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Take the price the customer pays, then subtract every material and the packaging, the labour at a real hourly rate, the shipping label you actually bought, and the fee the sales channel took. What is left is the profit. Most makers forget the channel fee and the gap between shipping charged and shipping paid, which is how a product can feel profitable and lose money on every sale.
As of July 2026 Etsy charges a 6.5% transaction fee on the item price and shipping, payment processing of about 3% plus $0.25, and a $0.20 listing fee. On a $34 candle that is roughly $3.68 — nearly 11% of the sale, before a single ounce of wax is paid for.
Each channel takes a different cut. Shopify takes about 2.9% plus $0.30 in processing. Etsy adds listing and transaction fees on top of processing. Faire takes 15% from a retailer you brought and 25% from one it introduced. Cash at a market takes nothing. The same candle can be comfortably profitable in person and lose money wholesale.
Yes. If the price does not pay you for the hours you spend making, you have bought yourself a job with no wage. Price labour at what you would have to pay someone else to do it. A product that is only profitable when your time is free is not profitable.