Shopify Fee Calculator
Shopify fees vary by plan and payment method. Pick your plan, enter your price, and see what you actually take home.
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Selling at $25.00 on the Basic plan:
10 sales/month
$200.75
-$49.25 total costs
50 sales/month
$1159.75
-$90.25 total costs
100 sales/month
$2358.50
-$141.50 total costs
500 sales/month
$11948.50
-$551.50 total costs
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Shopify Fee Structure Explained
Shopify doesn't charge per-listing fees like Etsy, but it has a monthly subscription and per-transaction costs. The Basic plan runs $39/month and charges 2.9% + $0.30 per online credit card transaction. The mid-tier Shopify plan is $105/month with 2.6% + $0.30. Advanced comes in at $399/month with 2.4% + $0.30.
If you use Shopify Payments (their built-in processor), you avoid the third-party transaction surcharge. But if you prefer PayPal, Stripe, or another provider, Shopify adds an additional fee on top: 2% on Basic, 1% on Shopify, and 0.5% on Advanced. That fee is on top of whatever your payment processor charges, so it adds up fast.
For digital products with no shipping costs, Shopify's per-transaction fees are actually quite competitive — often lower than Etsy's combined fees. The catch is the monthly subscription. If you're doing fewer than about 30 sales a month, the plan cost can eat a significant chunk of your revenue. At higher volumes, Shopify becomes one of the cheapest options per sale.
Which Shopify Plan Is Best for Digital Products?
For most digital product sellers, the Basic plan is the right starting point. The difference between 2.9% and 2.6% processing is small on individual sales. On a $25 product, that's $0.725 vs $0.65 — a savings of 7.5 cents per sale. You'd need to sell about 880 extra units per month to justify the jump from $39 to $105.
The Shopify and Advanced plans make more sense if you're doing serious volume or need features like advanced reporting, shipping discounts (for physical goods), or lower third-party rates. For a seller doing $5,000-$10,000/month in digital products, Basic is almost always the best value. Above $25,000/month, run the numbers on Shopify or Advanced — the lower rates start to matter.
You can compare Shopify to other platforms directly using our platform comparison calculator.
Shopify Payments vs Third-Party Processors
The short version: use Shopify Payments if it's available in your country. Shopify Payments eliminates the third-party transaction fee entirely, which saves you 0.5% to 2% per sale depending on your plan. On $10,000 in monthly sales, that's $50 to $200 in savings.
Shopify Payments is powered by Stripe under the hood, so you get the same reliability and fraud protection. The main reasons to use a third-party processor are availability (Shopify Payments isn't in every country) and specific business needs like high-risk payment processing or cryptocurrency.
One thing to watch: Shopify Payments has its own chargeback and reserve policies. If you sell in a category with high dispute rates, read their terms carefully. For standard digital products like templates, courses, and printables, you should be fine.
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