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Dropshipping Profit Calculator

Dropshipping margins are thin, so small costs matter. Enter your selling price, what your supplier charges, the ad spend it takes to get one order and your payment fees. See profit per order, margin and return, calculated in your browser.

Dropshipping profit calculator

Only changes the symbol. Fee amounts below are in this currency.

$
$

Counts as revenue, and percentage fees apply to it.

$

What the item cost you to buy or make.

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$

Advertising cost to get one order (cost per acquisition).

Dropshipping fees (editable)

These are example rates, not live figures. Your payment provider changes its fees and they vary by category, country and account, so check your own fee page and edit any value. The refund allowance is your own estimate of sales lost to refunds and chargebacks, so set it from your own history.

%

Percentage part charged by your payment provider.

$

Added to each order.

%

Any transaction fee your platform charges on top.

%

Your estimate, as a share of sales.

Enter a selling price to see your profit. Costs and fees left blank count as 0.

How to use it

  1. Enter the order

    Type the selling price, shipping you charge, the supplier price, the supplier's shipping and your ad spend per sale.

  2. Set fees and refunds

    Edit the payment rate, any store fee and a refund allowance, which is your own estimate of sales lost to refunds and chargebacks.

  3. Read the result

    See profit per order and the margin. A negative profit is highlighted so you can spot products that lose money after ads.

Example: a $35 product

Price 35.00, supplier 10.00, supplier shipping 4.00 and ad spend 9.00 per sale give costs of 23.00. Payment at 2.9% is 1.02 plus 0.30 fixed and a 3% refund allowance is 1.05, so fees are 2.37 and profit is 9.63, a 27.5% margin.

Limits and limitations

  • Your payment provider and store platform changes its fees from time to time, and what you pay depends on your category, country, account type and sales history. The rates pre-filled in this tool are examples to show how the maths works. Always check Your payment provider and store platform's own fee page and edit the fields to match.
  • Ad spend per sale is an average you supply. Real cost per order swings from day to day, so test a range of values.
  • Taxes, import duties, currency conversion and subscription costs are not included unless you add them to Other costs.
  • The result is an estimate for planning, not accounting, tax or legal advice. Sales tax, VAT, income tax, currency conversion and returns are not included unless you enter them as a cost.

Frequently asked questions

What should I put for ad spend per sale?

Divide your ad spend by the number of orders it produced. This is your cost per acquisition. The ROAS calculator on this site can help you work out whether your ads break even.

How much should I allow for refunds?

Use your own history. If you have no data, try a few values and see how much profit changes. It is your estimate, so the tool starts it at 0.

Are the pre-filled payment rates current?

Your payment provider changes its fees from time to time, and what you pay depends on your category, country, account type and sales history. The rates pre-filled in this tool are examples to show how the maths works. Always check Your payment provider's own fee page and edit the fields to match.

Is my data uploaded?

No. Your numbers is worked out by JavaScript running in your browser and is not sent to a server. The page itself still loads from a web server like any website. This site can load advertising or analytics scripts, but only after you accept them in the cookie notice. They are separate from the tools, which never pass the files or text you work with to them.

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