Free to use. We earn when you sell.
eCrate has no monthly price. You get the whole platform for nothing and we take 2% of an order once it is paid — plus metered email and storage, which most stores never pay for at all.
The whole rate card, on one page
This is all of it. There is no second page.
The platform
$0
forever
Every feature, on every account. There is no plan to pick and nothing is gated behind a tier.
Paid orders
2%
per paid order
Charged when an order is actually paid. Refunded and cancelled orders are not billed, and there is no surcharge for using your own payment gateway.
Marketing email
$0.60
per 1,000 over 3k/mo
The first 3,000 marketing emails each month are free. Transactional email — order confirmations, shipping notices, password resets — is always free and never metered.
Media storage
$0.10
per GB over 10 GB
The first 10 GB of product images and media are free, and a gigabyte after that is ten cents a month.
AI store builder
+3%
API Gateway Fee, on top of cost
The AI store builder passes through what your run actually cost the model provider, priced per request at the model you picked, and eCrate adds this API Gateway Fee on top — as its own line on your statement, so you can always see which half is ours. There is no free tier and no monthly minimum: a store that never opens it never sees either line.
Landing pages
$0.50
per published page, per month
Charged only while a lander is published. Unpublish it and the charge stops; your storefront's own pages, collections and product pages are not landers and are never charged.
The price-lock promise
The rates on this page are the rates you keep. If eCrate ever raises them, every store already selling stays on the rate it signed up at — for as long as it keeps selling. You will never open an email telling you your store got more expensive overnight.
What you will never be charged for
A platform bill is usually the plan plus everything the plan turned out not to include. This is the list of things eCrate does not bill separately — and it is not going to grow.
- A monthly platform fee
- An extra fee for using your own payment gateway
- Per-seat staff account charges
- Add-on fees for reviews, bundles, segments or automated flows
- A higher tier to unlock analytics
- A charge to export your own customers
What your store costs, both ways
Put in what you pay Shopify today. Every number below shows the arithmetic that produced it, so you can check it against your own invoices — including the cases where eCrate comes out more expensive.
What are you paying today?
On these numbers, moving to eCrate saves you
$4,054
per year
Shopify, today
- Shopify Basic plan$39/mo × 12
- $468
- Apps$300/mo × 12
- $3,600
- Third-party gateway fee2% of $240,000 yearly revenue
- $4,800
eCrate
- PlatformFree — no plan, no feature gates
- $0
- Apps$0 — the standard stack is built in
- $0
- Order fee2% of $240,000 yearly revenue
- $4,800
- Marketing email2k over the 3k/mo free tier × 12
- $14
- Media storage5 GB is inside the 10 GB free tier
- $0
- Landing pages$0 — you have none published
- $0
- AI store builder$0 — you have not used it
- $0
How this is worked out
- Shopify plan prices and third-party gateway fees are Shopify's published US month-to-month rates, last checked April 2026. Annual prepayment discounts are not applied.
- Card-processing rates are excluded from both columns — you pay your processor either way, whichever platform you are on.
- App spend is whatever you tell us you spend today. On eCrate, reviews, bundles, email, the CRM inbox, affiliate tracking and analytics are built in, so the comparable spend is usually lower.
- eCrate's order fee is charged on paid orders only. Refunded and cancelled orders are not billed.
The things a free platform makes you wonder
What happens if I don't sell anything this month?
Nothing is billed. The order fee is charged per paid order, so a quiet month costs you nothing at all. That is the whole difference between a subscription and a share.
Is there a cheaper tier, or a more expensive one?
Neither. There is one rate card and every account is on it. Nothing on the features page is reserved for a plan you have not bought, because there are no plans to buy.
Do I have to use your payment processor?
No, and you are not penalised for saying no. Card payments run through Stripe Connect and settle into your own account; bring whichever processor you like and eCrate adds no surcharge on top of it.
What is charged when an order is refunded?
Nothing. The fee follows the payment: a refunded or cancelled order is not billed, so you are never paying us for revenue you gave back.
Will the rate go up once I'm dependent on it?
Not for you. The price-lock promise on this page means a store already selling keeps the rate it signed up at for as long as it keeps selling, even if the published rate changes for new stores.
What does it cost to leave?
Nothing, and your customer list is exportable at any time from the dashboard. A charge to take your own data with you is on the list of things we will never bill for.
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