If you've read that Facebook Marketplace takes "a 5% selling fee," that number is from the United States. It gets repeated in reseller guides, YouTube videos, and comment threads — but it is wrong for Canadian sellers.
What Canadian sellers actually pay:
| Sale type | Fee |
|---|---|
| Local pickup, paid in person | $0 — no fee |
| Shipped order (Meta checkout) | 10% of item + shipping |
| Shipped order ≤ $8 | flat $0.80 |
| Minimum fee on any shipped order | $0.80 |
Sales tax (GST/HST) applies on the fee itself in most provinces. Verified October 2026 against Meta's published Canadian fee schedule.
The 5% figure is the US rate for shipped orders. Canadian pricing has always been separate: it was 2% + payment processing on the managed system, restructured to a flat 10% (minimum $0.80) when Meta checkout rolled out. When you plan sourcing prices or compare platforms using the US number, you overestimate your profit on every shipped sale — on a $150 shipped item that's a $7.50 error, before the HST on the fee you probably forgot too.
Flip the coin over and Facebook is also the cheapest major platform in Canada for local sales: $0 fees on pickup sales, where eBay would still take ~13.6% + per-order fees. That's why the right answer is rarely "avoid Facebook" — it's knowing which sales to route where.
| Platform | Fees (incl. HST on fee) | You keep* |
|---|---|---|
| Facebook — local pickup | $0.00 | $100.00 |
| Kijiji | $0.00 | $100.00 |
| Vinted | $0.00 (buyer pays) | $100.00 |
| Facebook — shipped | $14.43 | $85.57 |
| Poshmark CA | $22.60 | $77.40 |
| eBay.ca | $20.08 | $79.92 |
*After fees only; the shipping charged to the buyer covers the label (pass-through). Item cost not deducted. eBay example: 13.6% final value fee + $0.40 per-order fee + 13% HST on the fee. Poshmark CA: flat 20% + HST on the fee. Full breakdown of all 8 platforms — including Etsy's four separate charges and Vinted's buyer-side fees — in the free calculator.
Avoid Facebook's fee trap: if the buyer insists on shipping and you accept Meta checkout, you pay 10% + HST on top. Under $8 sales lose a flat $0.80 — that's 10%+ effective on tiny items. Route those to Kijiji or local pickup instead.
The free FlipMath calculator runs all 8 Canadian platforms side-by-side — shipped and local — with HST/GST on fees included, and tells you your maximum buy price for any target margin.
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No. Sales completed in person with cash (or e-transfer outside Meta checkout) carry no fee. The 10% fee only applies to shipped orders paid through Meta checkout.
The fee applies to the order total — item price plus shipping. If you charge $20 shipping on an $80 item, the fee is calculated on $100.
Arranging payment outside Meta checkout for shipped items violates Marketplace policies and removes buyer/seller protections — not worth it. If you ship regularly, compare the real numbers: on many price points eBay's 13.6% + $0.40 + HST is worse than Facebook's 10% + HST despite the myth.
That was the old managed-payments structure, replaced when Meta checkout launched. The current Canadian published rate is 10% (min $0.80) on shipped orders.
If you're GST/HST-registered, that's between you and the CRA — the calculator assumes unregistered casual sellers (most resellers start there). The HST shown in these examples is the tax platforms add on their fee, which you pay as the seller.