Shopify Profit Margin Calculator
Instantly calculate your Shopify transaction fees, subscription costs, and net profit. Updated for Shopify's 2026 fee structure.
On a $50 Shopify order with $25 cost of goods, Shopify Payments takes $1.75 (2.9% + $0.30), leaving $23.25 per order (46.5%) before shipping costs and ads. Your $39 plan needs 2 orders a month to pay for itself.
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After Shopify fees, product and shipping costs, and $2.00 of ad spend per order. Monthly plan and storage costs are handled below.
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The sale price where one order nets exactly zero — covering percentage fees, per-unit and flat fees, your costs, and this order's share of ad spend.
Needed to cover $79.00 of monthly ad spend and fixed costs. You're planning 20.
Ad economics
An order can pay at most its contribution — revenue after fees and variable costs — to win a customer. Spend more than that and the order is bought at a loss.
You can pay up to $11.12 per order in ads and still break even — currently $2.00.
Shopify profit example: a $30 product
The Basic plan card rate applies to the product and buyer-paid shipping. Per-order profit includes allocated advertising; the monthly result also subtracts the plan, so a positive product margin alone does not establish store profitability.
Load “$30 clothing + $5 shipping” above or open this exact scenario in a new tab. The example assumes 60 orders and $200.00 in advertising per month. Values are calculated with the same fee engine as the tool and rounded only for display.
- Buyer payment per order
- $35.00
- Payment Processing per order
- $1.32
- Product cost per order
- $10.00
- Your shipping cost per order
- $5.00
- Advertising per order
- $3.33
- Profit per order before monthly recurring costs
- $15.35
- Monthly recurring fees
- $39.00
- Monthly profit after recurring fees
- $882.10
Before monthly recurring costs, the maximum acquisition cost is $18.69 per order: revenue divided by that amount gives a break-even ROAS of 1.87. To cover a plan, storage or other overhead, allow less for acquisition.
This example uses standard domestic online cards and monthly billing. Premium or international cards, tax, currency conversion and other gateway charges may differ. Add apps, refunds and chargebacks when applicable. Review fee sources and methodology.
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How Shopify Fees Work
Shopify merchants need a clear picture of their true profit after all platform fees are accounted for. With subscription costs, transaction fees, and payment processing charges, it's not always obvious how much you're really earning on each sale.
Shopify's fee structure is straightforward but multi-layered. First, you pay a monthly subscription starting at $39 for the Basic plan. On Basic, standard domestic online card payments incur 2.9% plus $0.30, charged on the full amount the buyer pays including shipping. If you use a third-party payment provider, Shopify charges an additional plan-dependent fee on top.
Our Shopify Profit Margin Calculator gives you an instant breakdown of all costs — and keeps the two time bases apart. Per-order results show what a single sale earns after processing fees and variable costs; the monthly view subtracts your plan and ad spend and tells you how many orders it takes to cover them. Enter your sale price, shipping charged, cost of goods, monthly order volume, and plan to see both.
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