Selling
Boost Your Listing
Boost is optional. You only pay when Boost brings the buyer — 5% of the sale price for Boost Basic (max $50), 10–20% for Boost+ (max $150). Nothing to pay up front.
Boost is optional
You never need Boost to sell on Stonefjord. Your listing appears in search and browse either way, and buyers can always find it. Boost is advertising you can turn on for a single listing if you want it to appear in more places — nothing more.
You only pay when Boost brings the buyer
There is no charge to turn Boost on, no charge while it runs, and no charge if your item never sells. You pay a Boost fee only when Boost actually did its job: a buyer clicked your listing in a Promoted placement and then bought it within 30 days, while Boost was still on. The “Promoted” label also appears on your listing in the ordinary results, but a click there is not a Boost click, so a sale that starts there carries no Boost fee. If your item sells some other way — someone searched for it, followed a direct link, or you shared it yourself — there is no Boost fee.
What it costs
Boost Basic is 5% of the sale price, never more than $50. Boost+ is 10% to 20% of the sale price depending on the reach you choose, never more than $150. The percentage applies to the item price only — not shipping, not tax, and not the buyer’s fee. So a $40 item sold with Boost Basic costs $2.00, and a $30,000 item costs $50, not $1,500. A Stonefjord invite code can include free Boosts: each one waives the Boost Basic fee on one sale that Boost brings you, and they never expire.
How you pay it
The fee is deducted from your payout for that sale. There is nothing to pay up front, no card to keep on file, and no bill to watch for. You do need a connected payout account to turn Boost on, because that is where the fee comes from.
Turning it off
You can turn Boost off at any time, and it stops straight away. If you turn it off before your item sells, you are never charged anything for that Boost — there is nothing owing, because nothing was ever charged.
If a sale is cancelled or refunded
If the order is cancelled or fully refunded, the Boost fee is reversed with it. No sale, no fee. Once a sale stands, though, its Boost fee is not refundable — that fee paid for the buyer Boost brought you.
Sold, but not through Boost
When a boosted listing sells without Boost bringing the buyer, your sale shows “Sold — not via Boost, no Boost fee.” That is the normal, expected outcome for a lot of sales, and it costs you nothing. Boost was on, it simply was not what made the sale.
How far your listing reaches
Boost Basic reaches buyers within 25 miles of you. Boost+ includes 100 miles, and you can upgrade to 250 miles or Global. Reach is a limit, not a promise: a buyer browsing within 5 miles of home still only sees listings inside their own search area, however wide your reach is.
Where boosted listings appear
Every boosted listing is labelled “Promoted” wherever it appears — in browse, in search, in the homepage rows and in the fixed paid positions. Boost+ also puts your listing in the rotation for the first position in the homepage Trending row — it rotates through all eligible Boost+ listings, with the same “Promoted” label, for buyers within your reach. Organic results are never reordered by Boost — boosted listings are added to the page, not moved up it.
Where Boost is available
Boost is currently available to sellers with a U.S. ZIP code, because it targets buyers by distance from you and we only have the location data to do that in the United States so far.
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