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Depop UK Fee Calculator (2026)

Depop removed its 10% selling fee for UK and US sellers in July 2024. Only payment processing remains: 2.9% + £0.30 per order. Many older articles and forum posts still quote the obsolete 10% rate. This calculator shows your actual take-home in 2026.

Last verified: 25 April 2026 Source: Depop Help — selling fees policy Next review: 25 October 2026
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What the buyer pays for the item itself, before shipping.
Shipping is included in Depop's percentage fee base.
What you pay Royal Mail/Evri/etc. — only used to compute final profit.
What you paid for the item if reselling. £0 for personal-wardrobe items.
Boost is opt-in promoted listings. Adds 8% fee, but only on sales attributed to a boosted listing.
Gross revenue —
Payment processing (2.9% + £0.30) —
Depop Boost fee (if applicable) —
Total Depop fees —
After Depop fees —
After your postage cost —
Profit before income tax —
Effective fee % —
Vintage shirt — £20 + £4.50 shipping, no Boost
Item £20 · Shipping £4.50 · Postage cost £3.50 · No item cost · No Boost

Gross £24.50. Depop charges only payment processing: 2.9% × £24.50 + £0.30 = £1.01. After your £3.50 postage you keep £19.99. Effective fee 4.1% — dramatically better than Etsy or eBay’s business rate.

Same sale but with Depop Boost on
Item £20 · Shipping £4.50 · Postage cost £3.50 · Boost 8%

Same sale; Boost adds 8% × £24.50 = £1.96. Total fees £2.97 (12.1% effective). Profit drops £1.96 to £18.03. Worth it only if Boost is bringing sales that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

Reseller margin — bought £6, sold £18
Item £18 · Shipping £4 · Postage £3.20 · Sourcing £6 · No Boost

Charity-shop find sourced for £6, sold for £18 + £4 shipping. Depop’s £0.94 fee is barely a dent. After £3.20 postage and £6 sourcing: £11.86 profit on £22 gross. 54% margin to the seller — Depop’s UK fee structure is genuinely seller-friendly post-2024.

In July 2024 Depop quietly did something its competitors never have: it removed its main selling fee for UK and US sellers. The 10% commission that defined the platform for years was dropped overnight, leaving only payment processing (2.9% + £0.30 per order). The change wasn’t widely publicised, and a lot of advice you’ll find online — even from 2025 — still quotes the obsolete 10% rate.

For 2026, the actual fee structure is simple:

On every sale: 2.9% of (item + shipping) + £0.30. That’s it. Optionally: 8% Boost fee, but only on sales attributed to a Boost-promoted listing. Off by default.

No transaction fee. No regulatory operating fee. No 20% VAT added to Depop’s fee for non-VAT-registered sellers (Depop Payments is structured differently to Etsy and eBay’s commission models).

Where margin actually leaks

If Depop’s fees are this low, where does seller profit go? Three places:

Sourcing cost — what you paid to acquire the item, if reselling. Charity-shop bargains aside, sourcing is usually the biggest cost line for active resellers.

Postage — the buyer pays for shipping at the standard Depop label price, but if you offer “free shipping” to drive sales, you absorb that cost. The calculator above lets you split “shipping charged to buyer” from “your actual postage cost” so you can see the impact of free-shipping promotions.

Boost — opt-in promoted listings. 8% on top of processing if a sale is attributed to a Boost. The calculator shows what happens to your margin with and without Boost; if you’re considering it, run the maths first.

Boost: when it earns its 8%

Boost is worth it on items that aren’t moving. It’s not worth it on items that would have sold anyway. The honest test: enable it on a stagnant item for a week, see if it moves. If it does, your 8% bought you a sale you wouldn’t have had. If you Boost a fast-moving listing, the 8% is pure margin sacrifice — Depop charges you for traffic you’d have got anyway.

The calculator above shows exact rupee values for boost vs no-boost on the same sale price. Run both scenarios and compare against your conversion rate from your Depop dashboard.

Tax + reporting still apply

Lower fees don’t change the tax framework. Depop reports to HMRC under the same Digital Platform Reporting rules as Vinted, Etsy and eBay (£1,700 in sales OR 30 items per calendar year). Once you cross either threshold, Depop shares your details with HMRC at year end. See the HMRC reporting checker for what that means.

Whether you owe tax on Depop income depends on the same trading-vs-personal-disposal test as everywhere else: are you buying to resell (trading, taxable beyond £1,000 allowance) or selling your own things (generally not trading, not taxable). The trading allowance calculator handles the threshold question; the side hustle tax calculator handles what you actually owe if you’re trading.

