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Put two or three platforms side by side

Pick the ones you are actually choosing between. The same questions get asked of each, the answers come off the company's own pages, and every figure carries the day we read it.

Places that pay youThings you build on

Eight questions about what it costs and who owns the result, asked of each one.

2 PLATFORMS · 8 QUESTIONS · 2 ANSWERED BY ALL

Sellfy
Shopify

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.
SellfyPlans & pricingA 14-day free trial, then Starter at $29 /mo monthly or $22 /mo on the yearly plan, good for up to $10k in sales per yearsource · checked 2026-09-12
ShopifyPricingBasic at 19 US$/mo when paid yearly or $25 USD/mo paid monthly, after a free start; a custom domain bought through Shopify renews automatically each year on topsource · checked 2026-09-12
What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.
SellfyCompare our plansStarter $29 /mo up to $10k in yearly sales, Business $79 /mo up to $50k, Premium $159 /mo up to $200k, each 25% less paid yearly; exceed your cap without upgrading and a 2% overage fee may applysource · checked 2026-09-12
ShopifyPricingBasic 19 US$/mo with 2% on 3rd-party payment providers, Grow 49 US$/mo with 1%, Advanced 299 US$/mo with 0.6%, Plus from 2,300 US$/mo with 0.2%; POS Pro is an extra 89 US$/mo per locationsource · checked 2026-09-12

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.
SellfyHow do I get paid?A PayPal or Stripe account that can receive payments in your country: money arrives instantly after a purchase, directly into that account, and where neither PayPal nor Stripe allows receiving payments you can only offer free productssource · checked 2026-09-12
ShopifyWe have not checked this one yet
How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.
SellfyHow do I get paid?None: you receive money instantly after a purchase is made, sent directly to your PayPal or Stripe account, less the processor's fee of typically 2.9% + 30¢source · checked 2026-09-12
ShopifyWe have not checked this one yet

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?
SellfyWe have not checked this one yet
Shopify8.1 Your MaterialsShopify does not take ownership of the Materials you provide, but you grant it a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify and publicly perform them, and you waive your moral rights in themsource · checked 2026-09-12
Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.
SellfyWe have not checked this one yet
ShopifyTerms of ServiceYou can remove your Shopify Store at any time by deleting your Account; that does not end the licenses to your Materials that Shopify needed during the term, and a domain bought through Shopify keeps auto-renewing while the Account is activesource · checked 2026-09-12
Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?
SellfyWe have not checked this one yet
ShopifyWe have not checked this one yet
What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.
SellfyWe have not checked this one yet
ShopifyAccount TermsShopify may reject your application for an Account, or cancel an existing Account, for any reason, at its sole discretion; fees unpaid for 60 days after a suspension also let it terminate the Account, and you must be 18 or the age of majority to open onesource · checked 2026-09-12

There is no winner at the bottom of this table

Nothing here gets added up. A score would have to decide that these questions weigh the same for everyone, and they do not. A lower cash-out bar is better if you need the money this month and worse if it arrives as a gift card you cannot spend on rent. One payout method is fine right up until it is the one that does not work where you live.

The rows worth your attention are usually the ones where the columns disagree about whether to answer at all. A platform that publishes its fee and a platform that does not are not two platforms with different fees. One of them has told you, and you can hold them to it.

Rows marked as not checked are about us, not about them. They mean nobody here has gone looking yet, and they stay visible for that reason. Found a figure that has moved? Tell us, and it gets a new source and a new date rather than a quiet edit.

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