United Kingdom · GBP

Shopify UK Profit Calculator

Estimate the profit you keep after UK payment fees, VAT, subscription costs, shipping and refunds. All calculation amounts are GBP.

United Kingdom · GBP stays fixed. Fee-policy guidance is provided in English.

Sales conditions

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Before the discount below; use the selected VAT price basis.
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Actual economic cost in GBP. Include unrecoverable VAT; no automatic input-VAT recovery.
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Include any hybrid premium in this total.
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Includes all payment-processing additions. Disables price solving.
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No automatic Shopify third-party fee for manual / exempt payments.
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VAT is kept out of seller revenue. Costs must be actual economic amounts: input VAT is not automatically recovered. Select the shipping VAT treatment separately. This model covers ordinary UK domestic orders; it does not determine cross-border or Northern Ireland VAT.
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Subscription and operating costs
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Use your contracted economic cost, including unrecoverable billing VAT if applicable.
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Shopify transaction fee
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Overrides the automatic amount. For mixed gift-card/store-credit orders, enter the total billed Shopify charge once.
Shopify Tax — merchant service fee, separate from VAT
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Enter the order amount used by Shopify; this calculator does not guess its fee base.
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Required for older stores to apply the £5,000 regional annual cap.
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Public Shopify Tax pricing applies below US$25 million in the relevant annual or lifetime sales basis; use actual fees outside that scope. UK free tier: £100,000 global sales, annual for older stores and lifetime for stores created on/after 13 May 2026. Eligible charged orders use 0.25% (0.15% Plus), at most £0.99. Older-store regional annual cap: £5,000. Threshold usage is not inferred; confirm in Shopify Admin. Use actual fees outside the public pricing scope.
Currency conversion
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Only a separate charge; do not enter the conversion fee again.
Displayed currency alone does not determine fees. The 2% estimate requires a non-GBP capture, GBP payout and actual gross GBP equivalent. Gross order includes any markup already paid by the buyer; this calculator never adds that markup again. No exchange-rate gain is assumed. Enter each fee once. Non-GBP payouts or unknown conversions require actual GBP fee inputs.
Actual refund / return ledger
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Required for a VAT-registered refund. Do not assume a tax correction.
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Inventory recovery credit only; original product cost remains a separate line.
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Third-party processor only; Shopify Payments original card fees stay charged.
Refunds reduce revenue and reverse only the VAT amount you enter. Original card processing, Shopify third-party transaction fees and conversion costs stay charged. Enter return costs only if they are not already included in another cost. Price solving is unavailable for actual refund scenarios.

Estimate Shopify UK profit in GBP

Choose the plan and the processor that captured this order, then enter price, discount and actual economic costs. Identify your VAT registration and price basis before interpreting revenue. Add subscription allocation, service fees and an actual refund only when they apply. Net margin divides profit by retained revenue excluding VAT.

UK plan costs and online cards

PlanMonthly / annual effective monthlyDomestic standardAmex / international
Basic£25 / £192% + £0.253.1% + £0.25
Grow£65 / £491.7% + £0.252.7% + £0.25
Advanced£344 / £2591.5% + £0.252.5% + £0.25
PlusFrom £1,800; contract-specificFrom 1.3% + £0.25Use contract rate

Plus calculations require an actual processing rate or amount. Enter the actual subscription whenever billing VAT, promotions or contract terms change the economic cost. Subscription costs are not allocated until positive monthly order volume is entered.

VAT-inclusive and VAT-exclusive examples

For a registered seller, £120 including 20% VAT contains £100 merchandise revenue and £20 output VAT. Basic domestic card processing on the £120 captured amount is £2.65. A £100 VAT-exclusive price plus 20% VAT produces the same £120 payment. This calculator removes the VAT once, then subtracts fees and the economic costs entered.

Discount uses the same VAT basis as the price. Buyer-paid delivery has its own price basis and VAT selection. Standard, reduced, zero-rated and exempt sales have different tax treatment; the calculator does not decide the correct classification or recover input VAT. Cross-border, Northern Ireland and import-value rules need separate review.

Payment paths, refunds and price decisions

An external provider's processing fee is separate from Shopify's transaction fee: Basic 2%, Grow 1%, Advanced 0.6%, Plus 0.2%, based on discounted goods, tax and shipping. Manual/exempt payments do not automatically incur that fee. In a hybrid store, select the actual processor for this order; the Shopify Payments published path adds its 1.25% premium, while the external path uses the plan's transaction fee. Actual total processing rates already include any premium you enter.

Refunds keep original fees and original costs in separate lines. Only the entered inventory recovery, external-provider credit and VAT reversal are credited. Solvers use the forward calculator, round required prices upward to pennies and check the result. Absolute fee amounts, fixed Shopify Tax scenarios and actual refunds disable solving.

Shopify UK fee questions

Is the international card rate added to the domestic rate?

No. Choose one card route. Basic international processing uses 3.1% + £0.25, not 2% plus 3.1%. International Amex is not charged twice.

What is different about Shopify Tax in the UK?

It is a merchant service fee separate from customer VAT. The UK rates are 0.25% or 0.15% for Plus, with a £0.99 order cap. Select confirmed eligibility and enter the applicable amount. Older stores also need actual regional annual fee usage for the £5,000 cap; newer stores have a lifetime threshold and no old annual cap.

What if a gift card or store credit paid part of the order?

For applicable stores created on/after 12 May 2025, only that payment portion can attract the special transaction fee. Split-tender processing is not guessed here. Enter actual total payment processing and actual total Shopify transaction charges to avoid charging the whole order twice.

Does an international display price always cause conversion costs?

No. Capture and payout currencies matter. Supply gross GBP equivalents from actual records before estimating a fee. The model applies the UK 2% gross basis from 6 April 2026 only to a confirmed applicable Shopify Payments conversion. Use actual fees for other arrangements; no exchange rate is invented.

Are fees refunded when the customer is refunded?

Shopify Payments original card fees and Shopify third-party transaction fees remain charged. Currency conversion fees also remain charged. Any external-provider refund credit must follow that provider's actual policy and be entered separately.

Official sources

Policies last checked: 11 October 2026. Check your Shopify billing and contract before making pricing decisions.

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