If you sell on Facebook Marketplace with shipping, Facebook takes 10% of the entire order — the item price, the shipping charge, and the sales tax — with an $0.80 minimum per order. Local pickup sales paid in person are still free. That is the rule as of November 2026, and it has been the rule since April 15, 2024, when Meta doubled the fee from 5%.
So why do so many guides still say 5%? Because Meta’s own marketing page still quotes the old rate, and most of the fee guides ranking on Google were written before the change and never updated. I checked the current figures against Meta’s Seller Protection Policy as quoted by multiple seller guides in October and November 2026, and they agree: 10%, $0.80 minimum, calculated on the whole transaction. This article walks through the exact math, the payout timing, the shipping-label saga, and the three costs that never appear in any fee table — so you can price your listings with real numbers instead of a stale blog post.
What Facebook Marketplace charges in 2026
There are really only two kinds of Marketplace sale, and they could not be more different:
| How the sale happens | Facebook selling fee (US) |
|---|---|
| Listing an item | Free — no listing fee, no subscription |
| Local pickup, buyer pays you in person | $0 — Facebook never touches the money |
| Shipped order paid through Facebook checkout | 10% of the whole order, $0.80 minimum |
The shipped fee is deducted from your payout automatically. You never send Facebook anything separately, which is exactly why it surprises people: the money just arrives smaller than expected.
Three details matter here. First, the fee covers payment processing — there is no separate processing charge on top of the 10%, despite what a few outdated guides claim when they tack on an extra 2.9%. Second, the fee is calculated per transaction, and items shipped together count as one transaction. Third, the fee is not refundable if the buyer files a chargeback. That last one stings, and I will come back to it.
Why half the guides still say 5%
Meta raised the shipped selling fee from 5% (with a $0.40 minimum) to 10% (with a $0.80 minimum) on April 15, 2024. The notice Meta sent sellers in March 2024 was blunt: “The selling fee for listings sold with shipping on Marketplace will increase to 10%, or a minimum of $0.80 per listing, effective April 15, 2024.”
That was two and a half years ago. Yet the old number refuses to die, for three reasons:
- Meta’s own pages disagree with each other. The Seller Protection Policy — the document that actually governs sellers — states 10%. But Meta’s sell-with-shipping help page still shows the old 5% figure. When the company that sets the fee cannot keep its own pages in sync, it is no surprise that bloggers copy the wrong one.
- Old guides rank forever. Fee guides written in 2022 and 2023 still sit on page one of Google. Their authors have no reason to revisit a post that still earns traffic, so the 5% figure keeps getting quoted by newer articles that used them as sources.
- The change was quiet. There was no press release, no blog post, no headline. A notice inside seller accounts was the whole announcement. If you were not actively selling with shipping in March 2024, you probably never saw it.
The practical rule: if a page tells you Facebook takes 5%, or that the fee ignores shipping and tax, it is working from the old schedule. Check your own payout screen instead — the fee line on a real payout is the only number that cannot be out of date.
The real math: what 10% costs you at every price
Here is where the fee bites harder than the headline suggests. Because the 10% applies to the item price plus shipping plus sales tax, the effective rate on the money you actually care about — your item price — is always higher than 10%. Assume $8 shipping and 7.5% sales tax, which is the standard worked example seller guides use:
| Item price | Shipping + tax | Order total | Facebook fee | You keep (before label cost) | Fee as % of item price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5 | $8.00 + $0.38 | $13.38 | $1.34 | $3.66 | 26.8% |
| $25 | $8.00 + $1.88 | $34.88 | $3.49 | $21.51 | 14.0% |
| $50 | $8.00 + $3.75 | $61.75 | $6.18 | $43.82 | 12.4% |
| $100 | $8.00 + $7.50 | $115.50 | $11.55 | $88.45 | 11.6% |
Two things jump out. On a $50 item, you lose $6.18 — 12.4% of your price, not 10%. And on cheap items the fee is brutal: a $5 item loses more than a quarter of its price to the fee alone, before you have paid a cent for the box or the label.
The $0.80 minimum makes it worse at the bottom end. Any order totaling under $8 pays $0.80 instead of 10%, so a $5 shipped item with free shipping pays a 16% fee. The lesson is simple and expensive to learn the other way: Facebook Marketplace shipping is a bad home for anything under about $15. Those items belong in a local-pickup listing, a bundle, or another platform entirely.
