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Salecalc.com 3.0 Updates

Greetings, folks! You may have noticed the updates we’ve been making to our site. These improvements include:

  • Updating the fees in our calculators to be accurate and current
  • Attention toward both mobile and desktop usability
  • Updating the look and feel of our calculators

Our changelog lists some of the changes we’ve made so far, and the work is still ongoing! In this post, we’ll look closer into some of the improvements we’ve made.

1. New Start Page

The salecalc.com home page with just one text input field.
The new salecalc.com start page.

Instead of the salecalc.com home page being our eBay profit calculator, we’ve introduced a brand new start page from which all your salecalc.com calculations can begin. Enter an optional payment or sale price amount, then choose a calculator! The chosen calculator will launch with the results for your specified payment or sale price, or with fresh defaults if no amount was entered.

The Amazon fee calculator's results screen via the salecalc.com start page.
Viewing Amazon fee calculator results launched from the start page.

If you launch the Amazon fee calculator with a start page value of 100, for example, it will load with the sale price field set to $100, and the desired net profit field also set to $100. The calculator’s results will show the overall breakdown based on these pre-filled and default settings. The sale price required to achieve the desired net profit of $100 will be shown as well.

Other calculators are launched in a similar way that make sense for the calculator. The PayPal fee calculator, for example, will launch with the fees displayed as if the entered start page value is a PayPal payment, or start fresh if no amount was provided.

Whether you launch a calculator with a value from the start page or with a blank value, you can adjust any of the calculator’s settings, such as item costs, at any time.

2. New eBay Fee & Profit Calculator

The eBay fee calculator's screen viewed from a desktop browser.
The online eBay fee calculator is inspired by our iOS app’s interface.

In the latest edition of our online eBay calculator we combine the strengths of and learnings from our desktop, mobile, and app versions of our eBay calculators. Users of our iOS app will find the interface of the new online calculator to be very familiar, while users of our classic version will notice the snappiness of the real time calculations and smooth chart animations as calculator values are entered.

3. New Mortgage Payment & Early Payoff Calculator

The mortgage calculator's screen on a desktop browser, providing a complete payment breakdown and ways to payoff the mortgage early.
The mortgage payment calculator breaks down the costs to owning a home, and can help plan out how to payoff a mortgage early.

There are many costs involved with owning a home. Our new mortgage calculator breaks down many of the details for you–from the payments made monthly to the grand total cost by the time a home mortgage is paid off. The mortgage calculator can quickly produce an amortization table for your mortgage with a customizable start day–in the past or in the future. New to the calculator is an early payoff section, which allows you to plan out extra payments to shorten the length of a mortgage. If you instead, want to target a specific early payoff date, the calculator will show you the one-time, monthly, or yearly extra payment required to meet that date. The extra payments can be set to start at any time during the mortgage period and the calculator will account for that. Just like our eBay calculator, the mortgage calculator visualizes results with a colorful chart that animates in real time as settings are entered. Don’t like the colors in the chart? Then refresh the page in your web browser, and the chart will get a brand new set of colors with your numbers intact!

4. New PayPal Fee Calculator

The PayPal fee calculator's results screen viewed from a mobile browser.
We like to keep it simple with the PayPal fee calculator.

Our new PayPal fee calculator keeps the ease-of-use of our previous version, but with a cleaner look and feel. It is also much more lightweight than our last version.

Having current PayPal fee rates in the calculator across the many countries and regions that PayPal supports is an ever moving target. To help with that cause, we’ve included a link in the calculator’s footer for fee rate update requests. The link launches a Google form where the PayPal fee rate information can be entered. When requesting a new or updated fee rate, include all fields so that we can get the calculator updated as soon as we can!

Thanks for taking the time to learn about our Salecalc.com 3.0 refresh. This post details just some of the progress we’ve made so far, and we aren’t finished yet!

Salecalc for eBay App

Download on the App Store

Many visitors have asked us if there is an app available for our calculators. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of our first native mobile app, Salecalc for eBay!  Just like the web version, Salecalc for eBay will calculate fees and profit from a potential eBay sale, including associated PayPal fees. You can choose from the many available listing and upgrade options to see their effect on overall profit, and also find the sale price that will bring the profit you want.   Salecalc for eBay is free and will work on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Features

  • slide on a number field from left to right to decrease or increase values without using the keyboard
  • easily switch between an auction or fixed price listing
  • find the break even price point, or the sale price for a specific net profit, return percentage, or profit margin
  • visualize proceeds, costs, net profit, and the breakdown of fees with dynamic charts
  • persistent settings so you don’t have to re-enter them when re-opening the app

Salecalc for eBay on iPhone

Salecalc for eBay on iPhone

Salecalc for eBay on iPhone

Salecalc for eBay on iPad

Salecalc for eBay on iPhone

Salecalc for eBay on iPad

eBay 2013 Spring Seller Update: Part II

Today, we updated our eBay Fee Calculators to use the most recent fee updates for eBay Stores subscribers effective May 1, 2013.  The updates consist of the following:

  1. To cover the new final value fee rates for various categories, we’ve expanded the list of available categories in the category drop-down menu of the calculators.
  2. For non-free Auction-style listings, insertion fees are now 25¢, 15¢, and 10¢ for Basic, Premium, and Anchor Stores, respectively.  Formerly, insertion fees were tiered based on starting price.
  3. For fixed price listings, insertion fees are now 20¢, 10¢, and 5¢ for Basic, Premium, and Anchor Stores, respectively.  One exception is the insertion fee for items in the Books, DVDs & Movies, Music & Video Games category, which is now 5¢.  Formerly, insertion fees for all categories were 20¢, 5¢, and 3¢ for Basic, Premium, and Anchor Stores, respectively.
  4. Final value fees for Auction-style and fixed price listings in Stores are either 4%, 6%, 7%, 8%, or 9%, depending on the category.  Formerly, final value fees were tiered based on the total amount of the sale.
  5. The maximum final value fee for Auction-style and fixed price listings in Stores is $250–the same as the maximum for non-Stores.  Formerly, there was no maximum final value fee for Stores that we’re aware of.
  6. If Buy It Now is added to an Auction-style listing, it must be at least 30% over the listing’s start price.  This applies to both Store and non-Store listings.

These updates, along with the updates mentioned in our previous post, complete the changes required for the eBay 2013 Spring Seller Update.  As always, let us know in the comments if there’s something we overlooked.

Visit eBay’s Stores fees page for more information on eBay fees for Stores.

Insertion fees for Auction-style listings before May 1, 2013.

Insertion fees for Auction-style listings before May 1, 2013.

Insertion fees for fixed price listings before May 1, 2013.

Insertion fees for fixed price listings before May 1, 2013.

Insertion fees effective May 1, 2013.

Insertion fees effective May 1, 2013.