How much does Shopify cost?

Shopify publishes 3 tiers, from $5/month for Starter up to $79/month for Standard. The cheapest paid tier is $5/month.

Does Shopify have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Shopify is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Starter and Basic on Shopify?

Basic costs $29/month against $5/month, and adds online store, up to 2 staff accounts, basic reports, email support.

Is the Standard plan on Shopify worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is professional reports, gift cards, up to 15 staff accounts, priority email support. It costs $79/month against $5/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which print & publishing tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 5 print & publishing tools listed alongside Shopify have a free tier: GIMP, Marq.

Does Shopify charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Shopify prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Shopify against before paying?

The closest print & publishing tools in this directory are Blurb, GIMP, Lulu, Marq. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Shopify covering price, platforms and features.

Print & Publishing · pricing

Shopify pricing

Shopify publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: $29/month
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Not on record

Shopify plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Shopify pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Starter	$5/month	4	Entry tier
Basic	$29/month	4	+$24/month, 4 more features
Standard	$79/month	4	+$50/month, 4 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Starter

$5/month

The entry tier. It covers buy button & sales channel, abandoned checkout recovery, basic reporting, 24/7 support.

Basic

$29/month

Over Starter, this tier adds:

Online store
Up to 2 staff accounts
Basic reports
Email support

Standard

$79/month

Over Basic, this tier adds:

Professional reports
Gift cards
Up to 15 staff accounts
Priority email support

What the product covers

The full Shopify feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Hosted ecommerce platform
Payment processing
Inventory management
Order tracking
Marketing automation
Apps and integrations
Multi-channel selling
SSL certificate

People bring Shopify in for running a hosted ecommerce store with payments and fulfilment, selling across online, in person and social channels from one catalogue. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Shopify are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Print & Publishing

Too few print & publishing tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Shopify entry price against other Print & Publishing tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Shopify (this page)	$29/month	subscription	-
Blurb	On request	usage-based	-	vs Shopify
GIMP	Free	open-source	-	vs Shopify
Lulu	On request	usage-based	-	vs Shopify
Marq	Free	freemium	-	vs Shopify
QuarkXPress	On request	one-time	-	vs Shopify

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Shopify badges page.

Before you pay for Shopify

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between $5/month and $79/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Shopify against the tools that do have one before committing.

Shopify runs on web, and is published by Shopify Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The full record is on the Shopify review, and the rest of the category is under best print & publishing tools.

Shopify pricing on the vendor's own site

Shopify pricing questions

How much does Shopify cost?: Shopify publishes 3 tiers, from $5/month for Starter up to $79/month for Standard. The cheapest paid tier is $5/month.
Does Shopify have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: Shopify is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
What is the difference between Starter and Basic on Shopify?: Basic costs $29/month against $5/month, and adds online store, up to 2 staff accounts, basic reports, email support.
Is the Standard plan on Shopify worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is professional reports, gift cards, up to 15 staff accounts, priority email support. It costs $79/month against $5/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which print & publishing tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 5 print & publishing tools listed alongside Shopify have a free tier: GIMP, Marq.
What am I actually paying for with Shopify?: The record lists 8 features across 1 area: core. In practice it is brought in for running a hosted ecommerce store with payments and fulfilment, selling across online, in person and social channels from one catalogue.
Does Shopify charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Shopify prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Shopify against before paying?: The closest print & publishing tools in this directory are Blurb, GIMP, Lulu, Marq. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Shopify covering price, platforms and features.