Crosslist from Mercari to Depop — Automatically
A US Depop seller pays no selling fee at all. Here is which part of a Mercari catalogue is allowed to make the move, and the seven fields you have to write from scratch.
- A US Depop seller pays no selling fee at all. Depop removed it in the US on 15 July 2024. You pay payment processing of 3.3% + $0.45, and that is the whole seller-side bill. Mercari takes a flat 10%.
- But only fashion travels. Depop bans technology and electronics, trading cards, tickets, gift cards, software and video games, and drop-shipping outright. Those are not slow sellers on Depop — they are prohibited. For most Mercari sellers this is the deciding fact.
- Depop has no title field. Its own guidance is to start the description with a title. Your 80-character Mercari title becomes the opening line of a Depop description, and it usually needs rewriting to work there.
- Seven Depop fields have no Mercari source at all — colour, style, source, era, material, occasion and hashtags. Depop filters on several of them, so a listing that leaves them empty is invisible to a filtered search.
- Depop built a one-click importer for Poshmark, and not for Mercari. Its own help article then tells you to use “a crosslisting website” for everything afterwards, and Depop confirms elsewhere that it works with crosslisting tools by API.
- Budget about five minutes per listing by hand across roughly eighteen steps. A hundred items is a working day.
- Cost: £1 for 7 days, then plans from £9/month (Starter — unlimited crosslisting). There is no free plan.
On this page
- Why this route is worth the effort
- What Depop will not let you bring
- The money, on both sides
- Field by field, including the seven you invent
- The title problem
- How Depop actually ranks, in Depop’s own words
- Shipping, and the label that changes your fees
- Eighteen steps, five minutes, a hundred items
- How to crosslist with FLUF Connect
- What syncs between them
- What FLUF Connect costs
- Sources and verification
Why this route is worth the effort
Mercari is a general marketplace. Depop is a fashion one. That single sentence explains most of what follows, including why the route is worth taking and why only part of your catalogue can take it.
The commercial case is straightforward. On a $75 shipped sale, Mercari takes a flat 10% of the item price plus buyer-paid shipping — that is $7.50 gone before postage. Depop, for a US seller, takes no selling fee whatsoever. What you pay is payment processing at 3.3% plus $0.45, which on the same $75 is $2.93. On identical inventory at an identical price, Depop leaves you roughly $4.57 better off per sale, and the gap widens as the price rises.
The audience case is different in kind. Depop reports around 56.3 million registered users and more than 68 million items for sale, with up to 600,000 new listings a day and over $6 billion of goods sold by its community to date. eBay completed its acquisition of Depop from Etsy on 30 July 2026, and Depop now runs as a standalone brand inside eBay — its own FAQ states that there are “no planned changes to fees or payments at this time”. Mercari US, by comparison, reported $810 million of GMV and 4.2 million monthly active users for the year ended 30 June 2026.
More useful than the raw scale is the difference in intent. Mercari buyers search for a thing. Depop buyers browse a feed, and they browse it for a look. A pair of vintage Lululemon leggings, a boxy 90s knit, a bandage dress — all of those appear in Depop’s own 2026 trends data as rising searches, and none of them is a phrase a Mercari buyer types. If your inventory has any aesthetic identity to it, Depop will pay for it in a way Mercari does not.
What Depop will not let you bring
This is where most Mercari sellers discover the route is narrower than they hoped, and it is worth checking before you plan anything. Depop’s prohibited-items policy, updated 29 July 2026, bans outright a set of categories that Mercari sells happily:
| Category | Mercari | Depop |
|---|---|---|
| Technology and electronics | Allowed and popular | Prohibited — and it has a dedicated Technology and Electronics Policy |
| Trading cards | A major Mercari category, with a 49¢ envelope rate built for it | Prohibited |
| Tickets, vouchers and gift cards | Gift cards prohibited; tickets restricted | Prohibited |
| Software and video games | Physical games allowed | Prohibited |
| Digital and non-material goods | Prohibited | Prohibited |
| Drop-shipped items | Prohibited — items must be in your possession | Prohibited, including anything listed with supplier photos |
| Food and edible items | Prohibited | Prohibited |
| Clothing, shoes, bags, accessories | Allowed | Allowed — this is the entire point of Depop |
Two Depop rules worth reading twice. Handcrafted items you designed yourself are fine, and so is print-on-demand of your own design — the drop-shipping ban is about reselling somebody else’s stock with somebody else’s photographs. And second-hand clothing must be disclosed as second-hand; an undisclosed used item is itself a policy breach.
