Poshmark fees explained: what it takes in 2026

Poshmark deducts one fee from a sale, and its size turns on a single threshold: a flat $2.95 on any US sale under $15, and 20% of the price at $15 or more. Nothing else comes out of the sale — listing is free and the buyer pays for shipping — which makes this one of the shortest fee schedules in resale, and one of the easiest to price around badly. This guide covers both markets Poshmark publishes a fee policy for, with worked examples computed by the same engine as the Poshmark fee calculator. Every rate is quoted from Poshmark's fee policy, which its terms of service incorporate by reference, and was verified on 3 September 2026.

What Poshmark charges

That is the entire seller schedule. The US policy calls it the seller fee and the Canadian one calls it Poshmark's commission, but the arithmetic is identical: one deduction from what Poshmark calls the final order price.

Two words in that phrase matter. Final means the price the buyer actually paid, so an accepted offer or a seller discount lowers the fee with it; the estimate Poshmark shows you while you are writing a listing is based on the listing price and will not match if the item sells for less. Order price means the item, not the shipping the buyer paid on top of it.

The threshold is a switch, not a tier

Most marketplace fees taper: a percentage here, a fixed amount there, sometimes a lower rate on the part of the price above some level. Poshmark's does not. The threshold decides which of two rules applies to the whole price, and the two rules do not meet neatly.

One cent below the threshold, the fee on $14.99 is $2.95 and you keep $12.04, an effective rate of 19.68%. At the threshold, the fee on $15.00 is $3.00 and you keep $12.00, an effective rate of 20%.

Raising the price by a single cent lowers what you keep. That is not a rounding artefact; it is what happens when a flat $2.95 is replaced by 20% of a $15 sale. The gap does not close until the price has climbed far enough for the percentage to catch up:

The first price that matches it again, the fee on $15.05 is $3.01 and you keep $12.04, an effective rate of 20%.

So there is a small dead band immediately above the threshold where every price leaves you worse off than a cent below it does. If an item is worth roughly fifteen dollars, price it just under, or price it high enough to clear the band.

The other end of the schedule is the mirror image. Below the threshold the flat fee is the same whatever you charge, so the effective rate collapses as the price rises:

On a cheap item, the fee on $3.00 is $2.95 and you keep $0.05, an effective rate of 98.33%. Just under the threshold, the fee on $14.00 is $2.95 and you keep $11.05, an effective rate of 21.07%.

Three dollars is close to the worst price on Poshmark: the fee takes almost the whole sale. Bundling several cheap items into one listing is the honest way around that, because the fee is charged per order, not per item.

Above the threshold there is no such variation. The rate is 20% of the price, flat, with no cap and no fixed component, so a $100 sale and a $500 sale hand over the same share of the price:

On a mid-priced item, the fee on $100.00 is $20.00 and you keep $80.00, an effective rate of 20%. On an expensive item, the fee on $500.00 is $100.00 and you keep $400.00, an effective rate of 20%.

That is unusually simple, and unusually expensive at the top end. A fifth of the price goes to Poshmark with nothing to soften it: no cap, no lower tier for high-value items, no reduced rate for a seller with volume. Poshmark publishes one rate for everybody.

What Poshmark does not charge

The short schedule is genuinely short. Poshmark's fee policy states that it is always free to list an item, and the commission is the only deduction it describes. There is no listing fee, no relisting fee, no category fee, no monthly subscription and no separate payment-processing charge on top of the commission.

Shipping sits outside the fee entirely. Poshmark's terms make the buyer responsible for shipping costs and give the seller a prepaid label, so the postage is neither an expense you carry nor an amount the commission is charged on. That is the main reason a 20% headline rate is not as far above other marketplaces as it looks: on platforms where the seller buys the label, the shipping cost comes out of the same payout.

What the fee policy does not promise is that your payout equals the price minus the commission. Poshmark's own note says actual earnings vary with the final order price, seller discounts, fees paid and any other applicable taxes and discounts. Sales tax that Poshmark collects from a buyer and remits on your behalf is not part of your earnings and not part of the fee. In Canada, one of those taxes is charged on the fee itself.

Canada: the same shape, with tax on the commission

The Canadian fee policy uses the same structure with its own numbers: a flat C$3.95 below C$20, and 20% at C$20 or more.

