Etsy
Etsy began collecting Texas sales tax on certain transaction fees charged to Texas sellers.
BeforeNo Texas sales tax on the transaction fee line
After6.25% tax on 80% of the transaction fee
$50 impact+$0.16 for affected Texas sellers
Monthly fee digest
October 2025 marketplace fee change digest
Direct answer: October 2025 had 1 tracked marketplace fee change in the FlipCalc timeline, covering Etsy. The lead event was 2025-10-01: Etsy began collecting Texas sales tax on certain transaction fees charged to Texas sellers. Use this monthly digest as an editorial checkpoint, then open the source row and current calculator before changing listing prices or rewriting old fee guidance.
Digest rows
Fee changes tracked in October 2025
Pricing checklist
How to use this monthly digest
A monthly fee-change page is not a freshness label for every marketplace fee. It is a dated checkpoint for the events that actually changed during October 2025. If a marketplace is not listed here, this digest does not prove that its fee schedule stayed unchanged; it only means the source-backed FlipCalc timeline has no tracked event for that platform in this month.
For seller pricing, start with the event row, read the source, then open the current calculator for the affected platform. Old fee announcements can explain why older articles or seller forum posts disagree with current math, but current listing decisions still need today's fee rule, category, shipping setup, promotion setting, item cost, and accepted-offer floor.
For SEO and editorial work, use this page as a source-backed update hub. Link old evergreen fee guides to the relevant month when a reader needs historical context, but keep calculator titles and current-fee summaries aligned with the latest official platform source rather than repeating the month's old before/after wording.
- Confirm whether the fee is seller-paid, buyer-paid, optional, or region-specific before changing payout assumptions.
- Recalculate a representative sale price after shipping, fixed fees, percentage fees, and optional promotion fees are all included.
- Keep historical rows linked from dated analysis, not from snippets that claim to be the current official fee schedule.
- Use the Fee Changes JSON feed when another page or report needs the same dated row without copying source notes by hand.
Adjacent digests