Depop Fees [2026]: What You Actually Pay to Sell

Ask most people what Depop charges and you will get one of two answers, and both are wrong. The first is “10%”, which has not been true for sellers in the UK or the US since July 2024. The second is “nothing”, which is what Depop’s own marketing implies and what the resale forums repeat. Neither answer explains why sellers keep posting screenshots asking how Depop took a quarter of their sale. The truth is that Depop removed one fee and kept, or added, three others. This guide sets out every charge that applies in 2026, what each one is calculated on, and how they stack up on a real sale.

Depop’s selling fee depends entirely on where you live

The single biggest source of confusion about Depop fees is that there is no one answer. The selling fee is determined by the country your seller account is based in, and the split is not obvious.

Australia is the part that catches people out. Most articles still describe the zero-fee change as a UK and US thing, because that is how it was announced in 2024. Depop’s current seller fees and charges policy lists Australia alongside them. If you are reading a guide that puts Australian sellers on 10%, it is out of date.

For everyone outside those three countries, the 10% fee is charged on the item sale price excluding taxes, plus the shipping cost if you did not use a Depop shipping label. Depop specifies that this applies to sellers based outside the UK, US and Australia and selling in a currency other than GBP, USD or AUD.

Removing the selling fee did not make Depop free. It moved the cost from a line item called “Depop fee” to two lines that most sellers do not read as fees at all.

The fee that replaced it: payment processing

Every sale processed through Depop Payments carries a card processing charge, handled through Stripe. This is not optional and it is not new, but it became the main deduction the moment the selling fee went to zero.

The detail that matters more than the percentage: the processing fee is charged on the item sale price plus shipping costs plus any applicable taxes. It is not charged on the item price alone. If you charge a buyer £4.50 for postage, that £4.50 is inside the base the percentage is applied to.

Sellers outside the UK, US and Australia are paid through PayPal instead, and pay PayPal’s processing rate. That rate varies by country and by account setup, so there is no single figure to quote. Check your own PayPal account rather than trusting a number in a blog post.

Actionable Insight: The fixed component is what hurts small sales. On a $8 item, the US $0.45 flat fee alone is 5.6% before the percentage is applied. If you sell low-value items, the fixed fee, not the percentage, is your real cost driver, and bundling two items into one transaction charges that flat fee once instead of twice.

Boosted Listings are now the largest fee on Depop

If a seller tells you Depop took far more than they expected, this is almost always why. Boosted Listings is Depop’s paid promotion feature, and for new listings from 23 March 2026 the rate for UK and US sellers is 12%.

Two mechanics make this fee behave differently from anything else on the platform, and both are widely misunderstood.

You are only charged if the Boost worked. The fee applies when a buyer interacts with your boosted listing, meaning they view, click or like it, and then buys the item. If a buyer finds your item organically and purchases it without ever seeing the boosted tile, no boosting fee applies. Depop describes this as risk-free, and on that specific point the description is fair.

The attribution window is 28 days. A buyer who sees your boosted listing today and buys it three weeks from now still triggers the fee. This is the mechanic that produces surprise charges, because sellers who switch Boost off assume the cost stops immediately. It does not. If a buyer saw the boosted tile before you unboosted, the fee still applies when they purchase.

There is also a shop-wide setting, Boost Shop, which automatically boosts every listing including new ones. It is efficient and it is also the fastest way to end up paying 12% on items that would have sold anyway.

A worked example: how a $60 Depop sale becomes a payout

Percentages are abstract. Here is a US seller listing a jacket at $60 with $5 postage charged to the buyer, using a Depop shipping label that costs $4.50.

Without Boost:

With Boost, and the sale attributed to it:

The same jacket, the same buyer, the same shipping. The difference is $7.20, and the total deducted from the transaction goes from $7.10 to $14.30, which is 22% of what the buyer paid. That is where “Depop took 25% of my sale” comes from. It is not a hidden fee. It is the Boost fee stacking on top of processing and the label, on a platform marketed as having no selling fees.

Note which base each fee uses. Processing is charged on the full $65.00 because it includes shipping. The Boost fee is charged on the $60.00 item price only, because a Depop label was used. If that seller had arranged their own postage instead, the shipping cost would have been pulled into the Boost fee base too.

You can model your own numbers with our Depop fee calculator, which covers US, UK and international sellers including the Boost rate.

Six things sellers get wrong about Depop fees

1. Assuming shipping is outside the fee base. Payment processing is charged on the item price plus shipping plus applicable taxes. Charging the buyer more for postage increases the processing fee you pay.

2. Arranging your own postage without adjusting the price. If you do not use a Depop shipping label, the shipping cost is pulled into the base for the selling fee and the boosting fee. Sellers who switch to their own courier to save money sometimes increase their fee base by more than they save on the label.

3. Unboosting and expecting the charges to stop. The 28 day attribution window keeps running. A sale next month can still carry the boosting fee if the buyer saw the boosted tile before you turned it off.

