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# Increase Transaction Fee

Raise the fee of a pending Bitcoin or Stacks transaction you sent, so it confirms sooner.

When the network is busy, a transaction with a low fee can wait a long time. Leather can replace a pending transaction you sent with the same transaction at a higher fee. Only your own pending transactions offer this option.

## Increase the fee of a Bitcoin transaction

1. On the Home screen, open the "Activity" tab.
2. On the pending transaction, click "Increase fee".

   ![Increase fee button on a pending BTC send in the Activity tab](https://4209755586-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FaSQhveafXrLjROsW3JZ1%2Fuploads%2FNsoSj03DCvHx30EPKwYh%2Fe-support-increase-fee-01-activity-pending-increase-fee.png?alt=media\&token=ae30513e-a16c-4887-811c-aad820a587b7)
3. Enter a higher fee rate in sats/vB. Leather shows your balance, because the higher fee comes out of it.

   ![Increase fee screen with the fee rate and the available balance](https://4209755586-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FaSQhveafXrLjROsW3JZ1%2Fuploads%2FVOWawsoLTzuoi5AeEAUl%2Fe-support-increase-fee-02-increase-btc-fee-sheet.png?alt=media\&token=758acb7a-396b-4c65-95b0-aa9db4e25efa)
4. Click "Submit". With a Ledger wallet, the button reads "Confirm on Ledger".

Leather broadcasts the replacement and shows "Fee increased successfully". The replacement uses replace-by-fee (RBF): miners drop the original once the new one spreads through the network.

## Increase the fee of a Stacks transaction

1. On the Home screen, open the "Activity" tab.
2. On the pending transaction, open the "Options" menu and select "Increase fee".
3. Enter a fee higher than the original and click "Submit".

The fee of a sponsored transaction is paid by its sponsor. You cannot increase it.

## Cancel a Stacks transaction

The same "Options" menu has "Cancel transaction". Leather sends a 1 micro-STX transfer to a burn address with the same nonce and a higher fee. When it confirms, the original transaction can no longer go through. Leather has no cancel option for Bitcoin transactions.

## Related

* [Understand Pending Transactions](/transactions/pending-transactions.md)
* [Configure Transaction Fees](/transactions/configure-transaction-fees.md)