Etsy

Papercrane

Why is your Etsy deposit smaller than your sales?

Shop Stats can't tell you: it counts revenue before fees. Papercrane reads your Etsy payments ledger, itemizes every fee, and builds a live dashboard beside Shopify, Square, PayPal, and your books.

See the bill Etsy never sends

Connect in about a minute. Free to connect and ask. Paid plans start when you publish a dashboard. See pricing

Sellers call it Etsy math

The deposit that never matches

Fees come out the moment you sell, the money lands days later, and a reserve can hold a slice for weeks. The number in your bank was never going to match Shop Stats.

The fee that ate the order

Offsite Ads fees land on the whole order total, shipping included. That is how a $10 item ends up costing 31% in ad fees, and why the forum threads all start with a screenshot.

The monthly CSV ritual

Download the statement, sort sales from fees from refunds from taxes, and get a number that expires in 30 days. You became a bookkeeper to find out what you earned.

The bill Etsy never sends you

Every fee Etsy charges you is a line in your payments ledger. Papercrane reads the ledger and prints the statement Etsy doesn't: every charge itemized by type, totaled for the month, with your effective rate at the bottom.

Etsy fees · February

Example month

Gross sales

214 orders

$9,412.80

Listing fees

312 × $0.20

−$62.40

Transaction fees

6.5% on item + shipping

−$611.83

Payment processing

−$301.63

Etsy Ads

−$184.00

Offsite Ads fees

11 orders

−$257.41

Fee credit

refunded Offsite Ads order

+$23.41

Refunds

not a fee, still gone

−$126.50

Total fees

$1,393.86

Effective rate

Etsy's investor reported average: 25.9%

14.8%

Deposited

$7,479.44

Reserve holding $413.00 until Mar 14

In its Q2 2026 earnings report, Etsy said it keeps 25.9 cents of every seller dollar, across all fees and ads. Your shop's real number is one connection away.

Asked by sellers, answered from your ledger

What did Etsy take last month, fee by fee?

Which orders got hit with the Offsite Ads fee, and what did each one really net?

Which listings keep renewing without selling?

After all fees, do I keep more per order on Etsy or on my Shopify store?

joins Shopify and its processor

Where is my money right now: Etsy pending, Square, PayPal, and the bank?

joins Square, PayPal, and the books

Every answer comes back as a chart on a live dashboard, computed from ledger entries, not estimates.

Which shop actually pays you more

Etsy shows you Etsy and Shopify shows you Shopify, and neither will price the comparison. Papercrane puts both ledgers in one dashboard: same product, each channel's fees, what you keep per order on each side.

Etsy beside Shopify

Square and PayPal beside Etsy Payments

Fee rate per channel, per month

Run two Etsy shops? Connect both and ask each one by name.

From consent screen to live dashboard

1. Connect

Approve read access on Etsy's consent screen: shop, listings, orders, reviews, and the payments ledger. Papercrane never changes anything in your shop.

2. Ask

Papercrane does the math on real ledger entries, not estimates. Answers that are charts come back as live dashboards, not screenshots.

3. Keep it live

Publish the dashboard and it stays current. If something breaks, the error goes back to the same AI agent that built the dashboard, and it repairs its own work. The dashboard is code you own.

When you don't need us

If your question is true unit profit on handmade goods, materials and all, Craftybase is the better tool: it tracks raw material costs and COGS per item, which Etsy's data cannot contain and we will not invent. And if you came here for keywords and tags, that is eRank's job, not ours; we do the money side. For a shop doing a handful of orders a month, Etsy's monthly statement and a free fee calculator may honestly be enough.