The Nexus fee line started showing at checkout, not after

over the last couple of months · money

The fee shown on the order summary moved from a confirmation-only screen to the checkout page itself.

For a stretch of the market history, the total you were shown at checkout was not the total you paid. The market fee was applied after you clicked confirm, and the amount to send at the top of the transaction QR was a little higher than the subtotal plus shipping suggested it would be. That mismatch is now closed on the same page where you first see the order.

How it read before

The old checkout showed a subtotal, a shipping cost, and a total. It looked complete. When you clicked confirm and landed on the pay screen, a fee line appeared and the amount to pay was higher than the total the previous page had implied. On a small order the gap was easy to shrug off. On a larger order the same gap felt like a change of plan, and readers who had funded the wallet to the exact total came up short and had to top up.

Support tickets around this pattern were routine. Someone would send the amount they saw on the checkout page, then land on the pay screen a moment later and find the counter did not close. The fault was the two-page split. Nobody was hiding the fee on purpose; it was just being announced after the reader had already added up the total in their head.

How it reads now

The fee is a line on the checkout page itself, under shipping and above the total. The total shown is the amount you will pay. When you click confirm, the pay screen carries the same figure. The number does not move at the transition. If you fund the wallet to the total, you fund it correctly.

Before

subtotal + shipping = total, then a hidden fee appears after confirm

Now

subtotal + shipping + fee = total, and the same total sits on the pay screen

Why this probably shifted

The most likely reading is support pressure. Every "I paid the wrong amount" ticket takes staff time. Every one of them was avoidable by moving the fee display one page earlier. Once a few sibling markets started showing fees at the same step, the competitive pressure to match was in the same direction as the support pressure. The change is quiet on the interface but expensive to leave undone.

A related reading is that the same design pass moved several other little things forward. The second address confirmation on the checkout page landed at roughly the same time, and both changes push the reader to slow down and read the order once more before committing.

What to change on your side

Rebuild your habit of reading the total after fees. If you last ordered under the old flow, do not trust your memory of the amount. Read the total on the checkout, then read it again on the pay screen, then send that figure.

Do not reuse the amount from a previous order by memory; look at the new total.
If you are used to comparing prices, remember that the total under the new flow already contains fees, so vendor lines that do not include the fee will look cheaper than they really are.
Do not confuse the new visibility with a fee change. The fee amount is not what moved; the fee timing did.
When you compare vendors, avoid getting anchored on the pre-fee subtotal for the same reason street-price anchors are worth dropping.

If you are the kind of reader who scans listings fast, the fee line is one more thing to slow down for. The number is small next to the total, but scanning past it puts you back at the pay screen with a bigger figure than you planned for.

What this entry is not claiming

This entry is not claiming that fees on the market dropped or rose. Visibility is not cost. The number on the fee line may be the same as it always was. What changed is when in the flow you get to see it. It is also not claiming that the checkout page is now free of surprises; it is quieter, not silent.