TIKTOK SHOP · FREE SHIPPING
TikTok’s referral sits on item price plus shipping charged, so $19.99 + $4.99 and $24.98 + $0.00 take the same referral. Creator commission usually does not. If you pay affiliates on item price only, moving the label into the item raises their payout. This page does that arithmetic on your numbers. Back to the full calculator.
| Path | Item + ship | Referral | Creator | Expected leftover |
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Transparent arithmetic from your inputs — not TikTok’s live schedule, and not a ranking or conversion forecast. Confirm creator payout rules and postage on your own statements before you change the listing.
On the calculator example — a $19.99 item, $4.99 shipping charged, 6% referral, 15% creator commission on item price only, 12% returns — charging shipping keeps more than baking the $4.99 into the item. Referral is a tie (same fee base). Affiliate is not: the creator is paid on the higher item price. Eating the label at $19.99 drops leftover further and needs extra orders to match.
No when commission is on item price only. TikTok's referral sits on item plus shipping charged, so $19.99 + $4.99 and $24.98 + $0.00 take the same referral. The creator payout rises by 15% of the $4.99 you moved. Tick 'commission includes shipping charged' if your own statements already pay creators on the full customer total — then the same customer total is a leftover tie.
Yes when leftover per order falls. The page shows how many extra orders per month would match charging shipping. If the free-shipping path has a non-positive leftover, extra volume cannot catch up.