Shopify Plus calculator

Old rule: Plus always pays for itself.Do the maths with your own numbers.

Compare Shopify Advanced and Plus with your own sales, gateway and apps, and see where Plus starts to pay for itself.

Where you sell

Online sales per month ()Share paid through Shopify Payments (%)The rest goes through a third-party gateway (PayPal, Stripe direct and so on).Your Plus card rate (%, optional)You pay for AdvancedPlus termPlans of other stores you would close (per month) ()Plus includes up to 9 expansion stores.Apps or custom work Plus replaces (per month) ()For example, a checkout app you would no longer need.

Result per month

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Breakdown

Shopify's published standard online rates; Amex and international cards cost more on both plans. The fixed fee per payment is the same on both, so it doesn't change the result. Not included: the variable platform fee Shopify charges higher-volume businesses. Shopify does not publish the rate, so ask for a quote.

How it works

Plus costs more a month than Advanced, but takes less from every sale: the standard online card rate on Shopify Payments drops from 2.5% to 2.25% in the US and from 1.6% to 1.3% in Europe, and the fee for using a third-party gateway drops from 0.6% to 0.2%. So the more you sell, the more you save.

The calculator adds up that saving, plus the stores and apps you'd stop paying for, subtracts it from the extra cost, and tells you at what monthly sales Plus starts to pay for itself. Saving money isn't the only reason for Plus: if you need to change checkout itself or run custom Functions, what counts is the cost of not being able to.

Read the guide: Shopify Plus or not: what you really get, and when it pays →

Shopify Plus calculator

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