eBay Seller Fees Australia (2026): What You Actually Pay

eBay Australia rebuilt its seller fees on 12 May 2026. Store subscriptions became Pro plans, a free selling option arrived for smaller sellers, and a new Pro Starter plan set the default final value fee at 13.4%. Fee guides written before May describe a system that no longer exists. This one lists every eBay seller fee in Australia as eBay's own help pages state it in September 2026, with worked examples you can reuse in your own pricing.

Quick answer: If your registered address is in Australia and you sold AU$25,000 or less on eBay in the past 12 months, you can sell with no final value fees under free selling, and your buyers pay a Buyer Protection fee instead. Sell more than that and eBay moves you to Pro Starter: no monthly fee, 13.4% of the total sale up to AU$4,000, 2.5% of any amount above that, and AU$0.30 per order. Paid Pro plans cost AU$27.45 to AU$604.95 a month and cut the final value fee to between 6.82% and 13.09%, depending on the plan and the category. Every fee eBay quotes includes GST.

We make Ecomli, a browser extension for eBay sellers. The last section before the FAQ shows how to check these fees against your own orders in it.

eBay Australia seller fees at a glance

What you pay depends on your plan and on the category you sell in. This table puts the main fees side by side (rates as of Sep 2026, including GST).

The final value fee is worked out per item on the total amount of the sale, which eBay defines as the item price plus postage plus any applicable tax. The fixed order fee is charged once per order on top of it. Most fees come out of your sales proceeds before eBay starts your payout, so they never reach your bank account (our guide to how eBay payouts work covers the timing). Listing itself is free for your first 250,000 listings a month, and our breakdown of eBay listing fees explains the exceptions. The rates here come from eBay's Pro selling fees page and its fees without a Pro plan page.

Free selling: who qualifies and what it still costs

eBay sets three conditions for free selling. You need a registration address in Australia, you must sell without an eBay Pro plan, and your eBay sales over the past 12 months must be AU$25,000 or less. eBay checks this every month using the previous 12 full calendar months. It adds up your sales across all eBay sites and counts the full sale amount, postage and tax included.

Cross the line and eBay notifies you on the 20th of the month, then moves you to Pro Starter from the 1st of the next month. eBay calls the AU$25,000 figure an eligibility criterion. Once your 12-month total is over it, none of your sales are fee-free.

Free selling still carries some costs:

• Buyer Protection fee: buyers pay 4–8% of the item price on listings from sellers without a Pro plan. eBay adds it to the price the buyer sees, so the same item at the same price costs your buyer more than it would from a Pro seller.
• International sales fee: 3% of the total sale when the buyer's delivery address is outside Australia. Pro sellers pay 1.1%.
• Optional upgrades: AU$2.20 for a subtitle and AU$1.00 to list in a second category.
• Listings over the allowance: AU$1.00 each after your first 250,000 listings in a month.
• Performance fees: the Below Standard fee covered further down applies to free sellers too.

You also give up tools. Multi-quantity listings, variation listings, bulk listing tools, product research, a branded store and eBay Plus eligibility are all Pro-only. Free sellers generally have to buy postage labels through eBay and can only take on-demand payouts. The labels rule has an upside: from 1 May 2026, when you buy a label on eBay for an order up to AU$750, eBay handles any report that the item has not arrived and you are not responsible for the refund.

If you sell one-off items from home, free selling is usually the cheaper route. If you sell the same product many times, or offer sizes and colors inside one listing, you need a Pro plan whatever your sales total.

eBay Pro plan final value fees by category

On a Pro plan, the final value fee depends on the plan and on which of four category tiers the item sits in. Pro Starter charges 13.4% in every tier. The paid plans charge less, and the gap is widest in Tier 1 (rates as of Sep 2026, including GST).

eBay's tier lists hold a few surprises. Phones, cameras, TVs and video game consoles sit in Tier 1 as technology devices. Clothing, shoes and accessories sit in Tier 4 under Fashion, and so does Health & Beauty. NFTs pay 5.5% of the total sale, and the Services category pays a flat AU$44.00. If you list an item in two categories with different final value fees, eBay charges the higher one when it sells.

Plan changes follow eBay's subscription timing. An upgrade takes effect straight away, while a downgrade or cancellation starts on the 1st of the next month. For how Pro plans compare with the Store subscriptions they replaced, see our guide to eBay Store subscription fees.

What eBay takes from a sale: worked examples

These examples use a Tier 2 item (any category not listed in Tiers 1, 3 or 4) and include the fixed order fee. The monthly subscription is left out because you pay it once a month, not per sale.

