[shafyy]

I'm not a Shopify partner, but it looks like this is nothing new or suprising, and clearly stated in their terms. Why are you suprised or pissed off?

Or maybe I don't understand how exactly you use Stripe in connection to Shopify. Can you tell us more about what your app does and how you use Stripe?

[piyush_soni]

Just because Apple also has everything "written down" in their terms, but Shopify CEO is pissed off by them. Also, because they're asking for the commission retroactively for any billing they have done bypassing their API.

[MattRix]

Apple’s store is the only way to distribute iOS apps. Shopify is not the only ecommerce platform, and on top of that, you can even make plugins for Shopify users without going through their app store. It’s completely different. You have a choice.

[Number157]

Because they're paying for a platform to deliver services and the platform then tries to dictate how they run their business. It's questionable at best and should perhaps be illegal.

[duskwuff]

No, you've misunderstood the situation here.

OP is not "paying for a platform" on Shopify -- they are not a customer of Shopify running a store. OP is a Shopify partner offering a service to Shopify's clients, through Shopify's own web site, and is expected to pay Shopify a cut of their profits in exchange for being featured this way. This is a standard practice for this type of partnership.

[doikor]

> expected to pay Shopify a cut of their profits

A cut of the profits would be really nice actually. A cut of revenue is a totally different beast.

[boringg]

True that! Though then you would get into games of companies hiding profit to avoid paying.