Shopify Fee Calculator

To find out which Shopify plan makes the most sense for your business, we have built the eMerge Technologies Shopify Fee Calculator.

Shopify is unique from most other eCommerce platforms in the sense that it is the only eCommerce platform that has its payment gateway natively built into the platform. Other platforms such as Wordpress, Wix, and BigCommerce all have to use a third-party payment platform such as Paypal or Stripe.

What this means for Shopify customers is added value when it comes to merchant fees. Since Shopify is your payment provider, they will cut you deals as your business scales. Shopify breaks their offering up into a number of plans that scale all the way from the most "Mommest and Poppest" shop to the biggest business imaginable. As the plans scale, the price base price per month goes up but the merchant fees go down. For the Shopify Plus plan, the fee goes down to just 0.25%, compare that to the industry average of 2%, and you'll see why Shopify has taken over the game.

So how would you know which plan is the perfect mix of base payment, features, and merchant fees? Well, that is how our how Shopify Pricing Calculator comes into the picture. To find out which plan is your sweet-spot, we've done all the math for you. Simply enter in the amount of revenue you expect over the period and the average order size and we can tell you which plan will save you the most overall from day-one.

This Shopify Fee Calculator can also calculate how much it would cost if you wanted to use the Shopify platform but still wanted to use a third-party payment merchant. Shopify will 100% allow you to do this as their gateway is not always the best for the job and they know that. However, Shopify will charge a fee on top of the third-parties merchant fee for using their platform without their gateway. This fee does not scale with volume but does scale with the plan you choose. Plans with more expensive base fees will have smaller third-party merchant fees. To estimate the third-party fees, type in the raw amount of revenue you expect for the period, and the results will be displayed for each plan below.