Crosslist from Mercari to Vinted — Automatically
Vinted charges sellers nothing, so the same sale nets you about 13% more than on Mercari. The catch is eligibility: Vinted takes a defined catalogue and refuses a lot Mercari accepts. Here is what moves, and what does not.
- You keep 100% of the sale price on Vinted. Vinted charges sellers nothing — no commission, no listing fee, no final value fee. Mercari takes 10% of the item price plus your buyer’s postage. On a $50 sale that is the difference between keeping $50 and keeping about $44.
- This is a US page, because Mercari makes it one. Mercari requires you to reside in the United States and will not accept a non-US bank account. Vinted is available across Europe plus the US and Australia, so the US is where a Mercari seller and Vinted overlap.
- Most of a Mercari catalogue cannot go to Vinted. Vinted takes a specific list — fashion, kids’, home, electronics, books and media, hobbies and collectables, sports — and prohibits a lot that Mercari happily accepts, including all knives, digital goods, services, mattresses and anything you received free.
- Vinted’s Buyer Protection is bigger and visible. US buyers pay $0.70 plus 5% of the item price. Mercari’s buyer pays 3.6% on item plus postage. Vinted’s fee is larger on the buyer’s side and zero on yours, which is a real trade.
- Selling a lot of new, tagged stock on Vinted gets you reclassified. Vinted assesses private accounts for commercial activity and forces registration as a Pro seller — and Pro is second-hand only and not available in the US.
- Vinted accepts 20 photos to Mercari’s 12, and requires brand, condition, category and a parcel size on every listing.
- Cost: £1 for 7 days, then plans from £9/month (Starter). There is no free plan.
First question: how much of your catalogue is even eligible?
Most guides to this pair open with the fee difference. That is the wrong place to start, because for a typical Mercari seller the binding constraint is not cost — it is that Vinted will not take most of what they sell.
Mercari’s approach is permissive: it prohibits a specific list and otherwise accepts almost anything that ships. Vinted works the other way round. It publishes a catalogue of what belongs there, and it is broader than its fashion reputation suggests but still bounded:
- Women’s, men’s, designer and kids’ clothing, shoes and accessories
- Kids’ toys, furniture and childcare equipment
- Home and kitchenware, appliances, cookware, tools, textiles, office supplies and furniture
- Electronics — cameras, computers, tablets, audio, gaming, wearables and smart home
- Books, magazines, music and video media
- Hobbies and collectables — board games, trading cards, instruments, stamps and coins
- Sports equipment
- New, unused cosmetics and beauty devices, private sellers only
And the prohibitions that will catch a Mercari seller specifically:
- All knives, including kitchen knives. Not just weapons — any knife.
- Digital goods and services of every kind, including rentals, customisation and subscriptions.
- Used cosmetics, used underwear and used protective equipment.
- Mattresses, e-mobility devices, medical devices and medication.
- Jailbroken or network-blocked phones, swollen or used batteries, and recalled products.
- Anything you received free — promotional and complimentary items.
- Auctions. Vinted is fixed-price with offers.
Set that against where Mercari’s business actually is. Entertainment and Hobbies — collectibles and trading cards — grew from 19.2% to 30.8% of Mercari’s US GMV in two years and is now its largest category. Trading cards and board games are fine on Vinted. Much of the rest of a collectibles-heavy Mercari shop is a judgement call, and some of it plainly is not.
So the honest first step on this pair is a filter, not a push. FLUF lets you select by category and by item rather than firing a whole catalogue at a wall and collecting takedowns.
Why crosslist from Mercari to Vinted
Once you know what is eligible, the case is straightforward and it is mostly about the fee.
Vinted charges sellers nothing. No commission, no listing fee, no final value fee. Vinted’s own words on launching in the US were that sellers can list items without paying selling fees, meaning they keep every dollar they make. Instead the buyer pays a Buyer Protection fee, which in the US is $0.70 plus 5% of the item price, excluding shipping and tax.
Mercari charges 10% of the item price plus buyer-paid postage, reinstated on 6 January 2025, and separately charges your buyer 3.6% on the same base.
The second argument is momentum, and the numbers are not close. Vinted’s 2025 results, published in April 2026, reported revenue of €1.1 billion, up 38%, and GMV of €10.8 billion, up 47%, with a net profit of €62 million. Mercari’s US business turned over $810 million in the year to 30 June 2026 — up 11.2%, but following a 20.2% decline the year before, with US monthly active users at 4.20 million in the final quarter, down from 4.35 million the quarter before and still below where they stood two years earlier.
