Shopify Monthly Profit Calculator

Break-even orders = plan cost / gross profit per order. On the US monthly Basic plan ($39), $8 gross profit per order requires 5 orders to cover the subscription. At 50 orders, the plan contributes $0.78 per order; the fixed cost matters most at low volume.

Annual billing is lower than US monthly billing. On Basic, the current reference is $39/month billed monthly versus $29/month billed annually, a $120 annual difference. Confirm your local price and commitment terms before choosing annual billing.

Etsy has no standard monthly subscription but charges transaction and payment fees per sale. Shopify Basic combines payment processing with a fixed subscription. The crossover depends on the current local plan price, order value, Etsy payment rate, and acquisition cost; calculate it with your actual inputs instead of relying on a universal order count.

Per-order profit calculators ignore the fixed subscription — a store earning $9/order profit on Basic looks identical to one on Grow at the per-order level, but the US monthly Grow plan costs $66 more. Monthly profit only becomes clear once you multiply per-order profit by volume and subtract the plan cost, which is exactly what this calculator does.

Upgrade when the processing rate savings (2.9% → 2.7%, a 0.2 percentage-point drop) exceed the US monthly $66 plan difference. Break-even revenue = $66 / 0.002 = $33,000/month. Below $33k/month revenue, Basic is usually the cheaper plan unless you specifically need a Grow-only feature.

eBay (~13.6% final value fee) and TikTok Shop (6% flat commission in this calculator) have no monthly subscription — fees scale purely with sales, so a slow month costs you nothing extra. Shopify's US monthly $39–399 plan cost is fixed regardless of sales volume, meaning a slow month hurts more on Shopify. This is the key trade-off: marketplaces protect you in low-volume months, Shopify rewards you in high-volume months.