Shopify fees calculator: what each plan really costs you.

Shopify plan prices in 2026

Shopify prices each plan per country and shows you the pricing page for the country you visit from. These are the list prices per month in four English-speaking markets.

Per month, billed monthly / billed yearly. US prices from Shopify's US pricing page as captured on 22 Sep 2026; UK, Canada and Australia from their regional pricing pages on 23 Sep 2026.¹²³⁴ Plus is a term contract: $2,300 per month on three years or $2,500 on one year in the US, and larger or more complex businesses move to a variable platform fee.⁵ Plus includes 20 POS Pro locations. How these prices and rates changed since 2019: Shopify pricing history. vendor-published

Basic has no staff accounts besides the owner. Grow has 5, Advanced 15 and Plus an unlimited number, so a team that needs even one extra login starts at Grow whatever the fees say.¹ New stores get three days free, then $1 a month for three months on most plans.

What a Shopify store costs per month in total

The plan price is the smallest part of the bill for most stores. Card fees grow with every sale, and apps add a fixed amount on top. Three US stores, each on its cheapest plan:

Worked out with the calculator above: US prices billed monthly, Shopify Payments, a $50 average order, 20% of sales on premium cards, 10% on international cards and $60 a month in apps. Billed yearly, each total is $10 to $26 lower.

So a small store pays Shopify roughly 4% to 9% of its sales once card fees and apps are counted, and the share falls as sales grow because the plan and app costs stay fixed. On Basic, card fees overtake the $39 plan price at about $1,000 a month in sales. Past that point the card rate matters more than the plan price, and that rate is what a bigger plan lowers.

Shopify Payments fees and transaction fees

Card rates are what Shopify Payments charges per payment. They fall as the plan goes up, which is the whole reason a bigger plan can cost less. US rates:

Shopify's US pricing page, captured 22 Sep 2026.¹ PayPal wallet payments start at 3.49% + 49¢. vendor-published

Standard online card rates in the other three markets:

Regional pricing pages, 23 Sep 2026.²³⁴ Amex, international and in-person rates for each market are built into the calculator. In the UK and Canada Shopify lists Plus rates other than standard cards as "most competitive rates"; the calculator uses the Advanced rate there as a ceiling and marks the result as an estimate. vendor-published

Shopify Payments fees beyond the card rate

• Currency conversion. When a customer pays in a currency other than your payout currency, Shopify Payments charges 1.5% of the order in the US and 2% in its other countries, including the UK, Canada and Australia.⁸
• Chargebacks. Each chargeback costs $15 in the US, £10 in the UK, $15 in Canada and A$25 in Australia, and the fee comes back if you win the dispute.⁷

Which Shopify plan is cheapest?

Moving up a plan costs a fixed amount more each month and saves a percentage of every sale. The break-even point is the extra plan cost divided by the rate saved. In the US each step from Basic to Grow to Advanced lowers card rates by 0.2 points, so:

Derived from the prices and rates above: $66 / 0.2% = $33,000, $294 / 0.2% = $147,000, $66 / 1% = $6,600 and $294 / 0.4% = $73,500. The yearly column uses the $50 and $220 differences.

These points hold for any card mix in the US, because premium and international rates fall by the same 0.2 points. They move when in-person sales are part of the mix, whose rates fall by only 0.1 points per plan, and they differ by country; the calculator works them out for your numbers.

Below those points, the reasons to upgrade are features, not fees: staff accounts, third-party calculated shipping rates on Advanced, or the checkout and B2B options of Plus.

The third-party transaction fee

Shopify charges its own fee on every sale taken through a payment provider other than Shopify Payments: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced and 0.2% on Plus. It comes on top of whatever the provider charges.¹

At $20,000 a month in sales on Basic, that is $400 a month to Shopify before the provider's own 2.9% or so, which makes it the largest line on the bill for many stores. It is also why the break-even for Grow drops from $33,000 to $6,600 when you keep your own provider: the plan step saves a full percentage point instead of 0.2.

