On a $40 print that costs you $18 to make and ship, you keep $17.75. If that sale came from an Offsite Ad, you keep $11.75. That is about one-third of your profit, gone, from an ad you never set up. Etsy signs most shops up automatically, and the fee only shows when a sale…
You sell a used camera for $300, and the buyer wants to pay through Venmo. The payment comes through, but you notice that $8.97 is missing. What happened? The buyer marked the payment as Goods and Services, which means Venmo charged you a seller fee. This is one of the main differences between Venmo Goods…
Picture two Shopify stores. Same Basic plan, same 400 orders a month, same $50 average cart. One takes cards with Shopify Payments and pays $729 for the month. The other uses an outside card processor with the exact same rate, 2.9% + 30ยข, and pays $1,129. That $400 gap is not a processing fee. It…