Shopify vs Shoptet: Which Fits a Czech or Slovak Store?

What Shoptet Is

Shoptet rents you a complete online store: you pick a plan, and the platform and hosting come with it, the same model Shopify follows. The difference is the home market. Shoptet prices its plans in Czech koruna on its Czech price list and in euros on its Slovak one, and its local delivery, comparison-site and accounting connections are built for Czech merchants.

It is a large player at home. Shoptet's homepage counted more than 48,000 businesses using it in September 2026, by the company's own figure, and Shoptet describes itself in its press releases as the ecommerce leader in Central and Eastern Europe. Four terms from its pricing page set it apart from a typical subscription:

What Shoptet Costs Next to Shopify

Shoptet's plan ladder is also a catalog ladder. Each step up raises the number of products you can list, and the Czech and Slovak price lists charge for the same plans in their own currencies. Both lists state their prices before VAT.

Shoptet also lists a Free plan, but foreign languages are not available on it, so it fits a store selling in one language. Paying ahead lowers the bill: Shoptet's price list gives 10% off for a year paid up front. Shoptet's 2025 plan-change post announced the price list that took effect from September 2025, so a comparison written before then may quote older Shoptet prices.

On the Shopify side the catalog size doesn't decide the plan: Shopify's pricing page lists “Sell unlimited products” on Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus.

Shopify Basic costs $39 a month, or $29 a month billed yearly, on Shopify's US pricing page. Shopify's Czech pricing page gives Basic in koruna: 670 Kč a month, or 499 Kč a month billed yearly. As we read it, that page does not say whether these prices include VAT, while Shoptet's prices are before VAT. If Ecwid is also on your shortlist, our Shopify vs Ecwid comparison runs the same checks for it.

Card Payments: Shoptet Pay vs Shopify Payments

Payment fees are the running cost that grows with every order, so this is where the comparison is closest to a money decision. Three questions decide it: can you use the platform's own processor, what does each card payment cost, and what happens if you keep a provider you already use.

Is Shopify Payments Available in Czechia and Slovakia?

Shopify Payments is available to a business by where the business is located, not by where its customers are. Shopify's supported-countries page lists Czechia; Slovakia is not on it as of September 29, 2026 (the surfaces we checked are in the box under “Can You Move a Shoptet Store to Shopify?”). The page is explicit about what a business outside the list does:

For a business in Czechia the setup is local. Shopify's requirements for Czechia say the payout account must be in EUR, or in CZK if the bank account is based in Czechia. Its payment-methods page for Czechia lists Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, American Express and UnionPay cards, plus Apple Pay, Google Pay and Shop Pay. Which countries Shopify Payments covers overall is set out in our Shopify Payments guide's country section.

What Each Card Payment Costs

Both processors publish a rate per plan, and both rates are minimums: Shoptet Pay quotes each tier “from” a figure on its price list, and Shopify's Czech pricing page does the same for Shopify Payments. The two ladders belong to different plans with different subscription prices, so read the table as two separate lists, not as matching pairs.

One 1,000 Kč card order at the entry tiers: Shoptet Pay on Shoptet Basic takes 20.70 Kč (1.8% plus 2.7 Kč), and Shopify Payments on Shopify Basic takes 25.50 Kč (1.9% plus 6.50 Kč). The fixed part per transaction is what separates them on small orders; on larger orders the percentage matters more, and neither figure includes the monthly subscription.

Two conditions sit on the Shoptet side. Shoptet Pay's own site says it is available only to Shoptet merchants, and its price list says its fees are not set by your store's turnover, so the published route to a lower rate is a higher Shoptet plan. How Shopify's rate changes by country is answered country by country in our guide to Shopify Payments rates by country.

Keeping a Czech Gateway on Shopify

Many Czech stores already have a contract with a local gateway. Comgate, for one, has a listing on the Shopify App Store offering cards, QR transfers, bank buttons and buy-now-pay-later. Its listing tells you the gateway can connect; it does not tell you what the connection costs on Shopify's side.

Shoptet's pricing page says you pay only for the e-shop rental and that Shoptet takes no commission on the turnover your store makes. Before you plan around a particular gateway on Shoptet, though, confirm with Shoptet that it connects.

Czech Integrations: Built In or Added by App

For a store selling at home, the tools that matter are the parcel network, the comparison site and the accounting software. The table shows where each one sits on Shoptet's plans and what the Shopify App Store offered when we looked.

