Shopify fees explained: plans, card rates and transaction fees
Shopify costs you three things per order: the card rate of Shopify Payments (in Germany from 1.6% + €0.25 on Basic), the plan price spread over your orders, and an extra transaction fee if you use an external payment provider. For a €39.90 order on Basic that is €1.05 – and from about 1,128 orders a month the Grow plan becomes cheaper.
Choose country, plan and payment method – the Shopify calculator shows fees and profit per order and compares the plans.
Open the Shopify calculatorThe three fee types
- Card rate (Shopify Payments): a percentage of the amount the customer pays plus a fixed amount per transaction. Cards issued abroad cost more.
- Plan price: a fixed monthly amount – per order it shrinks the more you sell. Yearly billing is cheaper per month.
- Transaction fee for external providers: if customers pay with a provider other than Shopify Payments, Shopify charges an extra percentage on top of that provider's own fee.
Card rates by plan (domestic / international cards)
Rates of Shopify Payments for online card payments, from the official pricing pages (date in the sources below):
| Country | Basic | Grow | Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE – domestic card | 1.6% + €0.25 | 1.5% + €0.25 | 1.4% + €0.25 |
| DE – international card | 3.1% + €0.25 | 3.0% + €0.25 | 2.9% + €0.25 |
| AT – domestic card | 2.0% + €0.25 | 1.9% + €0.25 | 1.7% + €0.25 |
| AT – international card | 3.5% + €0.25 | 3.4% + €0.25 | 3.2% + €0.25 |
| GB – domestic card | 2.0% + £0.25 | 1.7% + £0.25 | 1.5% + £0.25 |
| GB – international card | 3.1% + £0.25 | 2.7% + £0.25 | 2.5% + £0.25 |
Plan prices and external-provider fees
Plan price per month (billed yearly / monthly) and the extra Shopify fee when an external payment provider is used:
| Country | Basic | Grow | Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE – plan | €24.00 / €32.00 | €69.00 / €92.00 | €289.00 / €384.00 |
| DE – external provider | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.6% |
| AT – plan | €24.00 / €32.00 | €69.00 / €92.00 | €289.00 / €384.00 |
| AT – external provider | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.6% |
| GB – plan | £19.00 / £25.00 | £49.00 / £65.00 | £259.00 / £344.00 |
| GB – external provider | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.6% |
Which plan is cheaper for you?
Higher plans cost more per month but charge lower card rates. With a €39.90 average order in Germany (yearly billing), Grow pays for itself from about 1,128 orders a month and Advanced from about 5,514 – below that, the cheaper plan wins. The calculator compares the plans for your own order value and volume.
US rates are not pre-filled in the calculator: the official US page could not be verified from our location, so you enter them from shopify.com/pricing.
Worked examples: €39.90 order in Germany, Basic plan, 150 orders a month
Shopify Payments with a domestic card, yearly billing; product costs as in the Shopify calculator's example (purchase price €12.00, shipping €4.90, €4.00 ads).
- Card fee per order
- €0.89
- Plan price per order
- €0.16
- Shopify fees per order in total
- €1.05
- Same order with an international card
- €1.65
- Contribution per order (Basic)
- €9.46
- Monthly Shopify cost on Basic
- €157.26
- Monthly Shopify cost on Grow
- €196.27
- Monthly Shopify cost on Advanced
- €410.29
The plan with the lowest monthly fee is not automatically the cheapest – compare the total of plan price and card fees for your order volume.