What would Shopify Plus cost you?
Three questions, and the whole stack: the platform fee, the subscriptions app, and the surcharge for bringing your own payment processor.
The same figures are worked through in prose, with three example businesses, on what Shopify Plus really costs a subscription business.
What this assumes
Shopify does not publish Plus pricing thresholds. The figures below are reported consistently by partner agencies rather than by Shopify, so treat them as well-sourced rather than official, and check your own contract before acting on any of it.
- Converted at $1.35 to the pound. Shopify bills in dollars, so this moves.
- Platform fee of $2,300 a month on the three-year term, which is the cheaper of the two.
- Above roughly $800,000 a month in sales the flat fee gives way to about 0.35%, capped around $40,000 a month.
- Subscriptions app at Awtomic's published $249 a month plus 1% per order, their annual-contract price, matching the multi-year Plus term above.
- A 0.20% surcharge on total sales when you use a processor other than Shopify Payments.
- No allowance for the rest of an app stack, which for most Plus merchants runs to several hundred a month more.
- Card processing excluded on both sides, because it is the same either way.
- Marzipan figures are the published bands on our pricing page, taken live rather than copied.
Frequently asked questions
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