Know your numbers.
Find your break-even.

Find out how many orders your store needs to cover its costs. Adjust your Shopify plan, payment fees, product economics and operating overheads to model monthly profitability.

1. Shopify Plan and Payment Fees

Store country / region

Shopify plan

Billing arrangement

Subscription (AUD/month)

Payment processing (%)

Processing fixed fee (AUD/order)

Extra gateway fee (%)

Published regional defaults, not a live Shopify price feed. Pricing checked 15 November 2026. Shopify Plus is contract-based. Check your actual rates and edit any amount. Shopify regional pricing.

Revenue assumptions

Average order value ($)

Forecast orders / month

2. Variable Costs Per Order

Landed product cost ($)Include product cost, inbound freight and duties.

Acquisition cost allocated per order ($)Total variable acquisition spend divided by all orders, not just new customers.

Shipping and fulfilment ($)Net of shipping revenue already included in AOV.

Packaging ($)

Expected returns and refunds cost ($)Average net loss per placed order, avoiding double-counted refunded revenue.

Other variable costs ($)

Use net realised AOV after discounts and expected refunds, excluding GST. If you use gross AOV instead, model the corresponding discount and refund effects in your costs consistently.

3. Fixed Monthly Costs

Apps and software ($)

Staff and contractors ($)

Warehouse and storage ($)

Fixed marketing overhead ($)

Maintenance and development ($)

Other admin and overhead ($)

Avoid double-counting acquisition spend in both CAC and fixed marketing overhead.

4. Your Break-Even Point

Orders to break even–

Monthly sales needed–

Contribution / order–

Forecast monthly profit–

Monthly forecast

Revenue–

Total costs–

Contribution margin–

Fixed costs–

Profitability by Monthly Order Volume

RevenueTotal costsProfit

Shopify Plan Comparison

Compares subscription and processing fees at your forecast transaction volume. Other costs remain unchanged. Plan eligibility, negotiated rates, features and third-party fees may differ.

Plan	Subscription / month	Card rate	Platform + payment fees / month	Forecast profit

Methodology and assumptions

Contribution per order = net AOV minus landed product cost, acquisition cost, shipping, packaging, returns allowance, other variable costs and payment processing fees. Break-even orders = monthly fixed costs divided by positive contribution per order, rounded up. Profit = order count multiplied by contribution per order, minus monthly fixed costs. Plan comparison assumes the same order volume and product economics across plans.

All monetary inputs should be in the selected modelling currency, tax-exclusive, and consistently net of refunds and discounts. Flat payment fees are charged once per order. This simplified model does not account for income tax, financing, cash-flow timing, inventory purchasing cycles, revenue mix, or payment-method variations. For New Zealand, Shopify advertises subscription pricing in USD and domestic payment fees in NZD. The editable exchange-rate assumption is only used to convert the subscription for this model. Plus pricing is indicative and often negotiated. Plan comparisons use published or indicative defaults and are not a recommendation to change plans.