For sellers tired of paying Etsy a tax on every sale

Etsy keeps $18 of every $40 sale. Yours now keeps it all.

Real Stripe checkout on your own domain. Your customer list. Your brand. Your margins. $299 once. Lifetime.

Plug in your numbers below — most Etsy sellers don't realize the effective fee is 22-28% once Offsite Ads kick in.

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What Etsy actually costs you

Run the numbers on your own listings.

Listing fee + transaction fee + payment processing + (optional) Offsite Ads. Based on Etsy's publicly listed 2026 US fee schedule.

Etsy keeps per order
$9.38
23.4% of sale price
Per month
$281
At 30 orders / month
Per year
$3,375
That's after-fee money you don't see in payouts.

On Arkezone you pay Stripe's standard 2.9% + $0.30 (US) and keep the rest. The $299 founder lifetime is a one-time payment, not a recurring cut.

Straight answers

What founders ask before they switch.

Public Etsy fees include a $0.20 listing fee, a 6.5% transaction fee on sale price + shipping, payment processing (3% + $0.25 in the US), and — if you opted into Etsy Ads or Offsite Ads — an additional 12-15% on attributed sales. On a $40 sale with $5 shipping, total fees frequently land between 11% and 28% before tax. Sellers report effective fee percentages well above what the marketing copy suggests.

Etsy controls the customer relationship — you cannot directly market to buyers, and Etsy owns your storefront URL. On Arkezone, your customer list, email opt-ins, and domain are yours. Export anytime, market via your own email/SMS, and never compete against Etsy ads for your own brand name.

Etsy reviews are platform-bound. Most sellers ask their top 20 repeat buyers to leave a testimonial on the new store within the first 30 days — those convert at much higher rates than Etsy reviews anyway because they include the buyer's actual name and photo.

Yes. Export your listings to CSV from Etsy and import them into Arkezone in minutes. Re-shoot a hero image or two if the old ones were Etsy-style square crops, but most catalogs come over cleanly.

On Etsy, customers check out on Etsy.com. On Arkezone, customers check out on your store, via real Stripe — your branding, your domain, your follow-up emails. You get a full Stripe dashboard, the customer email, and the order data.

Etsy's marketplace SEO is fierce but it benefits Etsy, not you. On your own store you build domain authority you can keep forever, and you can publish blog content, lookbooks, and lifestyle imagery Etsy never let you. Arkezone ships sitemaps, JSON-LD, and clean URLs by default.

Both end the moment you leave Etsy. On Arkezone you control your ad spend — Meta, TikTok, Google — and every dollar drives traffic to your domain, not Etsy's. Most sellers redirect their previous Etsy Ads budget into Meta retargeting and report better ROAS within 60 days.

Migrate your Etsy catalog, try the builder, and see if owning the storefront works for your brand. Export your data anytime — you're never locked in.