So the honest framing of this route is a filter. Run down your Mercari inventory, take the apparel, footwear and accessories, and leave the rest where it is. That is not a small subset for most clothing sellers, and it is a very small one for anyone whose Mercari business is cards, consoles or components.
The money, on both sides
Both marketplaces now charge the buyer as well as the seller, so a like-for-like comparison has to look at both ends.
| Mercari (US) | Depop (US) | |
|---|---|---|
| Selling fee | Flat 10% of item price plus buyer-paid shipping | 0% — removed in the US on 15 July 2024 |
| Payment processing | None — folded into the 10% since 6 January 2025 | 3.3% + $0.45, on item price plus shipping and any taxes |
| What the buyer pays on top | Flat 3.6% Buyer Protection fee | Up to 5% + up to $1 Marketplace fee — Depop does not publish a flat rate |
| Paid promotion | No paid ads. Promote and Offer to Likers cost margin, not money | Boosted Listings at 12%, charged only on a resulting sale |
| Payout | After the buyer rates, or automatically 72 hours after delivery | 2 business days after delivery, or 10 business days after sale — whichever comes first |
On a $75 item the seller nets $67.50 on Mercari and $72.07 on Depop. The buyer pays $77.70 on Mercari and up to $4.75 on top on Depop. Neither platform is quietly cheaper for everyone; Depop is meaningfully cheaper for the seller, and its buyer fee is the vaguer of the two.
Three details that change the arithmetic if you miss them.
Boosted Listings are pay-on-result, not pay-per-click. The 12% is charged only if a buyer views, clicks or likes the boosted listing and then buys within 28 days. If they find it organically you pay nothing. Unboosting does not cancel a fee once that 28-day window is already running, and turning off a single boosted item while Boost Shop is enabled switches Boost Shop off entirely.
Using your own shipping label costs you more on a boosted sale. Depop’s boost fee is charged on the item price plus the shipping cost only if you arranged the shipping yourself. Use a Depop label and the postage sits outside the fee base.
All Depop fees reverse on a refund — selling, processing and boosting alike, automatically on Depop Payments. That is a genuinely better deal than several marketplaces offer, and worth knowing when you are pricing in return risk.
Field by field, including the seven you invent
Mercari and Depop store an item very differently, and the gap is not evenly distributed. Some fields copy across; some need translating; seven have no Mercari source at all and must be created from scratch.
| Mercari | Depop | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Title, up to 80 characters | No title field — the first line of the description | Reshaped by hand. See below. |
| Description | Description | Copies, but rewrite it. Depop ranks on description text and asks for measurements and signs of wear. |
| Photos, up to 12 | Fewer — Depop’s help article says four; its live API accepts eight | Lossy. Re-select and re-order; the cover image is the tile buyers actually see. |
| Category, Mercari’s own tree | Category, product type and gender | Lost. Different taxonomies, no mechanical mapping. Depop resolves the legacy category from the product-type and gender pair. |
| Brand | Brand, plus up to two brand hashtags | Partial. Usually re-entered. |
| Size | Region-specific numeric variant sets | Re-entered. The wrong set produces a size error rather than a warning. |
| Condition, a five-point scale | Depop’s own condition values | Maps, with translation. The scales do not line up one to one. |
| Price, stored in cents | Price and currency | Copies — but the unit matters. A naive conversion turns a $32 item into a $3,200 one. |
| Weight and package dimensions, USPS shipping classes | Parcel size band, ship-from address, shipping provider | Partial. Both are USPS band systems; the band identifiers differ. |
| — | Colour, up to two | Add by hand. Depop filters on colour, so an empty field means invisibility in a filtered search. |
| — | Hashtags, up to five plus two brand hashtags | Add by hand. |
| — | Style, up to three | Add by hand. |
| — | Source, up to two — vintage, preloved, deadstock, handmade, reworked | Add by hand. A real driver of discovery for vintage sellers. |
| — | Era, one — 50s through y2k, vintage, antique, modern | Add by hand. This is the y2k and 90s filter buyers actually use. |
| — | Material (up to four), occasion (up to three), type (up to three) | Add by hand. |
| — | Video, one per listing | Optional, and worth doing. |
| — | SKU | Optional — and immutable once published. Changing one means deleting and relisting. |
One trap that catches automated tooling rather than people: if the source data comes from a Mercari listing list rather than the seller’s own photo library, only a single photograph is available per item. A Depop listing built from one image will underperform badly. Pull the full set.
