Does Facebook Marketplace charge fees to sell?
Only on one path. Selling local, where a buyer meets you or you deliver and pays you directly, costs nothing. Facebook never touches that money, so there's no fee to take. Selling with shipping, where the buyer pays through Facebook's own checkout and you send a package, costs a 10% selling fee with an $0.80 minimum per order, deducted from your payout before it reaches your bank account. There is no listing fee and no monthly subscription either way. The only other cost is optional: boosting a listing to reach more buyers, which is a separate ad spend, not a selling fee.
That's the whole answer. Everything past this point is the math and the edge cases, because the flat percentage hides a detail that matters a lot on cheap flips.
The fee changed in 2024, and a lot of the internet hasn't caught up
Facebook's shipped-order selling fee went from 5% to 10% in April 2024. If you're reading an older post, an old comment thread, or a summary that quotes 5%, that number is stale. It was correct before the change and it isn't anymore. The $0.80 minimum applies on top of whichever percentage is current, so on very cheap items the minimum is what actually determines your fee, not the percentage.
The full fee breakdown
What Facebook Marketplace actually charges, by sale type
| Sale type | Fee | Who collects payment |
|---|---|---|
| Local pickup or local delivery | $0 | You, directly - cash, Zelle, Venmo, whatever you agree |
| Shipped through Facebook checkout | 10% of the order total, $0.80 minimum | Facebook, deducted before payout |
| Listing an item | $0 | No listing fee, no monthly fee, ever |
| Boosting a listing | Set by you, minimum around $5/day | Facebook, as a separate ad charge |
The order total the 10% applies to includes the item price, the shipping charge, and any tax collected at checkout, not just the item price on its own. That's a detail worth knowing before you set a shipped price, because the fee is bigger than 10% of the sticker price once shipping is added into the total it's calculated on.
The $8 Floor: where the minimum fee quietly becomes the real fee
This is the club's name for a specific crossover point in the fee math. Ten percent of $8 is exactly $0.80, which is also the flat minimum. Below an $8 order total, the $0.80 minimum is bigger than 10% of the sale, so it's the minimum that actually gets charged, not the percentage. That makes the effective rate on cheap shipped items much higher than 10% once you do the division.
The $8 Floor in practice
| Order total | 10% would be | Actual fee charged | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $0.50 | $0.80 (the minimum) | 16% |
| $8.00 | $0.80 | $0.80 | 10% |
| $20.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 | 10% |
| $50.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | 10% |
| $200.00 | $20.00 | $20.00 | 10% |
Above $8, the fee is a clean 10% no matter the price. Below it, the flat minimum takes over and the percentage you actually pay climbs the cheaper the order gets. That's the whole reason small, cheap items almost never make sense to ship: the platform's minimum fee structure is built to charge more, proportionally, on exactly the orders where you have the least margin to give up.
How the fee should change what you charge
If you're willing to ship an item, decide upfront whether you're absorbing the 10% or passing it forward, and bake that decision into the price rather than discovering it at payout. Two honest approaches, and one dishonest one to avoid.
- Absorb it: price the item the same for local and shipped buyers, and treat the fee as a known cost of the wider buyer pool shipping gives you. Simplest for the buyer, and fine on items with enough margin to spare the 10%.
- Build it in: add roughly the fee percentage to your shipped price versus your local price, so the two options net you close to the same amount either way. Say so plainly in the listing if you do this, since a buyer comparing your item to a similar local-only listing will notice the gap.
- Do not hide the shipping cost itself inside the item price and then also eat the 10% fee on top of that inflated total. That's the version that quietly wrecks a flip's margin, because the fee is calculated on the inflated total, so hiding costs there actually raises the fee you pay, not just the price the buyer sees.
This only matters once you've actually decided to offer shipping in the first place. The broader call between local and shipped, by item type and by buyer pool, is covered in [local vs shipping: which one wins for your flips](/blog/local-vs-shipping-facebook-marketplace-flips), and if comps are where you're setting your price to begin with, [how to price a flip using comps](/blog/how-to-price-items-facebook-marketplace) is the piece to run before you list either way.
Fees are not the same thing as taxes
These are two separate deductions from two separate places, and mixing them up is a common new-reseller mistake. The 10% selling fee is a platform charge, taken by Facebook before the money ever reaches your account. It has nothing to do with what you owe the IRS on your profit. Whether Facebook takes a fee or not, the profit from a flip is still taxable income, and a fee-free local sale is not a tax-free one just because no platform touched the money.
If you're tracking flip profit for tax purposes, the shipping fee is one of the legitimate costs you subtract before you get to your taxable number, same as what you paid for the item. The full breakdown of what counts as taxable and what you can subtract is in [do you have to pay taxes on Facebook Marketplace sales](/blog/do-you-have-to-pay-taxes-on-facebook-marketplace-sales).
Boosting is a real cost too, just not a selling fee
Boosting a listing to reach more buyers is not part of the 10%/$0.80 fee structure above. It's a separate, optional ad spend that you choose to run, with a practical minimum around $5 a day, and it applies whether the eventual sale is local or shipped. Skip it by default and reach for it only on listings that stalled after a fair organic run. The full case for when it earns its cost back is in [is boosting a listing on Facebook Marketplace worth it](/blog/is-boosting-a-listing-on-facebook-marketplace-worth-it).
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Frequently asked questions
Does Facebook Marketplace charge a fee for local pickup?
No. Local pickup and local delivery sales have no platform fee. You collect payment directly from the buyer, cash or a transfer, and Facebook never processes that money, so there's nothing for it to take a cut of.
How much does Facebook Marketplace charge for shipped orders?
10% of the order total, with an $0.80 minimum per order. The 10% applies to the item price, the shipping charge, and any tax collected at checkout combined, not just the sticker price of the item. On orders under $8, the $0.80 minimum is larger than 10% of the total, so the minimum is what actually gets charged.
Did Facebook Marketplace fees go up recently?
Yes. The shipped-order fee went from 5% to 10% in April 2024. If you've seen 5% quoted, that's the old rate. Local pickup fees have not changed, because they were never charged to begin with.
Is there a listing fee to post on Facebook Marketplace?
No. Posting a listing, however many photos or however long it stays up, costs nothing. There is also no monthly subscription fee to sell on Marketplace. The only charges are the shipped-order selling fee and optional boosting.
Does boosting a listing count as a Facebook Marketplace fee?
Not in the same sense. Boosting is a separate, optional ad spend you choose to run, with a practical minimum around $5 a day. It's not deducted from a sale the way the 10% shipped-order fee is, and it applies regardless of whether the eventual sale ends up local or shipped.
Should I avoid shipping small, cheap items because of the fee?
Usually, yes. Below an $8 order total, the $0.80 minimum fee is a bigger percentage bite than 10%, and shipping costs and packaging time eat further into a margin that was already thin. Cheap items are almost always better sold local, where the fee is zero and there's no packing or box to deal with.
Last reviewed by Nicole on August 27, 2026