Common mistakes
  • Quoting the obsolete 10% selling fee. Depop dropped this for UK and US sellers on 1 July 2024. Articles, YouTube videos, Reddit posts and even some ‘fee calculators’ still reference the 10% rate. They’re out of date. The current rate is just 2.9% + £0.30 payment processing.
  • Confusing Depop’s Boost rate (8%) with the old 10% selling fee. Boost is opt-in, applies only to sales it caused, and is 8% on top of payment processing — not the resurrected old fee. Most sellers should leave Boost off.
  • Forgetting that the £0.30 fixed processing fee is per-order, not per-item. A bundle deal of 5 items for £30 is one order, one £0.30. Five separate £6 sales pay 5 × £0.30 = £1.50 in fixed fees alone, eating margins on low-priced items.
  • Pricing items below £5 without realising the fixed fee dominates. £0.30 is 6% of a £5 sale before any percentage fee. Combined with shipping costs, sub-£5 items rarely make sense on Depop.
  • Missing that Depop Payments fees aren’t VAT-charged to sellers. Unlike Etsy and eBay business sellers, Depop doesn’t add 20% VAT to its processing fee on top. (You may still owe VAT on your sales if you’re VAT-registered, but Depop’s fee itself is VAT-clean for sellers.)
What this calculator doesn't cover
  • Calculator assumes Depop Payments processor (the standard since 2020s). Sellers using PayPal as an alternative pay 2.99% + £0.30 — slightly different but not modelled separately here.
  • Doesn’t model cross-border sales with currency conversion. PayPal-based cross-border sales add 1.29% conversion + 0.5-2% international fee.
  • Doesn’t include Depop Shipping label costs (paid by buyer at checkout, doesn’t touch your maths).
  • Tax not modelled — see trading allowance and side hustle tax.
  • If you’re VAT-registered (turnover > £90k), you charge VAT on sales but Depop’s fee structure to you doesn’t change. Adjust your maths externally.

Frequently asked questions

Doesn't Depop take 10%?

Not since July 2024 in the UK. Depop removed its 10% selling commission for UK and US sellers; only payment processing fees (2.9% + £0.30 per order) remain. The change was barely publicised, so a lot of older content still quotes the 10% rate. Check the Depop Help page directly — link in the source above.

Should I turn on Depop Boost?

Boost adds 8% to your fees on attributed sales. It’s worth it only if Boost generates sales that genuinely wouldn’t have happened otherwise. For high-velocity sellers with already-strong listings, Boost cannibalises sales that would have happened anyway, costing you 8% for no incremental volume. For sellers with stale inventory or low-traffic shops, it can move items that aren’t moving. Turn it on for specific stagnant items rather than your whole shop, and watch whether your sale rate actually increases.

How does this compare with eBay or Vinted?

Vinted UK has zero seller fees. Buyers pay Buyer Protection. Depop’s 4-5% effective rate is more than Vinted (0%) but well below Etsy’s ~13-14% effective rate (with VAT) or eBay business sellers’ 12%+. eBay UK private sellers also pay zero on most categories since October 2024 — comparable to Vinted. The right platform depends on your category, audience, and how the fee structure compounds with price points.

Will I be taxed for selling on Depop?

Same rules as any platform. Selling personal possessions at a loss isn’t trading and isn’t taxable. Buying-to-resell is trading and is taxable beyond the £1,000 trading allowance. The platform fee is irrelevant to the tax question; what matters is whether your activity is trading and whether your gross income exceeds the allowance. See the trading allowance calculator.

Will Depop report me to HMRC?

Yes — once you cross £1,700 in sales OR 30 transactions in a calendar year. Depop is a Digital Platform Reporting platform under the OECD rules effective from 1 January 2024. The HMRC reporting checker covers it in detail.

What about the bank withdrawal fee?

Depop charges no withdrawal fee for UK bank transfers as of 2026. PayPal withdrawals can have small processing costs depending on your country; UK PayPal withdrawals are typically free for personal accounts.

Why does Depop charge less than Etsy and eBay?

Different business models. Etsy and eBay have substantial infrastructure (search, ads, seller tools, customer service) and higher seller-side margins. Depop’s revenue increasingly comes from the buyer side and from Boost; the seller-side fee was reduced to make the platform more attractive to creators. Whether the lower fee remains is a strategy decision Depop revisits periodically.

About this calculator. Maintained by Jordan — a UK seller and creator who actually uses these platforms (Etsy, eBay, Vinted, DistroKid). Built to be accurate, mobile-fast, and honest about its limits. Spot a bug? Email hello@payoutmath.co.uk.