The title problem
Depop does not have a title field, and this surprises almost everyone coming from another marketplace. Its own guidance is: “Start with a title: add relevant words that you would search for as a buyer.” The title is simply the opening of the description.
That matters because Mercari titles are written to a different brief. Eighty characters, keyword-dense, built to be matched by a search engine — “Vintage 90s Nike Windbreaker Jacket Mens Large Navy Blue Colorblock Zip Up”. Pasted into Depop as an opening line it reads like a machine wrote it, in a feed where tone is part of the product.
Worse, it can actively hurt you. Depop’s own search-ranking guidance states that “adding information unrelated to the item — like a brand you aren’t actually selling — can hurt your listing’s exposure.” The keyword-padding habit that works on Mercari is penalised here. Depop also generates tags and keywords for you automatically, so the padding is redundant as well as risky.
The rewrite is short and it is worth doing: a clean first line that names the item as a buyer would, then a description that adds what Mercari listings usually lack — measurements, and an honest account of wear.
How Depop actually ranks, in Depop’s own words
Depop publishes its ranking factors, which is unusually candid, and two of them overturn common reselling folklore. In its own ordering, the algorithm weighs relevance to the search terms — matched against the description, brand, category and colour — then popularity, then the seller’s location, then the buyer’s own shopping habits, then when the item was listed, then seller information, then whether the item is boosted, then policy compliance.
On recency, Depop is explicit: “Newer items get a slight edge, but this counts for much less than factors like relevance.” The delete-and-relist refresh ritual that resellers carry between platforms is, by Depop’s own account, close to worthless here. Depop does not publish a listing-expiry period and does not offer a refresh or bump feature at all.
On status, it is equally clear: “A seller’s Top Seller or verified status has no impact on where their listings rank,” and, other than Boosted Listings, Depop does not offer higher ranking in exchange for payment.
Its seller-facing advice reduces to three things: price it well, write a clear accurate description with measurements and signs of wear, and photograph it from every angle including the flaws. Add to that the filter argument — fill the structured fields, because a buyer filtering by colour or condition simply will not see an incomplete listing — and you have the whole strategy.
Shipping, and the label that changes your fees
A US Depop seller has two options, and the choice has a fee consequence.
A Depop USPS label arrives as a QR code by email plus a printable version, is fully tracked, and marks itself as shipped — you do not add tracking. You pick a parcel size band when you list, which sets the shipping cost. You must actually use the label: shipping by another method loses you Depop Protection and can get the order auto-cancelled and refunded. US sellers listing on the iOS app can offer a shipping discount of $2, $3, $4, or free shipping.
Your own postage means buying the label yourself, using a tracked service, and adding the tracking to the receipt manually. Tracking cannot be amended once entered, and if you do not add it within ten days the order is cancelled and the buyer refunded. It also costs you more on a boosted sale, because your shipping charge then falls inside the boost fee base.
Either way, ship within ten days or the order auto-cancels. Depop notes that most sellers ship within two.
Coming from Mercari this is familiar territory — both run USPS band systems, and the weight you already know transfers conceptually even though the band identifiers do not. One Depop-specific prerequisite: a saved ship-from address must exist on the account before any Depop-label listing can post.
Eighteen steps, five minutes, a hundred items
Here is the honest labour estimate for doing this by hand in the Depop app, assuming you still have the original photographs on your phone.
Open the Mercari listing and copy the description. Select and order four to eight photos. Optionally shoot a video. Rewrite the opening line as a Depop-style title. Rewrite the description and add the measurements Mercari never asked for. Add five hashtags and two brand hashtags. Set category, subcategory and product type. Set gender. Set brand. Set size. Set condition. Set two colours. Set three styles. Set source. Set era. Set material, occasion and type. Convert and reconsider the price. Choose a parcel band or your own postage. Review and post.
