“Shocked But Not Surprised”: Shopify Hikes Prices By 34 Percent

Shopify has announced it has increased all merchant plans in a press release, obtained by our media team, “When Shopify was started in 2006, it was a novel product with a novel idea: to provide the best Commerce tools in the world to all merchants of all sizes, to make Commerce better for everyone,” said Kaz Nejatian, Shopify’s VP of Product and Chief Operating Officer.

“A lot has changed since then, but a few things haven’t: why we do it and who we do it for.

Today, after much deliberation, we’re announcing a change in favor of better serving our mission and our merchants: We are updating our pricing for Basic, Shopify, and Advanced plans.” The Shopify merchant plans and subsequent immediate changes are listed below for new subscribers (as of Jan 25, 2023), all current subscribers will see the price increase automatically to their billing starting in 3 months, on June 1st, 2023.

The Basic plan $29 per month is now $39 per month Shopify plan $79 per month is now $105 per month Advance plan is $299 per month is now $399 per month “Existing merchants won’t see a price change for three months. The updated pricing is now in effect for new merchants. Existing merchants can switch from…