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2.9%
2.9% -- transaction fee rate for Shopify (Basic plan) (2025)
Shopify charges a 2.9% variable transaction fee rate per online transaction on its Basic plan.
- Applies to the Basic plan online transactions
- Does not include the additional fixed $0.30 per transaction fee component
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2.9%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
60
Freshness
95
Source
Shopify
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Tier C
https://yeetcommerce.com/the-zero-fee-revolution-analyzing-yeetcommerce-and-the-disruption-of-e-comm… ↗
Source Article
Zero-Fee E-Commerce: The Future of Online Selling in 2025
The TCO Crisis and the Rise of the Merchant-Centric Model
The global eCommerce market is growing rapidly. It is expected to pass $6.8 trillion in 2025 and move toward $8 trillion by 2027, fueled by 2.77 billion online shoppers.
Yet despite this expansion, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ar…
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Shopify
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Methodology
Shopify Basic plan online transaction fee: 2.9% of transaction value plus $0.30 fixed fee; percentage component extracted. Relayed from Shopify's published pricing.
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Shopify (Basic plan): 2.9% transaction fee rate. Source: Shopify (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/shopify-basic-transaction-fee
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