What is the OTTO commission for Pet Supplies?
By Keanu Dutado · Last updated: 5 November 2026
In short
For items in the commission group Pet Supplies (area: Garden & DIY), OTTO keeps 15% of the selling price including VAT. If you sell a cat tree for 60 €, that's 9 € in OTTO commission. The OTTO Payments payment fee is already included in this rate.
OTTO commission rates for Pet Supplies
For Pet Supplies, OTTO keeps 15% of the selling price including VAT, whether you sell a cat tree for 60 € or for 600 €. If your customer pays for shipping, OTTO keeps 16% of that too, in every commission group.
What's different about the OTTO commission for Pet Supplies
- The commission group Pet Supplies has no tiers. Even for a cat tree at twice the price, it stays at 15%.
Pet Supplies compared
In the area Garden & DIY, OTTO charges the same as for Pet Supplies for Garden (15%). OTTO charges less than for Pet Supplies for Bathroom & Plumbing (13%), Home Improvement (13%), Tools & Machinery (13%), Electrical Installation (10%), Pet Food (10%) and Small Hardware (8%).
For a cat tree at 60 €, you pay 9 € in OTTO commission. At the rates of the commission group Bathroom & Plumbing, it would be 7.80 €.
Which OTTO categories count as Pet Supplies
- Aquarienheizer
- Bienenkästen
- Eisfreihalter
- Fellkämme
- Fellpflegemittel
- Fummelspielzeuge
- Futter-Wurfhilfen
- Futterautomaten
- Futterbälle
- Futterkörbe
- Haustiertränken
- Kauspielzeuge
- Kleintierklettergerüste
- Kratzbäume
- Kratzbretter
- Kunstriffe
- Leinen
- Maulkörbe
- Näpfe
- Pferdegebisse
- Pfotenschutz
- Tier-Autodecken
- Tier-Halsbänder
- Tierattrappen
- Tierbarrieren
- Tierbekleidung
- Tierbetten
- Tierfallen
- Tiergeschirre
- Tierhäuser
- Tierkäfige
- Tierklappen
- Tierlaufräder
- Tierlockstoffe
- Tiermatratzen
- Tierspielzeuge
- Tierstreu
- Tiertoiletten
- Tiertransportbehälter
- Tiertunnel
- Vivarien
- Vivarien-Steuergeräte
- Vivarienrückwände
- Weidezaungeräte
Worked example: Pet Supplies at 60 €
Say you sell a cat tree for 60 € including VAT, and your customer pays 4.90 € for parcel shipping.
| Selling price including VAT | 60.00 € |
| Shipping costs your customer pays | +4.90 € |
| OTTO commission 15% on the price | −9.00 € |
| OTTO commission 16% on shipping costs | −0.78 € |
| Left for you before VAT, purchase price, ads and returns | 55.12 € |
The OTTO commission of every item, no table needed
MargenOptimierer knows the commission group of each of your items and calculates the OTTO commission for every sale itself, including per price band, on shipping costs and on a refund. You see per item what's left after all costs, updated every night. MargenOptimierer costs from 49 € net per month. You can test the first 14 days for free, no credit card needed.
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).