Shopify Fee Calculator

Shopify takes no commission on your sales. With Shopify Payments, a US store on the Basic plan pays 2.9% + $0.30 per online order, plus a $39 monthly subscription. On a $100 order that is $3.20 in card fees, so you receive $96.80 before your own costs. The subscription is the part most fee calculators leave out: it is a flat cost, so its weight per order depends on how much you sell. At 100 orders a month the Basic plan adds $0.39 to each one; at 10 orders it adds $3.90.

That is why this Shopify fee calculator asks for your monthly orders. It spreads the plan (and, if you want, your apps and theme) across every sale, then shows what you receive, your profit and the plan that would cost least at your volume. It works as a Shopify profit calculator too: add product cost, postage, packaging and ad spend, or switch to the target-profit tab to find the price you need.

Every plan gives you the same online store and checkout. What changes is the monthly price, the card rate Shopify Payments charges and the transaction fee if you use another payment provider. Higher plans cost more per month but charge less per order.

Shop Pay, Shopify's one-tap checkout, costs nothing extra: those orders are charged at your normal Shopify Payments rate. Yearly billing knocks about 25% off the Basic, Grow and Advanced subscriptions, which is worth taking once you know the store will run for a year.

If you take payments through a provider other than Shopify Payments, Shopify adds its own transaction fee on top of whatever the provider charges: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced and 0.2% on Plus. The fee is worked out on the products after discounts plus shipping and tax, so it is not only a cut of the item price.

On a $100 order with a provider charging 2.9% + $0.30, Basic costs $5.20 in total: $3.20 to the provider and $2 to Shopify. The same order through Shopify Payments costs $3.20. That 2-point gap is why most US stores use Shopify Payments, and why the calculator flags what you would save by switching.

• International and premium cards. US stores pay an extra 1% on cards issued abroad and a higher rate on premium cards such as Amex (3.5% + $0.30 on Basic). In Canada and the UK, Amex and international cards share one higher rate.
• Currency conversion. When a customer pays in a currency other than your payout currency, Shopify Payments adds 1.5% for US stores and 2% in Canada and the UK.
• Shop Pay Installments. Buy-now-pay-later orders are charged an Installments fee instead of the card rate, typically around 5.9% + $0.30 and set per store. You are paid in full up front.
• Chargebacks. $15 per dispute in the US (C$15 in Canada, £10 in the UK), returned if you win.
• Refunds. Card fees, transaction fees and Installments fees are not returned when you refund an order, so every return costs you the original fee.
• Apps, themes and domains. Optional, but most stores pay for a few apps, and premium themes are a one-off purchase. Enter them as a monthly figure in the calculator to spread them across your orders.
• Shipping labels. Shopify Shipping sells discounted carrier labels, so the label is a cost you control rather than a Shopify fee. Enter what you actually pay.

Sales tax is not a Shopify fee. You collect it at checkout and remit it, but because processing is charged on the full amount the customer pays, tax slightly raises your fees.

The calculator follows the same arithmetic you can do by hand:

1. Amount charged = order subtotal + shipping charged + sales tax.
2. Payment fee = card rate × amount charged + fixed fee (Shopify Payments), or provider rate × amount charged + provider fixed fee.
3. Transaction fee (third-party providers only) = plan rate × amount charged.
4. Plan share = monthly plan price ÷ orders per month.
5. You receive = subtotal + shipping − payment fee − transaction fee − plan share − shipping label. Profit = that minus product cost, packaging, ad spend and your apps share.

Tax is left out of what you receive because it belongs to the tax authority, but it stays in the fee base.

All four examples use US rates and monthly billing unless noted. Run them yourself in the calculator above.

The new store shows how much the subscription matters early on: on a $35 order Shopify takes $5.22, about 15%, and three quarters of it is the plan. At 60 orders the same plan share drops to $0.65 and fees fall below 5% of the order.

A higher plan is cheaper once the money saved on card fees is larger than the extra subscription. Divide the difference in plan prices by the difference in rates to find the monthly sales where they break even:

Below those numbers, stay on the smaller plan. Enter your real order count and order size in the calculator and it will tell you when upgrading lowers your fees at your volume.

Shopify prices its plans and Shopify Payments rates in local currency, and the rates differ from the US. Third-party transaction fees are the same everywhere.

A £100 UK order on Basic costs £2.25 in card fees, and a C$100 Canadian order C$3.10. Currency conversion is 2% in both countries. Plan prices are shown before any tax Shopify adds to your bill.

Your own store has the lowest per-order fees, but marketplaces bring the buyers. Here is how Shopify compares with the main US marketplaces:

The catch is traffic. A marketplace's commission pays for buyers who are already searching; on Shopify, ads and marketing often cost more per order than the fees. Many sellers use both: a Shopify store for repeat customers and marketplaces for reach. A crosslisting tool like Treecat keeps the same item listed across marketplaces so it gets more chances to sell.

• Use Shopify Payments. It removes the 0.6–2% third-party transaction fee entirely.
• Bill yearly once you are committed: it cuts about 25% off Basic, Grow and Advanced.
• Pick the plan for your volume, not your ambitions. Check the break-even table above or let the calculator compare plans for you.
• Raise your average order value. Bundles and free-shipping thresholds spread the $0.30 fixed fee and the plan share over a bigger order.
• Sell in your payout currency where you can, to avoid the 1.5–2% conversion fee.
• Audit your apps. Unused subscriptions quietly add to every order.
• Prevent chargebacks with clear product descriptions, tracking and a simple returns policy; each lost dispute costs the sale plus the fee.