Whatnot Fees 2026: 8% Commission, Tiers and 2.9% + $0.30

How your tier is set

Per Whatnot’s seller fees page (edited October 1, 2026):

• The window is four weeks (28 days). Your total sales in one period set your tier, and that tier sets your rates for the whole next period. Periods start at 12 a.m. on a Monday, local time, and each one starts from zero.
• Every category counts toward one total. Total sales are the combined sale price of your completed orders, live shows and marketplace together. Private shows, local pickup orders and cancelled orders are subtracted.
• Your rate is locked for the period. Crossing a threshold mid-period lowers your rate from the start of the next period, not right away. If sales drop below your tier’s threshold, your tier drops at the next period.
• Each account stands alone. Sales on a second seller account don’t add to the first.

Existing sellers were placed using their sales from August 24 to September 20, 2026. Seller Hub shows a projection: sales so far, divided by the days elapsed, times 28.

The U.S. rate table

Commission is charged on the item’s sale price only; Whatnot says shipping and taxes paid by the buyer are not included. The rate depends on your tier and on each sale’s category: for live sales, the category of the show; for marketplace sales, the category of the product. U.S. rates as of October 5, 2026:

The group names are Whatnot’s. Which category sits in which group comes from the rate card on whatnot.com/seller/fees: Fashion covers women’s, men’s, sneakers and shoes, bags and accessories, jewelry and watches, beauty and baby and kids; Other Collectibles covers toys and hobbies, comics, video games, electronics, antiques and similar; Other covers books and movies, arts and handmade, music, food and drink and pets. Coins & Money has its own reduced rate (Coins & Money). Rates as low as 3% are custom terms for the highest-volume sellers through an account manager. Whatnot treats listing in the wrong category to get a lower rate as fee avoidance.

What one sale keeps at each tier

Processing is separate from commission and doesn’t change with your tier: 2.9% + $0.30 per order on the total the buyer pays, including item, buyer-paid shipping and taxes. The house example: a $50.00 Fashion item, $8.00 buyer-paid shipping and sales tax at an example 8% (Whatnot collects the rate for the buyer’s address), so the buyer pays $62.64.

“You keep” is the net payout: your earnings after Whatnot’s fees, with the buyer paying Whatnot’s label. Moving from Base to Tier 6 saves $1.75 on this sale, while the $2.12 of processing stays the same at every tier. Each fee is rounded to the cent; Whatnot doesn’t publish a rounding rule, so an order can differ by a cent.

Next-tier math on a typical show

Say you sell Fashion, you’re at the base tier, and you’ve sold $12,000 so far in the current four weeks. Your shows run about 40 sales at $25.00 each, with buyers paying Whatnot’s $7.75 shipping for a 1–5 lb package (Whatnot’s U.S. price since July 31, 2026) and an example 8% tax, each sale its own order.

• Sales still needed: $15,000 − $12,000 = $3,000, about 120 more $25 sales or three 40-sale shows, inside this window.
• What Tier 1 is worth: $0.25 per sale like this, $10.00 on a 40-sale show, and $150.00 over a next period that again reaches $15,000 (600 sales).

The saving arrives only in the next period and only on what you sell then. Whatnot’s own illustration of the threshold: at a $25 average order, $15,000 is about 150 orders a week. Further up, Fashion from Tier 2 to Tier 3 drops 1 point, again $0.25 on a $25 sale.

The Premier discount ended November 1, 2026

Through October 31, 2026, Premier Shop sellers got 10% off their commission rate on top of the tier: Fashion Tier 3’s 5.5% became 4.95%. On the house example that was $2.48 instead of $2.75, keeping $45.40. As of November 1, 2026, Premier Shop no longer includes a commission discount in the U.S. and the other markets with tiered rates (sellers in Japan, which has no tiers, keep it); the badge, discoverability and priority support stay, and the same sale now keeps $45.13 (Premier Shop Program).

Orders over $1,500

Under a limited-time promotion that started January 14, 2026, Whatnot charges 0% commission on the part of an order above $1,500 in Comics & Anime, Toys & Hobbies, Coins & Money, Trading Card Games, Entertainment Cards and Sports Singles; Bags & Accessories and Jewelry & Watches were added on June 4, 2026. Sports breaks and Surprise Products are excluded, and processing still applies to the whole order (high-value orders).

A $2,000.00 watch at the base tier, with $10.00 shipping and 8% example tax: commission 8% × $1,500.00 = $120.00, processing 2.9% × $2,170.80 + $0.30 = $63.25, and you keep $1,816.75. The same $2,000.00 in Women’s fashion, which isn’t eligible, pays $160.00 commission and keeps $1,776.75.

Processing, shipping and tax on fees

Because processing includes tax, the buyer’s location matters a little: with no sales tax the house example’s processing is $1.98 instead of $2.12. Buyers pay shipping by default at a price Whatnot sets. In shows, some sellers can choose to pay all domestic shipping or cap what the buyer pays and cover the rest (shipping settings); marketplace orders and giveaways keep buyer-paid shipping. Whatnot’s rule names “buyer-paid shipping” in the processing base but shows no example where the seller covers shipping, so leaving the part you cover out of the base is our reading of that rule, and our calculator follows it.

Whatnot also collects sales tax on its own fees in some states (our guide to tax on marketplace fees compares it with Etsy’s Texas charge) and deducts it from earnings (taxes on fees): on commission in DC, Hawaii, New Mexico and West Virginia; on processing in Connecticut (1%), Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas (rate reduced by 20%) and West Virginia. Whatnot’s example: a Houston seller with $3.20 of processing fees pays $0.21. Rates vary by city, so our calculator flags these states rather than computing the tax. This is general information, not tax advice; your state’s revenue department or a tax professional can confirm how it applies to you.

Next step

Enter your category, your last four weeks of sales and a typical sale in the Whatnot fee calculator; its next-tier panel shows the sales still needed and the saving per sale. To compare the same item elsewhere, use the comparison tool, and the fee change log dates the September 21 switch and the November 1 Premier change.