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by Number157 1938 days ago
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.
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duskwuff 1938 days ago
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.

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doikor 1938 days ago
> 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.

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boringg 1937 days ago
True that! Though then you would get into games of companies hiding profit to avoid paying.
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