Dropshipping Profit Calculator
Calculate real dropshipping profit per order: product cost, shipping, payment fees, ad cost per sale, and returns. Break-even ROAS included. Free.
A 3× markup is not 200% profit in dropshipping — by the time processing fees, shipping, and (the killer) ad cost per sale come out, margins are usually thin enough that pricing mistakes decide whether the store survives. This calculator runs the full per-order P&L.
Enter your product cost, selling price, and channel costs; see profit per order, margin percent, break-even ROAS for your ad spend, and how many orders a month the margin actually justifies.
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Dropshipping Profit Calculator
Real margin after ad spend, platform fees, and tax.
Shopify plan fees ($39/$105/$399/mo) and payment processing rates (2.9%+$0.30) are based on published 2025 pricing. Tax estimates use 2025 IRS brackets and simplified state rates. Actual costs may vary. This is for estimation only.
Dropship unit economics, one order at a time — illustrated
A dropship order is profitable only if every layer leaves money on the table. The tool starts from the sale price and subtracts product cost, the platform + payment fee (Shopify's $39/$105/$399 monthly plan spread over orders, plus processing at 2.9% + $0.30 via Shopify Payments), ad spend per order, and finally tax (self-employment plus income). It also reports a breakeven ROAS — the ratio 1 ÷ (1 − (product cost + fee) ÷ sale price) — telling you how many dollars of revenue every advertising dollar must return just to break even. If per-order margin falls below ~15%, the tool flags the product as not viable.
$29.99 − $8.00 product − $1.37 fee − $5.00 ads = $15.62 before tax. Every extra $1 of ads must return ~$1.45 of revenue to stay breakeven.
Elena sells a $29.99 product that costs $8 from her supplier, on Shopify Basic ($39/mo) with Shopify Payments, running $5 of ads per order across 200 orders/month. She files single with ~$50k annual revenue.
- Platform + payment fee:Shopify: $39 ÷ 200 = $0.20/order, plus Shopify Payments 2.9% × $29.99 + $0.30 = $1.17 → $1.37 per order.
- Contribution before ads:$29.99 − $8.00 − $1.37 = $20.62 — this is what's left to spend on traffic and keep.
- After ad spend:$20.62 − $5.00 = $15.62 gross before tax.
- Tax + true profit:Self-employment + income tax on the annual net lands near $3.56/order → ~$12.06 profit (≈40% margin). Breakeven ROAS is only ~1.45×, so her ~1.9× ad returns are safely profitable.
About this dropshipping profit calculator
This page covers dropshipping margin calculator, profit per order dropship, is dropshipping profitable calculator, ecommerce profit margin calculator — all the same underlying task as dropshipping profit calculator. The tool above is FreeToolHub's dropship profit embedded in full: every feature works right here, and nothing you process is uploaded to any server.
Frequently asked questions
What is a good profit margin for dropshipping?
After product cost, shipping, payment processing (~3%), and returns, healthy dropshipping stores target 15–30% net margin before ad spend — and paid-traffic stores need a positive contribution margin after customer acquisition cost. The calculator separates product margin from post-acquisition profit so you can see both.
What is break-even ROAS?
Return on ad spend at which ad-driven orders contribute exactly zero profit: 1 ÷ contribution margin per order. If each $40 order leaves $12 after all costs, break-even ROAS is 3.33 — any campaign returning below that loses money on every sale, no matter how good the revenue looks.