Which Plan Actually Costs You Least

Shopify Plan Picker

Six questions return the Shopify plan with the lowest total cost at your volume, the revenue at which the next tier overtakes it, and a separate read on whether Plus fits your feature needs.

✓ Lowest total cost across all four plans
✓ Gateway-aware: third-party surcharges change which plan wins
✓ Cost health as a percentage of revenue
✓ Plus feature-fit scored separately from cost
Step 1 of 6 Revenue

01 / Revenue

What's your monthly online revenue?

Sales processed through your Shopify online checkout in a typical month. This drives the entire comparison. For example, 85,000.

How this is calculated

Every plan is costed at your numbers, then ranked on subscription plus what Shopify takes per transaction. App spend is added to the headline figure when you give it, but it is deliberately excluded from the ranking: it is the same number on every row, so including it could only obscure which plan is actually cheaper.

platform + processing = subscription + (revenue × effective rate) + (orders × $)

The effective rate is the plan's card rate, plus Shopify's third-party surcharge when Shopify Payments is not your primary gateway. That surcharge differs per plan, which is why the gateway answer changes not just the totals but which plan wins.

Plan rates and gateway surcharges

Plan Monthly Online card rate Per order Third-party gateway

Rates as published on shopify.com/pricing, verified . The third-party figure is Shopify's own cut and never includes what your gateway charges, so a third-party total here is lower than your real bill.

The cost-health band

Platform and processing above % of revenue is flagged as higher than expected, and above % as likely the wrong plan or gateway. Those two thresholds are Shero's directional read from client work, not a published benchmark. The band reads the figure shown, rounded to one decimal, so the colour and the number can never disagree.

The Plus-fit score

Scored out of : one point for each of the four feature signals you tick, and one more once annualised revenue reaches . It is a directional read on feature need and is kept out of every cost function, so nothing you answer there can move a dollar figure. Above roughly a year, Plus tends to be argued on features rather than on processing rates.

The Plus subscription shown is the published three-year commitment price; a one-year term is listed at $2,500/mo, and Shopify also offers a variable platform fee for more complex business structures. Its card rate is no longer published at all, so the rate used here is our estimate and is marked as one.

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