What’s the difference between Shopify and Shopify Plus

Unlike the above mentioned Shopify plans, Shopify Plus does not have a fixed price. However, pricing is tailored to a business's annual revenue or turnover. Pricing starts at around $2000 per month. It may seem like a high fee to pay to go into e-commerce, but given all of the benefits, it appears to be well worth it.

• Shopify’s Merchant Success program

A merchant success program is available to assist you with your ongoing e-commerce strategy when you sign up for a Plus subscription. Shopify claims to be able to get enterprise users up and operating on Shopify Plus in "less than 90 days."

• “Organisation Admin”

The Shopify Organisation Admin tool allows managing many stores from one account. This feature lets you access analytics, manage users, edit stores, and create automation (later on) for any of your stores from the same Shopify admin panel.

• Advanced apps

Although the standard Shopify provides access to many applications and integrations — about 7,100 — Shopify Plus expands your options in digital marketing, fulfilment, content management, shipping methods, customer rewards, and job automation for your Shopify Plus store.

Shopify Flow, for example, is a code-free automation tool that makes it easy to create "if this, then that" (IFTT) type rules. These allow Shopify to do certain actions automatically in response to specific occurrences (for example, if your inventory runs short, it can send an email message to a supplier, etc.

The Wholesale channel is for businesses that sell to other businesses and have many wholesale customers.

Script Editor – this feature allows you to design personalised shopping cart/checkout experiences.

• Improved multi-currency capabilities

If you use Shopify Plus, your e-commerce store will automatically adjust the country and currency for your consumers based on their IP address. Instead of selecting a currency manually, your users will see product prices in their local currency right away. This makes your store more user-friendly, eliminates client fears about purchasing from a "foreign" e-commerce website, and can result in increased sales.

• Extra stores

A basic Shopify account allows you to create only one store. However, a Shopify Plus subscription will enable you to set up to ten, thanks to its “expansion stores” limit. You can use these additional stores to expand sales prospects, internationalise operations, or accommodate stores with several physical locations. You can add more expansion stores than the usual Shopify Plus limit of ten (for a monthly fee of $250 per store).

• More inventory locations

You can store and manage your merchandise in more locations with Shopify Plus than with the other Shopify options. The “Basic” Shopify and ”Advanced” Shopify plans limit your inventory locations to four, five, or eight; the comparable Shopify Plus limit is twenty.

• More POS features

POS features allow you to sell online (through card readers and other selling gear) and in physical locations while keeping track of your inventory. Although the standard Shopify plans provide many POS functions, getting access to premium ones (like working with an endless number of salespeople, easier 'Buy online, pick up in store', facilitate communication, personalised receipts, purchase orders, attribute sales to specific employees, etc.) costs $89 per month for each location. You'll get extra POS capabilities included in your membership on a Shopify Plus.‍

• Additional API calls

You may use the Shopify API (“Application Programming Interface”) in additional ways with the Shopify Plus plan. An API allows two programs to communicate with one another. You can 'call' it more frequently (i.e., let an application utilise the API more regularly) and construct more advanced integrations with other tools on Shopify Plus plans (or develop your custom apps for Shopify).

The table below illustrates the variations between the regular restrictions and those offered by Shopify Plus.