Looking to switch to shopify for our retail store. I am looking at $105/month plan ($79/month yearly). If you are running a retail store with this plan, how much are you really paying a month?

I was told that typical retail store need additional add-on modules and shopify charges additional for those modules. We have simple store setup and need basic ones like coupon module, Shipstation order import, etc. Where do I find out what kind of basic features the plan I am looking at come with?

What’s the ACTUAL monthly cost of running your Shopify store? Obviously there is the usual monthly subscription to get started but once you add-on whatever free+paid apps you integrate, what should one expect to be spending in terms of a monthly overhead cost for the “average” store?

If i sell a $100 item on shopify, on average shopify takes $5.60 as the fee, 5.6%.

• My store is based in Canada

• Basic plan

• We mostly sell internationally

Is this normal? Fee CSV Snapshot

After switching to WooCommerce for a month, I don't find it less expensive than Shopify in terms of overall cost.

Many apps on Shopify charge based on your sales, which I find ridiculous. But is it more expensive? It depends, I guess... but for me, I'm not sure.

Most good plugins on WooCommerce also use subscription model, just like Shopify. Plus, you need a good hosting plan that's fast enough to run this heavy CMS. This one alone is already more expensive than Shopify Basic.

And checkout page, you need to pay for it if you want it to look good. Meanwhile, the default checkout page on Shopify looks good enough.

A good caching plugin also has a subscription model. Meanwhile, with Shopify, it already set everything up for you. All you need to do is avoid installing too many apps and using too many images.

And more...

There might be something I don't know. If anyone here thinks WooCommerce is less expensive, please explain it to me.

This is from a perspective of a small store owner btw.

I’m building an apparel store and I’m not sure how to charge for my products.

Do most of you just add x% to your cost of goods?

From my experience, running an online store feels like navigating a pricing minefield—one wrong step and profits vanish or demand takes a hit. After testing multiple pricing strategies, I’ve realized pricing is more of an art and experimentation than an exact science.

I’d love to hear your most painful (and educational) pricing mistakes:

- Pricing too low—basically paying customers to take your products?
- Discounting too aggressively—and destroying your brand’s perceived value?
- Raising prices too fast—and scaring off loyal customers?
- Never experimenting with pricing—and leaving money on the table?

Drop your best (or worst) pricing lesson in the comments. What happened? What did you learn? How did you fix it?

Would love to hear your insights—let’s all learn from each other.

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

Ouch. 25% price hike along with increased fees. Lock into 3 year deal before April and they'll keep you on $2000.

How is everyone reacting to this? Locking in for 3 years for our business is gonna be tough, 6k a year extra plus the increase in fees? Painful

Source: Email to Plus merchants

Newly released from federal prison and I'm looking for ways to add to my income as a factory worker and barber. Can anybody give me a ballpark on how much it actually costs to open up one of these stores? I'm green to this here y'all.. even on Reddit. Lbs

On the website under there price is says $29/month billed yearly. But when I went to check out it said $39/month... I contacted customer support and they said

"The discrepancy in the pricing for the Basic Shopify plan is likely due to a price increase that Shopify implemented on January 24, 2023. This change affected all new merchants globally, and existing merchants were notified with a grace period until April 24, 2023, to adjust to the new pricing. The current price for the Basic plan is indeed $39/month for new merchants. Since you're coming from a free trial, the rate for the Basic plan is indeed $39 USD."

WHAT. How can a website company not have an updated website? I'm feeling very confused

Hi all. I'm researching Shopify for a couple ecommerce ideas. I know that the Shopify Apps are all charged every month. So even though the basic Shopify costs are very economical, I worry about the additional monthly App costs.

So I'm trying to see just how much Shopify ends up costing for a moderately featured ecommerce site. Any insight would be great, thank you!

Hi all, I am Looking to sell one product on shopify and am wondering how much it will cost me. I do not already have a buisness and will be starting up on it, I will be advertising in person and maybe on social media. Is shopify the best place to do this or is there are better cheaper option that is easy to use?

I recently opened my Etsy store and as I've seen many stores there are being continuously shot down by the app, I want to also open mine in Shopify, but I'm worried about the fees I would have to pay, are they too expensive for a completely new store with very few sales? Also, I have my own website, can I still use it if I open a Shopify store or should I create a new one with Shopify? Thank you for your help.

