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Shopify Fee Calculator

Shopify looks simple until the store stack spreads across payments, third-party transaction drag, apps, and shipping labels. Use this calculator to see the net left after the Shopify layer before you even start talking about ads.

Model Shopify Payments and third-party transaction drag
Bring per-order app cost into the same read
See what the order keeps before traffic

Calculate Shopify fees

Enter order revenue, product cost, shipping label cost, payment processing rate, any Shopify transaction fee rate, and the app drag allocated to the order. If you use Shopify Payments, the third-party transaction fee can stay at zero.

Order revenue Gross order revenue before the Shopify stack. Product cost Direct product or COGS for the order. Shipping label cost What the order actually costs to ship. Shopify Payments fee rate % Use your plan's current payment rate. Fixed processing fee Fixed fee charged on each transaction. Third-party transaction fee rate % Set to 0 if you use Shopify Payments. Raise it if you use an external gateway. App cost per order Allocated app drag or checkout tooling cost for the order.

Three Shopify store scenarios.

Formula

What the Shopify model includes

Total Shopify drag = Payments fee + Third-party transaction fee + App cost per order

Shopify says stores using Shopify Payments do not pay third-party transaction fees, while stores using an external payment provider can pay both the processor fee and a Shopify transaction fee. This calculator keeps that part explicit so the checkout stack stops hiding inside the payout.

Where stores underestimate drag

App costs get ignored because they are billed monthly instead of per order.
Label cost gets mentally separated from checkout economics.
Changing provider or plan can alter the take more than expected.

Useful next step

Once the Shopify stack is clear, compare it against Stripe or PayPal directly, then collapse the order into payout margin if you want one retained-profit view.