When did TikTok Shop and Shopee Malaysia last change major seller fees?

A major stack refresh landed around Feb 2026 (V2 rates and the flat platform support fee on delivered orders). Earlier stacks (V1) used lower commission on several lines. Confirm the live Seller Centre rate card — blogs lag official notices.

What is the RM 0.54 platform support fee?

A flat per successfully delivered order fee (about RM 0.50 + SST) introduced for Malaysia around mid-February 2026 on the major marketplaces' current stacks. It hurts small ticket sizes more than percentage fees alone.

How much did programme sellers' percentage stack move V1 to V2?

Illustratively, TikTok programme all-in percentage lines moved toward ~18.9% SST-inclusive, and Shopee stacks toward roughly the high-teens / ~20% band depending on components — always category-dependent. Use official rate cards and reconciling settlements, not a single blog number.

What should I do when a new fee hike is announced?

Reprice with contribution margin (not GMV), re-check ads ROAS vs net profit, kill or rebundle thin SKUs, and update any fee calculators/models the same week. Do not wait for month-end Excel.

Platform Fee History Malaysia: TikTok Shop & Shopee Hikes Sellers Felt

Short answer: Malaysian marketplace fees are not static. The stack most sellers run today (SST-inclusive programme percentages plus a flat ~RM 0.54 per delivered order) is a Feb 2026-era V2 picture. Older screenshots and spreadsheets still show V1 rates — that is how silent margin death happens. This page is the newsjack anchor: re-edit it when rates move; do not invent a second "history" post.

Always prefer actual settlement over any rate card or blog. Figures below are illustrative, aligned with Inseller's modelled V1/V2 tables (FEE_RATES_LAST_VERIFIED in the fee engine). Confirm Seller Centre.

Timeline sellers actually felt

When (approx.)	What changed	Profit impact
Pre-2026 (V1 stacks)	Lower commission on several TikTok/Shopee lines; no universal RM0.54 support fee in the current form	Spreadsheets and old blogs still quote these
2026-02-01 era (V2)	Commission / programme / transaction lines refreshed SST-inclusive; Shopee commission step-up on major cards	Reprice or watch contribution margin compress ~1–3 pts depending on category
2026-02-15	Flat platform support fee ~RM 0.54 per successfully delivered order (MY)	Small orders lose more %; free-shipping low-AOV skus hurt first
Ongoing	Category exceptions, promo programme opt-ins, campaign fee overlays	Never use a single "19%" for every SKU

For full line-by-line current breakdowns see TikTok Shop seller fees 2026 and Shopee seller fees 2026. Side-by-side: TikTok vs Shopee fees compared.

Illustrative V1 → V2 (programme-style stacks)

Not legal rate cards. Category and programme enrolment change everything.

Platform (model)	V1-ish all-in % (illustrative)	V2-ish all-in % (illustrative)	Flat add-on (delivered)
TikTok Shop MY programme	~mid-teens % (pre-SST-inclusive refresh)	~18.9% (comm ~10.26% + bonus ~4.86% + trx ~3.78%)	RM 0.54
Shopee MY typical stack	lower commission era	high-teens / ~20% band depending on commission + service + transaction + SST treatment	RM 0.54 where applied

Worked RM 100 TikTok programme order under V2 model:

Line	RM
Order value	100.00
− ~18.9% percentage fees	18.90
− platform support	0.54
= Net revenue before COGS/ads	80.56

Same order priced on a stale V1 mental model can look "fine" until settlement lands. That gap is the whole point of history-aware pricing.

What each hike type does to margin

Hike type	Feels like	Seller response
Percentage commission / programme	Every GMV ringgit thinner	Reprice, cut weak promos, renegotiate affiliate %
Flat support fee	Low AOV death by a thousand cuts	Raise floor price, kill micro-SKUs, bundle
Campaign / live programme overlays	"Only on promo days" — until promo is the channel	Model 11.11 checklist and live fees separately
Ads inflation (not a platform "fee" but same wallet)	ROAS flat, profit down	Judge ROAS vs profit, not vanity ROAS

48-hour playbook when the next announcement hits

Screenshot the official rate card (date-stamp it). Do not trust WhatsApp forwards alone.
Update models the same week — fee calculators: TikTok, Shopee. If you use Inseller, confirm engine rates match the notice (FEE_RATES_LAST_VERIFIED).
Reprice with contribution margin, not GMV targets. Method: how to price on TikTok/Shopee.
SKU triage — anything that was 2–4 pts from breakeven is now red. SKU-level profit.
Ads & affiliate — lower net means the same ROAS target is wrong. Recut budgets before the campaign weekend.
Re-edit this article (or your internal wiki) so the team stops quoting last year's %.

Why BigSeller / SiteGiant-style "news" still needs a profit angle

Competitor blogs often restate platform press releases. Traffic comes from searchers typing the announcement; conversion comes from answering "what do I do to my price and ads tomorrow?". That is why Inseller's content dual-track pairs Marketplace News with evergreen unit-economics posts — newsjack for discovery, fee math for trust.

Maintenance note (editors)

One slug forever: platform-fee-history-malaysia. On each verified change: bump publishedAt only if material, rewrite the timeline table, sync hedges with fee-rates.ts.
Never invent hike dates. If only Seller Centre shows it, label "observed in Seller Centre, YYYY-MM".
Link out to full fee pillars rather than duplicating every category rate here.