Facebook Marketplace Fees: $0 Local, 10% Shipped

Facebook Marketplace charges no fee on local pickup sales. On shipped orders it takes 10% of everything the buyer pays: the item price, the shipping and the sales tax, with a $0.80 minimum per order. There are no listing fees or monthly subscriptions. Sell a $50 item locally and you keep all $50. Ship it with $8 shipping and $3.75 tax, and Facebook’s fee is $6.18, which is 12.4% of your $50 price.

For shipped orders, Meta’s Seller Protection Policy says the fee is “calculated based on the entire amount of the transaction”, including shipping and taxes, and items shipped together count as one transaction. That’s why a shipped payout comes in under 90% of your price. Check the payout preview on your own listing before you price it.

TL;DR: Facebook Marketplace Fee Summary

Quick Example: $50 Sale

Facebook’s fee would be $5.00 only on a $50 order with no shipping and no tax, and most buyers pay both. With $8 shipping and $3.75 tax it’s $6.18. On a $50 local pickup sale Facebook takes nothing.

Checked October 14, 2026: Meta’s Seller Protection Policy sets the fee at 10% per transaction with a $0.80 minimum, calculated on the whole transaction including shipping and taxes. Our examples assume $8 shipping that pays for an $8 label and sales tax at 7.5% of the price; your buyer’s tax depends on where they live.

Local sales paid in cash, Venmo or Zelle never go through Facebook, so there’s nothing for it to charge.

Calculate Your Exact Facebook Marketplace Profit

To see whether a specific flip is worth listing after your cost, fees, supplies and time, use a calculator. The Platform Fee Calculator shows the payout on Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Mercari and Poshmark side by side for your price.

How Facebook Marketplace Fees Work: Local vs. Shipped

The fee rule is simple, but local and shipped sales work very differently, so the first decision on every item is which one to use. For sourcing and meetups, see the Facebook Marketplace flipping guide.

Local Pickup Sales: Zero Platform Fees

When you list an item for local pickup on Facebook Marketplace, you pay Facebook nothing: no listing, selling or processing fee. The money changes hands outside Facebook.

Here’s the typical local sale flow:

1. You create a listing with photos, price, and description
2. A local buyer messages you through Messenger
3. You agree on a price and a public meeting location
4. You meet, exchange the item for cash (or Venmo/Zelle)
5. You mark the item as sold

Facebook facilitates the connection but handles no money. Your only costs are the time spent communicating, the gas to drive to the meetup, and whatever you paid for the item.

Few platforms let you sell for nothing. eBay, Mercari, Poshmark and Depop all take a fee on every sale. Other free options include OfferUp, which has been local pickup only since October 2025 and charges nothing on in-person sales, and Vinted, where the buyer pays a protection fee instead of the seller. Free local selling is Facebook Marketplace’s biggest advantage.

Local Sale Payout at Different Price Points

With local pickup, your margin depends only on what you paid and what you agree with the buyer. There’s no fee eroding your margin on low-priced items, which means items that would be unprofitable on eBay or Mercari (because fees eat into thin margins) can still work as local sales on Facebook.

A $12 coffee mug that cost $2 at Goodwill leaves $10 on a local sale. Sold on eBay, the fee on the price alone is $2.03 before you pack and ship a breakable mug. A $40 cast-iron skillet from an estate sale for $5 leaves $35 locally; on Mercari the fee on the price alone is $4.00, before shipping a heavy pan.

Shipped Sales: 10% Selling Fee ($0.80 Minimum)

When you enable shipping and a buyer purchases through Facebook’s checkout system, Facebook charges a 10% selling fee with a $0.80 minimum fee per order. Meta’s Seller Protection Policy calculates it on the whole transaction: item, shipping and sales tax.

There’s no listing fee or subscription on top. eBay, by comparison, charges a final value fee plus a per-order fee, and Mercari charges 10% of the item price plus the shipping the buyer pays.

Because the fee counts shipping and tax, a cheap item with $8 shipping pays a much bigger share of its own price.

Shipped Sale Payout at Different Price Points

With $8 shipping (paying for an $8 label) and sales tax at 7.5% of the price:

The fee is 10% of what the buyer pays, not of your price, so expect to keep less than 90% of the item price on shipped sales, and much less on cheap items. With $8 shipping and 7.5% tax, the fee works out to 10.75% of your price plus 80 cents for the shipping.