That is roughly eighteen discrete steps. An experienced seller accepting an AI-generated description and skipping the optional attributes can do it in about three minutes. A careful listing with the structured fields filled in — the version that survives Depop’s filters — takes five to seven. Call it five minutes, which makes a hundred items a full working day.
There is one telling gap in Depop’s own tooling. Depop built a one-click importer, and it built it for Poshmark: US-only, clothing and accessories only, one-time with no ongoing sync, capped at 25 listings at a time, capable of creating duplicates, and requiring you to mark Poshmark sales as sold by hand. Mercari sellers get nothing equivalent. And Depop’s own article closes by telling you that once the import is done you can list subsequent items “using the Depop app, depop.com, or a crosslisting website” — which is, in Depop’s words, the answer to the gap it left.
How to crosslist with FLUF Connect
- Connect Mercari in FLUF Connect. Your live listings are read into a single catalogue with their photos, prices, brands, conditions and shipping data.
- Split the catalogue. Filter to apparel, footwear and accessories. Leave electronics, cards, tickets, games and anything drop-shipped on Mercari — Depop prohibits all of it.
- Enrich once, not twice. Add the measurements, the colour, the era and the style in FLUF, so the work is done in one place rather than repeated on each marketplace.
- Connect Depop and save a ship-from address before you push anything, or Depop-label listings will not post.
- Crosslist, then check the first ten. Category and size are the two fields most worth eyeballing, because both fail loudly rather than silently and both are quick to fix in bulk.
- Rewrite the opening lines. This is the one part no tool should do for you — Depop’s feed rewards a human voice, and it penalises padded keywords.
What syncs between them
| Behaviour | Mercari | Depop |
|---|---|---|
| Item sells elsewhere → removed from this channel | Yes | Yes |
| Sale on this channel detected and imported | Yes | Yes |
| Automated relisting | No | Yes |
| Offer management | No | Yes |
The inventory loop closes in both directions on this pair, which is what makes running the two together practical rather than nerve-racking. Sell on Mercari and the Depop listing comes down; sell on Depop and the Mercari listing comes down. That matters commercially as well as operationally: repeated seller-caused cancellations on Mercari can attract a fee of up to 5% of the item price, capped at $25.
Offer management works on Depop and not on Mercari, which reflects the platforms rather than the tooling — Mercari’s equivalents, Promote and Offer to Likers, are price-cut mechanics with their own rules rather than a negotiation inbox. Relisting and offer management are included from the Seller plan upward rather than on Starter.
What FLUF Connect costs
FLUF Connect is £1 for 7 days, with full access to every feature straight away. The rest of your first month is charged after the seven days, then it is £9/month on Starter. There is no free plan.
Crosslisting is unlimited on every plan — no cap on how many listings you create, how many stay live, or how many marketplaces each one reaches. Starter checks for sales every 90 minutes and holds 90 days of dashboard, analytics, orders and listings-log history. Automated relisting, offer management and smart pricing begin on the Seller plan at £29/month, which also moves sale checks to hourly. Pro is £99/month and Super Seller pricing is bespoke.
Sources and verification
Every fee and policy below carries the date its source was last updated, taken from the marketplaces’ own systems, and was checked on 28 August 2026.
- Depop seller fees, US processing at 3.3% + $0.45, and the 12% Boosted Listings rate — Seller fees and charges, updated 21 July 2026
- Depop Marketplace fee paid by the buyer — What is the Marketplace fee?, updated 21 July 2026
- Depop Boosted Listings mechanics and the 28-day window — Boosted Listings, updated 24 July 2026
- Depop search ranking factors, quoted directly — How Depop ranks search results and Improving the search ranking of your items, both updated 21 August 2026
- Depop prohibited items, including electronics, cards, tickets, software and drop-shipping — Depop prohibited items, updated 29 July 2026
- Depop hashtag, colour and photo guidance — How to list an item and Tips for describing your item
- Depop US shipping rules and the ten-day window — How to ship, US, updated 30 June 2026
- Depop payout timing — How do I get paid, US, updated 12 August 2026
- Depop Import for Poshmark, and its recommendation of crosslisting tools — Depop Import, updated 13 July 2026
- eBay completed its acquisition of Depop on 30 July 2026 — Depop newsroom
- Depop scale: 56.3 million registered users, 68 million items, $6 billion sold — Depop facts and figures
- Depop removed US selling fees on 15 July 2024 — Depop newsroom
- Mercari’s flat 10% seller fee and 3.6% buyer fee, effective 6 January 2025 — Fees on Mercari
- Mercari US GMV and monthly active users for the year ended 30 June 2026 — Mercari Investor Relations
- Field limits, attribute vocabularies and sync capabilities — FLUF Connect’s own Mercari and Depop integrations, verified 28 August 2026.
