What a Shopify store costs to build and run in Ireland, in euro: our fixed build prices, Shopify’s own plan fees and card rates, and what moves the price up or down. Built and looked after from Cork for businesses all over Ireland.
Shopify bills its plans in euro. These are the prices on Shopify’s Irish pricing page, excluding VAT. Paying for a year up front works out about 10% cheaper.
With Shopify Payments, standard online card rates are 2% + €0.25 on Basic, 1.7% + €0.25 on Grow and 1.5% + €0.25 on Advanced, excluding VAT. Amex and international cards cost a little more. If you use a different payment provider, Shopify adds its own fee of 2%, 1% or 0.6% depending on your plan, which is why most Irish stores stay with Shopify Payments.
Most stores add a few paid apps for things like reviews, email marketing or subscriptions, and spend somewhere between €50 and €200 a month on them. Keep the list short, because every app adds weight to your pages. You will also need a domain name, and a premium theme if you want one, which is a one-off cost.
The biggest factors are how many products you have and how they get loaded, whether content and customers move from an old site, a custom design versus a tailored theme, links to stock, accounting or delivery systems, trade or wholesale pricing, and selling in more than one language or currency. We go through these on a short call and give you a fixed written price before any work starts.
You can open a Shopify account and build a store yourself, and plenty of people do. Paying a designer makes sense when your time is better spent running the business, when you want payments, shipping and VAT right for Ireland first time, or when you are moving an existing shop and cannot afford to lose its Google rankings. If you are moving from WordPress, see our WordPress to Shopify migration service.
Our Shopify maintenance plans start at €190 + VAT a month and cover theme and app updates, your changes, and a person who answers the phone. Rolling monthly, no contract. For everything else about selling on Shopify here, see Shopify in Ireland.
Get a free quote or book a free 15-minute call and we will tell you what your Shopify store involves, in plain terms and with a fixed price.
