Every marketplace quotes one number and charges several. This table shows what lands in your account after all of them — computed from each platform’s own published fees, checked on 8 October 2026.
| Price | Made for This Day | Etsy | eBay |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.99 | $0.63−$0.36 | $0.45−$0.54 | $0.46−$0.53 |
| $1.99 | $1.57−$0.42 | $1.35−$0.64 | $1.32−$0.67 |
| $2.99 | $2.51−$0.48 | $2.26−$0.73 | $2.18−$0.81 |
| $4.99 | $4.40−$0.59 | $4.07−$0.92 | $3.91−$1.08 |
| $7.99 | $7.22−$0.77 | $6.78−$1.21 | $6.50−$1.49 |
| $9.99 | $9.10−$0.89 | $8.59−$1.40 | $8.23−$1.76 |
| $14.99 | $13.81−$1.18 | $13.12−$1.87 | $12.55−$2.44 |
| $19.99 | $18.51−$1.48 | $17.64−$2.35 | $16.87−$3.12 |
| $29.99 | $27.92−$2.07 | $26.69−$3.30 | $25.51−$4.48 |
| $49.99 | $46.74−$3.25 | $44.79−$5.20 | $42.79−$7.20 |
Bold is what you keep. Small grey is what is taken. The highlighted cell is the best outcome at that price.
The fee nobody compares, and the one that decides what a large catalogue costs. Etsy’s listing expires after four months and auto-renews at 20¢ whether or not the item ever sells — so a product that never sells still costs 60¢ a year, every year. We charge half that.
| Platform | To list | Renewal | Per item, per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Made for This Day | 10¢ | every 4 months | $0.30 |
| Etsy | 20¢ | every 4 months | $0.60 |
| eBay | free, then an insertion fee | 250 free listings a month | — |
A listing fee buys you shoppers. Free places to put a file exist, and the reason they are free is that nobody browses them — you have to bring the buyer yourself.
Payouts are not open yet. This is how they will work when they open: we will pay sellers once a month. Payouts will go by Stripe to the payout account you set up with Stripe’s identity check; Stripe charges the platform $2.00 for each month it pays you plus 0.25% + 25¢ per payout, and, like the card fee, that will be passed through at cost, once a month, never per sale. PayPal payouts are not offered. The minimum payout will be $25, so on a $25 payout the Stripe cost is $2.31; anything under it will carry to the next month.
| Platform | Published fees |
|---|---|
| Made for This Day | card cost + 3% |
| Etsy | $0.20 listing + 6.5% + 3% + $0.25 processing their fee page |
| eBay | 13.6% + $0.40 per order their fee page |
Fees change. Theirs are on their pages: Etsy · eBay. Processing shown for the United States; it differs by country.
Yes. Etsy’s own fee page says a listing “expires after 4 months” and that the $0.20 auto-renew fee “has to be paid regardless of resulting sales”. On a product that never sells, that is $0.60 a year, every year.
Because they are the two places with enough shoppers that listing there is a real choice. Plenty of tools will host a file and a checkout for free, but a free page nobody visits is not a competitor — it is a website you still have to drive traffic to yourself.
Because it is not what gets deducted. The seller also pays payment processing on top — in the US, 3% plus $0.25 — along with the listing fee, and regulatory operating fees in some countries. On a $2.99 sale the headline is 6.5% and the real deduction is about 24.6%.
Whatever the card network actually costs us, passed straight through, plus 3%. Nothing marked up and nothing added. On a $2.99 download that is 48¢ total and you keep $2.51 — against $2.26 on Etsy and $2.18 on eBay. Listing costs 10¢, renewed every four months.
Because the sale is not where we make our money, and we would rather say so. We charge 10¢ to list and 10¢ again every four months, so a seller with a thousand items pays us $300 a year whether anything sells or not. At 3% that same seller would need $10,000 of sales to pay us the same amount. The commission exists to be the cheapest in the market, not to earn.
Not on a sale. Because we pass the card cost through rather than marking it up, our deduction tracks what the transaction genuinely costs and stays below Etsy’s and eBay’s at every price. Where they beat us is volume of shoppers, which is a real advantage and not one a fee table can show you.
No. You need somewhere to be paid — a PayPal address is enough — and nothing else. No shop to set up, no identity documents, no business details. We do not want them and we do not keep them.