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CARTLY VS SHOPIFY

Built for merchants who hit Shopify's ceiling

Keep 100% of your revenue, own your checkout logic, and ship themes straight from Git — without paying for an enterprise plan to unlock the basics.

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0% TRANSACTION FEES

Never pay a tax on your own sales

Cartly charges a flat subscription and nothing on top. No cut of your orders, on any plan. Pair it with any payment processor and the only fee you pay is theirs. For a store doing real volume, that's thousands of dollars a year that stays in your business — not the platform's.

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Shopify charges 0.5%–2.0% per order when you don't use Shopify Payments.verify source

PROGRAMMABLE CHECKOUT

Real logic in your cart and checkout

Write custom discount, validation, delivery, and payment rules directly into your checkout with Cartly's Checkout Functions — a real rule engine, not a settings toggle. It's included from the Pro plan, not locked behind a six-figure enterprise contract.

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On Shopify, deep checkout customization is reserved for the Plus tier.verify source

BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS

Ship themes the way you already work

Connect a GitHub repo and sync your theme both ways — branches, pull requests, and your own review workflow, with changes flowing straight to your storefront. No wrestling a locked-down web editor. If you're an agency or a developer, this is the workflow you've been missing.

acme/storefront-themeSYNCED
branchfeat/spring-hero
pr #248Review requested · 2 files
previewacme-feat-spring.mycartly.pro
mergedLive on storefront · 1.4s
SELL EVERYWHERE

Multi-currency, multi-language, local rails — in the core

Cartly ships cross-border commerce as a first-class feature, not an add-on:

  • Multi-currency markets with automatic FX conversion
  • An admin in 8 languages, including Georgian, Hebrew, and Ukrainian
  • Regional payment rails and local currencies out of the box
  • Multi-region data residency
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— COMPARISON

How Cartly compares

Transaction fees (third-party gateway)
CARTLY✓ 0% on every plan
SHOPIFY0.5%–2.0% by plan unless using Shopify Paymentsverify source
Programmable checkout logic
CARTLY✓ Included from Pro
SHOPIFYCheckout customization on Plusverify source
Theme workflow
CARTLY✓ Git sync + CI/CD (GitHub)
SHOPIFYWeb theme editor / Liquidverify source
Headless Storefront API
CARTLYREST + GraphQL
SHOPIFYStorefront APIverify source
Multi-currency + automatic FX
CARTLYYes
SHOPIFYYes (Markets)verify source
Native B2B (companies, roles, SSO)
CARTLY✓ Yes
SHOPIFYB2B on Plusverify source
Regional payment rails
CARTLY✓ Native regional gateways
SHOPIFYVia third-party appsverify source
Data residency
CARTLY✓ Multi-region
SHOPIFYUS / global cloudverify source
— BEST FOR

Who switches to Cartly

Agencies & developers

You want a real Git workflow — branches, PRs, CI/CD — not a locked web editor. Cartly syncs your themes to GitHub and lets you build the way you already work.

Cross-border & regional merchants

Selling across the CIS, the Caucasus, or Israel? Cartly gives you local payment rails, multi-currency with automatic FX, and a storefront that speaks Georgian, Hebrew, and Ukrainian natively — no paid translation apps.

High-volume merchants

If you're losing 1–2% of every order to platform fees, 0% is an immediate, measurable saving from your first month — money you can put back into growth.

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