Your Shopify store
Fee rates used — edit if Shopify changes them
Defaults are Shopify's published US rates: Basic 2.9% + 30¢ per online card payment ($29/mo when billed yearly, $39 monthly), Grow 2.7% + 30¢, Advanced 2.5% + 30¢, Plus 2.25% + 30¢, and a 2% third-party transaction fee when you do not use Shopify Payments. Premium cards, international cards and currency conversion cost more and are not modelled here. Every field is editable — check your own bill.
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What you keep
Break-even price is the lowest price at which your monthly profit stops being negative, at the order count you entered.
The subscription changes the arithmetic
On Etsy or Gumroad a fee is only taken when something sells. Shopify bills the plan whether the shop is busy or empty, so the same $30 sale means two different things depending on volume: at 100 orders a month the $29 plan is 29¢ per order; at 5 orders a month it is $5.80 per order, and it can swallow the entire margin.
| Orders / month on Basic | Plan cost per order | Profit / sale after plan (at $30) |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | $5.80 | $14.03 |
| 20 | $1.45 | $18.38 |
| 100 | $0.29 | $19.54 |
| 1,000 | $0.03 | $19.80 |
Those numbers use the default $30 price, $8 product cost, $1 other per-sale cost and the Basic card rate of 2.9% + 30¢ — the same figures this page starts with, so you can check them by typing the order counts in the box.
Cover the plan first, then count profit
"Sales to cover plan" is the honest first target: the number of orders whose contribution pays the monthly fee and nothing more. Below it you are running the store at a loss even though every individual sale looks profitable. Above it, the plan fee fades: every extra order carries the card fee but not the subscription.
The 2% third-party fee is easy to forget
If checkout runs through a gateway other than Shopify Payments, Shopify adds a 2% transaction fee on top of whatever that gateway charges you. At $30 that is $0.60 per sale — more than the fixed 30¢ card charge. Tick the box to see it counted; if you do use Shopify Payments, leave it off and ignore the field.
Premium and international cards
Shopify's headline rate is for standard domestic cards. Premium cards, international cards and currency conversion add a percentage on top that this page does not model. If a noticeable share of your orders are international, put the blended rate you actually see on your bill into "card rate" rather than the headline figure — the field is editable for exactly that reason.
Is the plan worth it at your volume?
Compare the monthly profit here with the same catalogue on a percentage-only marketplace, minus any fee the cheaper platform charges for being cheaper. That comparison, not the plan's feature list, is what decides whether Shopify pays for itself at your order count.
Compare Shopify against the others before you commit
The free calculator on the front page prices one item on five marketplaces side by side. The Pro version is a single HTML file you keep forever:
- 14 channels — Shopify, Etsy, eBay, Amazon, Gumroad, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, Whatnot, TikTok Shop, Facebook, Whop, Stripe, custom
- Editable fee table that remembers your real rates and flat tiers
- Batch mode: paste a whole catalogue and price it at once, with CSV export
- Works offline, no account, nothing sent anywhere