That is a recovering incumbent against a fast-growing entrant. It does not mean Vinted will outsell Mercari for you in the United States today — Vinted’s US business is months old — but it does mean the direction of travel is worth being positioned for, at zero seller cost.
The third argument is category. If your Mercari inventory skews to clothing, you are selling in the category Mercari’s own mix is moving away from, on a platform whose sellers openly describe it as weak for fashion. Vinted is fashion-first by design.
Where Vinted actually operates
This deserves precision, because a lot of what is written about Vinted’s US presence is vague in both directions.
Vinted announced that it had landed in New York on 22 January 2026. That was a New York-led launch, and Vinted has not announced a second US city or state phase since. What is broader than the launch messaging is the shipping: Vinted’s own help documentation states that its integrated shipping covers the fifty US states and Washington DC plus Puerto Rico, with USPS as the provider.
The accurate way to describe it, and the one used on this page, is US-wide shipping support with a New York-led launch. Anything claiming a nationwide marketing launch, or a city-by-city rollout schedule, is not sourced from Vinted.
Two other footprint facts worth knowing. Vinted launched in Australia on 1 July 2026, with zero selling fees and Australia Post as its shipping partner, and opened a corridor between Australia and the UK. And Vinted’s European footprint is long-established across more than two dozen markets, which is why Buyer Protection rates differ by country — France and Germany are 5% plus €0.70, while Vinted’s UK pages give only a range of roughly 3% to 8% plus £0.30 to £0.80 rather than a single rate.
None of the European detail helps a Mercari seller directly, since Mercari confines you to the United States. It matters if you are thinking about where this catalogue could go later.
How to crosslist from Mercari to Vinted
- Create a FLUF Connect account and start the £1 seven-day trial.
- Connect Mercari. Mercari authenticates against a session tied to its own origin, so it is connected through the FLUF Chrome extension on a computer rather than by a stored key.
- Connect Vinted. Also driven through your own signed-in session, because Vinted’s session cannot be replayed server-side.
- Import your Mercari listings and filter to what Vinted’s catalogue actually permits.
- Fill the required fields. Vinted requires brand, condition, category and a parcel size on every listing. Mercari supplies condition and often brand; parcel size usually needs setting.
- Crosslist. Listings appear on Vinted. Vinted says review takes up to a minute but can take three or four days.
One honest note on timing: Vinted work is carried out through your own signed-in session rather than by our servers, and is paced deliberately rather than fired all at once. A large batch lands over minutes. That pacing is what keeps a bulk push from looking like automation to Vinted.
What transfers, field by field
| Mercari field | Vinted field | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Title | Automatic | Vinted publishes no character limit, so no figure is quoted here. |
| Description | Description | Automatic | Vinted expects real disclosure — measurements, alterations and flaws such as marks, stains, tears, pilling, fading and odours. Electronics must state brand, model, storage, display size, plug type, accessories and any faults. |
| Photos | Photos | Automatic | Mercari allows 12, Vinted allows 20, so nothing is lost. Vinted recommends at least three and asks for close-ups of the logo, care label and stitching. |
| Price | Price | Automatic | Both in US dollars for a US seller. Worth repricing deliberately — see the fee section. |
| Category | Category | Smart mapped | Vinted requires a specific leaf category, and whether a size field even exists depends on which one you pick. |
| Condition | Condition | Mapped | Mercari’s five values map to Vinted’s own condition list. |
| Brand | Brand | Mapped | Required on every Vinted listing, with No brand as the fallback. Vinted matches loosely and leaves an unrecognised brand unassigned rather than failing, so check the important ones. |
| Size | Size | Mapped where applicable | Conditionally required — it exists only for categories that have a size group. |
| — | Materials | Optional | Vinted allows up to three. |
| Weight or shipping | Parcel size | Manual input | Vinted asks for a package size rather than a weight, and it is required at upload. |
| — | — | Not transferable | Vinted has no auction format and no multi-quantity listing, so a Mercari listing with several identical units becomes separate Vinted listings. |
The fee difference, in real numbers
Take a $50 item with $8 of buyer-paid postage.
- Mercari: the 10% selling fee applies to the item price plus the buyer’s postage, so 10% of $58 = $5.80. You keep $44.20. Your buyer pays $58 plus 3.6% Buyer Protection, roughly $2.09, so $60.09.
