Hey all, came across Shopify Hydrogen that allows building custom storefronts. Tried googling on pricing of Shopify APIs and found... nothing 🤦. Any kind souls know about this?

I want to build a website for myself to sell products and I was wondering does the shopify api reduce cost instead of using shopify subscription service and templates.

I'm tempted to just use regular shopify if the costs aren't that much different.

Does utilizing the shopify api with a self built site require you to pay the 29$ per month subscription for example?

Is there any other examples of how shopify api can benefit a buisness owner instead of regular shopify?

I am very very new to Shopify but rather well-versed in PHP and WooCommerce.

I want to be able to change store prices via an external API call, for example, if a user is a member of site abc.com they can get a 20% discount on select products.

In WooCommerce the flow is:

- User signs up to the WooCommerce store

- User can add their "key" to a field

- Key is validated via an API call to abc.com

- If valid, key is stored in a database field

- WooCommerce "looks" for product price, hook is called, we check if the user has a key in the database... if yes, they get special pricing

Is this sort of flow, or something similar, possible in Shopify? If so, what would be general resources used to achieve this? (I am not really looking for specific answers here - unless you want - but more if it is possible)

Hello,

I want to setup a 3rd party payment provider as Shopify payments does not work in my country.

My payment provider takes 0.9% fee + 0.7% "shopify fee" so total of 1.6%. I also saw that Shopify says they charge 2% for 3rd party payment providers for the Basic Plan in the pricing page: https://www.shopify.com/pricing

But, in the 3rd party payment gateways page they say (at the bottom of the page where the questions are):

How much does it cost to integrate a payment gateway?

Payment gateway fees depend on the provider. Each payment gateway sets its own pricing, and fee structures vary. There are no fees to integrate a payment gateway with Shopify.

Here: https://www.shopify.com/payment-gateways

So if for example I choose the basic plan does it mean that:

A) I will pay 1.6% + 2% = 3.6%

B) 1.6% only

Thanks

Hey all,

I’m trying to solve something that I know a lot of folks run into: getting a full list of products + variants, their Printify base costs, shipping, and my storefront retail prices so I can keep an eye on margins (especially now that tariffs are causing some cost fluctuation).

From what I’ve read, the only real way is to use the Printify API and run a custom report. That would mean:

• Pulling all shop products/variants from Printify

• Matching them to catalog variant data (base cost + shipping rates)

• Joining in retail prices from Shopify (via CSV export or API)

• Calculating margins in a sheet/dashboard

I’ve built tools before in HTML/JS, but my Python is a little shaky. I think I can figure it out, but it would take me some time. Before I go down that road:

Has anyone here built this kind of dashboard already, or found a tool/app that does it?

Is using the Printify API + Shopify export really the best (or only) way to get this data at scale?

Any pointers or success stories would be hugely appreciated!

Thanks!

FFS. Are you kidding me with this price increase? Flip it to monthly to see the actual price increases. Rather than them trying to hide it behind yearly.

https://www.shopify.com/pricing?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pricing_change&utm_content=1A

I have an existing app and am considering branching out and building a Shopify app which will be installable via the Shopify App Store.

My app will cost $10/month. This monthly fee will be charged via Shopify’s Billing API.

My app will also charge shop owners a cost per order for item shop owners sell in their shop through my app. These charges will run through shop owners’ credit cards directly and not utilize Shopify’s Billing API. Shop owners will add their cards via a page within my app. Most the revenue earned this way will go toward the costs to manufacture products, and the remainder (a very small profit margin) will go to my business, and then an even slimmer profit will finally go to me.

What I am wondering is: Will I be required to pay Shopify a cut of my revenue that I earn through charging shop owners’ cards directly, or will the fact that I am using the Billing API to charge for the app satisfy Shopify’s terms and not require I also provide a cut of revenue earned through non-Billing API charges?

Here is an excerpt from Shopify’s Partner Program Agreement. I am looking at section 4 (Reporting and Audit) which says the following:

“All App Developers that create and issue charges to Merchants for the Merchant’s use of the Developer’s Application must use the Shopify Billing API unless otherwise agreed to by Shopify in writing. App Developers that Shopify has exempted from using the Shopify Billing API shall, within 30 days following the end of the Developer’s fiscal quarter, submit to Shopify via email at [email protected] a report indicating total revenues for the previous quarter.

[...]

All App Developers must issue charges to Merchants via the Shopify Billing API unless Shopify otherwise agrees. App Developers that do not use the Shopify Billing API must inform Shopify of total Application sales each quarter. Shopify can audit an App Developer’s records to ensure the App Developer is remitting revenue to Shopify in accordance with the App Plan.”

https://www.shopify.com/partners/terms

Based on the wording, I interpret this to mean that all app developers must use the Billing API, and if they do not use the Billing API, a cut of app revenue (i.e., that earned by charging cards directly) must go to Shopify. The terms do not say that the Billing API must be used exclusively. Based on my business plan, I will use the Billing API, but I will not use it exclusively.

Since the terms do not say the Billing API must be used exclusively for all charges, it seems Shopify cannot require I yield a cut of my entire revenue so long as I charge for the app using their Billing API.

What do you think of this interpretation?

I’m a software engineer and have a lot of experience in both MERN and Shopify. I’ve built my company 2 sites one with Shopify and one with react/firebase/stripe. Shopify currently costs me $30 a month while my react site is like .50/m. If I have say thousands or hundreds of thousands of users what will be cheaper in the long run hosting on firebase or just using Shopify? I like being able to build new features and not having to deal with Shopify bs but also don’t wanna get screwed with cost at scale with api requests.

I work at a local game store selling Magic: The Gathering singles on Shopify. I manually update card prices based on TCGPlayer's market values. However, if the price changes overnight and a sale occurs, we lose money because the listed price is outdated. I'm looking for an extension or plugin that can automatically track and update card prices in real time based on TCGPlayer's current value.

Has anybody used headless shopify? I’m just curious to how good the storefront apis are. Is it good enough for 500-1000 users? And what happens when it exceeds

Hello,

I own a wheel/ tire store and want to migrate to Shopify.

My store has about 100K SKU’s and the price and stock needs to be updated daily.

I am looking to stay with a more basic plan (Shopify plus is too expensive for me right now)

Will I run into issues with API rate limits?

What if I were to cut down to 2 vendors and about 25K SKU’s.

Going to use the app Marrixify.

Thanks!