Hey everybody.

I'm new to Shopify. I'm in the throws of going online with a business I run. I sell items on consignment. I charge 10% of the sale price, as these are relatively high ticket items so 10% is plenty for me. Now, tell me if I'm a total idiot or whatever, but if I sell anything through Shopify online I will be charged a fee. 2.9%? And a fee if I sell outside of the platform and mark it as sold on the Shopify store its something like 2%?

Now, given that I'm already only charging 10%, and I'm getting slugged 2.9%, that's actually 29% of gross profit.

Example: $5000 sale = $500 gross profit - $145 Shopify seller fees = $355. Before tax.

That's a huge chunk of revenue... If I were selling pottery I made in the basement with zero overheads or flipping T shirts ordered for $1 each from Sri Lanka for 50 bucks, 2.9% is no problem. But you can see it doesn't work when I already only take a small percentage as profit.

I spoke to Shopify help and all they could say was "Charge a higher rate of commission." Hey, who needs competitive pricing? Just make stuff more expensive and wonder why you no longer have any business.

Long story short, how do I run e commerce without getting slugged thousands of dollars per month / over a quarter of my profits with transaction fees?

Several years ago, when we first considered switching shopping carts, I created a Shopify Cost Calculator in Google Sheets that compared our current costs with the different Shopify plan pricing to see if we would save money if we switched.

I've updated the Google Sheet with the most current Shopify pricing and added a few new values to be more comprehensive, including anticipated 3rd party apps and upcharges for Amex and international cards in payment processing fees and annual vs monthly payment plans.

If you're curious how Shopify pricing compares to an alternative, you can make a copy of the Google Sheet and enter your revenue and current expenses to see for yourself.

Shopify Cost Calculator Template

I welcome any feedback. I just updated the template and double-checked everything I can think of, but if I missed something, let me know and I'll fix it.

We have thousands of products and we want some prices higher online (usually due to MAP policies) and some higher in-store. How are you handling the issue of different POS pricing vs online?

Hello all,

I just wanted to run something past you all. At the minute, I have 2 Shopify stores on the advanced plan. I pay annually for these, however its costing me around $550 per month if I spread the annual fee.

I started calculating the cost of moving over the Shopify Plus, and realised that with the amount of transactions I have going through the stores that I could actually save money by moving over to Shopify Plus and reducing my credit card fee %.

I got to the point where I received the agreement, and under the Fees header, it mentions that the actually subscription is $2,300 per month, OR .35% of turnover, whichever is highest!

Sadly .35% of my turnover takes me over the $2,300, so it would now cost me over $3,300 per month in subscriptions, which is incredibly hard to justify!!

First question, is this normal, or is this something new that Shopify Plus has brought in? I would have thought I would have heard a lot of complaints around this by now if it is the normal, but I've never once heard it being mentioned!

Second question, how is this even justifiable for anyone?! Correct my maths if I'm wrong, but the biggest benefit of moving over to plus is the credit card fees dropping from 1.5% to 1.3% in the UK. However you then add the .35% back on for the subscription and now your credit card fees are 'technically' 1.65%. That is closer to the 'Shopify' plan than it is the 'Advanced' plan!

Could someone else that uses Shopify plus confirm or deny what I'm seeing, please?

Thanks Reddit, for being a place of answers and rants!

I was using etsy and found out the entire website is a scam. I self ordered some of my own products and:

They lied and said it came from their marketing

They charged 20 cents "Relisting fee" on a listing that still had quantity left, for all 5 orders.

They charged a "multiple order" fee for having multiple items in cart? the hell? and not once, for every

item in the kart.

They took out 6.5 percent on top of that, and with tax and credit card fees it came out to 5.19 cents

on a 9 dollar order. I mean, after material cost and shipping, that's a whopping 1 dollar profit for 30 minutes to an hour of time.

My question is, does shopify scam you in any way like this?

I'm currently on the Basic Shopify plan, paying $29/month. When I click on the "learn more" for the price increase page, all I can find is that the Basic plan is going to be $29/month. I am not seeing any increase at all, unless I'm not looking in the right place. I did see one thing that said Basic was $19/month but that's not what I've been paying.

I don't really care about the increase, I just want to know what it will be for me. Ideas?