What it costs to sell here
Last updated 2026-10-27
everygrocer takes no commission on your orders. Shops pay a flat membership instead: the first 30 days are free, then $29 a month or $280 a year. On the monthly plan, a month where you sold less than $500 costs nothing. Opening a shop still takes only a Zelle email, or a Venmo or PayPal username — no SSN, no business name, no card on file, no Stripe account.
Your first 30 days are free
To put your first product up, we need exactly one thing: a way for customers to pay you. A Zelle email, or a Venmo or PayPal username, is enough, and that is the entire setup. We do not ask for an SSN, a business name, a card on file or a Stripe account — for most neighborhood shop owners that paperwork is the reason they never open a shop at all.
Your free trial starts the day you open and lasts 30 days. You do not need to enter a card to start it.
Taking card payments is optional and separate. Cards run through Stripe, and Stripe has to verify who you are before it is allowed to move money into your bank account — that is the law it operates under, not a hurdle we added. You can skip it and sell on Zelle, Venmo and PayPal alone.
Membership: $29 a month or $280 a year
After the trial, pick monthly ($29) or yearly ($280, about 20% less than paying monthly). It is the same membership either way — every order you sell carries no commission.
You pay through Stripe — on the website, or right in the everygrocer app with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Cancel any time from the app or your shop’s membership page; switching between monthly and yearly is done on the website.
A month under $500 in sales is free
On the monthly plan, when a bill comes due we look at what you sold in the 30 days before it: paid orders, minus refunds, Zelle, Venmo and PayPal orders included. If that is less than $500, that month’s bill is waived automatically. You do not have to ask.
The yearly plan is billed once a year and is not adjusted for sales.
Card orders: Stripe’s fee, passed through at cost
Card payments cost 2.9% + 30¢ per order. That is Stripe’s price. everygrocer keeps none of it and does not mark it up — it is a cost we pass on, not a fee we earn. Because everygrocer is the merchant of record (the charge on the customer’s statement reads "everygrocer"), Stripe bills the platform, and the platform deducts that same amount from the order before paying you.
A worked $60 card order: card processing $2.04, and $57.96 reaches you. Nothing else is taken out.
On a refund, Stripe keeps the processing fee it already took — exactly like a refund on your own card terminal.
Zelle, Venmo and PayPal orders: you keep everything
When a customer pays you by Zelle, Venmo or PayPal, the money goes straight from them to you. everygrocer never touches it, takes nothing from it and sends you no bill for it.
If your trial ends or a payment fails, nothing is switched off
Your products stay on the market and orders keep coming in. We email you a reminder 7 days before your membership ends and again on the day it ends, and show a note in your shop dashboard — that is all.
If your sales are under the free threshold, we do not send those reminders at all: there is nothing to pay.
Questions about a fee
Write to support@everygrocer.com with the order number and we will walk you through the arithmetic on that order. Orders from before October 27, 2026 were billed under the old commission rules and still show that commission; any commission that had not been paid by then was waived.