A quick pricing formula that actually works
If you want to clear a target amount on a shipped sale, do not just add 10% to your price. Work backwards from the order total:
List price = (what you want to keep + label cost) ÷ 0.90, then adjust for tax
In practice: you paid $20 for an item, the label costs $7, and you want $15 profit. You need $42 after the fee, so the order total before tax needs to be about $46.70 — and since tax is charged on top of your price, list the item around $43 and let the buyer-paid shipping and tax fill the rest. Run the numbers before you list, not after the payout lands. Meta shows an estimated payout on your listing before it sells; check it every time, because the fee is calculated on the total, not on the number you typed in.
The shipping label saga: gone, back, gone, back
The fee is only half the story of selling with shipping on Marketplace in 2026. The other half is the label — and it has been a mess.
On February 24, 2025, Facebook ended prepaid shipping labels for new listings. Sellers who had relied on clicking “create label” and printing a Meta-issued label suddenly had to buy their own labels from USPS, UPS, or discount services like Pirate Ship, then manually upload the tracking number. Existing listings kept their labels, but every new listing was on its own. Sellers with thousands of listings were blindsided; the change was announced four days before it took effect.
Then, quietly, labels started coming back. Around September 2025, some sellers reported prepaid labels reappearing for “select” accounts, with no formal announcement. And in March 2026, Meta broadly relaunched shipping and prepaid labels alongside AI listing creation and seller profile summaries. As of November 2026, shipping works again — but the whiplash matters, because the label you use decides whether you are protected.
Seller Protection only covers shipped items sent on a prepaid label issued by Meta, sold through onsite checkout. Buy your own label and you may be outside that protection entirely. That is the detail to check before you ship: if the listing offers a Meta label, use it. If it does not, understand you are shipping without the safety net.
A few more shipping rules that catch sellers out:
- You have 7 calendar days to ship. The order must be received by the carrier within 7 days of the sale, or Meta can cancel it automatically. The clock starts at the moment of sale, not when you get around to packing.
- New accounts may not get shipping at all. Sellers through mid-2026 reported that the shipping option simply did not appear on new accounts, with Meta support saying the feature was limited to accounts onboarded earlier. Meta has published nothing confirming this, so treat it as a widely reported experience rather than a documented rule — but if the option is missing from your account, this is probably why. Local pickup sales and positive reviews are the usual path to unlocking it.
- Identity verification comes first. Facebook requires ID verification before allowing shipping. If yours is pending, shipping stays locked.
When you actually get paid
This is the part that wrecks cash flow for casual sellers. A shipped Marketplace sale does not pay out when the buyer pays. The payout is initiated 5 days after delivery confirmation — or 15 days after you mark the item shipped if there is no delivery confirmation — whichever comes first. Once initiated, it can take up to 5 more days to reach your bank account. PayPal payouts are available about 4 days after delivery confirmation.
Add it up and a seller can wait roughly 20 days from the ship date before the money is spendable. Compare that with local pickup, where the buyer hands you cash or sends a payment-app transfer on the spot, and the trade-off is obvious: shipping buys you a national audience and costs you three weeks of float.
That delay also interacts with the fee. The fee is deducted before the payout, so the number that finally lands is the order total minus 10%, minus the label if Meta issued it, minus any tax Meta collected. If you are reselling for income rather than clearing a closet, build that 20-day lag into your buying budget — money tied up in transit is money you cannot spend on the next flip.
Three costs no fee table shows you
Beyond the 10% and the label, Meta’s Seller Protection Policy carries three provisions that most fee guides never mention:
1. The $500 cap. Seller Protection caps a shipped Marketplace item at a $500 sale price. Sell something worth more than that with shipping and you are outside the protection limits. High-value items — electronics, designer goods, collectibles — are local-pickup items on Marketplace, full stop.
2. The $20 chargeback fee. If a buyer disputes the payment with their card issuer, Meta deducts the transaction amount plus a $20 chargeback fee from your account, and charges your payment method on file if your balance is too low. The fee is returned if you win the dispute. But here is the third provision:
3. Individual sellers cannot dispute chargebacks. The policy states this plainly. If a buyer goes to their bank instead of filing a claim through Facebook, you have essentially no recourse — the money and the $20 fee are gone.
None of this shows up in the “10% fee” headline. It is the difference between a platform that feels free and one that quietly prices risk into your payout. None of it is a reason to stop selling on Marketplace. It is a reason to sell the right items there: sub-$500, shippable, low-dispute categories, with local pickup for everything else.
