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Break-even Price Calculator

Find your price floor, then explore a target margin or profit. Continue from an Etsy worksheet to keep its exact fee assumptions.

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Calculate locally with the included scope. Review sources and exclusions before using a preset. Estimates do not reproduce marketplace settlements or carrier quotes.

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USD · one item/order
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Your result

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Minimum item price for margin target
$33.81

Estimate under the assumptions below

Break-even item price

$22.60

Profit at this price

$10.15

Margin on seller revenue

30.01%
Calculation breakdown
Production and order cost$20.00
Fixed fee$0.45
Percentage fee at this priceApplies to item plus charged shipping.$3.21
Included assumptions & rule versions
  • Generic single percentage fee plus fixed fee in USD. Fee base and margin denominator include charged shipping.
  • No sales tax, gift wrap, fee caps or mixed fee bases. Use the linked Etsy solver for Etsy-specific decisions.
  • Item prices round upward to cents and are checked against the unrounded target; displayed money uses half-up rounding.

Rule versions: GENERIC-PRICING-V1
Sources checked October 27, 2026. Your overridden rates remain your assumptions.

Generic fees share a revenue base (item + shipping), with no tax or caps. Margin means profit divided by seller revenue, including shipping collected. Continue from an Etsy worksheet to preserve its tax/discount/ad-cap rules instead of flattening them into generic fees.

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Current goal

$33.81

Minimum item price for margin target

Your entered assumptions

$0.00 versus current setup

Higher profit target

$28.13

Minimum item price for profit target

Target profit +$5; profit goal

-$5.68 versus current setup

Break even

$22.60

Minimum item price for break-even

Zero profit target; same costs and fees

-$11.21 versus current setup

Understand your numbers

Generic fees share a revenue base (item + shipping), with no tax or caps. Margin means profit divided by seller revenue, including shipping collected. Continue from an Etsy worksheet to preserve its tax/discount/ad-cap rules instead of flattening them into generic fees.

With fees on seller revenue: item price = (cost + fixed fees + target profit) ÷ (1 − percentage fee) − shipping collected. A margin target also changes the denominator.

A worked example

With $20 fulfillment cost, $0.45 fixed fees and a 9.5% revenue-based fee, the break-even item price is $22.60 with no shipping revenue. A price floor rounds up to a cent, then is checked against the target.

Sources and rule scope

Last checked October 27, 2026. Your account, service or overridden inputs may differ. Rules used by this model are versioned in the copied result.

Frequently asked questions

Does break-even mean a good market price?

No. It only covers the costs included in this model. Market demand and the price buyers will accept are not predicted.

Is markup the same as margin?

No. Markup compares profit to cost; margin compares profit to revenue. This calculator labels the denominator explicitly.

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