- Vinted: you pay nothing and keep $50. Your buyer pays $50 plus $0.70 plus 5% of $50, which is $3.20, plus the postage, so $61.20.
Two things fall out of that.
You keep $5.80 more on Vinted for an identical sale. That is 13% more money for the same item and the same work, which is the single strongest argument for this crosslist.
Your buyer pays slightly more on Vinted, not less. Vinted’s Buyer Protection is a larger visible number than Mercari’s — $3.20 against $2.09 here. Vinted has moved the cost onto the buyer rather than removed it. The practical consequence is that you should not simply copy your Mercari price across and assume it is competitive; you have room to price a little lower on Vinted and still net more.
Vinted also sells optional seller tools — Bump, for three or seven days, and a Wardrobe Spotlight running for seven consecutive days that requires uploading at least five items during the window. Neither has a published fixed price; you see the cost at checkout. Neither is necessary.
The Pro seller trap
This one is worth reading properly if you buy to resell, because it is easy to trip and the consequences are structural.
Vinted distinguishes private sellers from professionals. It assesses accounts for commercial activity, and its published triggers are selling a large number of brand-new items including items with tags, or listing the same style in a number of different colours and sizes. An account judged professional must register as Vinted Pro, which puts a Pro tag on the profile and every listing, and Vinted can force that registration and block professionals who do not comply.
Two consequences matter to a Mercari seller.
First, Vinted Pro is available in eleven countries and the United States is not one of them — the list is France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria. A US seller therefore cannot resolve a commercial-activity assessment by registering as a Pro.
Second, Pro sellers are second-hand only, may not offer a large number of brand-new items, and cannot list cosmetics or handmade goods. So the route out is not a route into selling new stock at volume; it is a different set of restrictions.
The practical advice: if your Mercari business is buying new stock in multiple sizes and colours and listing it repeatedly, Vinted is a poor fit and pushing that catalogue across is likely to attract exactly the wrong attention. If you are selling genuine secondhand and one-off items, none of this applies to you.
What syncs between them
| Event | What happens |
|---|---|
| Item sells on Mercari | FLUF detects the sale and removes the Vinted listing. |
| Item sells on Vinted | FLUF detects the sale and removes the Mercari listing. |
| Orders | Both channels feed one order list. |
| Price and description edits | Pushed to both. |
| Automated relisting | Supported on Vinted, where visibility is strongly driven by recency. Not available on Mercari. |
| Offer management | Automated on Vinted. Not automated on Mercari, where you respond in its app. |
| Execution host | Your own signed-in session on both channels, rather than a server-side API. |
The relisting asymmetry is the most useful thing on this table. Vinted’s demand is upload-cadence driven — sellers there describe a wardrobe disappearing from view unless you upload regularly — and automated relisting is included in every FLUF plan rather than sold as an extra. That is doing real work on Vinted in a way it cannot on Mercari, which has no relist mechanism at all.
Offer management is the same story. Vinted supports it and FLUF automates it; on Mercari you answer offers yourself.
Before and after
Before. Go through your Mercari listings and work out which ones Vinted’s catalogue permits. Re-key each survivor into Vinted, choosing a leaf category, a brand, a condition and a parcel size, and re-uploading the photographs. Write a description that meets Vinted’s disclosure expectations rather than Mercari’s. Then check both apps daily, because a sale on one does not touch the other — and Vinted has no relist button worth using manually at any scale.
After. Connect both. Filter to the eligible categories. Push. Sales close each other. Relisting and offers run on the Vinted side without you.
Note what Mercari’s own importer does not do for you here: it reads eBay, Poshmark and Depop only, and it has never supported Vinted. There is no native path in this direction.
What it costs
FLUF Connect is £1 for 7 days, then plans from £9/month on Starter. Seller is £29/month and Pro is £99/month; every plan is unlimited on listings and marketplaces, and the tiers differ by which automations they include and how often we check your channels for sales. There is no free plan. Crosslisting and inventory sync are included in every plan, and automated relisting and offer management from Seller upwards rather than sold as extras. Full detail on pricing.
Vinted charges sellers nothing and Mercari charges nothing to list, so the subscription is the only fixed cost — and on the fee arithmetic above, a single $50 sale moved from Mercari to Vinted covers most of a month of Starter.
Sources and verification
- Vinted’s zero seller fees and the US launch: Vinted newsroom, 22 January 2026. US Buyer Protection fee: Vinted price list. French and German rates: vinted.fr and vinted.de. The UK range: vinted.co.uk.
