Shopify, Etsy, dropshipping — every fee counted, then compared against what the stores that disclose their numbers actually keep.
Most lists of Shopify store examples hand you names and no numbers. We index 41 e-commerce and physical product businesses, and only 6 of them disclose a…
Across the 41 e-commerce and physical-product businesses in our index, only 6 disclose a clean monthly figure, and the median of those 6 is $33K/mo. The…
The recurring cost of an Etsy shop is a stack of small platform charges plus whatever you spend acquiring buyers. Across the 41 e-commerce and…
Across the 41 e-commerce and physical-product businesses in our index, 6 disclose a clean monthly revenue figure, spanning $6/mo to $400K/mo with a median…
Etsy's cut is published in exactly one authoritative place — Etsy's official fee schedule — and we will not paraphrase it into a round number: those…
A Shopify store's true recurring floor is the plan fee plus payment processing, and that floor is small: Basic runs $30/mo, Grow $80, Advanced $300, and…
There are four ways money reaches you through Shopify, and they are not equal: selling digital products, selling physical products, earning recurring…
Money reaches you through Shopify in four ways, ranked by what actually carries the income in our data: digital products, service work sold to merchants…
Net margin is revenue minus COGS, minus payment processing, minus the Shopify plan fee, minus shipping, minus ad spend, divided by revenue. Run that in a…