Local vs. shipped: the decision rule
Here is the decision I would use, built from the numbers above:
- Under $15: local pickup only. The fee and label eat the margin alive.
- $15–$500, small and light: shipping is worth it if the item is hard to sell locally — niche collectibles, specific sizes, brand-name clothing. Price with the formula above.
- Over $500: local pickup only, because of the Seller Protection cap.
- Bulky or fragile: local pickup. The buyer carries the risk home, and you never pay to ship a bookshelf.
- High-dispute categories (electronics, sneakers, designer bags): local pickup, or another platform with real seller protection.
And the platform comparison, on a $50 item with $8 shipping:
| Platform | Seller fee on a $50 shipped sale | What you keep (before label) |
|---|---|---|
| Facebook Marketplace (local) | $0 | $50.00 |
| Facebook Marketplace (shipped) | $6.18 | $43.82 |
| Mercari (shipped) | $5.80 on item + shipping | ~$44.20, plus buyer pays a 3.6% protection fee |
| eBay (typical) | ~13% of item + shipping | ~$42.50, plus listing and payment fees vary |
| Poshmark | 20% of item price | $40.00 |
Facebook’s shipped fee is now squarely in line with Mercari and eBay — the “cheapest place to sell” advantage it held at 5% is gone. What still makes Marketplace special is the free local sale. No other major platform lets you sell a $200 dresser to someone ten minutes away and keep every dollar.
How to keep more of every sale
A few habits that add up fast:
- Default to local pickup for anything bulky, valuable, or cheap. It is the only zero-fee sale left on a major platform.
- Bundle small items. Three $8 items sold separately pay three minimum fees; one $24 bundle pays one 10% fee.
- Price with the formula, not your gut. Add the fee, the label, and the tax into the list price before you publish — and check Meta’s estimated payout on the listing screen.
- Use Meta’s prepaid label when it is offered. It is the only way to stay inside Seller Protection, and the commercial rates are usually better than retail postage.
- Ship within 7 days, every time. Late shipping is the easiest way to get an order auto-cancelled and a ding on your seller standing.
- Check whether you qualify for waived selling fees. Meta runs a waived-fees program for some sellers; the eligibility details are not widely published, but it costs nothing to check your account’s selling settings.
- Keep records. Marketplace income is taxable income. Track what you paid for items, what you sold them for, and the fees — the payout screen shows the fee per order, so screenshot or export it while it is there.
If you also earn from Facebook as a creator, the same discipline applies to content payouts. Facebook’s Creator Fast Track program and the content monetization invite system both pay on schedules and thresholds that reward sellers and creators who read the fine print before they count the money.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Facebook Marketplace charge a fee to list an item?
No. Listing is free, there is no monthly subscription, and local pickup sales paid in person carry no Facebook fee at all. The only selling fee applies to shipped orders paid through Facebook checkout.
What is the Facebook Marketplace selling fee in 2026?
10% of the entire transaction — item price plus shipping plus sales tax — with an $0.80 minimum per order, for shipped orders paid through Facebook checkout. The rate rose from 5% (with a $0.40 minimum) on April 15, 2024.
Why do some websites still say the fee is 5%?
Because Meta’s own help pages are inconsistent — the Seller Protection Policy states 10% while the sell-with-shipping marketing page still shows 5% — and because fee guides written before April 2024 were never updated. Always verify against your own payout screen.
Does the 10% fee include payment processing?
Yes. The 10% selling fee includes payment processing; there is no additional processing charge on top. Some older guides wrongly add a separate 2.9% processing fee — that is not how the current schedule works.
How long does it take to get paid on Facebook Marketplace?
Payouts are initiated 5 days after delivery confirmation, or 15 days after you mark the item shipped if there is no delivery confirmation, and can take up to 5 more days to reach your bank. Expect roughly 10–20 days from shipment to spendable cash. Local pickup sales pay immediately.
Can I still get a prepaid shipping label from Facebook?
Mostly yes, as of 2026. Meta ended prepaid labels for new listings in February 2025, quietly restored them for select sellers that September, and relaunched shipping broadly in March 2026. Using a Meta-issued label matters: Seller Protection only covers shipped items sent on one.
Sources checked November 6, 2026: Meta’s Help Center page on getting paid for shipped orders; Meta’s Seller Protection Policy and Onsite Checkout Payments terms as quoted in seller guides; Lilach Bullock’s October 2026 fee guide; Underpriced’s fee breakdown. Rates and policies change — confirm the current fee in your own Marketplace payout screen before pricing.