How Much Does a Shopify Store Cost in Australia in 2026?

A Shopify store in Australia has two kinds of cost: a one-off build, and monthly running costs. The Shopify Basic plan is AUD 56 a month (or AUD 42 a month paid yearly), card payments start at 1.75% plus 30 cents per online sale with Shopify Payments, and most stores add AUD 50 to 300 a month in apps.

The build is where quotes vary most. A store on a well-chosen theme with your products, payments, shipping and GST set up correctly is a few thousand dollars. A custom design, a large catalog or connections to your inventory or accounting system cost more. This guide walks through each cost so you can compare quotes with confidence.

What does Shopify itself cost each month in Australia?

Shopify charges a monthly plan in Australian dollars. These are the published prices at the time of writing (November 2026). Check shopify.com.au/pricing before you decide, because Shopify changes plans from time to time.

• Basic: AUD 56 a month, or AUD 42 a month billed yearly. Enough for most new stores.
• Grow: AUD 149 a month, or AUD 114 a month billed yearly. Lower card fees and more staff accounts.
• Advanced: AUD 575 a month, or AUD 431 a month billed yearly. For stores with high sales volume.
• Shopify Plus: from about AUD 3,700 a month. For large brands and complex B2B.
• GST is added to the plan price unless you give Shopify your ABN.

What are the payment fees?

With Shopify Payments, Australian card sales on the Basic plan start at 1.75% plus 30 cents online. International cards and Amex cost more, and higher plans pay slightly less per sale. If you use a different payment provider instead of Shopify Payments, Shopify adds its own extra fee on top (2% on Basic), so for most Australian stores Shopify Payments is the cheaper choice.

Buy now, pay later options such as Afterpay and Zip are popular with Australian shoppers. They usually lift conversion, but they charge the merchant a higher fee per sale than cards, so turn them on with your margins in mind.

How much does it cost to have a Shopify store built?

This is the one-off cost, and it depends on how much is custom. As a guide:

• Theme-based store: a quality Shopify theme set up with your branding, products, payments, shipping zones, GST and policies. Our Shopify builds start from USD 3,000 for this kind of store.
• Custom-designed store: unique page designs, custom sections your team can edit, and more attention to mobile speed and conversion. Usually several times the theme-based cost.
• Integrated store: connections to an ERP, inventory, accounting (such as Xero) or a 3PL warehouse, subscriptions, or B2B pricing. Priced after a scoping call, because the integrations decide the effort.
• Premium theme licence: a one-off fee, typically a few hundred US dollars, if you choose a paid theme.

Which apps and monthly extras should you budget for?

Apps fill the gaps Shopify does not cover. Each one is small, but together they are often the biggest surprise on the monthly bill. Price them before you commit to a design that depends on them.

• Reviews and ratings
• Email and SMS marketing (often charged by number of contacts)
• Subscriptions, if you sell boxes or repeat orders
• Shipping labels and rates (Australia Post, Sendle and others)
• Product filters and search for larger catalogs
• Domain name: usually AUD 20 to 40 a year for a .com.au

What do Australian stores need to set up correctly?

A few local details are easy to get wrong, and fixing them later costs more than doing them at the start.

• GST: prices shown including GST, and tax invoices that show your ABN
• Shipping zones and rates that match how you actually ship, including regional and remote areas
• Refund and returns policy that reflects Australian Consumer Law, which gives buyers rights you cannot remove
• Privacy policy and email consent for marketing
• Payment options Australians expect: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and often Afterpay

What does this look like on a real store?

We built the Shopify store for Oddies, an Australian service that delivers fresh, odd-looking produce boxes to the door. The store runs on a custom Shopify theme in AUD, puts the boxes at the center so a new customer understands the offer straight away, and is designed for people ordering their weekly box from their phone.

The lesson carries over to most Australian stores: be clear about what you sell in the first screen, make ordering on a phone effortless, and set up the local details properly. Spend custom design effort only where it helps people buy. The full Oddies case study is on our Works page.

How do you keep the cost under control?

Start on Shopify Basic and a proven theme, launch, then improve based on what customers actually do. Ask every agency for a fixed quote that lists the theme, the apps (with their monthly fees), what training you get, and who owns the store account. The store, the domain and the data should always be in your name.