Compare this to eBay, where most categories sit at 13.6% of the whole order (shipping and tax included) plus a $0.40 order fee ($0.30 on orders of $10 or less). Promoted listings can push eBay’s total into the mid-teens.

The $0.80 Minimum Fee: When It Kicks In

The $0.80 minimum only applies when the whole order, shipping and tax included, comes to $8 or less, which almost never happens on a shipped order.

The real problem with cheap shipped items is the shipping inside the fee base. A $5 item with $8 shipping and $0.38 tax pays a $1.34 fee, 26.8% of its price, and that’s before your cost and packing time. For items this cheap, local pickup takes the platform fee away entirely.

Shipping Costs: Who Pays What

How shipping is charged depends on the shipping options you pick on the listing. If the buyer pays shipping, it’s added to their total and counted in the fee. If you cover shipping yourself, you pay for the label, so it comes out of what you keep. Two rules are in Meta’s Seller Protection Policy: the 10% fee counts whatever shipping the buyer pays, and you must ship (the carrier must have the item) within 7 calendar days with valid tracking, or Meta may cancel the order.

Work out the 10% fee first, then take off any shipping you pay, packing supplies, what you paid for the item and something for returns.

Fee Breakdown by Selling Mode

Facebook Marketplace doesn’t use category-specific fee tiers like eBay or Amazon. For individual sellers there are two cases: either you sell locally (0%) or you ship through checkout (10% with a $0.80 minimum). The rate doesn’t change by category or by how much you sell.

Two more lines in Meta’s Checkout Terms are worth knowing before you ship: the selling fee doesn’t include anything your payment provider charges separately, and selling fees are generally non-refundable (the terms list the exceptions). Fees come out of your payout, so if an order is refunded, don’t count on getting Facebook’s cut back.

Categories Where FBMP Fees Beat Competitors Most

Facebook’s 10% is flat, while eBay’s rate depends on the category, so Facebook wins in most categories and loses in a few. These are fees on the $100 item price alone; shipping and tax raise both (Facebook’s to $11.55 in our $8 shipping example):

The biggest gap appears in categories where local pickup is practical, furniture, large appliances, sporting equipment, and heavy tools. A $300 dining table sold locally on FBMP nets $300. On the price alone, the same table on eBay leaves $258.80 after a $41.20 fee, before shipping a dining table. That’s about a $41 difference on one item.

Optional Costs: Boosted Listings

Facebook Marketplace lets you “Boost” a listing to show it to more people. It’s paid advertising, not a transaction fee: you pick a daily budget and how many days it runs, and you pay whether or not the item sells.

Boosting is optional, and plenty of items sell on good photos, a fair price and relisting. It only pays on higher-value items: boosting a $25 kitchen appliance at $3/day for four days adds $12 in costs, wiping out the margin. Boosting a $400 couch at $5/day for three days adds $15, which is 3.75% of the price, reasonable if it sells the couch faster.

Fee Changes in 2026

If you heard Facebook started charging: local pickup is still free, and the fee people mean is the shipped-checkout fee. Meta doesn’t publish a dated history of that fee, and you’ll still find older pages quoting 5%. Its current Checkout Terms (last modified May 26, 2026) list “Marketplace: 10%, with a minimum fee of $0.80”, which matches the Seller Protection Policy we checked on October 14, 2026. What else to know:

Shipping isn’t available everywhere. From an account outside the US, Meta’s help page says “Checkout with shipping on Marketplace isn’t available in your location right now.” If you don’t see a shipping option on your listings, your account doesn’t have it.

Shipped listings compete with local ones. Marketplace is built around the buyer’s location and search radius, so a shipped listing competes with local ones in the same feed. This doesn’t change the fee, but it matters for how often a shipped listing gets seen.

No new category-specific fee tiers. Unlike eBay (which adjusts category-specific final value fee rates periodically) or Amazon (which regularly updates referral fees by category), Facebook Marketplace uses a flat shipped-checkout fee rather than category-based seller tiers.

No announced subscription or store tiers. Unlike eBay’s Store subscriptions or Amazon’s Professional seller plan, Facebook Marketplace has no paid seller tiers or subscriptions.

How to Minimize Facebook Marketplace Fees

Local pickup already costs nothing, so most of these are about when to sell locally and how to price what you ship.

