Online store · replacement recipe

Go from Shopify to Payhip

The job: Ecommerce platform (Store builder and themes, Checkout and card payments, Products, orders and inventory, Shipping rates and labels). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Shopify
Shopify Basic · $39/mo
Year one+$418modeled
To · your pickBest fit
Payhip
Free plan · $0 a month
Change where you land

The money

$39/mo today $0/mo

Shopify Basic

Year one, net+$418
Pays back in1.3 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 3 of 4 covered

  • Store builder and themes
  • Checkout and card payments
  • Products, orders and inventory
  • Shipping rates and labels

The work

Setup
About 1 h
Upkeep
None
Watch out
Doesn't cover: Shipping rates and labels

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Shopify

    Store information (products, customers, orders and other data). Format: CSV

    Export steps

  2. Set up Payhip

    A small store with a few physical or digital products: Payhip's free plan costs $0/month plus a 5% fee and your Stripe or PayPal processing…

    Details

  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at Payhip, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel Shopify

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: The end of the current billing cycle.

    How to cancel Shopify
Open PayhipHow to cancel Shopify
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 1 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Store builder and themes
  • Checkout and card payments
  • Products, orders and inventory
  • Shipping rates and labels

Not covered

  • Discount codes
  • Email marketing
  • In-person point of sale
  • Selling on social, marketplaces and AI chats

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Store builder and themes, Checkout and card payments, Products, orders and inventory, Shipping rates and labels
  • Export your data from Shopify before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-shopify") on the Stackcut MCP server.

1 ways out, best first

Switch vendorPayhip (free tier)Saves $418 in year one
$39/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $468/yr · payback 1.3 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Free Forever: all features, unlimited products and revenue, 5% transaction fee; PayPal and Stripe charge their standard processing on top).
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Shipping rates and labels)
A small store with a few physical or digital products: Payhip's free plan costs $0/month plus a 5% fee and your Stripe or PayPal processing, with no shipping labels or point of sale.
How we got this
You pay now: Shopify Basicflat price$39/mo
New cost: Payhip (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$39 − $0+$39/mo
Over 12 months+$39 × 12+$468
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$468 − $50+$418
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $468 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Sources: shopify.compayhip.comhelp.payhip.compayhip.com

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