Shopify Profit Margin Calculator
CheckedThis Shopify profit margin calculator shows the net margin and monthly profit on a product after payments, your plan and your costs. Free, no sign-up, and the result updates as you type.
Shopify takes no commission on a sale. On the Basic plan with Shopify Payments a $100 online order costs $3.20 in card processing (2.9% + 30¢), plus the monthly plan fee divided across that month's orders; a payment gateway other than Shopify Payments adds 2%.
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Shopify bills you twice and only one of the charges is obvious. Shopify Payments takes 2.9% plus $0.30 from every order, which most sellers do remember, and the plan takes a fixed sum every month whether you sell one order or a thousand, which most sellers leave out of their margin entirely. Amortised over 150 orders a $39 plan is 26 cents; over 12 orders it is $3.25, and on a $49 product that swing is six points of margin. This calculator divides the subscription across your real order volume and shows the per-order and per-month figures together.
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How are Shopify fees calculated?
Profit per order = price − product cost − fulfilment − (price × processing rate + $0.30) − (monthly plan ÷ orders per month)
LaTeX source
\text{Net} = P - C - F - \left[P \times \frac{r}{100} + f\right] - \frac{S}{n} How much are Shopify fees in 2026?
| Fee | Rate | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify Payments, online (Basic) Lower on the Grow and Advanced plans. | 2.9% + 30¢ | Lower on the Grow and Advanced plans. |
| Third-party gateway surcharge (Basic) Only when you take payments outside Shopify Payments. 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced. | 2% | Only when you take payments outside Shopify Payments. 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced. |
US rates for a standard account, from the sources listed at the bottom of this page. The calculator above takes its default rates from this table.
Worked examples
A $49 product at 150 orders a month
47.0% net margin
Processing is $1.72 and the plan adds 26 cents, so Shopify takes $1.98 of the $49. After $18 of product and $6 of fulfilment, $23.02 is left per order and $3,452.85 for the month. This figure is before advertising — if it costs $9 to acquire an order, put that in the product cost field and the margin falls to about 28%.
The numbers used
- Selling price
- 49
- Product cost
- 18
- Fulfilment cost
- 6
- Payment processing rate
- 2.9
- Per-transaction fee
- 0.3
- Monthly plan fee
- 39
- Orders per month
- 150
The same product at 12 orders a month
40.9% net margin
Nothing about the product changed. The plan is now $3.25 an order rather than 26 cents, and it costs six points of margin — more than the payment processing does. At this volume the subscription is your largest Shopify fee, and the month clears $240.35 in total.
The numbers used
- Selling price
- 49
- Product cost
- 18
- Fulfilment cost
- 6
- Payment processing rate
- 2.9
- Per-transaction fee
- 0.3
- Monthly plan fee
- 39
- Orders per month
- 12
Questions sellers ask
How much does Shopify take from a $20 sale?
Shopify Payments takes 2.9% plus $0.30, so $0.88 on a $20 order. The subscription is on top: at 100 orders a month a $39 Basic plan adds $0.39 per order, bringing the real total to $1.27, or 6.4% of the sale. Using an outside gateway instead of Shopify Payments adds a third-party transaction fee on every order, which is usually the more expensive option.
Is a 50% profit margin too much?
Not on a direct-to-consumer store that pays for its traffic. Ads, returns and discount codes all come out of the gross margin, so a 50% starting margin can shrink to a small fraction of that once they are paid. The figure worth watching is what is left after cost per acquired order, not the headline number on the product page.
Can you make 10k a month on Shopify?
It is a volume question, not a store question. At $23 of profit per order you need roughly 435 orders a month to clear $10,000; at $5 of profit you need 2,000. Set your realistic order count in this calculator and read the monthly profit line — that is the honest version of the target, and it usually shows that the profit per order matters more than the traffic.
What is a 30% margin on $100?
A 30% margin on a $100 sale is $30 of profit, meaning $70 of total cost. On Shopify, $3.20 of that $70 is payment processing before you have bought anything, and the plan share comes on top. Sellers who price to a 30% margin on product cost alone are usually landing nearer 25% once the two Shopify charges are counted.
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