Fee schedule builder
Review how a marketplace owner can stage category fees, hub service fees, seller-plan benefits, effective dates, customer labels, and rollback controls before any live charges exist.
Schedule Draft
- Owners can review one fee schedule at a time with version name, owner, reason, effective date, review status, and rollback target.
- Draft changes should show affected categories, seller groups, checkout labels, seller statements, receipts, and support scripts.
- Older fee versions stay visible so finance, support, and seller teams can explain which schedule applied to an order.
Category Fee Rules
- Trading cards, retro games, GPUs, sneakers, collectibles, local pickup, and home goods can carry different marketplace fee assumptions.
- Rules show percent fee, minimum fee, maximum fee, auction adjustment, buy-now adjustment, reserve handling, and refund treatment.
- High-proof categories can earn lower fee pressure when item checks, serial proof, certificates, and pickup release reduce support work.
Hub Service Fees
- Hub intake, condition photos, packing, storage extension, event preparation, pickup release, and oversized handling are reviewed as separate service lines.
- Each service line needs buyer wording, seller wording, support reason, waiver rule, and refund behavior before launch.
- Hub fees should tie back to capacity, item type, service time, no-show risk, and staff handoff requirements.
Seller Plans
- Starter sellers can keep simple listing access, standard fee rules, and limited storefront tools.
- Pro sellers can review bulk listing, storefront shelves, analytics, campaign caps, and priority support assumptions.
- Studio sellers can review team seats, approval flow, event lots, import tools, shipping presets, and account-level finance review.
Customer Labels
- Buyer totals should keep item price, shipping, pickup, hub services, credits, estimated tax, and protection cues readable before checkout review.
- Seller previews should show gross item value, marketplace fee, service fees, discounts, reserves, expected release, and statement impact.
- Any sponsored placement or seller-plan benefit remains labeled near search, category, storefront, and saved-search surfaces.
Exceptions and Waivers
- Owner review can model launch credits, seller cohort discounts, hub service waivers, category promotions, support credits, and dispute adjustments.
- Every exception needs a reason, limit, start date, end date, route impact, seller notice, and finance review.
- Waivers should never hide the normal fee from sellers or make buyer totals harder to understand.
Impact Preview
- Owners can compare current schedule and draft schedule across example orders, auction wins, accepted offers, bundles, hub pickups, and shipped orders.
- Preview rows show buyer total impact, seller earnings impact, hub revenue, support exposure, refund exposure, and category contribution.
- Risk warnings flag customer confusion, seller notice gaps, finance mismatches, and category rules that conflict with policy pages.
Approval and Rollback
- Launch approval should include finance, policy, support, category, hub, and owner sign-off before a schedule can be promoted.
- Rollback keeps the last approved schedule, affected route list, seller notices, receipt language, and support notes ready.
- The demo shows fee-schedule review only and does not bill sellers, collect payment details, or change live charges.
Monetization Controls
Revenue programs, placement labels, seller budgets, reporting, and policy review.
Unit Economics
Fee assumptions, hub services, seller releases, support pressure, and contribution.
Tax & Fee Estimate
Buyer totals, service lines, credits, refund adjustments, and statement impact.
Fee Guide
Buyer, seller, hub, shipping, return, and auction fee surfaces.
Seller Finance
Fees, earnings, payout readiness, reserves, and seller statements.
Settlement Ledger
Order value, fee lines, holds, refunds, release status, and finance review.
Business Seller
Team access, approvals, bulk operations, storefront programs, and finance review.
Seller Plan Center
Plan benefits, team seats, limits, upgrade review, downgrade rules, and billing boundary.
Seller Growth
Placement plans, saved demand, listing quality, and fair visibility rules.
Policy Pack
Fee language, buyer protection, seller standards, returns, support, and approvals.
Current demo state
Fee schedules are staged as review-only examples.
The demo shows category fee rules, hub services, seller plans, customer labels, exceptions, impact previews, approval history, and rollback controls without billing sellers or changing active totals.
Future platform state
Live fee schedules need finance and policy ownership.
Launch needs approved fee-rule versions, customer notices, seller-plan billing, receipt generation, settlement matching, refund treatment, tax review, staff permissions, and rollback authority.