Reverb fee calculator
An independent calculator, not Reverb: nothing to sign in to and nothing to pay here. Enter a sale amount and read the fees.
Reverb takes a 5% selling fee on the price plus shipping (minimum $0.50, capped at $500) and a 3.19% + $0.49 payment processing fee on the order including shipping and tax — 2.99% for Preferred Sellers. An optional Bump adds the percentage you chose, only if the listing sells.
The nightly check re-reads 23 of the 33 sentences quoted on this page; the rest are in tables or on pages that block automated reading and were verified by a person on 2026-11-04 (3 source pages read by a person only).
At a glance (default settings)
| Sale | Fees | You keep | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10.00 | $1.31 | $8.69 | 13.10% |
| $25.00 | $2.54 | $22.46 | 10.16% |
| $50.00 | $4.59 | $45.41 | 9.18% |
| $100.00 | $8.68 | $91.32 | 8.68% |
| $250.00 | $20.97 | $229.03 | 8.39% |
| $500.00 | $41.44 | $458.56 | 8.29% |
| $1,000.00 | $82.39 | $917.61 | 8.24% |
Computed from the schedule with the calculator's default settings; change them above for your case. How much does Reverb take? explains each fee in words.
Where these numbers come from
- Reverb Pricing & Payouts | Reverb — read 2026-10-12
- What fees will I pay for selling on Reverb? — read 2026-10-12
- What is a payment processing fee? — read 2026-10-12
- Availability and processing fees for Reverb Payments (redirected to 'How does Reverb Payments work?' article 52454911807259) — read 2026-10-12
- Reverb’s Billing Policy | Reverb — read 2026-11-04; the page states "Last updated Effective Date: June 5, 2023; Updated: September 9, 2025"
- What are my fees as a Reverb Preferred Seller? — read 2026-10-12
- Why was I charged a Bump fee? — read 2026-10-12
- What is “Bump” and how does it work? — read 2026-10-12
- Advertising with Reverb Bump | Reverb — read 2026-11-04
- How long does it take to get paid? — read 2026-11-04
- Why are my total earnings lower than what I sold my gear for? — read 2026-10-12
- reverb.com/page/fees (FAILED in crawl4ai: 'Both crawling methods failed'; the equivalent 'Reverb Pricing & Payouts' page at /selling/selling-fees was used instead) — read 2026-09-08
Two mandatory fees on every sale, both deducted from the Reverb Payments payout (nothing charged at listing). (1) Selling fee = 5% of the total sale amount including shipping ('inclusive of all costs except sales tax' per the Billing Policy), with a $0.50 minimum and a $500 maximum (the cap is hit at a $10,000 sale; above that the fee stays $500). (2) Payment processing fee = 3.19% of the order total + $0.49 per transaction for standard sellers, or 2.99% + $0.49 for Reverb Preferred Sellers; the base is the full order amount including shipping AND any applicable tax. Reverb advertises this as '8.19% + $0.49 Total Fees' and '91.8%' kept (the 91.8% ignores the $0.49). Optional: Reverb Bump is a seller-set percentage (1% to 30%) of the item's final sale price, charged only if the Bumped listing sells, deducted from product amount + shipping (tax excluded), in addition to the two fees above. Add-ons: +1% cross-border fee when buyer and seller bank accounts are in different countries; 2.5% currency conversion on payout subtotal if listing currency differs from payout currency. If fees cannot be deducted from a payout they go on the month-end statement. Payout timing: first sale, funds available 1-2 business days after delivery; subsequent sales, 1 business day after a valid tracking number shows movement; then 1-4 business days to reach the bank (help-center quick answer: 2-5 business days). After a long gap since the last sale, the next payout may follow the first-sale timeline. Items over $2,500 USD: payout 3-6 business days after delivery. Rounding not stated.
Checked against Reverb's own examples
The calculator reproduces every worked example the platform publishes; these are run as tests before any page is built.
- Billing Policy worked example: 5% selling fee on a $650 guitar. Page says: selling fee $32.50. "You sell your Gibson Les Paul for $650. The buyer pays via PayPal or Reverb Payments. You'll be charged $32.50 ($650 x 5%). Note: payment processing fees are separate and vary based on payment type and buyer location."
- Selling fee cap: a $15,000 guitar pays $500, not $750. Page says: selling fee $500.00. "The minimum fee is $0.50 and the maximum fee is $500. For example: if you sell a $15,000 guitar, instead of $750 (5%) we limit your selling fee to only $500."
