What does Shopify cost to run each month?
Enter your monthly online sales to compare the Basic, Grow and Advanced plans, including transaction fees and VAT.
Your store
Shopify Payments isn't available in South Africa, so sales run through a gateway such as Payfast, Peach Payments or Yoco. Shopify charges its transaction fee on those sales, on top of the gateway's own fee.
Basic
US$29 a month, 2% transaction fee
- Plan fee
- R476
- Transaction fees
- R5,000
- VAT (15%)
- R821
Total per month R6,297
Grow
US$79 a month, 1% transaction fee
- Plan fee
- R1,296
- Transaction fees
- R2,500
- VAT (15%)
- R569
Total per month R4,365
Advanced
US$299 a month, 0.6% transaction fee
- Plan fee
- R4,904
- Transaction fees
- R1,500
- VAT (15%)
- R961
Total per month R7,364
Plus
From US$2,300 a month on a 3-year term
Plus pricing and transaction fees are agreed with Shopify, based on your volume and requirements.
Plan fee from, incl. VAT R43,378
Plan fees are Shopify's US dollar rates on annual billing. Monthly billing costs more. Gateway fees, apps and themes aren't included. Figures are estimates.
The plan fee is the easy number.
This tells you what Shopify charges to run the store: the plan, the transaction fees and the VAT. It is the figure most people ask about first, and it is rarely the deciding one.
The larger costs sit around the plan: design, integrations with the systems behind the store, the migration if you are moving one across, and the apps and work it takes to run the store well. Those are also where the return comes from.
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