Shopify charges in Pakistan: the real monthly fee

What Shopify charges in Pakistan

The monthly fee is US$19 on Basic if you pay for the year, or US$25 if you pay month to month. Shopify publishes a Pakistan price list and it is in US dollars — there is no rupee price list at all. These are the figures on that page today, with the two billing choices side by side; the cheaper column is what committing to a year up front buys you.

The offer that gets people in is three days free, then US$1 a month for three months. It is a real offer and worth taking. It is also the reason the fourth month surprises people: nothing has gone wrong, the promotional quarter simply ended.

US$3

The promotional quarter

Three months at $1, after three days free.

US$228

A year of Basic, billed yearly

Committed up front, in dollars.

US$300

A year of Basic, billed monthly

The price of keeping the flexibility.

Both figures are before a single paid app, and before the theme.

The monthly fee in rupees

Shopify’s monthly charges are published in dollars and nowhere in rupees, so what follows is arithmetic rather than a figure quoted from them: the dollar prices above, converted at the interbank rate on 25 September 2026 of Rs 277.60 to the dollar. Read every number in this table as a floor — your bank charges an international card at its own rate, which sits above interbank.

Is Shopify worth the monthly fee?

For a lot of stores, yes, and that belongs before the alternative rather than after it. Roughly Rs 63,290 a year buys a checkout tested by millions of orders, a theme editor a non-technical person can actually use, an app store for everything you have not thought of yet, hosting that survives your best day, and a public company carrying the security of a payment flow. None of that is nothing.

The alternative is not a cheaper Shopify — it is a different trade. A storefront built for you once, quoted per store after looking at what you have, and then Rs 30,000 a year for the panel behind it, invoiced in rupees by bank transfer with no card and no dollar anywhere in it. The panel runs the parts of a shop that are not the shop window: the checkout’s arithmetic — every figure recomputed on the server, so a browser can never set a price — cash on delivery, delivery zones, sales and discounts, order confirmations, catalogue and inventory, couriers and payouts. Both paths are set out in full further down this page.

The dollar is the part people underestimate

A Pakistani store pays that bill in dollars, on a card that can be charged in dollars, every month, at whatever rate the bank gives that day. The rupee figure is therefore not fixed: the price you agreed to is a dollar price, and the amount that leaves your account moves with the exchange rate for as long as you have a store.

That is not a Shopify criticism — it is a company selling worldwide in its own currency, which is normal. It is worth stating because it is the cost people forget when they compare a monthly dollar figure against something quoted in rupees.

Shopify Payments does not operate in Pakistan

Shopify’s own payment processing is available in a specific list of countries, and Pakistan is not on it. Their help centre is direct about what follows: if your country is not listed, you use a third-party payment provider. Two consequences for a store here.

• Card payments go through a Pakistani gateway, with that gateway’s own rate and its own onboarding — a separate relationship you arrange yourself.
• Shopify adds a transaction fee on orders taken that way, on top of what the gateway charges. The percentage depends on your plan and falls as the plan gets more expensive.

Checked September 2026. Prices and features of other products change often. These were read from each company’s own site on that date — check them yourself before deciding anything, and tell us if one is out of date.

What the subscription genuinely buys

Being fair about this is not generosity, it is the only way the rest of the page is worth reading. For that money you get a storefront, a cart and a checkout that has been tested by millions of orders; hosting that stays up on the day you go viral; a theme editor a non-technical person can actually use; an app store for everything you have not thought of yet; and someone else carrying the security of a payment flow. Building and maintaining that yourself is not free — it is just a cost that shows up as your time instead of as an invoice.

What it cannot tell you

Shopify reports what your store did. It does not know what a cash-on-delivery order costs you between the sale and the money arriving, because almost none of that happens on your website:

• What the goods cost you, per variant, as your supplier prices move.
• What the courier charged for forward freight, and again for the parcel that came back.
• What was withheld before the remittance reached your account.
• Whether the remittance was correct — the payout arrives weeks later, as one figure covering many orders.

That gap is not a Shopify failing either; it is true of every storefront platform, and it is why the number in your dashboard and the number in your bank never match. We wrote the arithmetic out in full in what a cash-on-delivery order actually costs.

So there are two different decisions

They get talked about as one, and they are not remotely the same size. One is an invoice. The other is a rebuild.

The first one is a decision you can make this week and undo whenever you like. The second is worth understanding properly before anyone quotes you for it, so here is the honest version of what it involves.

What actually survives a migration

The part people get wrong: the URLs

This is what decides whether a move costs you search traffic, and it is the most controllable thing in the whole job. Shopify’s address shapes are predictable, so they can be reproduced character for character — no redirect, nothing to leak through.

Next

If you want to see what the back office looks like before any of this, the demo is a real dashboard running on invented data. If you are weighing the profit side specifically, profit tracking when you are not on Shopify covers the tools that do and do not work off-platform.