How much Shopify takes per sale, plan by plan

On Shopify Payments, Shopify takes a card fee on each US online sale: 2.9% + 30¢ on Basic, 2.7% + 30¢ on Grow and 2.5% + 30¢ on Advanced, as listed on Shopify's pricing page. On top of that you pay the plan itself, from $39 a month. If you use another card processor instead, Shopify adds its own fee of 2%, 1% or 0.6% of each sale.

The two parts: a plan price and a fee on each sale

What a store pays has two parts. The plan price is the same every month, whether you sell 5 orders or 500. The card fee is charged on every order, so it grows with your sales. A bigger plan costs more each month but charges a lower rate on each sale. Which one costs less depends on how much you sell.

Yearly billing is paid up front. On Basic it takes $10.00 a month off the price, $120.00 a year. Plus starts at $2,300 a month and is priced per store, so it isn't compared here.

The card rate on each plan

Cards issued outside the US add 1% on every plan. Premium cards pay the higher rate in the table. The examples below use the standard rate.

What comes out of a $25 order and a $60 order

On one order the plans differ by cents. The gap only adds up to more than the plan price at high sales, which is why the plan question is a monthly one.

What a month costs at a few sales levels

These tables add each plan's price to the part of the fees that changes with the plan. The 30¢ on each order is the same on every plan, so it's left out to make the comparison clear.

On Shopify Payments, Basic costs least at every level in this table. On monthly billing, Grow pays for itself over Basic above about $33,000 a month in card sales, and Advanced over Grow above about $147,000 a month.

With another processor the picture changes, because Shopify's own fee falls from 2% to 1% when you move up to Grow. On monthly billing, Grow costs less than Basic above about $6,600 a month in sales. At $10,000 a month it's about $34.00 a month less, and at $25,000 about $184.00 less, at those sales. Advanced pays over Grow above about $73,500 a month.

Yearly billing lowers each plan's price, so the sales level where a bigger plan pays for itself is lower too. Check your own plan and billing under Settings > Plan before you change anything.

Paying through Shopify Payments, another processor, or both

If you turn on another processor, such as Stripe, Shopify charges its fee for using another processor on those sales, as well as the other company's own fee, according to Shopify's help page on Shopify Payments fees. If you use both, the sales Shopify Payments handles, such as Shop Pay, pay the standard rate plus 1.25%.

The two kinds of fee also show up in different places. Shopify Payments fees come out of your payouts. Shopify's fee for using another processor is charged on your Shopify bill (under Transaction fees when Shopify Payments is off), as Shopify's page on the charges on your bill explains. If you only look at one of them, you'll miss part of what you pay.

What this doesn't count

• Apps: recurring app charges are added to your Shopify bill.
• Shipping labels bought in Shopify, billed through your Shopify account.
• Ads on Meta, Google or TikTok, billed by those companies.
• What your products cost you, and packaging.
• Refunds, returns and chargebacks.

Any of these can cost more than the card fee. Our post on where a shop's money goes each month shows where to find each of them in the admin.

If you'd like your own numbers, the free profit check-up takes about a minute. It adds the plan and card fees to your product cost, labels, apps and ads, and shows what each order keeps.