What is the OTTO commission for Furniture?
By Keanu Dutado · Last updated: 5 November 2026
In short
For items in the commission group Furniture (area: Furniture & Home), OTTO keeps 19% up to 150 €, 18% from 150 € to 500 € and 17% above 500 €, per price band, of the selling price including VAT. If you sell a chest of drawers for 225 €, that's 42 € in OTTO commission. The OTTO Payments payment fee is already included in these rates.
OTTO commission rates for Furniture
For Furniture, OTTO keeps 19% up to 150 €, 18% from 150 € to 500 € and 17% above 500 €, per price band. If you sell a chest of drawers for 225 €, that averages 18.7% of the price. If your customer pays for shipping, OTTO keeps 16% of that too, in every commission group.
What's different about the OTTO commission for Furniture
- In the commission group Furniture, the rate falls with the price: 18% above 150 € and 17% above 500 € instead of 19%. For a chest of drawers at 225 €, that already applies to 75 € of the price.
- If you ship a chest of drawers by freight and your customer pays 39 € for it, OTTO keeps 16% of that too.
Furniture compared
In the area Furniture & Home, OTTO charges more than for Furniture for Mattresses & Bedding (18 to 20%) and Rugs, Blinds & Curtains (18 to 20%). OTTO charges less than for Furniture for Kitchen & Housewares (15%), Lamps & Lighting (15%), Home Accessories & Décor (15%) and Home Textiles (15%).
For a chest of drawers at 225 €, you pay 42 € in OTTO commission. At the rates of the commission group Mattresses & Bedding, it would be 41.50 €.
Which OTTO categories count as Furniture
- Ablageanbauten
- Ansatztischplatten
- Arbeitsmöbel-Sets
- Armlehnen
- Babybetten
- Betten
- Daybetten
- Etagenbetten
- Faltbetten
- Fußstützen
- Garderobenhalter
- Garderobenpaneele
- Garderobenständer
- Gardinenbefestigungen
- Gardinenstangen
- Gardinenstangenendstücke
- Gardinenstangenhalterungen
- Gartenliegen
- Hochbetten
- Hochstuhlaufsätze
- Hocker
- Hutablagen
- Kastenmöbel-Sets
- Kindersicherungen
- Kleiderstangen
- Kniebänke
- Komplettbetten
- Komplettküchen-Sets
- Küchenkarussells
- Lattenroste
- Luftbetten
- Matratzen-Lattenrost-Sets
- Möbelaufsätze
- Möbelblenden
- Möbelfüße
- Möbelgestelle
- Möbelrollen
- Polsterelemente
- Poufs
- Regale
- Rückenlehnen
- Schlafzimmermöbel-Sets
- Schmuckständer
- Schrankbetten
- Schränke
- Schrankinneneinteiler
- Schranktüren
- Schubladen
- Schubladeneinsätze
- Schuhständer
- Sekretäre
- Sessel
- Sideboards
- Sitzbänke
- Sitzmöbel-Sets
- Sitzschalen
- Sofas
- Spiegel
- Standuhren
- Stellwände
- Stubenwagen
- Stühle
- Tische
- Tischplatten
- Umbauseiten
- Wasserbetten
- Wickelaufsätze
- Wickelkommoden
- Wickeltische
Worked example: Furniture at 225 €
Say you sell a chest of drawers for 225 € including VAT, and your customer pays 39 € for freight shipping.
| Selling price including VAT | 225.00 € |
| Shipping costs your customer pays | +39.00 € |
| OTTO commission 19% on the first 150 € | −28.50 € |
| OTTO commission 18% on the remaining 75 € | −13.50 € |
| OTTO commission 16% on shipping costs | −6.24 € |
| Left for you before VAT, purchase price, ads and returns | 215.76 € |
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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).