1. Default to Local Pickup for Large and Heavy Items

The biggest fee decision on Facebook is local versus shipped: sell locally and pay nothing. For anything that can reasonably be sold within your metro area, furniture, appliances, sporting goods, home decor, large tools, bulky electronics, always list for local pickup first.

A $100 coffee table sold locally leaves $100. Shipped through Facebook it pays at least a $10.00 fee (more once shipping and tax are added), and on eBay the fee alone leaves $86.00. Sold locally, you keep all $100, $14 more than on eBay.

Reserve shipped listings for items that are small, lightweight, high-demand, and niche enough that your local buyer pool is too thin, branded clothing, collectibles, specialty electronics accessories, or discontinued parts.

2. Price Shipped Items to Absorb the 10% Fee

When you do ship, build the fee into your price. Since Facebook takes 10% of the item, the shipping and the tax, dividing by 0.90 isn’t enough. With $8 shipping that pays for the label and 7.5% tax, these prices keep your target after the fee:

3. Relist Stale Listings Instead of Dropping Price

If an item hasn’t sold in 7 to 10 days, try relisting it with fresh photos before you cut the price. A relisted item shows up as a new listing, and it costs nothing.

On eBay, relisting uses an insertion fee slot. On Facebook, relisting is free, so you can relist slow stock every week.

4. Bundle Small Items for Local Pickup

If you have multiple small items, books, kitchen gadgets, kids’ toys, accessories, group them into themed bundles and list for local pickup. Selling five $10 items as separate shipped orders costs $1.88 each in fees with $8 shipping and tax, $9.40 in all, before packing five boxes. Selling them as a single $50 local bundle costs $0 in platform fees and saves you the labor of packing and shipping five separate orders.

It works well for a thrift haul of 10 to 20 cheap items that wouldn’t be worth shipping one by one.

5. Avoid Boosting Unless the ROI Math Is Clear

Facebook’s Boost feature charges you a daily rate for increased visibility. Before boosting, calculate whether the incremental exposure justifies the cost. A $5-a-day boost on a $30 item for three days costs $15, half the item’s price, before any shipped-checkout fee.

Boosting works best for high-value items ($200+) where selling a week sooner is worth the spend. For items under $75, organic reach through quality photos, competitive pricing, and frequent relisting is almost always more cost-effective than paying for visibility.

6. Use FBMP as a Sourcing Channel, Not Just a Sales Channel

Facebook Marketplace’s zero-fee local model works for buying too. You can source inventory on FBMP at local prices, estate sale leftovers, moving sales, parents offloading kids’ gear, then flip on FBMP locally (zero fees) or cross-list to eBay/Mercari for shipped sales at higher prices.

It’s a strong source for furniture, appliances and large items, where people moving or clearing out often price below market. Before you message a seller, screenshot the listing and drop it into our Facebook Marketplace price checker to see what it sells for and your profit after fees.

7. Cross-List Strategically Based on Fee-Adjusted Net

Not everything should stay on FBMP. Small, light items with collectors spread across the country can net more on eBay despite the higher fee, because more buyers compete for them. A vintage Pyrex dish is a good example: check eBay sold listings for the exact pattern before you price it locally.

Run the Platform Fee Calculator before cross-listing each item. FBMP wins on fee percentage, but eBay and Mercari often win on final sale price for collectible, branded, or niche items with thin local demand.

8. Accept Cash for Local Sales

When meeting locally, cash is the safest way to be paid. Venmo, Zelle, and PayPal Friends & Family are acceptable alternatives, but electronic payments occasionally result in chargebacks, payment reversals, or disputes, none of which Facebook mediates for local transactions. With cash there’s nothing to reverse, though you should check bills on bigger sales. For items over $100, consider meeting at a bank or well-lit public location where the buyer can withdraw and you can verify bills.

Facebook Marketplace vs. eBay vs. Mercari: Fee Comparison

Facebook against its two closest competitors for individual resellers, on the same order: $8 shipping that pays for an $8 label and sales tax at 7.5% of the price.

What the Comparison Means for Your Strategy

Facebook wins most clearly on local sales. A $200 local sale leaves the full $200 before your own costs, while the same item shipped pays a $22.30 fee and leaves $177.70. That local-pickup gap is the reason Facebook Marketplace remains strongest for furniture, appliances, sporting goods, and bulky local inventory.