On a AU$2,000 sale the gap between plans grows:

The same AU$2,000 sale in a Tier 1 category such as TVs costs AU$160.93 on Pro Basic (AU$0.33 plus 8.03% of AU$2,000). If the buyer is overseas, add the 1.1% international sales fee, another AU$22.00 on a Pro plan.

Above AU$4,000 the rate drops for the part of the sale over that line. eBay's own example is a AU$5,200 Sporting Goods sale (Tier 4) on Pro Anchor: AU$0.33 plus 11.11% of AU$4,000 plus 2.75% of AU$1,200, which comes to AU$477.73.

Then take off your own costs. If the AU$100 item above cost you AU$60 all-in, Pro Starter leaves you AU$26.30 before Promoted Listings and refunds. Our eBay profit calculator guide walks through the full formula, our guide on how to calculate eBay fees shows the method step by step, and the profit margin breakdown by category shows what sellers aim for.

Which eBay Pro plan pays for itself?

eBay's own advice is to compare the fees you would save with the monthly cost and find your break-even point. The table below does that sum. Each figure is the monthly sales total at which a paid plan's lower final value fee covers its subscription, compared with staying on Pro Starter.

Here is how to read it. A Tier 2 seller saves 1.96 percentage points on Pro Basic (13.4% minus 11.44%), so the AU$27.45 subscription is covered at about AU$1,401 of monthly sales. Tier 1 sellers break even quickly because the rate falls from 13.4% to 8.03%. Tier 4 sellers gain little from Pro Basic, and for them Pro Featured breaks even sooner than Basic does.

The figures leave out the extra AU$0.03 per order that paid plans charge (AU$0.33 against AU$0.30) and the higher 2.75% rate above AU$4,000, so treat them as a floor. Between the paid plans in Tier 2, Pro Featured beats Pro Basic once you sell more than AU$5,000 a month, and Pro Anchor beats Pro Featured only above about AU$79,167 a month. Some sellers pay for features instead of fee savings: API and third-party integrations, volume pricing and eBay's scaling programs all start at Pro Basic.

Other eBay Australia fees to plan for

International sales fee

If your registered address is in Australia and the buyer's delivery address is overseas, eBay charges 1.1% of the total sale on a Pro plan and 3% on free selling. You can exclude international delivery locations if you would rather not pay it. When eBay converts currency for a sale on an international eBay site, it also keeps a 3% conversion charge on top of the base exchange rate.

Below Standard and high return-rate fees

If your seller evaluation on the 20th of a month shows you are below eBay's minimum performance standards, you pay an extra 5.5% on items sold in all categories the following month. From 1 August 2026, that rises to 6.6% once you have been Below Standard for four or more consecutive months. A Very High rate of "item not as described" returns in a category brings the same 5.5% in that category, rising to 6.6% after four months. If both apply, you pay only the Below Standard fee. Our guide to eBay seller performance metrics explains what eBay measures and how to stay above the line.

GST on eBay fees

Australian GST of 10% is payable on eBay fees when your registered address is in Australia, and every fee on eBay's Australian pages is shown with it included. If you give eBay your ABN and register for tax-exempt status, eBay stops adding GST to your fees. Ask your accountant whether that suits your business.

Promoted Listings, disputes and upgrades

Promoted Listings cost either a percentage you choose, charged after the item sells, or a flat upfront fee, depending on the campaign type. A dispute or chargeback you are found responsible for costs AU$24.20. Optional upgrades such as a subtitle (AU$2.20 on free selling and Pro Starter) are charged even if the item does not sell.

Are eBay fees going up in 2026?

For most existing sellers, no. When Store subscriptions became Pro plans on 12 May 2026, eBay moved each subscriber to the matching Pro plan with no change to the monthly cost or transaction fees. Here is what did change:

• Sellers under AU$25,000 a year can now sell with no final value fees.
• Sellers over AU$25,000 without a subscription now default to Pro Starter at 13.4%.
• Buyers pay a Buyer Protection fee on listings from sellers without a Pro plan.
• Multi-quantity and variation listings became Pro-only, and API and third-party integrations moved to Pro Basic and above.
• From 1 August 2026, the Below Standard fee rises from 5.5% to 6.6% after four consecutive months below standard.

For eBay's fee structure outside Australia, our general guide to how much eBay takes on a sale is the place to start.

