WooCommerce’s Stripe payment gateway integration is freely available alongside the free WooCommerce eCommerce platform. Unlike Shopify which charges an additional transaction fee of 0.20% for using a 3rd party payment gateway, WooCommerce charges no additional fee.
WooCommerce + Stripe | Shopify + Stripe | |
Fee | 0.29% + $0.30 | 0.29% + $0.30 + 0.20% |
An extra 0.20% might not seem like much at first, but it adds up very quickly. See the table below. When using Stripe processing with Shopify you are losing $1 on every $50 (vs WooCommerce). Selling more than $300/month means a loss the same as the monthly price of BigBox — paying for itself effortlessly!
Takehome | |||
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Sale | WooCommerce | Shopify | Loss |
$50 | $48.25 | $47.25 | $1 |
$100 | $96.8 | $94.8 | $2 |
$150 | $145.35 | $142.35 | $3 |
$200 | $193.9 | $189.9 | $4 |
$250 | $242.45 | $237.45 | $5 |
$300 | $291 | $285 | $6 |
$350 | $339.55 | $332.55 | $7 |
$400 | $388.1 | $380.1 | $8 |
$450 | $436.65 | $427.65 | $9 |
$500 | $485.2 | $475.2 | $10 |
$550 | $533.75 | $522.75 | $11 |
$600 | $582.3 | $570.3 | $12 |
$650 | $630.85 | $617.85 | $13 |
$700 | $679.4 | $665.4 | $14 |
$750 | $727.95 | $712.95 | $15 |
$800 | $776.5 | $760.5 | $16 |
$850 | $825.05 | $808.05 | $17 |
$900 | $873.6 | $855.6 | $18 |
$950 | $922.15 | $903.15 | $19 |
$1000 | $970.7 | $950.7 | $20 |
As illustrated above the higher your item price is the more is lost per sale when having to pay Shopify’s additional 0.20%.
These fees apply to all 3rd party Shopify payment processor usage. WooCommerce offers over 80 payment processing extensions that incur no additional transaction fees when used alongside WooCommerce.
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