Storeforge vs Shopify
Shopify Basic is $25 a month, and with Yoco it also takes 2% of every sale. Storeforge is R299 a month, flat, in rand. Card payments still go straight into your own Yoco, and we take nothing per sale.
Your numbers
Slide to what your shop sells in a month. Shopify's 2% grows with every sale. Ours stays R299.
Shopify prices are from shopify.com/za/pricing, checked 19 October 2026, and shown there in US dollars only. Converted at R16.46 to the dollar, so the rand amount moves with the exchange rate. The 2% is Shopify's fee on sales paid through a third-party provider like Yoco, because Shopify Payments isn't offered in South Africa. Not counted on either side: Yoco's own card fees (the same with both), your bank's foreign-currency fee, VAT and paid apps.
Side by side
Paste your Shopify shop's address and we read your products, photos, logo, colours and wording. You check the whole preview before anything is saved. Or send us a WhatsApp and the ForgeLab team moves it for you.
Pricing
Set the shop up yourself, or let the ForgeLab team build it for you. Either way there is no cut of your sales.
You set it up in the dashboard. A short checklist walks you through it.
R299a month, flat
No setup fee. Yoco's or PayGate's own card fees still apply.
Done for you by ForgeLab
Send us your products, photos and logo, or your Shopify link. We set up your shop.
R1 000once, with 3 months of hosting
ForgeLab on WhatsApp: 073 429 5517
Shopify charges a fee on every sale that goes through a payment provider other than its own Shopify Payments. Shopify Payments isn't offered in South Africa, so a shop here using Yoco, PayFast or PayGate pays it. On the Basic plan it is 2%, on top of the provider's own card fee.
Yes. Card payments go straight from your customer to your own Yoco or PayGate account and settle into your bank. Storeforge never holds your money, and the same Yoco you use for your card machine works.
Paste your shop's address and your products, photos, prices, logo, colours and wording come across. Your old theme, apps and order history stay behind. You check a preview before anything is saved.
For some shops, yes. Shopify has a huge app store, and features we're still building, like customer accounts, live courier rates and a till for a physical shop. If you need those today, stay where you are. If you sell online in South Africa and want a shop that costs the same every month, Storeforge is built for you.
Any time. Your orders, customers and products download as spreadsheets from Settings. Nothing about staying with Storeforge depends on leaving being hard.
R299 a month, 0% of your sales, 14 days free with no card to start.