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.
Shopify Basic
- Transaction fee on 3rd party payment gateways
- 2%
- Transaction fees total
- R0
- Shopify plan fee in USD*
- $19
- Shopify plan fee in ZAR (based on live FX rate)
- R314
- Total monthly Shopify fees (ex VAT)
- R314
- + VAT (15%)
- R47
Total monthly Shopify fees R361
Shopify Grow
- Transaction fee on 3rd party payment gateways
- 1%
- Transaction fees total
- R0
- Shopify plan fee in USD*
- $49
- Shopify plan fee in ZAR (based on live FX rate)
- R809
- Total monthly Shopify fees (ex VAT)
- R809
- + VAT (15%)
- R121
Total monthly Shopify fees R930
Shopify Advanced
- Transaction fee on 3rd party payment gateways
- 0.6%
- Transaction fees total
- R0
- Shopify plan fee in USD*
- $299
- Shopify plan fee in ZAR (based on live FX rate)
- R4,934
- Total monthly Shopify fees (ex VAT)
- R4,934
- + VAT (15%)
- R740
Total monthly Shopify fees R5,674
Shopify Plus
- Starts at
- $2300
- on a 3-year term, fee in USD*
- Shopify plan fee in ZAR (based on live FX rate)
- R37,950
- Total monthly Shopify fees (ex VAT)
- R37,950
- + VAT (15%)
- R5,693
Total monthly Shopify fees Starts at R43,643 on a 3-year term
* Shopify plan fees based on annual subscription rates. Prices may vary for alternate payment plans. Shopify's prices last checked on .
* Transaction fees for the Shopify Plus plan are not included in the above calculator. Contact us to explore our enterprise-level plans designed for growing businesses.
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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