Fee Watch — November 2026
Profitvana Editorial Team · Updated November 9, 2026
The first issue covers everything our change log recorded between June and early November 2026, after a re-read of all thirty platforms' fee pages this week. The pattern of the year holds: headline commissions barely move, while the fees around them do. Amazon added a 3.5% fuel surcharge on FBA fulfilment in April and brought back the holiday peak fee in October; Stripe added a third $15 dispute fee and repriced payouts without an announcement; eBay raised its currency-conversion spread; Poshmark shifted overweight-label and hazmat costs onto sellers and then cut buyer shipping to $0.99 for the holidays.
Two corrections to widely quoted figures came out of the same review. Braintree's standard rate has been 2.89% + $0.29 since 2025, not 2.59% + $0.49, and Square has not refunded processing fees on refunds since April 2023. Both were wrong on our own pages until this week; the calculators and the Global Fee Index now carry the verified figures.
23 changes, June 1, 2026 – November 9, 2026
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Stripe · Australia: Lower international card pricing announced
Stripe's Australian pricing page carries a dated note that international card pricing falls from 1 April 2027. The current rate is 3.5% + A$0.30.
Poshmark · United States: Buyer shipping cut to $0.99 (promotion, no end date); seller fees unchanged
Poshmark's flat buyer label went from $6.49 to $0.99 on 3 November 2026 (free on Posh Live orders of $75+). The seller commission stays at 20% ($2.95 under $15). Since 26 October 2026 sellers also pay for overweight labels they did not upgrade ($5 / $10 / $15 by weight band) and, since 19 October, the full $50 USPS hazmat non-compliance fee.
Value Added Resource — Poshmark slashes holiday shipping · calculator
Stripe · United States: New $15 dispute appeal fee; payouts repriced per rail
Stripe's pricing page now lists a $15 fee per dispute appeal that is not returned even if the appeal succeeds, on top of the $15 received fee and the refundable $15 countered fee introduced in June 2025. Global Payouts moved from a flat $1.50 to per-rail pricing after 50 free domestic payouts a month (ACH $0.50 next-day or $1.00 same-day, RTP $2.50, Fedwire $25). The 2.9% + 30¢ card rate is unchanged.
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Whatnot · All tiered markets: Premier Shop commission discount ends
Through 31 October 2026 the Premier Shop 10% commission discount still applies on top of a seller's tier rate (a 5% rate becomes 4.5%). From 1 November commission is set purely by the sales tier; the Premier Shop badge, discoverability and support benefits remain.
Amazon.eg · Egypt: Flat EGP 16 FBA fulfilment fee for fashion until 31 December 2026
Amazon.eg is charging a flat EGP 16 per unit fulfilment fee on FBA fashion (softlines) orders from 1 November to 31 December 2026, against the standard table that starts at EGP 19.50. Referral fees are unchanged.
Etsy · All markets: Share & Save rebate raised from 4% to 6.5% until 4 January 2027
Sellers who bring a buyer through their own trackable link get the full 6.5% transaction fee back on that order during the holiday period, instead of the usual 4%. The transaction fee itself, the $0.20 listing fee and US processing of 3% + $0.25 are unchanged.
Value Added Resource — Etsy Share & Save holiday 2026 · calculator
Amazon · United States (FBA): Holiday peak fulfilment fee for 15 October 2026 – 14 January 2027
Amazon's fourth-quarter FBA surcharge returns at an average of $0.32 per unit, the same delta as 2025, and the 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge introduced in April 2026 stacks on top of it. Referral fees are unchanged; sellers who fulfil their own orders are not affected.
Supply Chain Dive — Amazon announces 2026 holiday fulfillment fees · calculator · guide
eBay · United States: Currency conversion fee raised from 3% to 3.25%
US sellers paid in a currency other than their payout currency now pay a 3.25% conversion spread, up from 3%. Final value fees (13.6% most categories, $0.30/$0.40 per order) are unchanged.
Value Added Resource — eBay raises currency conversion fees · calculator
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Vinted · United States, United Kingdom, Australia: 'Buyer Protection fee' renamed 'Vinted fee'; amounts unchanged
Vinted's updated terms rename the buyer-paid fee without changing it (US: usually 5% + $0.70). Sellers still pay no selling or processing fee.
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Stripe · Australia: Lower domestic card pricing announced
Stripe's own pricing page states domestic pricing drops from 1 October 2026. Australian sellers are currently on 1.7% + A$0.30, already one of Stripe's cheaper non-European rates.
noon · UAE, Saudi Arabia: FBN monthly storage raised to AED 1.75 and SAR 2.75 per cubic foot
noon's Fulfilled-by-noon storage fee moved from AED 1.50 to AED 1.75 per cubic foot per month in the UAE and from SAR 2.50 to SAR 2.75 in Saudi Arabia, effective 1 October 2026. Long-term storage (25 per cubic foot after 365 days) and non-saleable stock (12 per cubic foot after 30 days) are unchanged.