One conflict we are not hiding. Depop’s help article says a listing takes four photos; its live API accepts eight. We have said eight because that is what the marketplace actually does, but check what your own app offers before you plan around it.
Related guides
- Sell on Mercari — fees, shipping and the returns policy in full
- Sell on Depop — the complete seller guide
- Mercari vs Facebook Marketplace
- Crosslist from Mercari to Shopify
- Crosslist from Poshmark to Mercari
- All crosslisting routes
Move the fashion half of your Mercari shop onto Depop
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Frequently Asked Questions
For a US seller, yes, and by a clear margin. Depop removed its selling fee in the US on 15 July 2024, so the whole seller-side bill is payment processing at 3.3% plus $0.45. Mercari charges a flat 10% of the item price plus buyer-paid shipping. On a $75 item you net $72.07 on Depop against $67.50 on Mercari, and the gap widens as the price rises.
Only the fashion part of it. Depop's prohibited-items policy bans technology and electronics, trading cards, tickets, gift cards and vouchers, software and video games, digital goods, food, and drop-shipped items. Those are not slow sellers on Depop — they are not permitted at all. Apparel, footwear, bags and accessories travel; for a Mercari seller whose business is cards or consoles, this route is a dead end.
Because on Depop the title is simply the first line of the description — its own guidance is to start with a title using words a buyer would search for. Your 80-character Mercari title usually needs rewriting rather than pasting: it reads mechanically in a feed where tone matters, and Depop's ranking guidance warns that adding information unrelated to the item, such as a brand you are not actually selling, can hurt your listing's exposure.
Seven, none of which has a Mercari source: colour (up to two), hashtags (five plus two brand hashtags), style (up to three), source such as vintage, preloved, deadstock, handmade or reworked (up to two), era from the 50s through y2k (one), and material, occasion and type. Depop filters on several of these, so a listing that leaves them empty simply will not appear when a buyer filters a search.
Fewer than Mercari holds. Mercari allows around twelve; Depop's own help article says four while its live API accepts eight. We publish eight because that is what the marketplace actually does, but check what your app offers. Either way you re-select and re-order, and the cover image matters most because it is the tile buyers see in the feed.
Barely, by Depop's own account. Its published ranking factors put recency well down the list, with the explicit line that “newer items get a slight edge, but this counts for much less than factors like relevance”. Depop publishes no listing-expiry period and offers no refresh or bump feature. The delete-and-relist ritual resellers carry between platforms is close to worthless here — price, description quality and complete structured fields do the work instead.
No. Depop built a one-click importer for Poshmark — US-only, clothing and accessories only, one-time with no ongoing sync, and capped at 25 listings at a time. Mercari sellers get nothing equivalent. Depop's own help article then tells sellers they can list subsequent items using the Depop app, depop.com, “or a crosslisting website”, and Depop separately confirms that it works with crosslisting tools by API connection.
About five minutes, across roughly eighteen discrete steps: photos, the rewritten opening line, the description with measurements added, hashtags, category, gender, brand, size, condition, colour, style, source, era, material, price and shipping. Three minutes is achievable if you accept an AI-generated description and skip the optional attributes, but those attributes are the ones Depop filters on. A hundred items is a full working day.
Yes, in both directions on this pair. FLUF Connect detects a Mercari sale and removes the Depop listing, and detects a Depop sale and removes the Mercari one. That is worth having beyond the convenience: repeated seller-caused cancellations on Mercari can attract a fee of up to 5% of the item price, capped at $25.
Not so far. eBay completed its acquisition of Depop from Etsy on 30 July 2026, and Depop now runs as a standalone brand inside eBay. Depop's own FAQ on the deal states that there are no planned changes to fees or payments at this time. Note that some older Depop press material still describes it as an Etsy subsidiary — that boilerplate is out of date.