Printify Shopify Profit Calculator — Fees, Ads & Margin
Printify on Shopify: add your product quote, shipping, card fees, plan cost and ad spend to see real profit per order and the break-even ad cost.
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Costs & Pricing
For Shopify include your plan cost divided by expected orders. Product quotes are illustrative; replace with your current provider quote.
Full refunds assumed; product, shipping, fees and ads remain paid.
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How a Printify order makes money on Shopify
On Shopify you keep almost the whole sale: there is no marketplace commission, only the card fee and your monthly plan. The cost that a marketplace hides inside its fee — finding the buyer — moves to your ad account. A Printify product that looks very profitable before ads can lose money once you add the cost of the click that sold it.
The Basic preset uses the US Shopify Payments online rate of 2.9% + 30¢. Add the plan and paid apps through the subscription allocation field, and your average ad cost per order through the advertising field.
Worked example: a $28 t-shirt with paid traffic
A customer pays $28 plus $4.50 shipping. Printify charges $12.50 to print and $4.75 to ship. The store sells 150 orders a month on Basic and pays $8 in ads per order. Inputs are illustrative.
| Order revenue (item + shipping) | $32.50 |
| Shopify Payments (2.9% + 30¢) | −$1.24 |
| Basic plan ÷ 150 orders | −$0.26 |
| Printify production | −$12.50 |
| Printify shipping | −$4.75 |
| Contribution before ads (= break-even CPA) | $13.75 |
| Ad cost per order | −$8 |
| Contribution after ads | $5.75 |
Fees and plan take only 4.6% of the order. Ads take 24.6%. The margin falls from 42.3% to 17.7%. To check a campaign, compare its cost per purchase with $13.75, or use the ROAS calculator to turn it into a target ROAS.
Shopify choices that change Printify profit
- Payment provider. Processing cards through a third-party gateway instead of Shopify Payments adds a 2% Shopify fee on Basic — $0.65 on this order — on top of that provider's rate. Choose Custom / Other and enter both.
- Order volume. The plan is fixed, so it costs $2.60 per order at 15 orders a month and $0.26 at 150. Early stores should price as if volume is low.
- Free shipping thresholds. Printify still charges shipping when you offer it free. A threshold that raises average order value with a second item usually works better than absorbing shipping on single-item orders; the free shipping calculator tests the threshold.
- Apps. Reviews, upsell and email apps are monthly costs. Add them to the subscription allocation with the plan.
For plan comparison, buyer tax and annual billing, use the Shopify profit calculator. Shopify rates from Shopify pricing, checked October 11, 2026; your country and account can differ.
Printify Premium on a Shopify store
Premium is $39 a month or $24.99 a month billed yearly, with up to 20% off products. One plan covers up to 10 connected stores, so if the same designs also sell on Etsy or TikTok Shop, count those orders too. At a $1.50 saving per item the break-even is 26 items a month. Enter the Premium quote as production cost and the subscription per order, so the saving is not counted twice.
Plan details from Printify pricing, checked November 7, 2026.
Next step
Compare Printify and Printful quotes for the same product, or see how the same shirt performs on a marketplace with the Printify Etsy calculator. A price that clears your break-even CPA is a starting point; test it with real traffic before scaling ad spend. If paid traffic leaves almost nothing per order, is Printify worth it? covers when a POD store makes sense and when it does not.
Compare Printify fulfillment quotes
Review the exact provider, product, shipping quote and account plan before pricing. Premium discounts depend on the eligible product.
Review the market, fee bases and exclusions shown with this tool. Published rates and illustrative cost inputs have different certainty. Compare your breakdown with an actual order statement. Sources and methodology.