Vendmint vs Shopify
No cut of your sales, no theme off a list
You never pay the platform per order, and your storefront isn't the same one a thousand other shops are running.
0%
of your sales goes to us
You connect your own Stripe account and pay Stripe alone. Vendmint takes nothing per transaction.
+2%
is what Shopify Basic adds for your own gateway
Want to charge through your own Stripe instead of Shopify Payments? Stripe's fee stays, and Shopify writes its own on top.
$9
is the Vendmint subscription
The cheapest Shopify plan with a store of your own is $39 a month.
See what actually stays with you
Set your monthly orders and average order value. We add up the subscription plus payment fees — on our side you only ever pay Stripe, because we take nothing per sale.
Payment method
Card
Currency
Shopify plan to compare
Vendmint + your Stripe
$202
per month
- Subscription
- $9.00
- Payment processor fees
- $193
- Platform fee on sales
- $0
- Cost of a single order
- $1.68
Shopify + Shopify Payments
$232
per month
- Subscription
- $39.00
- Payment processor fees
- $193
- Platform fee on sales
- $0
- Cost of a single order
- $1.93
Shopify + your Stripe
$340
per month
- Subscription
- $39.00
- Payment processor fees
- $193
- Platform fee on sales
- $108
- Cost of a single order
- $2.83
Stays with you
$30per month
$360 per year · against Basic with Shopify Payments
Vendmint is cheaper at any volume — both the subscription and the individual order cost less.
Against Basic with your own Stripe the gap grows to $138 a month.
Rates as of August 2026, from the Shopify and Stripe price lists for the US. Shopify Payments on Basic is 2.9% + 30¢ and the third-party gateway fee is 2%. Stripe: cards 2.9% + 30¢. International cards, currency conversion and chargebacks cost more on both — check the current price lists before deciding.
Four things we do differently
You describe changes instead of hunting for them
"Move the reviews above the description and put them in two columns" replaces an evening in the theme editor. No Liquid, no app for every small thing.
There is no ceiling on the design
No section is locked and nothing stops at whatever the theme author imagined. Any part of the page can be generated again from scratch.
The basics are included, not sold as apps
Multiple languages, Meta, TikTok and GA4 pixels, storefront analytics, your own domain and team access ship with every plan. None of it is a separate monthly line.
Your backend stays if you want it to
Run products and orders here, or leave them on Shopify or WooCommerce and connect that as the backend. Either way the storefront is ours.
Line by line
Compared against the Basic plan, because that is where every proper Shopify store starts.
| Line by line | Vendmint | Shopify Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Costs | ||
| Subscription | from $9 a month | from $39 a month |
| Platform cut of your sales | 0% | 0% with Shopify Payments |
| Bringing your own gateway | no surcharge | +2% on every order |
| Storefront theme | generated, included | free off a list, or $180 to $500 |
| Multiple store languages | included | usually a paid app |
| Design | ||
| Starting point | a design written for your brand | a theme picked from a catalogue |
| Changing a section layout | you describe it in a sentence | theme editor, then Liquid |
| Where it stops | nowhere | wherever the theme author stopped |
| Odds a competitor runs the same store | none | high |
| Day to day | ||
| Product and order admin | built in | built in |
| Connecting an existing backend | Shopify and WooCommerce | not applicable |
| Pixels and storefront analytics | built in | built in |
Scroll the table sideways to see both columns.
Dropshipping? DSers connects
DSers has no official Vendmint integration yet, but it has a route built for exactly this case: you upload your orders as a CSV, DSers places them on AliExpress and hands back the tracking numbers. Their own guide covers it. Our order export is shaped for that format, so the loop closes without touching orders one at a time.
DSers guide- Order in Vendmint
- CSV to DSers
- Fulfilled from AliExpress
- Orders export as a CSV in the format DSers accepts.
- DSers places them on AliExpress and returns the tracking numbers.
- The catalogue and the storefront are built here, without a theme half the niche is running.
Rather not touch your current process? Connect Shopify as the backend and replace only the storefront in Vendmint — DSers then works exactly as it does today.
Move your store before the next invoice
We do the move for you and charge nothing for it — catalogue, design, payments and domain are on us.