Cost calculator
What are you paying for tools that were never going to talk to each other?
Tick what you pay for now and change any number to what you actually pay. We start you off with each vendor's published price and the date we read it. The answer includes what does not go away.
What you pay for now
Basic, billed month-to-month ($29/mo if you commit annually)
shopify.com/pricing · read 2026-08-24
Starter tier
Plus 6% of sales — 6% of sales on Starter, on top of the subscription (5% at $499/mo, 4% at $999/mo) That is $300/mo at your volume.
commentsold.com pricing · read 2026-08-24
Could not be read.Intuit’s pricing pages time out under automated fetching, and Intuit published a price change for renewals from 1 Aug 2026 whose figures we could not read. Enter what you actually pay.
quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing · read 2026-08-24
Promotional rate.Essentials, shown as a promotional 12-month rate; Mailchimp’s price rises with your contact count
mailchimp.com/pricing/marketing · read 2026-08-24
Not published.Free below 250 profiles / 500 emails a month. Paid tiers are not published as a flat figure on their pricing page — enter what you pay.
klaviyo.com/pricing · read 2026-08-24
Starter, billed monthly — 50 shipments, 3 users (annual billing is cheaper)
shipstation.com/pricing · read 2026-08-24
Essentials, per channel per month — three channels is $15/mo
buffer.com/pricing · read 2026-08-24
Could not be read.Square Free is $0/mo. Paid tiers are priced per location and their pricing page renders client-side, so it could not be machine-read on this check — enter what you pay, or leave it empty if you are on the free plan.
squareup.com Square fees · read 2026-08-24
Marketplaces you sell on
These are channels, not tools you cancel. Roots HQ pulls the sales into your numbers; you keep paying the commission either way — so ticking one adds the same cost to both sides of the comparison.
Monthly software cost
$215.99 subscriptions + $300 commission
8 modules · rate card 2026-v1 · no commission
$2,927.88 a year — before you count the hours spent moving numbers between them by hand.
Read this before you cancel anything
5 of the tools you ticked are only partly replaced. The number above assumes you drop them entirely. Whether you actually can depends on the gaps listed below.
The Live & Grow preset already contains every module this selection needs, at $344/mo — more modules for the difference, not a discount on these ones. See presets
0% Roots HQ platform commission. Monthly subscription and payment-processing fees apply.
The part most calculators leave out
What does not go away.
Roots HQ replaces subscriptions. It does not replace your payment processor, your carriers, or the marketplaces you sell on. These costs sit on both sides of the comparison above.
Card processing
Stripe, Square or PayPal keep charging their own rates on every sale. Roots HQ does not process payments and takes no cut of one — but nothing about moving here reduces what your processor charges.
Marketplace commission
If you sell on Whatnot or Palmstreet, you keep paying their selling fees. Roots HQ pulls those sales into your numbers; it does not replace the channel.
Postage
Labels are billed by EasyPost and the carrier. That is a pass-through cost, not part of your subscription.
The accounts you bring
Email sending (your SMTP provider), SMS (your Twilio number), and shipping (your EasyPost account) are billed to you by those providers. Roots HQ does not resell any of them.
Where the overlap stops
What Roots HQ does not do for the tools you ticked.
Each of these is taken from the feature registry the rest of this site runs on — the same source behind every status badge on the features page.
ShopifyOnline storefront
Roots HQ gives you a real storefront on your own domain, but the public shop still sells the parent item — there is no shopper-facing variant selector yet. If your catalogue lives or dies on size and colour pickers, keep Shopify for now.
CommentSoldLive selling
Roots HQ runs live selling through your own storefront and keeps the buyer list. It does not publish a branded consumer mobile app for your shoppers to install.
QuickBooks OnlineBookkeeping
Roots HQ posts your sales, costs and payouts to a real double-entry ledger and rolls the year up for tax time. It has no live bank feed — bank lines arrive by CSV or manual entry — it does not file anything, and it tracks payroll as an expense rather than running it. It does not replace your accountant.
MailchimpEmail marketing
You compose, schedule and send from Roots HQ against a list you own — but you connect your own SMTP provider and pay it separately. Roots HQ does not resell email sending, so deliverability is your provider’s, not ours.
ShipStationShipping labels
Live rates, label purchase and tracking run through EasyPost, so you bring an EasyPost account. Postage is billed by EasyPost and the carrier, separately from your subscription.
Your Roots HQ
8 modules, $272 a month.
Switched on by what you ticked. Modules that others depend on are included automatically — a storefront needs inventory underneath it, marketing needs the customer list.
Roots HQ figures are summed from rate card 2026-v1. Everything else is quoted from each vendor’s own pricing page on the date shown beside it, and prices change without notice — check the source before you decide anything. This is an estimate, not a quote.