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Is Allegro Wyróżnienie Worth It?

The fixed fee is only half the cost: the extra commission grows with every sale the promotion brings.

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Key takeaways
  • Wyróżnienie costs 19.90 zł per 10 days (or 2.90 zł per day flexible), plus 0.75 × category commission on each promoted sale.
  • The extra 7.5% commission on a 10% category means you pay more per sale on promoted items—factor this into your margin.
  • One extra sale typically covers the 19.90 zł fee alone, but the commission hit means higher-priced items lose more profit per sale.
  • Test with a short run (2–3 days) on high-demand items before committing to a full 10-day package.

Allegro Wyróżnienie puts a highlighted badge on your listing, pushing it higher in search results for a set period. The fee is straightforward—19.90 zł for 10 days in most categories—but there's a hidden cost most sellers miss: the extra commission. This page breaks down the full price, shows the break-even point, and tells you when it's worth the spend.

This guide is part of our crosslisting guide for sellers working across multiple Polish marketplaces. The full Allegro fee table lives on the Allegro fees page—this page focuses specifically on Wyróżnienie and whether it pays off for resellers.

What Wyróżnienie costs

Allegro publishes three Wyróżnienie options on its price list, checked 13 September 2026:

Option Cost Best for
Standard 19.90 zł gross per 10 days Most categories
Fashion / Jewellery 5.90 zł per 10 days Selected subcategories only
Kultura i rozrywka 2.90 zł per 10 days Books, music, games
Flexible 2.90 zł per day Testing, short promotions

All options add an extra commission of 0.75 × your category commission on every sale made while the promotion is active. This is the number that catches sellers off guard.

The extra commission nobody counts

Your regular Allegro commission applies to (item price + delivery cost). Wyróżnienie adds another 0.75× of that rate on top.

extra commission = (item price + delivery) × category rate × 0.75

For example, say you sell in a category with a 10% commission rate. On a 200 zł item with 10 zł delivery, your regular commission is 21 zł. With Wyróżnienie active, you pay an extra 15.75 zł—almost doubling your commission cost on that sale.

This is why the promotion makes sense for some items and not others: the extra commission eats into your margin on every sale, not just the extra ones the promotion brings in.

Cost breakdown of one promoted sale at 10% category rate
Sale price200 zł
  • Regular commission 10%21 zł
  • Extra commission 0.75 × 10% = 7.5%15 zł
  • Wyróżnienie fee (share of 19.90 over one sale)20 zł
  • Buy price80 zł
  • Profit after promotion costs64 zł
Illustrative example: 200 zł sale price, 10% category rate, one sale during a 10-day Wyróżnienie.Illustrative example, not market data
Calendar with ten days marked and coins showing promotion duration
Ten days is the standard Wyróżnienie duration

The waterfall above shows how the 19.90 zł fee plus the extra 7.5% commission eat into your margin. For example, a 200 zł item that would have netted 99 zł after regular commission only leaves roughly 64 zł with Wyróżnienie active—the promotion cost you about 35 zł in this scenario.

Break-even: how much extra profit it must bring

The break-even point depends on three things: the Wyróżnienie fee you pick, your category commission rate, and your buy price. Use the break-even calculator to input your numbers.

Break-even price calculator
Break-even price€35
Price for your target profit€51.67
Fees at target price€5.67
Enter the fee you pay.

Our rule of thumb: calculate how many extra sales you need using the break-even formula:

Extra sales needed ≥ (Wyróżnienie fee + extra commission from expected sales) ÷ profit per sale

For example, say you expect 3 sales during the promotion at an average price of 200 zł in a 10% category. The extra commission adds 7.5% × 200 zł × 3 = 45 zł. Add the 19.90 zł fee = ~65 zł total cost. If your profit per sale is 50 zł, you need at least 2 extra sales to break even.

Fixed 10 days or flexible per day

The 10-day fixed package is the standard—most sellers use this. The flexible 2.90 zł per day option exists for two use cases:

  • Short tests: Say you run 2–3 days on a high-demand item to see if it sells faster. If it doesn't, you've only spent about 6–9 zł instead of 19.90 zł.
  • Quick relists: If your item sells and you relist immediately, a short flex run gets it back in the highlighted zone without the full 10-day commitment.

