Shopify will move stores created before May 13, 2026 onto a lifetime Shopify Tax free tier on January 1, 2027, so those stores will stop getting a fresh 100,000 in fee-free sales every January. Shopify made the same switch for new stores in May, so any store opened since May 13 has had a single lifetime allowance from day one. Older stores that have already passed 100,000 in lifetime sales will pay fees on every order Shopify Tax calculates starting in January, but they keep the 5,000 per region annual cap that newer stores don’t get. Per-order rates aren’t changing, at 0.35% in the US and 0.25% in the EU, UK and Canada for Basic, Grow and Advanced stores, while Plus stores pay 0.25% and 0.15%, with a cap of 0.99 per order. Shopify’s like, “We’re going to get that stock price back up!”
