How much does Shopify take per sale? Every fee, explained

Two fees can hit each order directly. The first is card processing: a percentage of the order plus a small fixed amount, charged by Shopify Payments. The rate depends on your plan (higher plans get lower rates) and your country, which is why quoting one universal number here would mislead you - your real rates are in your admin under Settings > Payments and on Shopify's pricing page.

The second only applies if you use a third-party payment provider like Stripe or PayPal as your main gateway: Shopify then adds its own transaction fee per order on top of what that provider charges. Using Shopify Payments removes that extra fee entirely, which is why most stores that have access to it use it.

Shopify does not take a commission on your online store sales beyond these fees. What it takes per sale is processing plus, if applicable, the third-party transaction fee.

Currency conversion is the quiet one: when a customer pays in a currency other than your payout currency, a conversion fee applies on top of processing. For stores selling across borders this adds up fast.

Refunds sting twice. You return the customer's money, but in most regions the processing fee from the original charge is not returned to you - check Shopify's refund documentation for how it works in your country. A store with a 10% refund rate is quietly paying processing fees on a tenth of its revenue twice.

Then there is everything around the sale: the monthly subscription, app subscriptions, shipping labels, themes. None of these are per-sale fees, but they all come out of the same margin, which is why a store can have healthy per-order economics and still lose money in a slow month.

Say your card rate is 2.9% plus 30 cents (a common shape for entry plans - substitute your own rate). On a $50 order, processing takes about $1.75. That sounds small until you put it next to the profit: if your net margin is 15%, the order earns $7.50, and the payment fee alone consumed almost a fifth of the profit before you counted it.

This is why per-order fee tracking matters more than remembering rate cards. The fee is different on every order: card type, gateway, currency and order value all move it.

Easy Profit Calculator subtracts the real payment fee from every order's profit, using per-gateway and per-card-type fee rules, and labels the fee exact or estimated so you know when a number is trustworthy. The payment fees report then totals what each gateway cost you over any period, next to the profit it carried.

That turns "Shopify takes about 3%" from a guess into a per-order line item you can act on: which gateway is cheapest for you, what refunds really cost, and whether a plan upgrade's lower rate would pay for itself.