Can someone do the math on this sale?

[Barbara]

I still haven't gotten a grasp on how the royalties work these days. I just made this sale on which it shows I earned a tad under 10%. How did this work, and if I cut my royalty in half, would I have done any better?

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9/25/2025 2:03:28 PM

1

$7.99

20.0%+

$0.79 USD

$0.79

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[Jadendreamer13]

You’re going to need a visit from the forum’s human calculator. 🙂

[Barbara]

You're right. LOL

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[itsMolly]

Barbara, if you click on the little eye icon on the right side (on the Royalty History page) it will take you through the process of how they came up with your royalty amount. 

@itsMolly 

[Barbara]

The problem with looking at the info when clicking the eye icon is that it tells you what is and not what it might be when using a different percentage. The information seems only a tiny tad better than the initial royalty breakdown.. Thank goodness for ColsCreations!

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[ColsCreations · Accepted solution]

Did I see the Bat Signal for an earnings breakdown? 😄 ...

Here ya' go ... Your 20% vs if you had cut it in half to only 10% royalty:

So despite the ERF fee for a royalty above 10% and the greater MRF fee deducted, you still made twice the amount on this sale then if you had been at only 10%, 

At your 20% royalty:
* you earned 10% of the total the customer paid
* the 3rdP earned 15% of the total the customer paid
* Zazzle earned 75% of the total the customer paid

At a 10% royalty instead:
* you would have earned 5.5% of the total the customer paid
* the 3rdP would have earned 15% of the total the customer paid
* Zazzle would have earned 79.5% of the total the customer paid

 * my amounts are sometimes off by a penny from Zazzle's due to rounding differences and I think this is also why there is sometimes a penny difference between the amount you see on the Royalty History vs the amount shown on the detailed eye report. 

[Jadendreamer13]

I think you should change your forum name to ColsCalculations.

[ColsCreations]

LOL! That's a good one! 😂

[ColsCreations]

Forgot to note:
if Zazzle was also the 3rd party here then

At your 20% royalty:
* you earned 10% of the total the customer paid
* Zazzle earned 90% of the total the customer paid

At a 10% royalty instead:
* you would have earned 5.5% of the total the customer paid
* Zazzle would have earned 94.5% of the total the customer paid

[tiffjamaica]

Love that you're including those percentages! Everyone should go read your other post here https://community.zazzle.com/t5/general-zazzle-discussion/visualizing-the-earnings-split-on-zazzle/t... where you break down why keeping your rates low benefits Z and not the creator.  Super helpful and understanding the math is so important to being a seller here!  

[MadjackGG]

You may be being charged Zazzle's new fees administration fee - a fee charged to cover the administration of fees. Although not yet confirmed, the fees administration fee may in fact need its own administration fee; a fees administration fee fee. I swear this is the truth <ahem>.