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Why sellers switch
We never take a cut, on any plan. Payments go straight to your own Stripe account at Stripe's standard rate. Shopify adds up to 2% to every sale if you use a payment provider other than its own.
Reviews, upsells, pop-ups, wishlists, unfinished-checkout reminders, sales tax by state, and USPS, UPS and FedEx labels all come with your store. Elsewhere, many of these are paid add-ons.
Unlimited products and orders on the Free plan. When you want your own domain, plans start at $19 a month. Shopify Basic is $39 a month billed monthly.
How we compare
| Qartoos | Shopify | Wix | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan that takes orders | Free forever | 3-day trial | Paid plan needed to accept payments | 14-day trial |
| Platform fee on your sales | 0% on every plan | 2% on Basic with other payment providers | 0% | 2% on Basic |
| Cheapest plan with online payments | $0 | $39/mo, or $29/mo billed yearly | $29/mo billed yearly | Paid plans only |
From each company's US pricing page, October 2026. Card processing fees are charged by the payment provider on every platform.
Everything a small business needs
Pick a design. See it as a live shop.
Starter designs also unlock the design studio: colors, fonts and section order with a live preview.
Simple pricing. 0% commission on every plan.
Prices per month in US dollars. Yearly billing gives you about 2 months free. Cancel any time.
- Unlimited products and orders
- 0% platform commission on sales
- Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay payments through your own Stripe account
- All 5 store designs
- Sales tax by state, and receipts
- Shipping labels and tracking with Shippo
- Coupons, reviews, wishlist, slide-out cart, size charts, ZIP code checker
- Google and Meta catalog feeds, bulk upload from a spreadsheet
- Customer accounts with one-tap reorder, refer-a-friend, review requests
- Frequently bought together and a conversion funnel in Insights
- yourshop.qartoos.com with a small "Made with Qartoos" badge
- Everything in Free
- 250 orders a month included
- Your own domain (www.yourbrand.com) with free HTTPS
- No Qartoos badge
- Meta Pixel and Google Analytics on your domain
- Design studio: colors, fonts, layouts and home-page sections
- 3 premium templates and a shoppable social feed
- Everything in Starter
- 500 orders a month included
- Win back unfinished checkouts by text or email
- Cart suggestions, quantity discounts, gift wrap
- Discount pop-up and sale countdown
- Back-in-stock alerts and recent-sales count
- Pre-orders and product videos
- Live carrier rates at checkout and return labels
- Bundle and buy-X-get-Y offers, loyalty credit
- Insights by source, device and product; sign-in from any device; review reminders and thank-you coupons
- Everything in Growth
- Full setup done free by our team
- Priority email and phone support
- 1,000 orders a month included, then $0.15 per order
Doing thousands of orders a month? Scale gives you your own account manager, from $499 a month →
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