The Problem: Etsy Fees Are Real Fees
On a $6.99 digital download, Etsy charges you: $0.20 listing fee, 6.5% transaction fee, 3% + $0.25 payment processing. For a US seller, that is roughly $0.20 + $0.45 + $0.46 = $1.11 in fees, leaving $5.88 take-home. If that sale came through Etsy offsite ads, Etsy takes an additional 15% on top, dropping your take-home to $4.83. That is a 31% cut on a sale you thought was almost pure profit.
Compare that to Gumroad, where you would keep $6.27 on the same sale, or to your own website using Payhip or Shopify, where you would keep around $6.49 after payment processing. The difference between best-case and worst-case on that same $6.99 product is $1.66, which adds up to over $600 a year if you sell one per day. For context, read our Etsy pricing guide and the wider pricing educational printables walkthrough.
The second problem is bundling. Sellers instinctively know that a 50-sheet bundle priced at $14.99 should earn more than ten separate $1.99 listings, but they do not have a quick way to check. The profit hub has a bundle-vs-singles comparison built in, so you can see whether your planned bundle actually outperforms the single-listing math after fees.
What We Built
The printable profit hub enters one product once and compares it across 7 platforms in parallel:
**7 platforms side-by-side.** Etsy (standard and offsite ads), Gumroad, TPT (Basic and Premium), Payhip, KDP, your own website (Stripe/Payhip), and Creative Market. Each uses the current 2026 fee schedule.
**Reverse pricing.** Type the profit you want to keep and the tool tells you exactly what to list at on each platform. This is the fastest way to set prices that survive fees instead of ones that sound nice and leave you broke.
**Singles vs bundle vs KDP comparison.** Enter a base single product price and a bundle multiplier, and see whether your compiled bundle earns more per sale than stacking individual listings. Then see whether turning the bundle into a KDP paperback earns even more after printing costs — with the same KDP royalty logic built in.
**Visual bar chart.** Seeing the take-home amounts as a bar chart is honestly the most useful part. Your eye immediately picks out the winner and the loser, and you stop second-guessing platform choices.
**Monthly revenue projections.** Enter a realistic units-per-day number and the tool shows you projected monthly and annual revenue at each platform's take-home rate. This is how you decide whether it is worth the effort to expand to a new platform.
**Etsy Ads ROI calculator.** Built in so you can see exactly how much of your margin Etsy offsite ads eats and decide whether the extra traffic is worth it. Most sellers discover it is not, for low-priced digital products.
How to Use It
The usual flow:
1. Open the printable profit hub.
2. Enter the list price of a product you are already selling (or planning to sell).
3. Read the bar chart — the winning platform is usually obvious.
4. Try the reverse-pricing mode: enter a target profit (for example, "I want to keep $5 per sale") and see the exact list price you need on each platform to hit it.
5. If you sell bundles, enter your bundle multiplier and compare single-listing profit to bundle profit side-by-side.
6. If you are considering KDP, enter a page count and see whether compiling into a paperback changes the answer.
Once you know the winner per product type, adjust your listings accordingly. Sellers who do this for their top 10 best-sellers usually find at least 2 or 3 products that should be on a different platform than they are currently on.
Why We Made This Free
We build generators that the same sellers use to make products for these platforms. When sellers can see their real margins, they make better pricing decisions, their shops become sustainable, and they keep creating. Paywalling a profit calculator would contradict everything we do. Try one of our 33 worksheet generators like the math puzzle maker — free trial with watermark — and when you list your first product, use the profit hub to price it for real.