Editorial recommendation: start with a 2–3 day test on items priced at or below market. If it sells within that window, great. If not, the regular commission structure already puts your price competitively—paying for visibility on an overpriced item wastes money twice.

When to skip it

Wyróżnienie is not worth it when:

  • Your margin is thin. For example, if your category charges 11.5% (Moda) and you bought the item for 150 zł, selling at 200 zł leaves you with roughly 26 zł after regular commission. Adding about 8.6 zł in extra commission plus a share of the 19.90 zł fee pushes profit down to single digits.
  • Your price is above market. Wyróżnienie boosts visibility, but if your price is too high, the extra views convert to nothing. The promotion fee becomes pure cost.
  • You're selling on Allegro Lokalnie instead. Private sellers can use Allegro Lokalnie with lower fees and the same Wyróżnienie option—but less traffic overall. For non-professional sellers, Lokalnie often makes more sense than paying for visibility on the main platform.

How it compares to other marketplaces

Feature Allegro Wyróżnienie Vinted Bump OLX Packages
Cost 5.90–19.90 zł per 10 days Shown before you pay Varies by category; shown before you pay
Duration 10 days fixed or daily 3 or 7 days (or until sold) 3, 7 or 30 days
Extra fee 0.75 × category commission None None
Where it shows Search results Search results Search results + homepage (some packages)
  • Vinted Bump costs are not published—you see the price at payment. It lasts 3 or 7 days or until the item sells, and only one Bump per item at a time. No extra commission applies.
  • OLX promotion packages (Mini, Midi, Maxi) prices depend on category and duration, shown during publication. Packages include Wyróżnienie plus auto-refreshes and homepage highlights on the higher tiers. See our OLX promotion guide for details.

Both competitors show their prices during publication, making direct comparison easier. Allegro's published fee table at least lets you calculate the real cost upfront.

For Vinted sellers, our Vinted Bump guide covers that platform's promotion tool.

If you're crosslisting across platforms, the real question is whether the promotion fits your workflow. Wyróżnienie works best when you have inventory turnover to justify the fee—the math only makes sense if the promotion brings enough extra views to convert into sales you wouldn't have gotten otherwise. For one-off items or slow-moving stock, the fee becomes overhead that eats into every sale you do make.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Wyróżnienie cost on Allegro?
Wyróżnienie costs 19.90 zł gross per 10 days in most categories. Selected fashion and jewellery categories are cheaper at 5.90 zł per 10 days, while Kultura i rozrywka costs 2.90 zł per 10 days. The flexible daily version runs 2.90 zł per day. Each of these adds an extra commission of 0.75 times your category rate.
Does Allegro charge extra commission on promoted offers?
Yes. Wyróżnienie adds an extra commission of 0.75 × your category commission on each sale. For example, if your category charges 10%, the promoted item pays an additional 7.5% on the sale price plus delivery. This stacks on top of the regular commission.
How many extra sales does Wyróżnienie need to pay off?
It depends on your profit per sale. The formula is: extra sales needed = (Wyróżnienie fee + extra commission from expected sales) ÷ profit per sale. For a 19.90 zł fee with a 10% category rate and 50 zł profit per sale, you need at least one extra sale to cover the fee—but the extra 7.5% commission eats into every sale, so higher-priced items need proportionally more extra sales to net the same profit.
Is flexible Wyróżnienie cheaper?
Flexible Wyróżnienie costs 2.90 zł per day, so for example a 7-day run comes to 20.30 zł—almost the same as the 10-day fixed package at 19.90 zł. The flexible option lets you pause or stop early if the item sells.

Sources

  1. Allegro fees for sellers (price list) checked 13 Sept 2026
  2. Allegro fee calculator checked 13 Sept 2026
  3. Vinted UK help: What is Item Bump checked 13 Sept 2026
  4. OLX promotion services (Annex 2) checked 13 Sept 2026
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