What each marketplace charges, and what each one forbids

Policy first: can you list the work?

A 6.5% fee on a listing you are not permitted to publish is not a better deal than 10% on one you are. Read this column before the money one.

Then the money

Headline commissions are not comparable on their own, because they are not the whole bill on every platform. This table is what you actually pay.

Figures read from each platform's own fee and terms pages on 2 September 2026, and the Witchly and Witchsey rows on 13 September 2026. Fees change; re-check before making a decision on one.

What the headline percentage does not tell you

Etsy's 6.5% is the number everyone quotes, and it is the smallest part of the bill for an established shop. Once a shop has passed $10,000 in any 365-day period it is enrolled in Offsite Ads permanently and cannot leave, so an attributed order carries 6.5% plus 12% — 18.5% before payment processing. That is the fee a practitioner who is actually doing well pays, and it is nearly double Divina's.

The listing fee compounds quietly in the other direction. It is charged when you publish and again every four months when the listing expires and renews, so a catalog of forty offerings costs about $24 a year to keep online before anything sells. A pure commission costs nothing until you are paid.

In fairness to the smaller end: a shop that has never crossed $10,000 can opt out of Offsite Ads, so its bill really is 6.5% plus $0.20 a listing, and the figures above are there for you to run against your own volume. Two things decide whether that comparison applies to you at all. The first is whether Etsy permits your work, which for spellwork, reiki, prayer and ritual it does not. The second is the threshold — it is a one-way door, and it arrives exactly when the shop starts working.

Two more differences matter more than any percentage:

• Structuring around a policy has a price. A reading that must carry a tangible good in order to be compliant is a reading redesigned for the platform rather than for the seeker — and for reiki, spellwork, prayer and ritual there is no compliant shape at all.
• Selling from your own site means no commission and no audience. A 10% or a 20% is buying discovery; if a platform sends you no one, it is expensive at any rate.

The niche marketplaces that opened after the wave

Etsy's enforcement created a gap, and more than one platform moved into it. Witchly and Witchsey are the two that come up most often, and a practitioner rebuilding a shop is going to be told about all three of us. Here is the honest read on each.

Witchly lists the same categories Divina does — tarot and oracle, spell casting and rituals, psychic and mediumship, reiki and energy healing, astrology and birth charts, protection and cleansing — and describes itself as a vetted marketplace of verified practitioners. What it does not do is publish its fees. There is no commission or listing fee stated on its public pages, so you find out what you would pay by applying. That may well be reasonable when you see it; it just is not something you can compare before you commit.

Witchsey publishes its rates: a 4% commission plus 2.98% + $0.30 processing, with no listing fees. The table above has the figures, and you should compare them for yourself against what you actually sell. What the percentages do not capture is that the two platforms are built around different things — Witchsey is oriented to goods that ship, with payouts landing 8 days after delivery is confirmed by tracking or by the buyer. Divina lists services only and ships nothing, so a working has no parcel to track, and payment is held against delivered proof instead.

Which matters depends on what you sell. A shop that is mostly candles, herbs and kits with some readings alongside fits a goods marketplace better. A practice that is entirely labour — the reading, the ritual, the prayer, the session — has nothing to put in a box, and a platform whose payout clock starts at delivery confirmation is not built for it.

Where Divina is the wrong answer

If you sell physical goods — candles, herbs, jewellery, kits — Divina lists services only and ships nothing, so Etsy or a goods-shaped marketplace remains the obvious home for that half of your work. If your practice includes baneful, binding or return-to-sender work, Divina will not list it. And if you already have an audience that buys directly from you, your own site keeps 100% and you should keep doing that. There is no exclusivity here, so it was never a choice between them.

Divina takes 10% of completed orders, charges nothing to list, and has no exclusivity of any kind. Practitioners keep selling wherever else they already do.