Depop Fees for U.S. Sellers: Processing on Tax and the 12% Boost

What a Depop sale costs

Depop’s seller fees page (last edited July 21, 2026) lists two things for U.S. sellers:

• Selling fee: none. No Depop selling fee is charged to sellers based in the U.S., U.K. or Australia.
• Payment processing: 3.3% + $0.45 per sale through Depop Payments (via Stripe), charged on the item sale price plus shipping and any applicable taxes.

Here is the house example: a $50.00 item, $8.00 shipping, and sales tax at an example 8% on both. Depop charges the rate for the buyer’s address, so 8% is only an illustration.

Net payout here means what lands in your Depop Balance after fees and any label you buy. Of the $2.52, the tax is responsible for $0.16: with no sales tax (a buyer in Alaska outside a taxing locality, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon) the fee is $2.36. On a $10.00 item with $5.00 shipping the same formula takes $0.98, about 9.8% of the price, because the $0.45 doesn’t shrink. Each fee is rounded to the cent; Depop doesn’t publish a rounding rule, so a receipt can differ by a cent.

The buyer also pays a marketplace fee of up to 5% of the item price plus up to $1, excluding taxes and shipping, in place since July 18, 2024 (Depop’s buyer fee page). Depop shows the exact amount at checkout; it never touches your payout.

Small items and bundles

The fixed $0.45 is what makes cheap items expensive to sell one at a time, and Depop’s fee page says processing applies once per bundle transaction (the line sits in its bundle section, which is written mainly for sellers outside the U.K. and U.S.). Two $10.00 items, each sent with $5.00 Depop label shipping and 8% example tax:

The bundle keeps $0.62 more: one $0.45 instead of two, and processing on one shipping charge instead of two. For the buyer, the fixed part of the marketplace fee is also charged once per bundle.

Depop label or your own label

You can ship with a Depop Shipping label, which the buyer pays for, or charge shipping and buy your own label. The processing fee includes shipping either way. The difference is who carries the gap between what you charge and what the label costs.

When the shipping you charge equals your label, the two setups net the same. Free shipping at the same price costs you the whole label, softened only by the $0.29 less processing. Your label choice matters more for Boost, below.

Boost: 12% and the 28-day window

Boosted Listings show your item in extra placements in search and on the For You page. Since March 23, 2026, the U.S. boosting fee for new listings is 12% of the item sale price, excluding tax, plus the shipping cost only when you don’t use a Depop Shipping label (Boosted Listings).

You pay it only when a buyer interacts with the boosted listing (views, clicks or likes it) and then buys within 28 days. If a buyer finds the item without seeing the boosted tile, there’s no boosting fee. Unboosting doesn’t cancel the window: a buyer who saw the boost before you turned it off and buys within 28 days still triggers the fee. Boost Shop boosts every listing, including new ones.

On the house example:

• Boosted, Depop label: 12% × $50.00 = $6.00. Fees $8.52, you keep $41.48.
• Boosted, own label ($8.00 charged and paid): 12% × $58.00 = $6.96. Fees $9.48, you keep $40.52.

Depop’s current pages don’t state a rate for boosted listings created before March 23, 2026, and they word the cut-off differently: the fee page says the 12% applies to new listings from March 23, 2026, while the Boosted Listings page gives 12% for the U.S. from March 23 without that limit. Depop’s fee page as archived on January 13, 2026 listed 8% for U.S. sellers on the same base. If older listings keep that rate, an older boosted listing with a Depop label pays $4.00 and nets $43.48; that is our reading, not a rate Depop states today. Boost is an ad, so the trade-off is the same as with other marketplace ads; the Promoted Listings guide works through a break-even ad rate.

Getting paid and refunds

Depop’s U.S. payout page says the money goes to your Depop Balance 2 business days after the item shows as delivered or 10 business days after the sale, whichever comes first. A withdrawal to your bank can take up to 5 days to arrive (payout timing across platforms). None of the pages we read on October 5, 2026 lists a withdrawal fee or an instant payout option for the U.S.

If a sale is refunded through Depop Payments, Depop reverses all its fees automatically: processing and boosting fees included. Which fees come back on a refund compares this with eBay and Etsy.

How Depop’s U.S. fees got here

• July 15, 2024: Depop removed its 10% selling fee for U.S. sellers on new listings and kept the payment processing fee (Depop newsroom).
• July 18, 2024: the buyer marketplace fee started.
• March 23, 2026: the U.S. boosting fee for new listings became 12%.
• July 30, 2026: eBay completed its acquisition of Depop.

On fees after the acquisition, Depop’s FAQ says: “There are no planned changes to fees or payments at this time.” Depop’s fee page was last edited July 21, 2026, and the rates above were current as of October 5, 2026. If that changes, our fee change log will date it.

Next step

Enter your price, shipping setup, the buyer’s tax rate and whether the sale was boosted in the Depop fee calculator. To see how the same item does on other platforms, use the comparison tool; the fee comparison guide explains the ranking.