Shopify vs Etsy Fees UK: How VAT Changes the Math
UK and EU fees differ from the US versions, and VAT moves who owes what. Etsy and Shopify rates plus UK and EU VAT rules, read September 11, 2026.
UK and EU fees differ from the US versions, and VAT moves who owes what. Etsy and Shopify rates plus UK and EU VAT rules, read September 11, 2026.
Our Etsy vs Shopify fee calculator takes three numbers. How to find them, check the result against official rates, and see what it leaves out.
Published Etsy to Shopify break-even points disagree because they answer three different questions. Here are the three formulas and your own inputs.
Etsy’s Offsite Ads fee is 15%, or 12% once a shop passes $10,000. Cross that line and the opt-out is gone for good. Etsy’s figures, read Sept 7, 2026.
A fee change or a bad week is a reason to be angry, not a reason to move. Six questions that separate a business decision from a reaction to one.
Etsy’s fees look small one at a time. Here is every fee Etsy publishes, added up on one $46 order, read from Etsy’s own page on August 26, 2026.
Etsy takes 6.5% per sale. Shopify charges a flat monthly fee. The answer is a break-even, not a winner, and here is the math with assumptions shown.
Your listing copy was written inside a marketplace that answered half the buyer’s questions for you. On your own store nothing answers them. Here is the rewrite.
Almost always yes, but not for the reason people give. A new store cannot be tested against an established marketplace, so measure something else.
This site is paid when sellers leave, and this page argues against that. Four seller profiles for whom leaving now is the expensive mistake.
No honest page can date this for you. Here is what the timeline is actually made of, and the three numbers in your own Etsy account that decide it.
What actually changes day to day when you leave Etsy for your own store, from order handling to where your traffic comes from.
A practical checklist to score your migration readiness across revenue, traffic, margin, operations and how much risk you can absorb.
There’s no revenue number that says leave Etsy. Here’s the framework of fees, margin, traffic source and list size that actually decides it.
A suspended Etsy shop freezes your listings and payouts fast. Here’s what you keep access to, Etsy’s own appeal steps, and the real risk to plan for.