Enter your buy cost and asking price. Kickflip applies Facebook Marketplace's fee — nothing for local pickup, 10% on shipped checkout orders — to show your real profit.
Fee estimates use the primary tier rate from each platform's public schedule. Tiered pricing, promotion rates, and buyer-fee ranges vary — always confirm current rates with the platform before listing.
There are effectively two Facebook Marketplaces from a fee perspective, and the difference is whether the order goes through Facebook checkout:
| Category / tier | Selling fee | Payment processing | Buyer-side fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Pickup (Cash / Direct)Zero platform charges for local pick-up sales | 0.00% | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Shipped OrdersApplies to orders processed natively through FB checkout | 10.0% (or flat $0.40 for items <= $8) | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Rates change. Treat these as estimates and confirm against Facebook Marketplace's current published fee schedule before you commit to a purchase.
A cash local pickup carries no platform fee, no payment processing and no shipping. Every dollar above your buy cost is profit, which is why furniture, appliances, tools and bulky sporting goods flip so well here — the items that shipping economics kill on other marketplaces are exactly the ones Facebook handles best.
The costs that do exist are the ones the calculator cannot see: your time, fuel, and no-shows. Factor a realistic number of wasted trips into how aggressive your buy price should be.
Once you enable shipping and the order runs through Facebook checkout, a 10% selling fee applies (or a flat $0.40 on items of $8 or less), and you are absorbing a label as well. That combination pushes low-value shipped items into loss territory quickly.
Sourcing on Facebook and selling somewhere with a bigger audience is the more common arbitrage direction. Set Facebook Marketplace as your buying platform above and compare eBay, Mercari or Poshmark as the exit.
Not for local pickup sales arranged directly with the buyer. For orders that go through Facebook checkout with shipping, the fee is 10% of the sale, or a flat $0.40 for items priced at $8 or less.
For local cash transactions, yes — there is no platform commission or payment processing. The fee only applies to native checkout orders that ship.
It is one of the best sourcing channels there is: private sellers price to clear space rather than to market value. It is also a strong exit for bulky items that are uneconomical to ship.
Take your sale price, subtract what you paid, any sales tax at the source, the 10% fee if the order shipped through checkout, and any shipping you covered. The calculator above does all of that and returns the margin percentage.