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Shopify · All markets: Card rates no longer printed on the public pricing page
Shopify's pricing page and help-centre billing overview now say only that Shopify Payments card rates vary by plan and are shown in the admin. The third-party transaction fees remain published (2% Basic, 1% Grow, 0.6% Advanced, 0.2% Plus), and plan prices render differently by country under Shopify's local pricing. The last openly published US online rates were 2.9% + 30¢ (Basic), 2.6% + 30¢ (Grow) and 2.4% + 30¢ (Advanced).
Shopify Help Center — Pricing plans and billing overview · calculator
Whatnot · US, Canada, UK, EU, Australia: Flat commission replaced by sales-based tiers
Whatnot's flat 8% commission (4% on coins) became a tiered rate card: total sales over each four-week period set a tier, and the tier sets a per-category commission for the next period. In the US the Standard tier (under $15,000) stays at 8%; the lowest public rates are 6.5% for sports and TCG, 4.5% for fashion, 5% for other collectibles, 4% for the Other vertical and 3.5% for coins. Commission is charged on the item price only; payment processing (2.9% + $0.30 in the US) is unchanged and charged on the full order.
Whatnot seller fees (updated 17 September 2026) · calculator
noon · UAE, Saudi Arabia: New referral schedule and FBN outbound tables with a price-25 split
noon replaced its 1 September 2025 Gulf fee schedule on 10 September 2026: referral rates by category (apparel and footwear 27%, all other categories 14%, phones 6% up to AED 500 then 5%), FBN outbound fees split by selling price at or below 25 versus above (small envelope AED 5.50 / 7.50), and Directship Express discounts of 10% in the UAE and 20% in Saudi Arabia for sellers meeting handover targets. The previous rates were removed from the live page.
Amazon · Mexico: Subscription now scales with the seller's own revenue
Amazon Mexico charges no monthly fee for the first year, then MXN 75 a month for sellers under MXN 26,000 in monthly sales and MXN 600 for those above it. It is the only Amazon marketplace we track whose subscription depends on how much you sell.
Amazon · United Arab Emirates and Egypt: Professional subscription currently waived — as a promotion
Both Amazon.ae and Amazon.eg describe the waived monthly subscription as a limited-time arrangement on their own pricing pages. It is a promotion, not a price: unit economics modelled without a subscription line will move when it ends.
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TikTok Shop · United States: The US rate card is no longer published openly
TikTok's current US referral rate card sits behind a Seller Center login. Third-party articles published in 2026 quote 3%, 5%, 8% and 9% as current, none traceable to a TikTok-published source. We show the last openly published rate — 6% for most categories — and say so on the page rather than pick one of the rumours.
TikTok Shop referral fees (Seller Center login required) · calculator
Cash App · United States: Business rate is 2.6% + $0.15, not 2.75%
Cash App's business transaction fee is 2.6% plus $0.15 per transaction. The older 2.75% flat figure is still repeated across comparison sites and is now wrong in both parts — the percentage and the missing fixed fee.
Meta · Facebook Marketplace (US): Selling fee is 10%, not the 5% still widely published
Meta's published selling fee is 10% of the sale price with a $0.80 minimum. A large share of currently ranking guides still list 5% — which understates the cost of every sale by half. We corrected our own database when we found it.
Amazon.sa · Saudi Arabia: 30% referral-fee discount for new domestic sellers until 31 December 2026
Sellers who open an Amazon.sa account between 1 August and 31 December 2026 and are located in and fulfil from Saudi Arabia get 30% off referral fees for 60 days on products listed within 20 days of launch, capped at SAR 150,000 of sales. Apparel 15% becomes 10.5%, consumer electronics 5.5% becomes 3.9%.
Depop · Australia: Selling fee removed for Australian sellers; buyers pay up to 5% + A$1
Australia followed the UK (March 2024) and the US (July 2024): the 10% selling fee on AUD sales is gone, replaced by a buyer-paid marketplace fee of up to 5% of the item price plus up to A$1. Sellers still pay Depop Payments processing of 2.6% + A$0.30 on item, shipping and tax, and the optional Boost fee.
Depop newsroom — Depop makes selling free in Australia · calculator
PayPal · United States: US fee schedule reissued
PayPal's US merchant fee schedule carries an effective date of 15 July 2026. PayPal Checkout is 3.49% + $0.49 and standard card payments are 2.99% + $0.49, with 1.50% added on international commercial transactions.
Etsy · UK, France, Italy, Spain, Türkiye, India, Hungary: Regulatory operating fee raised in most markets; Hungary added
The percentage Etsy adds for sellers in countries with digital-services taxes moved to UK 0.48% (from 0.32%), France 1.14% (0.47%), Italy 0.80% (0.32%), Spain 0.88% (0.72%), Türkiye 1.67% (down from 2.27%), India 0.05% (0.29%), and Hungary 1.97% (new). US sellers are not affected.
Etsy — regulatory operating fee updates for some markets · calculator · guide
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