Stores in a country where Shopify Payments is not available, or with a provider contract they must keep, should compare plans with the Another provider option above.

PayPal fees on Shopify

Whether Shopify adds its own fee to PayPal orders depends on one setting. If Shopify Payments is active, PayPal payments are excluded from the third-party transaction fee, so you pay PayPal's rate and nothing to Shopify on top.⁹ If PayPal is your only payment provider, PayPal orders count as third-party sales and carry the 2%, 1%, 0.6% or 0.2% fee of your plan.

In the US, PayPal Wallet is connected to Shopify Payments and works as a payment method inside it, with PayPal payouts bundled into your Shopify Payments payouts.¹⁰ Shopify lists its rate from 3.49% + 49¢ on every plan, about 0.6 points and 19¢ more than a standard card on Basic.¹ On a $50 order that is $2.24 through PayPal against $1.75 by card. When a customer pays with PayPal Wallet in another currency, the conversion fee is 3% instead of 1.5%.⁸

Shopify Plus pricing and fees

Shopify Plus is sold on a contract, not month to month. In the US it starts at $2,300 a month on a three-year term or $2,500 a month on a one-year term for standard setups; larger or more complex businesses pay a variable platform fee that Shopify sets from their revenue and business model.⁵

• Card rates. 2.25% + 30¢ for standard online cards in the US, 2.95% + 30¢ for premium cards and 2.3% + 10¢ in person.¹
• Another provider. 0.2% of each sale to Shopify on top of the provider's fee.⁵
• Stores. The main store and 9 expansion stores are included; each further store costs $300 a month or a revenue share across all stores.⁵
• POS Pro. 20 locations included, up to 200 with Shopify Payments.¹

On card fees alone, Plus does not pay for itself against Advanced until very high sales: the 0.25-point lower standard card rate has to cover about $1,900 more a month, which takes around $760,000 a month in US online sales. Stores move to Plus for its checkout and B2B options and the expansion stores, not to save on fees.

Shopify POS pricing

Every paid plan includes in-person selling at no extra cost: the POS app, card payments and basic retail features. Shopify no longer calls this tier POS Lite.¹¹ What you pay for is POS Pro, which adds staff permissions and in-store inventory tools for each location.

Shopify's US pricing page and help centre, September 2026.¹¹¹ POS Pro is $69 per location in the UK, CA$119 in Canada and A$129 in Australia. Card readers and other hardware are bought separately. vendor-published

Enter your in-person sales, transactions and POS Pro locations in the calculator; in-person rates fall by only 0.1 points per plan, so a store that sells mostly in person reaches each break-even point later than an online store.

Costs outside the plan

• Apps. Reviews, search, upsells, size guides and loyalty are usually apps billed monthly. Across the app categories we priced for our own themes, the lowest paid plans that remove the app's branding add up to roughly $150 to $330 a month for a full stack.⁶
• POS Pro. $89 per location per month in the US for stores that sell in person with staff; see Shopify POS pricing.¹
• Marketplace orders. The first 50 marketplace orders synced through Shopify each month are free; above that Shopify charges 1% up to $99 a month.¹
• Theme. Free themes cost nothing; paid themes are a one-time purchase per store.
• Currency conversion and chargebacks. 1.5% on orders paid in another currency in the US, and $15 per chargeback; see Shopify Payments fees.⁷⁸

How to pay Shopify less

• Pay yearly once you know the store will stay. Yearly billing is about 25% cheaper on Basic, Grow and Advanced, and it lowers every break-even point above.
• Use Shopify Payments where it is available. It removes the third-party fee, which is 2% of sales on Basic.
• Choose the plan by break-even, not by feature list. Run your own numbers above and recheck when sales change by a third or more.
• Count the apps. A theme with search, size guides, quick view and upsells built in can replace several monthly subscriptions. Our free themes Valmont, Elarune and Metrum each list the apps their built-in tools replace.

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