Canadian sellers on Etsy pay a slightly different stack of fees than American sellers, and the difference matters when you price in Canadian dollars. The rates below are the current published fees, checked against Etsy's official fee pages on 4 November 2026.
On a $48 order — a $40 item with $8 shipping — a Canadian seller pays a $0.20 USD listing fee, a 6.5% transaction fee on the price plus shipping charged, payment processing of 3% + C$0.25, and a 0.50% regulatory operating fee on the price plus shipping. Added up, that is around C$5.25 in fees on the order. The regulatory fee is the one most sellers miss: half a percent on every order, separate from the transaction and processing charges.
Compare that with running your own store. A Shopify Basic plan in Canada is $49 CAD a month, and the standard card rate through Shopify Payments is 2.8% + 30¢ CAD per order. On the same $48 order, the card fee is about C$1.64. Each order on your own store saves roughly C$3.61 against Etsy — so the store covers its monthly bill at about 14 orders a month, on fees alone.
Fourteen orders is the crossover, not a deadline. Etsy brings buyers who are already searching for handmade and vintage goods, and a new store has to earn every visit. Advertising, social content, and email to win an order can cost more than the fee saving, especially in the first months. The right move is to keep the marketplace running while repeat buyers shift to the store, and to price the traffic honestly before deciding.
The other thing to check is the currency. The listing fee is billed in USD, while the processing and regulatory fees sit in Canadian dollars, so the exact total moves a little with the exchange rate. Run your own prices through a Canada-specific comparison rather than converting a US article in your head — the full Etsy vs Shopify fees breakdown for Canada is on Sharpfee, along with the complete fee index for every charge on Etsy, eBay, and Shopify.
The Platform Crossover tool runs the same comparison for your own prices.
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