Why does Shopify charge a 2% transaction fee for third-party providers?

To avoid the 2% transaction fee from Shopify, please make sure to set up manual payment capture in Shopify. This means you should only capture payments through your third-party gateway. By doing this, you will only incur the fees from the third-party gateway and not the additional 2% fee from Shopify. If payments are captured on Shopify first, then the third-party gateway will charge twice. So, make sure to capture payments manually through the third party. I hope this helps!