A Canadian sale, the fee on CA$100.00 is CA$20.00 and you keep CA$80.00, an effective rate of 20%. One cent below the Canadian threshold, the fee on CA$19.99 is CA$3.95 and you keep CA$16.04, an effective rate of 19.76%. At the Canadian threshold, the fee on CA$20.00 is CA$4.00 and you keep CA$16.00, an effective rate of 20%.

The same drop appears at the Canadian switch, in the same place relative to it.

Canada adds one thing the US policy does not. Poshmark states that all orders include a GST or HST charge on the Poshmark fee, deducted from the seller's earnings, and that the rate depends on the seller's province. Poshmark publishes no figure for it, so the calculator does not guess: the numbers above are the commission alone, and a Canadian seller's payout is lower by the sales tax on that commission. The rate depends on your province, and the only authority for it is the tax rules where you live.

Pricing to keep a target amount

Because the fee above the threshold is a straight percentage with no fixed part, working backwards from a payout is simple arithmetic: divide what you want to keep by the 80% Poshmark's policy says you keep.

To keep $50.00 you charge $62.50, and the fee is $12.50. To keep CA$200.00 you charge CA$250.00, and the fee is CA$50.00.

Below the threshold it is simpler still — add the flat fee to what you want to keep:

To keep $10.00 you charge $12.95, and the fee is $2.95.

The one place the answer is genuinely ambiguous is the overlap at the switch. The most the flat fee can leave you is also reachable a few cents above the threshold, so two prices produce the same payout. The calculator's "I want to net" mode reports the price at or above the switch, because that is the answer that stays correct as the target grows. For a target close to what the flat fee allows, check the price just under the threshold as well.

What this guide leaves out

It covers the seller fee and nothing else, because the fee policy contains nothing else. It does not cover buyer-side charges, Posh Credit, Poshmark's advertising and promotion products, the treatment of cancelled or returned orders, wholesale and Poshmark Pro accounts, or how earnings are redeemed and what a dormant balance costs. It does not compare Poshmark's rate with other resale marketplaces, because this site does not publish a comparison until both schedules have been verified against their official pages. And it gives no figure for Canadian GST or HST on the fee, because Poshmark publishes none.

When these rates last changed

The current US fee policy is version 1.7, effective 25 November 2024. It restored the structure described here — a 20% seller fee with a flat charge on small sales — after a spell in which Poshmark charged buyers a protection fee instead. The Canadian policy is version 1.0, effective 18 December 2023, and has not been revised since.

This schedule was first verified on 3 September 2026, so the Poshmark fee changelog currently holds one entry. Every later change is recorded there with its date and the rule affected, and the schedule is re-verified at least every 60 days. If a figure here disagrees with what Poshmark shows you, report it and it will be checked against the official page.

Frequently asked questions

Does Poshmark take 20% of everything?

No. Twenty per cent applies only at or above the threshold — $15 in the United States, C$20 in Canada. Below it the fee is a flat amount, which is worse on very cheap items and better as the price approaches the threshold.

Is it better to sell at $14.99 or $15?

At $14.99. The flat fee leaves you more than 20% of $15 does, and that stays true for the first few cents above the threshold. Past those, the percentage wins, and the gap grows with the price.

Who pays for shipping on Poshmark?

The buyer. Poshmark's terms make the buyer responsible for shipping costs and give the seller a prepaid label, so shipping is not deducted from your earnings and the commission is not charged on it.

Are Poshmark's Canadian fees different?

Yes, in two ways. The numbers differ — a flat C$3.95 below C$20 rather than $2.95 below $15 — and Canadian orders also carry GST or HST on the commission itself, at a provincial rate Poshmark does not publish.

Where do these numbers come from?

From Poshmark's fee policy, incorporated by reference into its terms of service for each market, quoted verbatim and saved as a dated snapshot. Poshmark's support-centre fee articles block automated access, so no second official page corroborates them and this schedule is marked single-source. The methodology explains how that is decided, the PayPal fees guide shows the same treatment applied to a longer schedule, and this schedule is quoted line by line, with the verbatim source text behind every rule, in the calculator's fee table for anyone who wants to check the work.