Platform
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus is Shopify's plan for larger and more complex businesses: the same platform as Basic, Grow and Advanced, with checkout customisation, B2B at scale, expansion stores and higher API limits on top.
You're here because something has stopped scaling: checkout, wholesale pricing, the number of stores, or a limit you didn't know existed until you hit it. Plus is the next step up.
It's a large step in price and a small step in most of what a store does day to day. Below: what changes, what it costs, and how to tell whether the ceiling you've hit is the platform at all.
£1,800
a month, Plus on a three-year term
Shopify's published UK price
£259
a month, Advanced on annual billing
The tier below Plus
£1,541
a month, the step between them
Arithmetic over the two figures beside it
Read from shopify.com on 8 September 2026. The full table, the variable platform fee Shopify doesn't publish, and what the table can't settle are below. A quote may also open below both of these figures — Shopify runs promotional entry pricing that converts automatically to a full term, and what it converts to is on the pricing page.
What Plus gives you that Advanced does not
Basic and Grow sit below Advanced, so this is the whole difference between Shopify and Shopify Plus. The comparison chart runs to dozens of rows. The move comes down to one of three reasons, and it pays to know which is yours before the quote arrives.
Checkout
Checkout Extensibility and custom logic at the checkout step. On the tiers below, checkout is largely fixed, and no app works around that. It's the headline difference.
B2B at scale
Since April 2026 every Shopify plan carries B2B: company profiles, up to three catalogues with their own pricing, quantity rules and payment terms. Plus lifts the catalogue limit and adds catalogues assigned company by company, deposits and partial payments (Shopify). Trade pricing past three price structures is the argument. B2B plan by plan.
Scale and stores
Expansion stores for other markets or brands, higher API limits, and the throughput headroom that matters when traffic arrives in spikes rather than evenly, such as a product launch.
Everything else on the chart (staff accounts, reporting, shipping rates) is a difference of degree. The case for moving rests on one of the three above.
What Shopify Plus costs in the UK
Shopify publishes its platform fee, and the figures below are Shopify's own.
| Plan / term | Per month |
|---|---|
| Advanced, annual billing | £259 |
| Advanced, monthly billing | £344 |
| Plus, three-year term | £1,800 |
| Plus, one-year term | £1,950 |
| Expansion store beyond the 9 included | £250 |
So the step from Advanced to Plus is roughly £1,541 a month, or about £18,500 a year — Plus on a three-year term against Advanced on annual billing, the two you're likely choosing between.
Three things the table doesn't settle. Shopify also describes a variable platform fee for larger or more complex businesses, without publishing the threshold or the percentage. If that applies to you, the real number comes from Shopify's sales team. And card rates and transaction fees vary by region and by negotiated terms, which at high volume can move the total more than the platform fee does.
The migration itself is a separate cost from the licence. What a Magento or Adobe Commerce move involves, and what it costs, is set out on its own page.
The third: the monthly figure you're quoted may be a promotional opening rate. It converts automatically to a full one-year or three-year term at the standard rate, so judge Plus on the rate it converts to, not the offer.
That's the licence. The whole cost of being on Plus (card rates, apps, the move, the promotional entry price, and the year-two costs no plan page shows) is set out in full on the pricing page.
Every figure above is Shopify's own published UK price, read from shopify.com on 8 September 2026. Shopify can change its prices at any time, so check them against shopify.com before you rely on them.
Which ceiling have you hit?
Both routes start the same way: something stopped scaling, and the storefront is where you look first, because it's the part customers see.
They separate on one question: would any amount of money spent below the Plus tier remove the constraint? If not, it's a platform limit and Plus is the answer. If so, the licence isn't what's in the way.
When the arithmetic works
A revenue figure circulates as the point where Plus pays for itself. Don't rely on it: it depends on what the extra £18,500 a year is replacing.
Ask instead what you pay for now, in money or in hours, that Plus would absorb. Priced properly, that list either comes close to £18,500 a year or nowhere near it, and once it's written down the answer is plain.
Where Plus is clearly right, the constraint is a hard platform limit rather than a cost, and no amount of money spent below the Plus tier removes it. Checkout logic is the common one. Trade pricing that needs more than three catalogues, or catalogues set company by company, is the other.
Write this list down
What Plus would absorb, priced properly:
- App subscriptions covering wholesale pricing or checkout behaviour
- A developer retained to maintain the workarounds
- Separate store instances for other markets
- The hours someone spends reconciling by hand every morning because the platform won't do it
When the ceiling is operational
Some ceilings are operational, and they show up at the storefront because that's the part customers see.
You can tell by how it feels: stock disagreeing across channels, overselling, a warehouse run from a spreadsheet, a second location making picking worse, an ERP chosen when there was one sales channel. The storefront licence fixes none of those. Move to Plus with any of them in place and the fault moves with you, at an extra £18,500 a year.
When the symptoms are operational, fix the systems first. The platform decision follows. Stock and fulfilment and the systems reference cover that half.
The systems review settles which ceiling it is before anyone quotes for anything: a short structured read of what your operation is doing. It's free.
When Plus is the answer, the next decision is who moves you onto it: choosing a Shopify Plus agency.
Shopify Plus: questions
What is Shopify Plus?
Shopify Plus is Shopify’s plan for larger and more complex businesses. It runs on the same platform as Basic, Grow and Advanced, and adds checkout customisation, B2B at scale, expansion stores for other markets or brands, and higher API limits.
What is the difference between Shopify and Shopify Plus?
Plus is a Shopify plan, not a separate product. Over Advanced, the plan below it, Plus adds Checkout Extensibility and custom checkout logic, unlimited B2B catalogues with deposits and partial payments, expansion stores, and more API headroom. Staff accounts, reporting and shipping differ by degree rather than kind.
How much is Shopify Plus a month?
Shopify publishes £1,800 a month for Plus on a three-year term in the UK, read from shopify.com on 8 September 2026. Larger or more complex businesses can also pay a variable platform fee, which Shopify quotes rather than publishes. The full cost of being on Plus is on our Shopify Plus pricing page.
Is Shopify Plus worth it?
It is worth it when the constraint is a hard platform limit that no spend below Plus removes: checkout logic, trade pricing past three catalogues, or expansion stores. The step from Advanced is about £18,500 a year. When the ceiling is operational, such as stock disagreeing across channels, fixing the systems comes first.
Tell us what has stopped scaling
And what the workaround costs you now. We'll tell you whether it's a Plus decision, a systems decision, or something cheaper to fix than either.