What it costs — every fee in one place

Five percent plus a small fixed amount on a sale, taken out of the seller's side. Delivery is priced separately and says so.

Selling something

USD, EUR, GBP
5% of the order, plus $0.49 per order. Charged once per order, not once per item.
NGN, KES, GHS, ZAR
5% of the order. No fixed fee — a flat charge on a small local basket is punitive, so there is not one.
Event tickets
5% plus the fixed fee per ticket, because each ticket is its own unit of sale.
Paid circle memberships
5%, with no fixed fee. Subscriptions cannot carry a clean per-invoice fixed amount.

The fixed amount exists to cover what the card networks charge us on every transaction. Without it, a $3 sale would cost more to process than it earns.

A buyer pays you directly
Nothing at all. You share a payout handle, they pay you, and the money never passes through us — so there is nothing for us to take a share of.
On a shop order the fee comes out of the seller's settlement. It is never added to what the buyer pays, and it never appears as a separate charge on a card statement.
Tickets are the exception, and the host chooses. By default the fee goes on top, so the price a guest sees at checkout is a little more than the face value and the host is paid the face value in full. A host can instead absorb it, and then the guest pays exactly the listed price. Either way the guest sees the total before paying.

Delivery

Delivery is priced apart from the goods, and deliberately is not a percentage of your shopping.

A runner brings it
We take 5% of the delivery fee only — never any part of the goods, and never any part of a reimbursement.
A courier brings it
The courier's own price, plus a service fee of 5% of the goods subtotal — at least $1, at most $5 — charged on the delivery payment and named separately at checkout.
The shop brings it
Whatever the shop charges. We take nothing from it: a cut of a seller's own petrol would be indefensible.
You collect it
Nothing.

What is free

  • Opening a shop, and having as many as you want.
  • Listing things, however many.
  • Publishing a runner rate card and taking jobs.
  • The shop page, its design, its link, and everything on it.

There is no subscription to sell here and no listing fee. We take a share of a transaction when one happens, and nothing at all when one does not.

A fee buys something: a card payment can be refunded through the product, and we carry the chargeback if one lands. Paying a seller directly is free and has neither. Both are offered on purpose.
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