TIKTOK SHOP · ANNOUNCED FEE CHANGE
The announced US schedule adds a creator facilitation rate on top of a higher referral — but facilitation lands on affiliate-sourced orders, not on the organic ones. A shop selling mostly organic is hit less hard than the headline implies, and a shop living on creator video is hit harder. This page puts your SKU through both schedules, then solves for the two things you can actually change: the list price and the unit cost. Back to the full calculator.
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Transparent arithmetic from your inputs — not TikTok’s live schedule, and not advice about what to charge. The announced rates are an announcement, not a guarantee they ship unchanged. Confirm your own referral, facilitation, and creator payout rules in Seller Center before you relist.
It depends on the SKU and on where the order came from. On the worked example — a $19.99 item, $4.99 shipping charged, 15% creator commission on item price only, 12% returns — the announced 8% referral plus 1.5% creator facilitation costs about $0.78 more on an affiliate-sourced order and about $0.45 more on an organic one. At 8 orders a day that is roughly $190 a month. Put your own numbers in the form to get your figure.
No. In this model the 1.5% creator facilitation applies to affiliate-sourced orders only, so a shop selling mostly organic is hit less hard than the headline suggests. The page splits the two so you can weight them by your own affiliate share instead of assuming one number covers the catalogue.
The page solves for it. It takes the expected margin your SKU earns under today's schedule, then finds the list price under the announced schedule that lands on that same margin after returns, creator commission, fulfillment, and ads. On the worked example a $19.99 listing needs about $21.94 to hold a 27.7% margin.
No. The other lever is unit cost, so the page also shows the most the unit can cost and still clear, before and after. On the worked example that ceiling falls from about $11.73 to about $10.93 — which is the number to take to a supplier if the listing price cannot move.