves only that column. Enter a discount in each column you actually offer. The Add. Shipping Fee field also affects these columns only.

That is correct rather than a fault: scheduled listings are free on eBay.co.uk, so the Scheduler upgrade in the 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator adds nothing to Total Fees, to Net Profit or to the payout. If you see a price for Scheduler in the upgrade table lower down the page, the breakdown is the figure to trust.

Read the Insertion fee line in the Fee Breakdown instead - that is the figure the calculation uses. The small chip beside the account-type row does not update, so it can disagree with the breakdown. The breakdown is correct.

Yes - the 3Dsellers UK eBay Fee Calculator is completely free, with no account, no sign-in and no card. It runs in your browser and the UK fee table ships with the page.

Yes - on eBay.co.uk the final value fee is charged on the VAT-inclusive total the buyer pays, which includes the postage you charged them. That is why the calculator shows a + VAT price and states the total fee as a percentage of the whole sale rather than of your list price.

No - UK private sellers pay no eBay selling fees on most categories, and the calculator reflects that: select Private seller and the final value fee goes to zero. Business sellers pay the category percentage plus the per-order fee and the regulatory operating fee.

It is a flat 0.35% of the sale that eBay.co.uk charges business sellers, shown as its own line in the fee breakdown. On the 110 GBP example sale it comes to 0.46 GBP.

No - on eBay.co.uk a Shop subscription changes your insertion fee, not your final value fee. The calculator was tested across all four business levels and the percentage did not move; only the listing-time fee did.

Yes - there is a separate page per eBay site, each with its own fee table and currency, including the US eBay Fee Calculator, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. The grid of links sits directly above the calculator.

The rates are taken from eBay's own published UK fee pages and the page states the date they were last updated - the eBay Category tooltip prints that date. Because eBay changes fees periodically, treat the result as an accurate estimate for that date and check eBay's fee page for anything unusual or high value.