- US shipping coverage and provider: shipping routes and providers. Australia launch: Vinted newsroom, 1 July 2026.
- Vinted 2025 financial results: Vinted newsroom, 9 April 2026.
- What Vinted accepts and prohibits: Vinted catalogue rules. Listing requirements and photo guidance: uploading an item, photo guidance and describing an item.
- Vinted Pro — the countries it covers, the tag, forced registration and the second-hand-only restriction: Vinted Pro guide and Vinted Pro service.
- Mercari selling fee and Buyer Protection fee: Mercari fees, effective 6 January 2025. US residency requirement: Terms of Service. Listing limits: creating a listing. Supported import sources: importing listings.
- Mercari US GMV, monthly active users and category mix: Mercari, Inc. FY2026 results, year ended 30 June 2026.
- Field mapping, sync behaviour and pacing: verified against FLUF’s Mercari and Vinted integrations, August 2026.
Vinted publishes no title or description character limit, and Mercari publishes neither either, so no figures are quoted. Vinted does not publish a single UK Buyer Protection rate, only a range, and the widely repeated UK figure of 5% plus 70 pence is not sourced from Vinted. Vinted does not disclose a registered member count and no market count is claimed here. No US rollout beyond the New York-led launch has been announced by Vinted, so none is described. Vinted Pro’s commission level is not published. Fee figures are current as of August 2026; Mercari’s structure changed on 6 January 2025, so older guides are unreliable.
Related pages
- Crosslist from Vinted to Mercari — the reverse direction, written for a Vinted seller
- Mercari vs Vinted — the full head-to-head, with the fee maths
- Crosslist from Mercari to Whatnot — the other route out of a Mercari catalogue
- Sell on Vinted — fees, listing strategy and shipping
- Sell on Mercari — fees, limits and shipping
- Crosslisting hub — every supported channel pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Vinted charges no commission, no listing fee and no final value fee. Its own words on launching in the US were that sellers can list items without paying selling fees, meaning they keep every dollar they make. The cost sits with the buyer instead, as a Buyer Protection fee of 70 cents plus 5% of the item price in the US.
On a 50 dollar item with 8 dollars of buyer-paid postage, Mercari takes 10% of 58 dollars, which is 5.80, so you keep 44.20. On Vinted you keep the full 50. That is about 13% more money for the same item and the same work.
No, slightly more. On that same 50 dollar item your Mercari buyer pays about 60.09 including a 3.6% Buyer Protection fee, while your Vinted buyer pays about 61.20 including 70 cents plus 5%. Vinted has moved the cost onto the buyer rather than removed it, so do not simply copy your Mercari price across — you have room to price a little lower and still net more.
Almost certainly not. Vinted publishes a defined catalogue — fashion, kids, home, electronics, books and media, hobbies and collectables, sports — and prohibits a great deal that Mercari accepts, including all knives even kitchen knives, digital goods, services, used cosmetics, used underwear, mattresses, e-mobility devices, jailbroken phones and anything you received free. Filter before you push.
Vinted announced that it had landed in New York on 22 January 2026 and has not announced a second US city or state phase since. Its integrated shipping, however, covers the fifty states plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico, with USPS as the provider. The accurate description is US-wide shipping support with a New York-led launch.
No. Mercari requires you to reside in the US and will not accept a non-US bank account, so the source side of this pair is US-only. Vinted itself is available across Europe plus the US and, since 1 July 2026, Australia.
Vinted assesses private accounts for commercial activity and can force registration as a Pro seller, with triggers including selling a large number of brand-new items with tags, or listing the same style in several colours and sizes. Two things matter for a US seller: Vinted Pro operates in eleven countries and the United States is not one of them, and Pro sellers are second-hand only and cannot bulk-list new stock anyway.
All of them. Mercari allows up to 12 photos per listing and Vinted allows 20, so nothing is lost. Vinted recommends at least three and asks specifically for close-ups of the logo, care label and stitching.
On the Vinted side, yes, and it matters there. Vinted visibility is strongly driven by upload recency, and automated relisting is included in every FLUF plan rather than sold as an extra. Mercari has no relist mechanism at all, so nothing runs on that side. Offer management is likewise automated on Vinted and manual on Mercari.
No. Mercari importer reads eBay, Poshmark and Depop only, and it has never supported Vinted. There is no native path in this direction.