How to pay less in eBay fees in Australia

• Check your 12-month total first. Seller Hub's Performance tab shows it: choose Custom, pick the past 12 full months and select All listing sites. If you are under AU$25,000 and sell one-off items, free selling may cost you nothing in final value fees.
• Pick the plan from the break-even table. A Tier 1 seller turning over AU$1,000 a month is better off on Pro Basic. A Tier 4 seller at the same level is not.
• Build the fee into the price. Price = (cost + target profit + order fee) ÷ (1 − fee rate). With a AU$60 cost, a AU$20 profit target and Pro Starter, that is AU$80.30 ÷ 0.866, or AU$92.73. At that price eBay takes AU$12.73 and you keep your AU$20.
• Stay above standard. The 5.5% Below Standard fee is larger than the discount Pro Basic gives in any category.
• Decide on overseas buyers. Price in the 1.1% international fee (3% on free selling), or exclude international delivery locations.
• Watch Promoted Listings per sale. Ad fees sit on top of the final value fee, so track what each campaign adds to your cost per order.
• Keep prices in line with your costs. A supplier price rise on an item priced for last month's cost comes straight out of your margin. Our roundup of eBay repricing software compares tools that handle this, and our comparison of eBay seller tools covers the rest of the job.

How to track eBay fees and profit in Ecomli

A fee table tells you what eBay should take. Your orders show what it did take. Ecomli is a non-API browser extension for eBay sellers who source from Amazon and AliExpress. It works through the eBay seller account already signed in to your desktop Chrome browser, so there is no API connection to authorize. Here is how to use it to keep fees in view:

1. Open the Overview dashboard. The Overview dashboard shows eBay sales, fees, Promoted Listings costs, refunds, supplier costs and recorded profit by day or period, with a comparison against the previous period. It covers your whole eBay store, syncs the last 90 days of orders and lets you import older eBay CSV reports. Profit is only as complete as the supplier costs you record.
2. Set a markup that covers your fee rate. In Create Listings, Ecomli prices each Amazon or AliExpress product with your markup rules (for AliExpress, from the exact per-variant item and delivery cost). Set the markup high enough to cover 13.4% plus the order fee on Pro Starter, or your own plan's rate.
3. Let Stock Monitoring follow supplier prices. Stock Monitoring checks supplier stock and prices for your Ecomli listings. It then updates the eBay price and quantity, or ends an out-of-stock item, using your markup, your out-of-stock rule and your price-change tolerance. If a supplier page can't be read, the listing stays as it is.
4. Research demand before you list. Product Hunting looks at an eBay seller's sold history and matches those products to Amazon or AliExpress, so you can see what sells, and at what price, before you set a margin.

Ecomli is billed monthly in USD with a 7-day money-back guarantee on your first payment, and you can compare what each Ecomli plan includes before you sign up. For the wider picture, our eBay dropshipping playbook for Australia covers sourcing and setup, our ranking of eBay listing software for Australian sellers compares the tools, and the Ecomli automation overview shows how the features connect.

eBay seller fees Australia: FAQ

How much are eBay seller fees in Australia in 2026?

On Pro Starter you pay 13.4% of the total sale up to AU$4,000, 2.5% above that and AU$0.30 per order, with no monthly fee. Paid Pro plans cost AU$27.45 to AU$604.95 a month and charge 6.82% to 13.09% by category, plus AU$0.33 per order. Australia-based sellers with AU$25,000 or less in 12-month sales and no Pro plan pay no final value fees. All of these figures include GST.

Is selling on eBay Australia free now?

For eligible sellers, yes. Since 12 May 2026, sellers with an Australian registration address, no Pro plan and AU$25,000 or less in sales over the past 12 months pay no final value fees. Buyers pay a Buyer Protection fee of 4–8% of the item price instead, and you still pay for optional upgrades and a 3% fee on sales delivered overseas.

How much are eBay fees on a AU$2,000 sale?

In a Tier 2 category, eBay takes AU$268.30 on Pro Starter (AU$0.30 plus 13.4%), AU$229.13 on Pro Basic, AU$207.13 on Pro Featured and AU$193.93 on Pro Anchor. On free selling there is no final value fee. If the buyer is overseas, add 1.1% (AU$22.00) on a Pro plan.

Do eBay Australia fees include GST?

Yes. eBay quotes its Australian fees including 10% GST for sellers with an Australian registered address. If you give eBay your ABN and register for tax-exempt status, eBay charges the fees without GST.

Are eBay fees going up in 2026?

Existing subscribers kept the same subscription cost and transaction fees when Store subscriptions became Pro plans on 12 May 2026. The increase is to the Below Standard fee: from 1 August 2026 it rises from 5.5% to 6.6% for sellers who stay Below Standard for four or more consecutive months.

Do dropshippers qualify for free selling on eBay Australia?

Only if they meet the same three conditions as every other seller. Free selling excludes multi-quantity listings, variation listings and bulk listing tools, which most catalog sellers rely on, so most end up on a Pro plan.

Sources

• eBay Pro selling fees (eBay.com.au, checked September 2026)
• Selling fees without a Pro plan (eBay.com.au, checked September 2026)
• Important changes to eBay selling (eBay.com.au, 12 May 2026 update)

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