Selling on QuoteHive: fees & payouts

Selling on the Marketplace is built to be cheap and predictable: free to list and browse, a low flat sale fee only when something actually sells, and a clear, short wait before your proceeds are ready. Here’s exactly how the money works.

Free to list — you only pay when it sells

Listing an item, browsing, and making or receiving offers all cost nothing. The only seller charge is a sale fee taken when a buy-now sale completes. It’s a flat percentage by category — a low 2–5% — shown to you up front and taken from your proceeds, never added to what the buyer pays. Buyers never pay a sale fee.

• Tools & Equipment — 5%
• Building Materials — 4%
• Vehicles & Trailers — 2%
• Home & Garden — 5%
• Surplus & Liquidation — 3%
• Services — no sale fee (services are quoted; verified contractors pay through the normal bidding credits instead).

Selling is free during our launch beta — the sale fee is waived for now, and we’ll announce it clearly well before it turns on. The numbers above are what the fee will be; the mechanics below are already live.

A card on file is required

Before you can list, you need a valid card on file. It’s stored securely with Stripe — QuoteHive only ever keeps the card’s brand and last four digits, never the full number. Add or manage it under Account → Billing; see Payment methods & your card on file.

How payouts work — Pending, then Available

When a buy-now sale completes, your net proceeds (the sale price minus the sale fee) are credited to your seller balance as Pending right away. After a 24-hour hold — the standard window that covers returns and chargebacks — they clear to Available. You can watch both balances on your seller dashboard. The buyer’s provincial sales tax is collected at checkout and remitted separately — it’s never part of your proceeds.

A worked example

Say you sell a table saw (Tools & Equipment, 5%) for $400:

• The buyer pays $400 plus their provincial sales tax — the fee is never added on top for them.
• Your sale fee is $20 (5% of $400), taken from your proceeds.
• Your net is $380, credited as Pending the moment the sale completes.
• After the 24-hour hold it becomes Available.

During the launch beta the $20 fee is waived, so the full $400 nets to you — but the Pending → Available timing is exactly the same. Auction selling works the same way on the sale fee; bidding on auctions uses a separate wallet (your first 10 bids free, then 25¢ each) — see Your marketplace bidding wallet.