Facebook Marketplace Fees: 10%, the $0.80 Minimum and Pickup
The question
What does Facebook Marketplace take from a shipped order, and when is local pickup better?
Short answer
As of October 6, 2026, Meta’s help pages say a shipped Marketplace order pays 10% of item price, shipping and applicable taxes, with a $0.80 minimum, and local pickup carries no selling fee. On the house example ($50.00 item, $8.00 shipping, 8% example tax) the fee is $6.26 and you keep $43.74; the same item sold by pickup keeps $50.00. Meta’s pages word the minimum two ways, per order and per item, so multi-item orders are uncertain.
- In numbers
- $50 item: pickup keeps $50.00, shipped $43.74 after a $6.26 fee
- Worked example
- Prepaid label or your own label · Fig. 1
Fee rates as of · Fee change log →
On this page8 sections
Facebook Marketplace looks free until you ship something. A local sale costs nothing in fees; an order that goes through Marketplace checkout pays a selling fee, and that fee is figured on more than the item price.
This guide covers what Meta’s pages say about the fee, how the prepaid label and your own label change what you keep, what the $0.80 minimum does to cheap items, and when the money arrives. For the same item on every platform, see seller fees compared.
The fee on shipped orders
As of October 6, 2026, Meta’s help page on getting paid says a selling fee of 10% (or $0.80 minimum per order) is deducted from your payout. The fee is calculated on the total transaction value: item price, shipping fees and applicable taxes. It does not include anything your payment provider may charge separately, and Meta says it may offer eligible sellers promotional rates through qualifying programs.
The Sell with Shipping page gives Meta’s own example: a $20 item, $5 shipping and $1 tax make a fee of 10% × ($20 + $5 + $1) = $2.60. It lists the reasons for the fee as payments processing, customer support and Purchase Protection, and says the fee is deducted from payments you receive; if the item doesn’t sell, you owe nothing.
Meta’s pages give one rate for shipped orders. They show no category table and no subscription plan; the only lower rate they mention is a promotional one.
What you keep on the house example
Our house example is a $50.00 item, $8.00 charged for shipping and an 8% example sales tax (the marketplace charges the rate for the buyer’s address, not yours). The buyer pays $62.64 and the fee is 10% × $62.64 = $6.26. With an $8.00 label, you keep $43.74. Fee components are rounded to the cent; platforms may round differently by a cent.
Meta’s page says there is no selling fee for items picked up locally, or where the buyer pays you without using shipping and checkout (its example is PayPal). Meta describes local transactions as arranged by message, with a public meetup or a door pickup or drop-off (local transactions). The same $50.00 item sold that way keeps $50.00, with no label to buy. The trade-off is yours to weigh: a local sale doesn’t go through checkout, and Meta’s page says local transactions aren’t covered by Purchase Protection.
Prepaid label or your own label
When you sell with shipping, Meta’s page says you decide at listing setup who pays for shipping: the buyer, Facebook or you. For Meta’s prepaid label, the page says buyers pay for it, you can offer to cover the cost, labels are non-refundable and the only carriers are UPS and USPS. It also says prepaid labels are offered to select sellers and can be removed. With your own label you enter the tracking number yourself.
The fee base includes the shipping the buyer pays either way. What changes is who carries the label cost:
Fig. 1Facebook Marketplace: shipped or pickup
To scale · one dollar scale
- Prepaid label, buyer pays $8.00: the buyer’s $8.00 never reaches you, the fee is still $6.26, and you keep $43.74.
- Your own label costing $10.00 while you charge $8.00: the same $6.26 fee, but the $2.00 gap comes out of your pocket, so you keep $41.74.
- Free shipping: Meta’s pages say seller-paid shipping is deducted from your payout, but not how the 10% is figured in that case. Our comparison tool assumes 10% of item plus tax, which is our assumption and not a Meta statement, so treat that result as an estimate.
Meta also says the shipping cost shown is based on commercial shipping rates, and that it may negotiate lower rates with shipping partners and retain the savings. The label price shown may therefore differ from what Meta pays the carrier. For what labels cost across carriers, see what shipping really costs.
The $0.80 minimum on cheap items
The minimum matters when 10% of the order total is under $0.80, meaning an item, shipping and tax total under $8.00. With no shipping and no tax:
| Order total | Fee | Share of the order |
|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $0.80 | 16.0% |
| $6.00 | $0.80 | 13.3% |
| $7.00 | $0.80 | 11.4% |
| $8.00 | $0.80 | 10.0% |
| $8.05 | $0.81 | 10.1% |
| $10.00 | $1.00 | 10.0% |
Above $8.00 the fee is a flat 10%. The full small-item comparison, including a $12.00 shirt that pays $1.84 on Facebook, is in where items under $20 net the most.
One minimum per order or per item?
Meta’s getting-paid page ties the $0.80 minimum to each order; the Sell with Shipping page ties it to each item bought with shipping and checkout. On a single item the two agree. On an order with two $6.00 items and no shipping or tax they don’t: per order, the fee is 10% × $12.00 = $1.20; per item, it is $0.80 twice, $1.60. Our calculators model single-item orders only. If you sell bundles through checkout, compare the fee on your first payout breakdown with both numbers before you price around either.
When you get paid
Meta’s page says the payout starts 15 days after you mark the item shipped, or 5 days after delivery is confirmed, and may take up to 5 more days to reach your account, up to 20 days from marking it shipped in total. Creating a prepaid label marks the order shipped automatically. The Sell with Shipping page also says an order that isn’t marked shipped in time is cancelled automatically (the page gives the window in more than one way, so check the deadline on your order), and that you can cancel before it’s marked shipped without charge to either side. If you link a PayPal account (it must be verified by PayPal), the same page says funds are available in it 4 days after delivery confirmation. The pages show no payout fee from Meta.
Facebook Marketplace against eBay
Both figure their percentage on the item, shipping and sales tax, but the rates differ. eBay’s selling fees page lists 13.6% for most categories (up to $7,500 per item) plus a $0.40 per-order fee on orders over $10.00, with no Store. The table uses the same house sale with an $8.00 shipping charge, an $8.00 label you buy and 8% example tax:
| Item price | Facebook fee | Facebook net | eBay fees | eBay net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20.00 | $3.02 | $16.98 | $4.51 | $15.49 |
| $50.00 | $6.26 | $43.74 | $8.92 | $41.08 |
| $150.00 | $17.06 | $132.94 | $23.61 | $126.39 |
| $500.00 | $54.86 | $445.14 | $75.02 | $424.98 |
eBay’s rate varies by category and falls with a Store subscription (see is an eBay Store worth it), so this is one slice, not a verdict. Facebook’s net also depends on a buyer being willing to check out through Marketplace rather than meet locally.
Next step
Run your own sale in the Facebook Marketplace fee calculator: enter your item price, shipping, label cost and an example tax rate to see the fee, the $0.80 minimum where it applies, and what you keep. The comparison tool shows the same sale on Facebook Marketplace beside the other platforms.
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