The difference is who carries the connection. On Shoptet the plan does, and third parties such as Zásilkovna may still bill their own fees. On Shopify each local tool is a separate app with its own developer, pricing and upkeep. For Heureka, the app named Heureka collects reviews, while feed apps such as Mulwi and FeedFix list Heureka among the channels they work with; we did not test whether they send your catalog to the comparison site.

That reliance on apps is one of Shopify's structural costs, and it is worth weighing before a Czech store commits. We cover it, alongside Shopify's other weak spots, in our look at the app-dependency cost of Shopify.

Selling Beyond Czechia and Slovakia

On Shoptet, a second language is a feature of the paid plans: Shoptet's help page on foreign languages says any number of the available languages can be added on any paid plan and that the Free plan doesn't support them. Shoptet's price list includes foreign languages on Enterprise and sells them as a 400 Kč monthly add-on before VAT on Basic, Business and Profi.

Shoptet's expansion page puts the choice of storefront languages at 21, including products, payments and delivery, and says Shoptet stores can expand into 22 European markets, by its own count. Foreign currencies are a separate feature that converts prices on the store and on documents.

On Shopify, the localization guide allows up to 20 selling languages on Basic, Grow, Shopify and Advanced and up to 30 on Plus. The admin itself can run in Czech or Slovak, both listed on Shopify's admin languages page. For the checkout, the one page every buyer sees, Shopify's guide states:

Czech and Slovak are both on that list of 33, so a Czech or Slovak buyer sees a checkout in their own language without extra work. How Shopify organises selling to several countries at once is the subject of our Shopify Markets guide.

For a store selling within Europe, the language count does not decide between the two. Shoptet's 21 languages sit beside Shopify's 20 below Plus, and the 22 markets Shoptet counts are European.

The difference shows further out: a store that plans to sell beyond the markets on Shoptet's expansion page, or needs more than 21 storefront languages (Shopify Plus allows 30), is where Shopify's 33-language checkout and, for a business in Czechia, Shopify Payments carry weight. Inside those 22 markets, compare the per-order fees in the rates table before you decide.

EU VAT and the One-Stop Shop

Selling from Czechia or Slovakia to buyers elsewhere in the EU brings in destination-country VAT. Shopify's EU tax reference describes the One-Stop Shop, or Union OSS, as the scheme for merchants within the EU whose sales to other member countries require them to charge and remit VAT based on the destination country. Shopify's setup guide adds the condition:

In the EU, Basic Tax is available only if your store was set up to collect tax there before May 13, 2026, so a store set up later can use OSS only through Shopify Tax. Rates and registration thresholds are a subject of their own, and they depend on where your goods sit when you sell them. Whether your store needs the Union OSS or the import scheme is settled in our IOSS vs OSS answer for Shopify stores.

Can You Move a Shoptet Store to Shopify?

Shopify's migration pages we read do not name Shoptet. Shopify's migration hub lists ten platform guides (Amazon, Clover, Etsy, eBay, GoDaddy, Lightspeed, Square, Squarespace, Wix and WooCommerce), and the Store Migration app's listing names eight source platforms: Square, WooCommerce, Etsy, Wix, Amazon, eBay, Clover and Lightspeed. Shopify's hub lists five ways to move content from any platform, and the CSV route reads:

The same page lists four other routes (copy and paste, a migration app, a Shopify Partner, a custom build on the Shopify API) and notes that a catalog of 250 products likely needs a CSV file or an app. For a Shoptet catalog that leaves three practical ways to move:

• CSV files: bring your data into Shopify's CSV format, import it, then check what did not carry over.
• A migration app or service: the two large migration services we checked, Cart2Cart and LitExtension, did not show Shoptet on the public lists of supported platforms we read.
• A Shopify Partner: someone who maps your Shoptet data to Shopify's format and runs the import for you, or builds a custom migration on the Shopify API.

The only migration guide we found between the two platforms runs the other way. Shoptet's help center has a guide for moving from Shopify to Shoptet, which says the move can be done yourself and free of charge but that only some data can be exported from Shopify and brought across. How the migration methods compare on effort and cost is laid out in our migration guide's comparison of methods.

Find Your Route

The table at the top answers by profile. This quiz answers by combination: where your business is registered, where your customers are, how you take payments, which Czech tools you rely on, and where you start from. Neither route is a wrong answer.

The Bottom Line

The two platforms answer different questions. Shoptet is built around the Czech and Slovak market and prices its plans in koruna or euros; Shopify sells unlimited products on every plan from Basic up and pre-translates its checkout into 33 languages, and has you add the local pieces through apps.

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