How much does Bandcamp take from each sale?
·Founder, Stakk
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14 October 2026
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7 min read
Bandcamp takes 15% of every digital sale, and 10% above a $5,000 sales threshold. On physical merch it takes 10%. Payment processor fees are charged on top, and Bandcamp's own help page says they usually run between 4% and 6%. Its cut only applies to the first $100 of an item, and it waives the cut on Bandcamp Fridays. So a $10 album bought by credit card leaves you $7.98 before PayPal's small payout fee. Checked 12 October 2026.
This post is about the fees. If you are still deciding where and how to sell your music, start with how to sell music online, which covers streaming and direct sales side by side.
What is Bandcamp's revenue share?
It is 15% on digital items and 10% on physical ones. Bandcamp calls its fee a revenue share, and its help page What are Bandcamp's fees? sets it out like this.
| What you sell | Bandcamp's revenue share |
|---|---|
| Digital albums and tracks | 15% |
| Digital, above a $5,000 sales threshold | 10% |
| Physical items, such as vinyl and shirts | 10%, with shipping and tax left out of the sum |
| Any single item over $100 | Charged on the first $100 only |
The drop to 10% on digital is not a one-off. Bandcamp says the lower rate stays as long as your sales over the past 12 months stay at $5,000 or more. If that 12-month total drops under $5,000, the 10% no longer holds.
One more line can show up on a sale. If your songs are covered by a collection society, Bandcamp takes a Collection Society Share as well. It is a percentage of the sale price, set by where the fan lives. It is collected from the sale and later paid out to songwriters or publishers as publishing royalties.
What payment processor fees does Bandcamp charge?
On a digital sale of $8.07 or more, the processor fee is 2.2% + $0.30 when the fan pays by credit card. That is on top of the revenue share, and Bandcamp takes both at the moment of the sale. Its page on processor fees for digital sales lists three rates.
| How the fan pays | Fee on a sale of $8.07 or more |
|---|---|
| PayPal | 1.9% + $0.30 |
| Credit card | 2.2% + $0.30 |
| Bandcamp gift card | 2.9% + $0.30 |
Under $8.07, Bandcamp switches to the processor's alternate rate of 5% + $0.05, which is kinder to cheap tracks than a flat $0.30 would be. Bandcamp adds that fees may vary with the fan's location and payment method, so treat these as the standard rates rather than a promise for every sale.
There is one more small fee after that. When Bandcamp sends your money to PayPal, PayPal takes 1% of the payout, capped at $1.
How much do you keep from a $1 track or a $10 album?
About $0.75 from a $1 track and about $7.98 from a $10 album, at the 15% rate with the fan paying by credit card. Above the $5,000 threshold those become $0.80 and $8.48. Stakk's row uses our 10% + $0.50, which already includes card processing.
| Where it sells | $1 track | $10 album | $25 bundle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bandcamp, 15% rate | $0.75 | $7.98 | $20.40 |
| Bandcamp, 10% rate | $0.80 | $8.48 | $21.65 |
| Stakk | $0.40 | $8.50 | $22.00 |
Our arithmetic on the published rates, before PayPal's payout fee on the Bandcamp rows. The $10 album at 15%, for example, is $1.50 of revenue share plus $0.52 of card fee, which leaves $7.98.
Read the first column before anything else. On a $1 track Bandcamp leaves you nearly twice what Stakk does, because our fixed $0.50 is half the price. Around $10 the two are close. Past that the gap is small, and Bandcamp's share also buys you a store built for music with fans already on it, which a checkout does not.
Does Bandcamp take a cut of tips and name-your-price sales?
Yes, up to the first $100 of the item. Bandcamp lets you set a minimum price and let fans pay more if they want. When a fan pays above your price, Bandcamp counts the extra as a tip, and its revenue share still applies to that tip within the first $100.
So if a fan pays $20 for your $10 album, Bandcamp's share is taken on the full $20. If a fan pays $150 for it, the share is taken on $100.
Bandcamp explains the cap on its fees page. Expensive items like deluxe packages and beat licenses are sometimes sold there, and fans occasionally use name-your-price to pay hundreds of dollars for one album, so the share stops at the first $100 of an item. If you sell licenses at those prices, our guide to selling beats covers how licensing works.
The cap is on the revenue share only. The page does not extend it to processor fees, so expect those on the whole amount.
Does Bandcamp waive its fees on Bandcamp Friday?
It waives its revenue share, not the processor fees. Bandcamp's Bandcamp Friday help page says the waiver covers sales made between midnight and 11:59pm Pacific Time on each Bandcamp Friday, and that transaction fees still apply.
The page lists eight dates for 2026. Six have passed. The two left are 6 November and 4 December.
Two practical points from the same page. A sale made outside the window pays the normal share, and it cannot be counted after the fact. And Bandcamp's Payments Summary page and its sale notifications show times in UTC, not Pacific Time, so a sale that looks like it landed on the Friday may have missed the window by a few hours. If revenue share was taken, Bandcamp says the sale almost certainly fell outside it.
When does Bandcamp pay you, and is there a payout fee?
Bandcamp pays you through PayPal, 24 to 48 hours after the sale, and PayPal takes 1% of each payout, capped at $1. Its page on how you get paid says payments are processed first by Bandcamp, which takes its revenue share and the processor fee at the time of sale, then sends the rest on.
How a Bandcamp sale reaches you, from Bandcamp's own help pages. The money sits with Bandcamp between the sale and the payout.
Higher-value purchases, such as a track that sells for $500, are checked by hand and can take up to 14 days. You can also switch to a monthly payout on the 1st of each month, which bundles sales together. Since PayPal's fee is capped at $1 per payout, fewer payouts can mean less paid in payout fees.
A short hold like this puts Bandcamp in the column of platforms that take the payment first, which is worth knowing next to the ones that pay you directly.
When should you stay on Bandcamp instead of using Stakk?
For a full catalog and for cheap singles, stay on Bandcamp, and Stakk is the wrong choice. Bandcamp is a store built for music, fans browse it, and its fees on a $1 track come to less than half of ours. Stakk also has no tips, no name-your-price and no subscription billing, sells in US dollars only and does not host files: you paste in a link to wherever the file lives, such as a Google Drive folder or a Notion page, and Stakk emails that link to the buyer once they pay. And if cost per sale is all you care about, two platforms beat us outright. Systeme.io charges no transaction fees even on its free plan, and Whop charges 2.7% + $0.30 on a domestic card with no monthly cost.
Where Stakk fits is one release you link from a video or a release-day post. The instrumentals or the stems can sit on the payment screen as an order bump and ride the same charge as the album, so the order carries one fee rather than two. After payment the fan can add the next record with one tap against the card they just used. Both are on every account with nothing behind a tier, and fewer platforms do that than you would expect.
Want a checkout for one release and its extras?
Keep your catalog where fans browse it, and use Stakk for the release you are pushing this month. Paste the folder link as the delivery, set the price, add the extras as an optional add-on, and put the checkout link under the video. It is 10% + $0.50 a sale with card processing included and no monthly fee, and the charge lands in your own Stripe account rather than a balance we hold.