Marka vs Facebook Marketplace (2026)
Facebook Marketplace charges 0% on local sales (paid off-platform), and those sales carry no Purchase Protection; Marka's marketplace fee is 0% too. A card sale on Marka also pays Stripe's processing fee (2.9% + CA$0.30). Choose Marka for card checkout, a receipt and logged pickups; stay on Facebook if free, instant local reach is all you need.
Four reasons Facebook Marketplace sellers move.
Facebook is messages-first: buyers DM you, you negotiate off-platform, both sides pray. Marka has full on-platform checkout via Stripe Connect — the buyer pays by card into your own Stripe account, with a real receipt and chargeback rules.
On Facebook, sellers sell from their ordinary Facebook profile. Marka sellers verify identity through Stripe's KYC checks when connecting a payout account. Reviews from completed orders accrue per-seller and appear on listing pages as they're earned.
Every Marka pickup logs both parties' confirmations and records a no-show on the order, and on a card-paid pickup, the buyer can leave feedback on a no-show. Facebook has none of this — every dispute is a DM screenshot war.
Marka takes a Serializable transaction on every order and optimistic-locks the listing row. Two buyers can't both win a one-of-a-kind item. On Facebook you see 'pending' and hope nobody else shows up.
Marka vs. Facebook Marketplace, line by line.
Facebook Marketplace fees read from its own pages on .
Want Facebook Marketplace's fee on its own, with a calculator? Facebook fees in Canada (2026) works it out at five sale prices, from its own help pages.
Where Facebook Marketplace is still strong.
We're not pretending Facebook Marketplace has nothing going for it. There are real reasons to keep your shop there. Marka is built to work alongside it, not replace it.
Try Marka. Keep Facebook Marketplace.
Add Marka as a free additional sales channel. If it doesn't earn its keep, cancel — your Facebook Marketplace shop never noticed.