4. Misreading bundle fees. On a bundle, the selling fee applies to each item sold and appears as a separate line, while the payment processing fee applies once per bundle transaction. Seeing several fee lines on one sale is normal.

5. Forgetting that refunds reverse everything. If a sale is refunded, the selling fee, processing fee and boosting fee are all reversed. With Depop Payments this happens automatically. Sellers outside the UK, US and Australia using PayPal have to raise a support ticket to recover the Depop selling fee.

6. Pricing from the old 10% figure. Sellers who built their pricing spreadsheet before July 2024 and never revisited it are pricing in a fee they no longer pay, and leaving margin on the table. Sellers outside the three zero-fee countries have the opposite problem if they read a guide written for the UK or US.

The fee you can control is the one you opt into. Processing is fixed and unavoidable. Boost is a choice you make listing by listing, and at 12% it is now the most expensive decision on the platform.

How Depop makes money with no selling fee

This question appears often enough in search that it is worth answering directly. In the UK, US and Australia, Depop’s seller-side revenue comes from payment processing on every transaction and from Boosted Listings on the sales that convert through promotion. Outside those countries, the 10% selling fee still applies. Depop also runs Depop Protection for buyers in the UK, US and Australia, which refunds the full purchase price including shipping, fees and any applicable taxes when an item does not arrive, arrives damaged, or is significantly not as described.

The strategic read for a seller is straightforward. Removing the commission made Depop cheaper for anyone who never boosts, and more expensive for anyone who boosts everything. If you have Boost Shop switched on across your whole catalogue, your effective rate is higher than the flat 10% you used to pay.

Depop against the other resale platforms

Resale platforms have converged on three different fee models, and the label on the tin rarely tells you which one you are dealing with. Some charge the seller a commission. Some, like Depop in its three zero-fee markets, charge the seller processing and sell promotion on top. Others move the cost to the buyer at checkout, which looks free to the seller and quietly changes how your items are priced against the competition.

Comparing them properly means running the same sale through each one rather than comparing headline percentages, because the fee base differs on every platform. We keep a calculator for each of the major resale apps, so you can price the same item across all of them:

• Poshmark fee calculator
• Mercari fee calculator
• eBay fee calculator

If you are still deciding whether Depop is the right home for your stock, our guides to selling on Depop and selling on Vinted cover listing, shipping and audience rather than fees.

When one shop becomes several channels

Fee arithmetic stays manageable while Depop is your only channel. It stops being manageable the moment the same stock is listed in more than one place, because you are then reconciling different fee models, different payout timings and, worst of all, one physical item that two buyers can purchase.

This is the point where sellers move from a marketplace app to a multichannel system. OneCart syncs inventory and orders across the platforms it supports, including Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, TikTok Shop, Shopee and Lazada, so a sale on one channel adjusts stock everywhere else and every order lands in one place. For a reseller scaling out of a single app into a storefront and marketplace mix, that single view of stock and margin is what makes the fee maths in this guide usable at volume rather than just interesting.

Frequently asked questions

Is Depop free to sell on?

There is no Depop selling fee if your account is based in the UK, the US or Australia, so in that narrow sense selling is commission free. It is not free overall. Every sale still carries a payment processing fee of 2.9% + £0.30 in the UK, 3.3% + $0.45 in the US and 2.6% + A$0.30 in Australia, and a 12% boosting fee applies in the UK and US if the sale came through a Boosted Listing. Sellers based anywhere else pay a 10% selling fee.

How much does Depop take from a $100 sale?

For a US seller not using Boost, on a $100 item with no separate shipping charge, Depop takes the payment processing fee only: 3.3% of $100 plus $0.45, which is $3.75. If the sale came through a Boosted Listing, add 12% of the item price, or $12.00, bringing the total to $15.75. Shipping charged to the buyer increases the processing fee base, and a Depop shipping label is deducted separately.

Why did Depop take more than I expected?

The three usual causes are the boosting fee, the shipping label and the fee base. The 12% boosting fee applies whenever a buyer viewed your boosted listing and then bought it within 28 days, even if you switched Boost off in between. The shipping label cost is deducted from your payout as well as the fees. And the processing fee is calculated on the item price plus shipping plus tax, not on the item price alone. Depop shows a per-sale breakdown under My Depop, then the Sold tab, then Get a receipt.

Did Depop bring its selling fee back?

No. For sellers based in the UK, US and Australia the Depop selling fee remains 0%. What changed in 2026 is the boosting fee, which rose to 12% for UK and US sellers on new listings from 23 March 2026. Because Boost Shop applies automatically to every listing once enabled, a lot of sellers experienced that increase as a new fee appearing on sales they did not associate with promotion.

Selling on Depop is one channel. Growing past it means listing the same stock on Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop, Shopee, Lazada and more without overselling or losing track of what each channel actually pays you. OneCart brings inventory, orders and listings from every connected channel into one system, so you can price against real margin instead of headline percentages. Start a free trial and see your whole catalogue in one place.