I recently started 3 new shops and was extremely satisfied with Shopify, until I received my first invoice and found that Shopify charges a 2% fee for EVERY TRANSACTION, just because I am using a third party payment provider (since Shopify Pay is not available in my country). So I am not only paying…

I ended up moving all 3 my shops to Woocommerce and now instead of earning a minimum of $75 per site per month from me for years to come, Shopify will earn $0 from me in the future. I guess they don’t care about that, but I’m happy to be free of their greedy transaction fees.

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 Shopif…

Sorry but this won’t help at all…you want your customers to pay on your website when they place the order. If you set up manual payments you would have to make contact with the customer with instructions on how to make payment outside of Shopify, which is a very bad idea.

Mollie is a payment provider (so you need to pay 2% transaction fee). This solution is a checkout solution powered by Stripe, so you only pay Stripe commissions. Visit the solution’s website, the installation package is available there.

Yes, a Stripe account is required for this solution. If Stripe is not available in your country, you can open a Stripe account by opening a company in the USA. For this, there is a Stripe service called Stripe Atlas to create a company in the USA.

The only solution seems to be the solution @rocaces recommends. Also when I look at Stripe Pricing, there are low commissions at cent level for iDEAL payment method.

I can confirm that manual payment methods don’t incur transaction fees, but I don’t see how this is a solution. Effectively the customer does not do the payment right there and then and you have to email them a payment link or give them details on how to complete the payment in some other way after …

No, I think “Manually Capture Payments” on Shopify settings means that when a customer places an order, you need to manually hit the Capture button to process the pre-authorised card payment, rather than it happening at the same time as authorisation. It allows you some time to e.g. check with your …

Just to clarify how this works: If you use a third-party payment gateway like Authorize.net , you can avoid Shopify’s 2% transaction fee by setting manual payment capture in Shopify. Here’s how it works: When a customer checks out, the payment is authorized by your third-party gateway ( Authorize.n…

Wow, I didn’t know that. If this is the case, it’s pretty cool. Surprise Shopify would allow it. I might do a test on my on store to see if it works.

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

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MyCsPiTTa January 17, 2025, 12:18pm 31

Can you confirm this?

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

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