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Shopify Profit Calculator

There's no marketplace fee on Shopify, so it feels like the whole price is yours. It isn't. The card processor and the blank still get paid first, and this shows what's left.

One of ours, on our own Shopify store. $23.99, and about six bucks left after the card fee and the blank.Black t-shirt with a stick figure next to a sign that says BAD. Well, that is not a good sign.
Shopify fees

What each item costs you
What the customer pays
Where the customer's money goes-
  • Supplier -
  • Fees -
  • Ads and other -
  • You keep -
Net profit per sale-
Margin-
Break-even price-
Price for a 30% margin-

What Shopify charges on every sale

Shopify itself doesn't take a percentage of the sale when you use Shopify Payments. What you pay is the card processing: on the Basic plan in the US that's 2.9% plus $0.30 per online order, and that's what is loaded above. If you take payment through a third party gateway like PayPal instead, Shopify adds a 2% transaction fee on Basic on top of whatever that gateway charges, so put 2 in the transaction fee box. Rates differ by plan and by country. If yours don't match, edit the boxes.

The fee this calculator leaves out

Your plan. Basic runs about $39 a month, less if you pay for the year. It isn't in the per sale math because it doesn't change with volume, but it's real money. At 20 shirts a month it's about $2 a shirt, which would take the default example from $6.33 down to a bit over $4. At 200 a month it's twenty cents and you can stop thinking about it.

A worked example, with a hoodie this time

Say you list a hoodie at $44.99 with free shipping. Printful wants $22.50 for the blank and $7.99 to ship it, so $30.49 is gone before anyone takes a fee. Shopify Payments takes $1.60 and you keep $12.90, which works out to 28.7%. If you wanted 30%, $45.89 gets you there. Type those numbers in above if you don't believe me. The same hoodie sold on Etsy pays $4.72 in fees and leaves $9.78, so Shopify is worth about three dollars more per hoodie, as long as you can get people to the store yourself.

Etsy sellers

The Etsy profit calculator has Etsy's fees preloaded and a note on Offsite Ads. The print on demand profit calculator covers Etsy, Shopify, or your own custom fees.