For shipped sales, fees are only one variable. eBay’s higher fees buy access to a large national buyer pool, detailed sold-comp data, auction format for rare items, and strong seller protection policies. Mercari’s fee leaves out the tax, so it comes in a little under Facebook’s on the same order. Facebook’s edge is that the same listing can also sell locally for nothing.

For most resellers that means: buy locally on Facebook, sell bulky and heavy items locally on Facebook, and list small collectible items on eBay or Mercari, where more buyers compete and the higher price can cover the bigger fee.

Use the Flip Profit Calculator to compare net profit on a specific item across platforms before deciding where to list.

Hidden Costs That Affect Real FBMP Profitability

The fee is simple. These costs aren’t fees, but they still cut into what you keep.

Time and Gas for Local Meetups

Local sales are fee-free but not effort-free. Each meetup involves messaging back and forth, coordinating schedules, driving to the meeting spot, waiting, and handling the exchange. If you drive 20 minutes each way for a $15 sale and the buyer doesn’t show, you’ve lost an hour and the gas.

How to mitigate this: Set a minimum price for items you’ll drive to deliver (say $25). Stack multiple pickups in the same area. Confirm the meetup time the morning of the scheduled day. Don’t hold items for more than 24 hours without a confirmed pickup window.

No-Show and Flake Rate

No-shows are common on Facebook. Buyers send “Is this available?” messages with no real purchase intent. Buyers who confirmed a time don’t show up. This isn’t a fee, but it’s a measurable cost in wasted time and lost opportunity.

How to mitigate this: Require a specific time and location in your first reply. If a buyer hasn’t confirmed within a few hours, move on to the next interested person. Never remove a listing or stop responding to other buyers until the item is physically in the buyer’s hands and paid for.

Limited Seller Protection on Local Sales

When you sell locally for cash, Facebook provides no seller protection. There’s no dispute resolution and no return policy enforcement. If a buyer pays with a counterfeit bill or initiates a Venmo chargeback after the meetup, you have no recourse through the platform.

Shipped sales through checkout come under Meta’s Seller Protection Policy, which is US only and covers some buyer disputes and chargebacks on items of $500 or less (the policy lists which); Purchase Protection is the buyer’s side. To stay covered, ship within 7 calendar days with valid tracking. That’s a reason to use checkout for shipped items instead of arranging payment off the platform.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Facebook Marketplace charge any fees on local pickup sales?

No. Facebook Marketplace charges zero fees on local pickup transactions. When a buyer picks up an item in person and pays with cash, Venmo, Zelle, or any other off-platform payment method, Facebook does not take any commission, listing fee, or processing fee. The entire transaction happens outside of Facebook’s payment system, meaning your payout equals exactly what the buyer hands you. OfferUp’s in-person sales are free too (it has been local pickup only since October 2025), but Facebook has the bigger local audience in most areas, so free local selling is its main advantage for resellers.

How do Facebook Marketplace fees compare to Mercari and Poshmark?

Facebook Marketplace’s shipped checkout fee is currently similar to Mercari’s 10% seller fee and lower than Poshmark’s 20% on any sale of $15 or more. On a $50 item with $8 shipping and $3.75 tax, Facebook takes $6.18, Mercari $5.80 (10% of the item and shipping) and Poshmark $10.00 (20% of the price). For local pickup sales, FBMP charges nothing while neither Mercari nor Poshmark is built around local meetup transactions. The tradeoff is audience and features: Poshmark has concentrated fashion-buyer traffic, and Mercari offers a streamlined nationwide shipping system with prepaid labels.

Can you sell on Facebook Marketplace without paying any fees at all?

Yes, if you sell exclusively via local pickup with off-platform payment methods like cash, Venmo, or Zelle, you won’t pay Facebook anything. There are no listing fees, no subscription fees, and no transaction fees on local sales. The fee trigger is when a sale processes through built-in checkout for shipped items, which uses a 10% selling fee on the whole order, shipping and tax included, with a $0.80 minimum. Selling only locally works best for furniture, appliances, large electronics, sporting goods and anything else that’s expensive to ship.

How much does Facebook Marketplace take from shipped sales?

Facebook takes 10% of everything the buyer pays on a shipped order (item, shipping and sales tax), with a $0.80 minimum, according to Meta’s Seller Protection Policy. A $50 item with $8 shipping and $3.75 tax pays a $6.18 fee; a $100 item with $8 shipping and $7.50 tax pays $11.55. Check the payout preview in your listing before you price it, since your buyer’s tax and your shipping settings change the total.