Subscription plans

Compare MerkatoHQ's Free, Pro, and Business seller plans: listing limits, commission rates, pricing tools, and promoted-listing credits.

Anyone can sell on MerkatoHQ for free. If you sell regularly, a paid seller plan lowers your commission and unlocks higher limits and tools that help you sell more. Billing is handled entirely in-app through Stripe, so you can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel whenever you like.

Compare plans

Plan prices are shown when you compare and check out in-app. Active-listing counts include live and reserved items, not drafts or sold history.

What each perk means

• Active listings: how many items you can have live at once. Free is plenty for occasional sellers; Pro and Business are for people running real volume.
• Commission: the cut taken from each payout. On Free it’s the standard rate; paid plans replace it with a lower one, which is where a subscription starts to pay for itself.
• Seller pricing tools: sold-comparable data, a recommended price, and demand signals to help you price to sell.
• Full sales dashboard: charted performance over time, versus a basic snapshot on Free.
• Promoted-listing credits: featured-placement slots granted each billing period to give chosen listings more visibility.

Try Pro free for 30 days

New sellers get one 30-day free trial of Pro, once per account.

• We ask for a card up front but charge nothing for 30 days. Cancel before the trial ends and you pay nothing at all.
• The trial unlocks Pro’s features: the higher listing limit, price intelligence, the full dashboard and promoted-listing credits.
• It does not include the reduced commission. Trial sales are charged the standard rate; the lower rate starts with your first payment.
• A countdown sits at the top of every page while the trial runs, and we email you a week before it ends and again the day before, so the first charge is never a surprise.
• You’ll also see what the trial has been worth: how much less your sales would have cost in fees on the paid plan.
• If you don’t continue, any listings above the Free limit of 10 move back to drafts when the trial ends. Nothing is deleted. Subscribe later and they’re all still there, ready to republish.

How billing works

• Plans are billed monthly or yearly through Stripe, managed inside MerkatoHQ, with no separate Stripe login.
• Upgrading takes effect right away; downgrading or cancelling keeps your current plan until the end of the period you’ve paid for, then drops you to the tier below (or Free).
• Your card is charged automatically each period until you cancel.
• Dropping to a smaller plan also brings your live listings back within that plan’s limit. The newest come down first, as drafts.

Which plan is right for you?

Do the math against your typical sales:

• Free: you sell occasionally and stay under ~10 live listings.
• Pro: you sell steadily; the drop from the standard rate to 4% plus the pricing tools outweighs the subscription price.
• Business: selling is your business; 3% commission, unlimited listings, and 10 promoted credits a period are built for high volume.