What is the OTTO commission for Health?
By Keanu Dutado · Last updated: 5 November 2026
In short
For items in the commission group Health (area: Health), OTTO keeps 13% of the selling price including VAT. If you sell a blood pressure monitor for 50 €, that's 6.50 € in OTTO commission. The OTTO Payments payment fee is already included in this rate.
OTTO commission rates for Health
For Health, OTTO keeps 13% of the selling price including VAT, whether you sell a blood pressure monitor for 50 € or for 500 €. If your customer pays for shipping, OTTO keeps 16% of that too, in every commission group.
What's different about the OTTO commission for Health
- The commission group Health has no tiers. Even for a blood pressure monitor at twice the price, it stays at 13%.
Health compared
In the areas Health, Drugstore and Non-Perishable Food, OTTO charges more than for Health for Beauty, Drugstore and Food Supplements (8 to 15%). OTTO charges less than for Health for Food & Drinks (10%).
For a blood pressure monitor at 50 €, you pay 6.50 € in OTTO commission. At the rates of the commission group Beauty, it would be 6.65 €.
Which OTTO categories count as Health
- Alkoholtestgeräte
- Anti-Schnarch-Geräte
- Bandmassagegeräte
- Beckenbodentrainer
- Behandlungsliegen
- Blutdruckmanschetten
- Blutdruckmessgeräte
- Blutzuckermessgeräte
- Defibrillatoren
- Duschstühle
- Elektro-Muskel-Stimulationsgeräte
- Elektroden
- Elektrokardiogramm-Geräte
- Elektromobile
- Fußtritte
- Gehstöcke
- Hörgeräte
- Inhalationsaufsätze
- Inhalationsgeräte
- Inhalatoren
- Injektionsnadeln
- IPL-Lampeneinsätze
- Lichttherapiegeräte
- Massagegeräte
- Mikroskope
- Nasenreinigungsgeräte
- Periskope
- Perücken
- Rollatoren
- Rollstühle
- Rückencremer
- Schlafanalysegeräte
- Schutzpolsterungen
- Sprudelmatten
- Thermometerersatzkappen
- Toilettenstühle
- Triggerstäbe
- UVC-Geräte
- Zentrifugen
Worked example: Health at 50 €
Say you sell a blood pressure monitor for 50 € including VAT, and your customer pays 4.90 € for parcel shipping.
| Selling price including VAT | 50.00 € |
| Shipping costs your customer pays | +4.90 € |
| OTTO commission 13% on the price | −6.50 € |
| OTTO commission 16% on shipping costs | −0.78 € |
| Left for you before VAT, purchase price, ads and returns | 47.62 € |
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).