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Shopify Profit Margin Calculator

Instantly calculate your Shopify transaction fees, subscription costs, and net profit. Updated for Shopify's 2026 fee structure.

Quick answer

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.

Quick-start scenarios

Your saved scenarios

Stored in this browser only — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create.

Revenue per order

What the buyer pays you for one order.

Shopify charges its percentage fees on this too.
Taken off the sale price before fees are calculated.

Costs per order

Costs you pay every time an order ships.

Monthly

Charged monthly, whatever your order volume — kept out of per-order margin.

Assumes one item per order.

Shopify settings

How Shopify treats your account, and how often orders come back.

Sets both the monthly cost and the card rate.
Payment provider
A third-party gateway adds a Shopify fee on top of the gateway's own.
Each one costs the order plus a $15 dispute fee.
Shopify keeps its card fees on refunds, so a refund costs the order and the fee.

Per order

Order revenue
$20.00
Shopify fees
$0.88
Net profit
$9.12
Margin
45.6%
Strong margin

After Shopify fees, product and shipping costs, and $2.00 of ad spend per order. Monthly plan and storage costs are handled below.

Where your money goes

Per month at 20 orders
Profit
$143.40 · 35.8%
Platform fees
$56.60 · 14.2%
Cost of goods
$100.00 · 25.0%
Shipping
$60.00 · 15.0%
Ad spend
$40.00 · 10.0%

Monthly totals

Revenue$400.00
Shopify fees−$56.60
Product and shipping costs−$160.00
Ad spend−$40.00
Net profit$143.40 · 35.8%

Fee detail

Per order

Payment Processing$0.88
Total per order$0.88

Per month

Shopify Plan$39.00
Total per month$39.00
Break-even price
$10.61

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.

Orders to cover monthly costs
8

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.

Max cost per order
$11.12
Break-even ROAS
1.80x
Your cost per order
$2.00
Headroom
$9.12

You can pay up to $11.12 per order in ads and still break even — currently $2.00.

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. Then every transaction processed through Shopify Payments incurs 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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Frequently Asked Questions

What are Shopify's transaction fees?+
Shopify Payments charges 2.9% + $0.30 per online card transaction on the Basic plan, applied to the total the buyer pays including shipping. Higher plans have lower rates. Using a third-party gateway instead adds a plan-dependent Shopify fee on top of that gateway's own charges — this calculator does not model that yet.
How much do Shopify plans cost?+
Basic is $39/month, Shopify is $105/month, and Advanced is $399/month, billed monthly. Enter your plan in the monthly section — it is charged once a month, so it never distorts the margin on a single order.
Why is my per-order margin different from my monthly margin?+
Because your plan fee is monthly and your product costs are per order. This calculator keeps them apart: per-order margin shows what one sale earns after fees and variable costs, and the monthly view subtracts your plan and ad spend from the whole month. It also shows how many orders it takes to cover those fixed costs.
Does this calculator include Shopify Payments fees?+
Yes — 2.9% + $0.30 on the Basic plan, verified 2026-08-22. If you are on a higher plan, adjust both the plan amount and expect a slightly lower processing rate than the one modelled here.

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