Not included
- Shipping labels purchased through Reverb (always billed to statement)
- Reverb Safe Shipping (optional, 1.5%-3% of item value)
- PayPal-only sellers' PayPal processing fees (set by PayPal; PayPal international up to 4.4%)
- Affirm financing costs
- VAT/GST/HST on seller fees (non-US)
- Sales tax collected from buyers
- Non-USD fee caps (CAD/EUR/GBP) and UK 0% processing arrangement
Notes
- reverb.com/page/fees failed under crawl4ai ('Both crawling methods failed', AttributeError); reverb.com/selling/selling-fees (the 'Reverb Pricing & Payouts' page) loaded via Playwright and carries the same fee summary. reverb.com/page/seller-fees is the same page per Reverb's own links.
- CONFLICT (non-US, informational): the help article caps table shows CAD maximum fee '$680'; the Billing Policy table shows '$675 CAD'. USD cap ($500 at $10,000) agrees on both.
- Base-of-fee nuance: selling fee base 'includes shipping' and per the Billing Policy is 'inclusive of all costs except sales tax'; payment processing fee base explicitly INCLUDES tax. So the two fees use different bases on taxed orders.
- The advertised '8.19% + $0.49' and '91.8%' figures assume standard (non-Preferred) processing; Preferred Sellers pay 2.99% + $0.49 (7.99% + $0.49 combined).
- Selling fee minimum/maximum ($0.50 / $500) apply to the selling fee only; no min/max stated for the processing fee.
- Bump percentage bounds (1% to 30%) come from the help article 'What is Bump and how does it work?'; the Billing Policy gives none. Reverb's Bump marketing page still says 'anywhere from 0.5% to 30%' (read 2026-10-12), so Reverb's own pages disagree on the minimum. This calculator follows the help article, which was revised more recently and gives the reason: 1% is 'the minimum to qualify for Bump placements'. Bump base excludes tax; selling fee also excludes sales tax; processing fee includes tax.
- Payout timing wording differs slightly across pages (marketing page: 'initiates your payout' at delivery/in-transit; help: 1-2 or 1 business day to 'available for deposit' then 1-4 business days to bank; quick answer '2 - 5 business days'). These are consistent ranges, not contradictions.
- 'When do I pay the fees?' section notes rules for PayPal payouts apply to orders placed on or after May 13, 2026 (fees deducted from payout).
- Payment processing fees are refunded for up to five seller-initiated fully refunded cancellations per month (Billing Policy).
- Billing Policy shows 'Updated: September 9, 2025'; help-center articles show no dates.
- Re-read 2026-09-28. Reverb revised its Bump help article that day: the bounds are unchanged (0.5% to 30%), and it now says the Bump fee on a Direct Offer for a brand new listing is capped at 1.5% whatever rate was set; this calculator charges the rate you enter and does not apply that cap. The Billing Policy (updated September 9, 2025) and the Bump marketing page answer automated readers with a bot challenge; both were read in a browser the same day and every sentence quoted from them stands, one of them reworded by Reverb.
- Re-read 2026-10-12. Reverb's Bump help article now gives the minimum Bump percentage as 1% (it was 0.5%); the maximum is still 30%. The calculator's minimum follows it, so a Bump rate entered below 1% is charged at 1%. The Bump marketing page still says 0.5%. The selling fee (5%, $0.50 to $500), payment processing (3.19% + $0.49; 2.99% for Preferred Sellers) and the cross-border 1% are unchanged, and every sentence quoted from the Billing Policy (still 'Updated: September 9, 2025') stands.
- Re-read 2026-11-04. Reverb's 'How long does it take to get paid?' article raised the extra security check from items over $2,000 to items over $2,500 (the payout is still 3-6 business days after delivery) and added that after a long gap since the last sale the next payout may follow the first-sale timeline. Both are payout timing, not fees, and the calculator uses neither. The selling fee (5%, $0.50 to $500), payment processing (3.19% + $0.49; 2.99% for Preferred Sellers) and the cross-border 1% are unchanged. The 10 quotes from the Billing Policy and the Bump marketing page, which the nightly check does not read, were all found on those pages today. The nightly check reported this as 'could not check', not 'changed', because its second read of reverb.com/selling/selling-fees came back by a weaker method; Reverb answers a second read in a row that way.
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