Wix Pricing Plans transaction fee: what it costs and your options

By Kayabyte · Facts checked on 13 November 2026

When you sell paid plans or memberships with the Wix Pricing Plans app, Wix keeps a transaction fee on each plan payment, on top of what your payment provider charges. This guide sums up what Wix says about the fee, what other site owners report, and the options you have. It is written by the maker of a Stripe billing app for Wix, so the app is one of the options below; the others are listed with the same care.

In short

• What it is: a fee Wix takes on every one-time and recurring charge for a paid pricing plan. Free plans have none.
• How much: Wix says the rate “is tiered based on your site’s plan” and shows it on the upgrade page. Its own example uses 2%. Third-party pricing reviews and site owners on the Wix forum report 4% on the Core plan, 2% on Business and none on Business Elite. Check the upgrade page of your own site before you decide.
• Who pays: you do. The fee is taken from your earnings and “cannot be passed on to customers”.
• Where you see it: on the Payment page of your site dashboard, as a “Service fee”.
• Your options: keep the fee as a cost of Pricing Plans, move to a premium plan with a lower or no fee, or bill members outside Wix (for example through Stripe) and give them the plan another way.

What Wix says about the fee

Wix’s help article Pricing Plans: About the transaction fee (read 13 November 2026) says:

• “The Pricing Plans transaction fee applies to all one-time and recurring charges for the plans you offer.” For subscriptions that includes every renewal.
• “The transaction fee is automatically deducted from your earnings, not added to your customer’s total.” In Wix’s example, a $100 plan with a 2% fee leaves you $98, before the payment provider’s own processing fee.
• The fee is separate from processing fees. “You can see both fees on the Payment page in your site’s dashboard”, where the Pricing Plans fee “is displayed as a ‘Service fee’”.
• “When you refund a customer, the transaction fee is returned to you.” Partial refunds reduce it proportionally.
• “Free pricing plans have no transaction fee.”

The article does not list the rate for each premium plan; it points to the upgrade page.

What site owners say

The Wix Studio forum thread Payment Plans Transaction Fees (opened February 2026, last post August 2026 when we read it) collects the reactions. Owners report 2% or 4% depending on their plan, and several say they noticed the fee only in their transaction summaries. A Wix team member replied in February and March 2026 that the feedback was shared with the team; the thread shows no change to the fee. Workarounds owners mention: setting plans to free and sending payment links by hand, taking payment through PayPal or Stripe, and connecting Stripe subscriptions to Wix plans with their own code.

What it adds up to

A rough example, with the rates reported above: a membership of $20 a month with 100 members brings in $2,000 a month. At 4% the Pricing Plans fee is $80 a month, at 2% it is $40, on top of the payment provider’s fee. Use your own numbers and the rate your upgrade page shows.

Your options

Option 1: keep Wix Pricing Plans as it is

Everything stays in Wix: plan checkout, renewals, payment records, plan emails and the member’s view of their plan. The fee is the price of that convenience. For a small number of members, or plans with low prices, this is often the simplest choice.

Option 2: move to a premium plan with a lower or no fee

Since the rate depends on your site’s plan, a higher premium plan can lower it. Reviews report no Pricing Plans fee on Business Elite. Compare the extra yearly cost of that plan with the fees you pay today; it pays off only above a certain volume of plan sales. Wix’s upgrade page shows the current rate per plan.

Option 3: bill members outside Wix and give access with a Wix plan

You can take the payment with another provider and still give the member a Wix plan, because Wix lets owners record a plan purchase that was paid outside the site (an “offline” order). Ways to do it:

• By hand: take the payment through a payment link, then assign the plan to the member in your dashboard and remove it when they stop paying. Works for a few members; renewals and cancellations are on you.
• With your own code: connect Stripe subscriptions to Wix plans with Velo and webhooks. Flexible, but you build and maintain it.
• With an app: Membership Billing for Stripe (our app, coming to the Wix App Market) lets members subscribe on Stripe Checkout in your own Stripe account and gives them the linked Wix plan as an offline order; when Stripe ends the subscription, the plan ends. It costs a flat monthly price (Free up to 3 active members, $12 or $29 a month above that) and takes no percentage. Stripe’s own fees still apply. How to set it up: Sell memberships on Wix with Stripe subscriptions.

What you give up with option 3: plan payments no longer appear as Wix payments, and receipts, failed-payment emails, refunds and price changes are handled in Stripe instead of Wix. Members need an account on your site. Offline orders are recorded as paid once, so renewals show in Stripe, not as new Wix payments.

Whatever you choose, read the fee terms of each provider for your country and plan. This guide is not financial advice.

Which one should I use?

• Few members or low plan prices: keep Pricing Plans as it is.
• High plan sales and you would upgrade anyway: compare the cost of the higher premium plan with your current fees.
• You already use Stripe, or want Stripe’s billing tools (retries, customer portal, yearly prices, promotion codes): bill through Stripe and give access with a Wix plan.

FAQ

Does Wix charge a transaction fee on Pricing Plans? Yes. Wix takes a fee on every one-time and recurring charge for a paid plan, deducted from your earnings. Free plans have no fee.

How much is the Wix Pricing Plans fee? Wix says it depends on your site’s premium plan and shows the rate on the upgrade page. Reviews and site owners report 4% on Core, 2% on Business and none on Business Elite (13 November 2026).

Can I pass the fee on to members? No. Wix says the fee cannot be passed on to customers.

Is the fee refunded when I refund a member? Yes. Wix returns the fee on a refund, and reduces it proportionally on a partial refund.

Is the Pricing Plans fee the same as the payment processing fee? No. The processing fee is charged by your payment provider. The Pricing Plans fee is Wix’s own and shows as a “Service fee” on the Payment page.

Can members pay through Stripe and still get a Wix plan? Yes. Wix lets owners record a plan that was paid outside the site as an offline order. You can do this by hand, with your own code, or with an app such as Membership Billing for Stripe.

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