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by otoburb
1497 days ago
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I'm not familiar with either of these platforms from a seller perspective. How does the math work out to paying double (40%)? If you make a sale on BigCommerce then they take their 20%, but a separate sale on Shopify should only be 20%. The only way that you'd end up paying 40% total is if both platforms take their cut for the same sale. Is this how each sale is structured? |
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For example, if I make an app that manages your product data on Shopify and BigCommerce for $100 per month. Shopify forces me to pay them $20, and BigCommerce forces me to pay them $20. I am only making $60 now.
If I want to support 6 platforms that have this pricing model, I now have to pay them a combined 120% of whatever I charge for my app!? Workarounds to this are using private apps so that to Shopify it looks like the Shopify Storefront owner built their own custom integration, or potentially breaking your software into a bunch of tiny separately billed components, both of which are a bad experience and a waste of resources (These options are also probably against the Shopify ToS).