Shopify vs Etsy Fees UK: How VAT Changes the Math
UK and EU fees differ from the US versions, and VAT moves who owes what. Etsy and Shopify rates plus UK and EU VAT rules, read September 11, 2026.
UK and EU fees differ from the US versions, and VAT moves who owes what. Etsy and Shopify rates plus UK and EU VAT rules, read September 11, 2026.
Shopify publishes no app price. How app charges are billed, read from Shopify’s own help center on September 8, 2026, and what makes the bill grow.
Our Etsy vs Shopify fee calculator takes three numbers. How to find them, check the result against official rates, and see what it leaves out.
Published Etsy to Shopify break-even points disagree because they answer three different questions. Here are the three formulas and your own inputs.
Shopify’s own pricing page, read September 2, 2026: Basic $25/mo, Grow $65/mo. Here is the verified floor, and the costs nobody can publish a price for.
Etsy takes 6.5% per sale. Shopify charges a flat monthly fee. The answer is a break-even, not a winner, and here is the math with assumptions shown.
Your listing copy was written inside a marketplace that answered half the buyer’s questions for you. On your own store nothing answers them. Here is the rewrite.
Almost always yes, but not for the reason people give. A new store cannot be tested against an established marketplace, so measure something else.
What actually changes day to day when you leave Etsy for your own store, from order handling to where your traffic comes from.
A practical checklist to score your migration readiness across revenue, traffic, margin, operations and how much risk you can absorb.
A neutral framework for deciding whether to leave Etsy for Shopify: three verdicts, five diagnostics, and thresholds you test on your own numbers.