eBay profit tracker built for US sellers

Why US eBay sellers need a different tracker

Most “eBay profit tracker” templates still smell like 2018: PayPal 2.9% plus $0.30, a flat 13.25% final value fee, and a column named fees that nobody updates when eBay does.

US selling in 2026 is a different pile of leaks.

Fees are category, plan, and seller type. On eBay.com, most categories for business sellers sit around 13.6% of the total sale (item plus shipping, and often the sales tax eBay collected) up to $7,500, then 2.35% above that, plus a per-order fee of $0.30 or $0.40. Media categories can be 15.3%. Sneakers over $150 can be 8%. Guitars sit lower. Private sellers in the US often pay $0 transaction fees on everyday categories. A single percentage in a cell cannot cover that.

Managed payments killed the PayPal line, and a lot of sheets did not notice. eBay takes the fee and pays you. Adding 2.9% “for PayPal” on top of a final value fee is how people talk themselves out of items that were actually fine, or into items that were not.

Sales tax is usually not yours. eBay collects and remits it in most US states as the marketplace facilitator. If your sheet treats tax collected as revenue, your profit is fiction. If it ignores that the fee base can include tax, the fee line is short.

The tax year is the calendar year. US sellers rebuild January from Seller Hub, USPS receipts, and a 1099-K that is gross activity, not profit. A tracker should let you run 1 January to 31 December without fighting an Australian EOFY default.

Flippedit was built by an eBay seller and a developer who were tired of guessing the fee. The company is Flippedit Pty Ltd in Australia. The product is not Australia-only. It connects to eBay.com, prices in USD on this site when you pick that currency, and records fees as charged rather than as a blog post from last year.

Track eBay sales in the USA without guessing the fee

Flippedit connects to your eBay account through eBay's official API. You authorise it in eBay's own login. We never store your eBay password. Details sit on privacy and eBay data.

The fee line on each sale is the fee eBay charged that sale.

That is the only way a tracker survives a year when eBay retitles plans, zeros fees for some private sellers, and changes the per-order amount. You do not maintain a rate table. You look at the order.

Worked example, most categories, no ads, no Store discount. A $50 item with $10 shipping the buyer paid is a $60 fee base. 13.6% is $8.16. Add the $0.40 per-order fee and eBay already has $8.56 before promoted listings. Add the label you actually paid and the thrift-store cost, and the $50 listing is a different business. The general fee argument lives on eBay fees and true profit. This page is the US wrapper: USD, eBay.com, sales tax, and the 1099.

If you sell as a private seller with $0 transaction fees, Flippedit will show $0. That is not a bug. You still need cost of goods and shipping, because “no eBay fee” is how people start giving stock away.

1099-K, Schedule C, and what the tracker will not pretend to be

This is general information, not tax advice. Talk to a US accountant who sees eBay sellers.

What we will say plainly:

• If you source to resell, the IRS generally treats that as a business, not a hobby with extra steps.
• eBay issues information returns (including Form 1099-K) when you meet the thresholds in force for that year. Those forms report payments, not profit.
• You pay tax on profit, not on gross sales. That only helps if you can prove costs.
• Sales tax eBay collected and remitted is usually not income and not a deduction you invent.

Flippedit's job is the proof: sale, fee, postage, COGS, refund, expense, in a range you can set to the calendar year. The P&L page is the accountant-ready export. It was written with Australian EOFY in mind. The same report structure works for 1 January to 31 December. We do not file your 1040. We do not generate a 1099. We keep the numbers clean enough that the person who does those jobs is not reconstructing December from screenshots.

Shipping is a US profit problem too

US sellers underprice shipping constantly. A $18 toy with “free shipping” still needs a mailer, tape, a trip, and often a second label when the first one was light. If the tracker does not let you put that cost on the item, your best-selling SKU is the one destroying margin.

Flippedit attributes shipping you covered to the sale it belongs to. Combined with days-to-sell, you can see that a $12 profit that took 80 days and two labels was a worse use of capital than a $9 profit that cleared in a week.

Promoted listing fees sit on the sale they belong to. A 10% ad on a thin-margin item can erase the profit while Seller Hub still looks busy.

Mobile sourcing is the US use case

A lot of this market sources at Goodwill, garage sales, storage-unit leftovers, and Marketplace pickups, then lists from a phone. A tracker that only lives in a desktop sheet gets skipped on Saturday morning, which is when you decide whether to buy the next box.

Flippedit has an iPhone app and an Android app. Sales, profit, and the calculator travel with you. Register on the web first, connect eBay, then sign in on the app with the same details.

Pricing in USD

Prices on this page are in USD and follow the live catalog.

One plan with every feature: $29 USD per month, or $229 USD per year. Daily eBay sync, true profit, stale inventory, P&L.

Signup starts with a free 7-day trial, nothing charged until it ends. Payments already made are not refundable.

Extra eBay accounts are coming as an add-on to your subscription. If you run more than one store, say so when you sign up.

Australian sellers have a dedicated page at eBay profit tracker Australia. UK sellers have eBay profit tracker UK. The generic category page is eBay profit tracker.

Track eBay sales in the USA on purpose

If you are searching “ebay profit tracker usa” or “track ebay sales united states,” you already know Seller Hub will not do cost of goods, and a PayPal-era sheet will not survive 13.6% plus ads plus a $0.40 order fee. You need software that is priced in USD, reads eBay.com fees as charged, and treats 31 December as a real deadline.

That is Flippedit. Start free 7-day trial, connect the store, and look at last month in USD after fees. Keep it if the number is finally honest.