Rozetka or your own website: counting the fees and drawing conclusions
Light SEO · Marketplaces vs. your own website
Rozetka or your own website: counting the fees and drawing conclusions
Rozetka gives you access to millions of buyers – and takes a noticeable cut of every sale in return. Your own website requires investment in traffic – and everything you earn is yours. We calculate both models honestly and show why the mature answer goes beyond "either-or".
10-25%
typical Rozetka commission by category
0%
fees on your own website
2 channels
the optimal strategy for most businesses
An honest comparison
Marketplace vs. your own store
Criterion
Rozetka
Own website
Cost of a sale
A commission on every order (mostly 10-25% depending on the category – check the current rate table)
0% fees; you pay for traffic that becomes your asset
Traffic
Ready-made, from day one
Built over time: ads right away, SEO within months
Price pressure
Your product sits right next to competitors' price dumping
Buyers compare you with the market, though not side by side in one window
Customer base
Owned by the marketplace
Yours: repeat sales with no fees
Brand
"Bought it on Rozetka"
Bought it from YOU
Dependence
Rules, fees and bans are out of your control
The asset is entirely yours
Back-of-the-envelope math
Where your margin goes on a marketplace
A product priced at UAH 1,000 with a 30% markup brings UAH 300 of gross margin. A 15% marketplace commission is UAH 150 – half of what you earn on every sale, forever, with no chance to optimize it. On your own website the same UAH 150 can go into advertising – and over time your acquisition cost falls (SEO, repeat customers, your customer base), while the marketplace commission never falls. That is the whole difference between renting traffic and building an asset.
A mature strategy
"Both-and" instead of "either-or" – with the right roles
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Marketplace = point of contact
Rozetka sells fast-moving items well and brings turnover. Use it as a sales channel and a testing ground for checking demand for new products.
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Website = home of your business
Full margin, your own customer base, repeat sales, brand. This is where your ads lead, where SEO lives and where a customer becomes a regular.
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Moving the audience over
A flyer in the parcel, a promo code for a second purchase on the website, branded packaging – a marketplace buyer gradually becomes YOUR customer, with no fees.
Technically it is simple: a modern website platform exports products to Rozetka through an automatic feed – one catalog powers both channels without double work.
We will build you a home of your own and keep your Rozetka stall standing
We will launch a website with full margin, connect it to Rozetka through a feed and set up a steady flow of buyers into your customer base. The marketplace sells – your website builds wealth.
📝 Calculate a website + Rozetka setup
Free consultation. Using your turnover, we will calculate how much the commission eats up each year