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Reverse Fee Calculator

Estimate how much to charge so you receive a target amount after seller fees. Inputs stay in your browser and are not sent to a server.

Independent estimate and input privacy

Scope boundary: these tools do not verify bank accounts, IBAN, BIC/SWIFT, SEPA eligibility, payout timing, or bank-transfer charges.

Choose a mode, enter sale details, and review the estimate.

Example scenarios

Choose a sample sale to populate the amount and cost fields.

Platform
USD
USD
USD
USD
USD
Results
PayPal
Target amount received
USD 100.00
Estimated amount to charge
USD 104.13
Approx. amount received
USD 100.01
Total fees
USD 4.12
Net profit
USD 100.01
Profit margin
96.04%
Effective fee rate
3.96%
Operating costs
USD 0.00

Target reached within rounding tolerance. The displayed amount received can differ by one cent because the customer charge must be rounded to the currency minor unit.

Result source details

Fee rule used: PayPal Checkout domestic commercial transaction

Source status: Verified - official source checked.

Reviewed: 2026-08-11

Not included: refunds, disputes, chargebacks, special pricing, Pay Later, QR, APM, micropayments, or currency conversion unless user enters custom fees.

The displayed output follows the selected rule and assumptions above; account, payment, category, currency, dispute, refund, tax, promotion, subscription, or negotiated-pricing differences can change the final charge.

Fee breakdown
RuleTypeAmount
PayPal Checkout domestic commercial transactionpercentage_plus_fixedUSD 4.12
Formula, assumptions, and source
Formula used

PayPal reverse mode grosses up the target payout and charged shipping against the applied PayPal percentage-plus-fixed payment lines; operating costs are then deducted for profit.

Assumptions
  • Seller country: United States.
  • Currency received: USD.
  • Standard published PayPal US rates.
  • No refunds, disputes, chargebacks, special pricing, Pay Later, QR, APM, micropayments, or currency conversion unless user enters custom fees.
  • PayPal's official APM table lists Mercado Pago and ShopeePay at 5.99% + fixed fee and groups several other APMs at different rates. These APM-specific rates are outside the default PayPal Checkout estimate.
  • Standard credit and debit card payments are included as a verified alternative rule but are not applied by the default PayPal Checkout estimate.
  • PayPal starts with a domestic United States buyer assumption, so no cross-border or conversion line is added unless you override it.
  • Tax included is disabled.
Verified from official sourceReviewed 2026-08-11PayPal US business fees

When to use reverse fee calculation

Reverse fee calculation is useful when you need an invoice target amount, a freelance payment target, a marketplace payout target, or client billing where the seller wants a fixed net amount.

Choose the platform or custom fee formula that matches the payment you expect, then enter the amount you want to receive after fees.

How reverse calculation works

The calculator estimates the gross amount to charge so that the amount remaining after fees is close to your target received amount.

For a simple percentage-plus-fixed fee, the direct formula is: required charge = (target received + fixed fee) / (1 - percentage fee).

Simple percentage-plus-fixed formulas can be solved directly. Tiered marketplace formulas may require approximation because the fee can change as the gross amount crosses a threshold.

Example

If your target received amount is USD 100.00 and your fee formula is 3.49% + USD 0.49, the required charge will be higher than USD 100.00 because the fee is deducted from the gross amount.

For a 2.9% + USD 0.30 custom fee example, the direct calculation is (100.00 + 0.30) / (1 - 0.029), or approximately USD 103.30 before rounding and any platform-specific rules.

Note: the result card may show a different required charge when the selected platform uses a different fee rule. The USD 103.30 example is only a simple 2.9% + USD 0.30 custom-fee formula example.

Target received examples

To receive USD 25.00 after a simple 2.9% + USD 0.30 fee, the gross-up formula gives about USD 26.06 before rounding.

To receive USD 100.00 after the same simple fee, the formula gives about USD 103.30 before rounding.

To receive USD 1,000.00 after the same simple fee, the formula gives about USD 1,030.18 before rounding.

The active result card always uses the selected platform or custom fee rule, so these examples explain the math rather than override the calculator result.

Rounding tolerance

Payment amounts must be rounded to the currency minor unit. The final amount received can differ by a cent from the target when a platform fee and fixed charge are applied to a rounded customer charge.

Limitations

Actual fees may vary by platform, country, card type, marketplace category, currency conversion, subscription, account type, refund, dispute, tax handling, and custom pricing. Results are estimates only.

Written and maintained by Global Seller FeesPage reviewed: 2026-07-17