A few weeks back, PayPal Fee Calculator was launched.

As the name suggests, it lets you calculate the amount you will recieve after PayPal have taken their cut.

From my intial research and surveys (plus my own experiences) on the eBook industry, I found that the vast amount of eBook sales are conducted via PayPal. Hence, for information publishers working on their pricing and wishing to know what they’ll recieve this is a nice, easy to use tool.

PPCalc (which, by the way, is not affiliated with PayPal) comes with a good range of options. You select the to and from countries, as well as the fee schedule you are on. Type in the amount your product sells for and straight away you’ll see how much the fee is and what you’ll end up receiving.

There’s also a reverse fee calculator. So if you want to recieve a specific amount you’ll know exactly how much your price should be. For example. To recieve $20 you’ll have to charge $20.91 (standard rates, US to US).

As an example on PayPal’s standard rate: a $19.95 product with the payment coming from and going to the United States would have a fee of $0.88 with the final amount paid to you being $19.07

From my perspective, seeing I’m in Australia, a US sale would cost me 10 cents more in fees. If you’re in the UK, Europe and Japan it would be 20 cents more. But that’s another post!

PayPal Fee Calculator is a nifty little tool and it’s something that every information publisher should have in their toolbox.

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As an aside I had to laugh when I saw the first AdSense advert show up on PPCalc: PayPal Sucks