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Shopify vs. WooCommerce Stripe Processing Fees

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
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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