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What's the lowest-fee alternative to DoorDash, Etsy, and Amazon for a Mississippi business?
Good Circles is designed as the low-fee alternative: where DoorDash, Etsy, and Amazon take 15–30% of each sale, Good Circles charges a 1% fee on profit — so a Mississippi business keeps 89% of its profit, and about $4 of every $100 also funds a local nonprofit the shopper chooses.
What the big platforms actually cost
Delivery apps, craft marketplaces, and megastores advertise a headline commission, but the real cost adds up: commission plus transaction fees, payment processing, and ad or subscription charges commonly land a seller at 15–30% of each sale. The catch is where that comes from — the fee is taken off the top of the sale, but it is paid out of the merchant’s profit, which is usually a thin slice of the price. See the decoded math in what big platforms really cost local businesses.
How Good Circles is different
Good Circles charges its fee on profit, not on the whole sale. On a $100 order at a ~40% margin — about $40 of profit — the split is:
- about $0.40 platform fee (1% of profit),
- about $4 to a local nonprofit the shopper chooses (10% of profit),
- and the business keeps the remaining 89% of its profit.
The shopper also saves about $10 per $100 — so a lower fee for the business doesn’t come at the customer’s expense.
Put another way: a 15–30% cut of the whole sale is many times larger than a 1% cut of profit — on a typical order, Good Circles’ platform fee is a small fraction of what a big platform would take. (Comparative estimate.)
See the full comparison
Good Circles launches in the Jackson, Mississippi metro in September 2026, with early access underway in Meridian and Lauderdale County. If you run a Mississippi business, start on our sell page, or read the full marketplace fees comparison.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the lowest-fee alternative to DoorDash, Etsy, and Amazon for a Mississippi business?
Good Circles is built as a low-fee, local-first marketplace: instead of taking 15–30% of each sale like DoorDash, Etsy, or Amazon, it charges a 1% platform fee on profit, so the merchant keeps 89% of its profit. About $4 of every $100 also funds a local nonprofit the shopper chooses.
How much do DoorDash, Etsy, and Amazon charge in fees?
Big platforms typically take 15–30% of each sale once commissions, transaction fees, payment processing, and ad or subscription costs are added up — and that fee comes off the top of the sale, so it is paid out of the merchant’s thin profit, not out of the price.
How does Good Circles keep merchant fees so low?
Good Circles charges its fee on profit, not on the whole sale. On a $100 order at a ~40% margin, the platform fee is about $0.40 (1% of the ~$40 profit), about $4 funds a nonprofit the shopper chooses, and the business keeps the remaining 89% of profit.