What is the OTTO commission for Electronics?
By Keanu Dutado · Last updated: 5 November 2026
In short
For items in the commission group Electronics (area: Tech & Media), OTTO keeps 7% of the selling price including VAT. If you sell a TV for 500 €, that's 35 € in OTTO commission. The OTTO Payments payment fee is already included in this rate.
OTTO commission rates for Electronics
For Electronics, OTTO keeps 7% of the selling price including VAT, whether you sell a TV for 500 € or for 5,000 €. If your customer pays for shipping, OTTO keeps 16% of that too, in every commission group.
What's different about the OTTO commission for Electronics
- The commission group Electronics has no tiers. Even for a TV at twice the price, it stays at 7%.
Electronics compared
In the area Tech & Media, OTTO charges more than for Electronics for Media, Software and Games (8 to 18%), Household Electronics (15%), Small Kitchen Appliances (15%), Tech Accessories (15%), Headphones (12%), Personal Care Appliances (12%), Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers (12%), Stationery & Office Supplies (10%) and Large Appliances (7 to 9%). OTTO charges the same as for Electronics for PC Components (7%).
For a TV at 500 €, you pay 35 € in OTTO commission. At the rates of the commission group Large Appliances, it would be 45 €.
Which OTTO categories count as Electronics
- Abspielgeräte
- Anrufbeantworter
- Aufnahmegeräte
- Beamer
- Brandschutzeinheiten
- Camcorder
- Computer Komplettsysteme
- Desktop-PCs
- Diabetrachter
- Diaprojektoren
- Drohnen-Rettungssysteme
- Drucker
- Equalizer
- Fernseher
- Fitnessgeräte-Computer
- Fotokameras
- Gegensprechanlagen
- GPS-Geräte
- Heimkinosysteme
- Kassensysteme
- Launch-Monitore
- Lautsprecher
- Mobiltelefone
- Modems
- Monitore
- MP3-Player
- NAS-Server
- Navigationsgeräte
- Netzwerk-Switches
- Notebooks
- Parallelschaltboxen
- Plattenspieler
- Radios
- Receiver
- RFID-Chips
- Roboter
- Router
- Salzelektrolysegeräte
- Satellitenschüsseln
- Schallpegelmessgeräte
- Spielautomaten
- Sprachcomputer
- Stationärtelefone
- Streaming-Boxen
- Tablets/EBookReader
- Tuner
- TV-Simulatoren
Worked example: Electronics at 500 €
Say you sell a TV for 500 € including VAT, and your customer pays 4.90 € for parcel shipping.
| Selling price including VAT | 500.00 € |
| Shipping costs your customer pays | +4.90 € |
| OTTO commission 7% on the price | −35.00 € |
| OTTO commission 16% on shipping costs | −0.78 € |
| Left for you before VAT, purchase price, ads and returns | 469.12 € |
The OTTO commission of every item, no table needed
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Last updated and sources
Rates checked against OTTO's figures on 20 October 2026 · Page updated on 5 November 2026. OTTO lists the rates in its Sortimentsübersicht mit Provisionen and in the Partner Helpdesk under „Provision & Gebühren“ (login required, in German).