Depop Profit Calculator

Sourcing cost, postage and packaging included.

Written and maintained by Mohit PatelLast checked August 4, 2026How we build these

Item price

Your cost for the item

Shipping the buyer paid

Postage you actually paid

Commission rate

Payment processing

Fixed payment fee

Packaging & materials

Orders per month

Marketplace fee models change often, and several platforms in this set have altered theirs outright in recent years. These defaults are a starting point, your own seller terms are the authority.

Profit per sale

$28.82

56.5% margin on $51.00

Depop fees$2.13

Item cost$14.00

Postage & packaging$6.05

Profit per month$1,729

Fees take 4.2% of the order and costs take 39.3%, leaving 56.5%. Depop removed its 10% selling fee in some markets, leaving payment processing as the main cost. Which markets and which fee model apply has changed, so set the commission field to what your account actually shows.

How the Depop Profit Calculator works

Vintage resale margins look enormous on the item and shrink fast once postage, packaging and sourcing time are counted. The item that cost £3 and sells for £28 is a good trade; the one that cost £3, sells for £9 and posts for £3.50 usually is not.

Also known as: Depop earnings calculator · Depop reseller profit · vintage reselling profit calculator

Setting it out

Profit is the sale price plus any shipping charged, less platform and payment fees, less the real shipping cost, less packaging, less what the item cost.

For vintage and secondhand sellers, sourcing cost is often small and sourcing time is not, so profit per hour is the meaningful measure.

Profit = (price + shipping charged) − fees − shipping paid − packaging − cost.

A concrete case

A vintage item sourced at $12, listed at $65 with $8 shipping charged. Fees at 10% plus processing on $73: $7.30 + $2.86 = $10.16.

Actual shipping $8.20, packaging $0.80. Net is $73 − $10.16 − $8.20 − $0.80 − $12 = $41.84.

That is a 64% margin on the item price and a 349% return on sourcing cost, the kind of figure that makes secondhand selling attractive.

At 50 minutes of total handling per item, it is $50 an hour, which is a genuine income if the sourcing can be sustained at that quality.

What the number hides

Sourcing at that margin is not repeatable at volume. The constraint is finding items worth $65 for $12, and that constraint tightens as the operation grows.

Unsold inventory is also invisible in a per-item calculation. A seller who lists thirty items and sells twelve has a very different hourly rate from one who sells twenty-five.

Where to go from here

Calculate across a month of activity rather than per item: total profit divided by total hours, including sourcing trips and unsold listings.

Then use that figure to decide whether to go deeper on fewer, better items or wider on more. For most sellers the answer is deeper, and the data usually says so clearly.

Scaling a secondhand business

The fundamental difficulty is that sourcing does not scale the way manufacturing does. Every item is found individually, priced individually and listed individually, and a seller doubling revenue usually doubles hours.

The routes that break that link are narrowing to a category where sourcing becomes efficient through knowledge, buying in bulk lots rather than singly, and building a following that makes each listing sell faster.

The one that works least well is listing more items, because listing time is the binding constraint and adding items without improving sell-through simply adds unsold inventory. Sellers who scale successfully almost always do it by raising average sale price and sell-through rather than by listing more, and both come from specialisation.

Photography is the largest single driver of sell-through on a visual platform, and it is also the most time-consuming part of listing.

Sellers who invest in a consistent setup: the same background, the same light, a repeatable process, cut the per-item time substantially while improving results, which moves both terms of the profit-per-hour calculation in the right direction.

Bundling works here as it does on comparable platforms, and it is the main mechanism for making lower-priced items viable given the fixed handling time per order. Encouraging multi-item purchases through bundle discounts raises the average order enough to cover the per-order effort.

Where to go next

The Depop Profit question rarely arrives on its own. These are the ones that usually come with it:

Depop Fee Calculator — Payment processing, and whatever selling fee applies now.
Vinted Fee Calculator — Free for sellers, paid for by buyers.
Mercari Profit Calculator — What is left after fees, postage and packaging.
Etsy Fee Calculator — Every Etsy fee on one sale, itemised.

Not financial advice. Marketplace fees change, and they vary by country, plan and seller status. Every rate here is an editable default, not a quoted price, check the platform's current fee schedule before you price a product against it. This is not tax or business advice.

Frequently asked questions

How do I work out profit on Depop?

Sale price plus shipping the buyer paid, less payment processing and any selling fee, less what you paid for the item, less actual postage and packaging materials.

Should I charge for postage?

Charging separately protects margin; free postage converts better and is easier to price competitively. For low-value items charging separately is almost always right, because postage can exceed the item's margin.

What about sourcing time?

Rarely counted and often the largest real cost. If a sourcing trip yields ten sellable items and takes four hours, that is real money per item, enough to make some categories not worth doing.