comparativo
Pagely vs Shopee: 20% commission? There's a way out.
Shopee charges up to 20% per sale and forces free shipping out of your margin. Pagely charges 4.25% and gives control back.
ref. Shopee →
Resumen
Shopee charges 14% to 20% commission (highest among Brazilian marketplaces), plus a fixed R$ 5 fee and the requirement to offer free shipping on items above R$ 19. Pagely charges 4.25% + the payment gateway fee (your pick — PIX ~1%, card ~5%) and shipping is yours to decide. For brand-builders, the difference isn't just financial: it's owning the customer or not.
Comparativa
Side by side
- Platform commissionPagely:Pagely4.25%ref14% to 20%
- Fixed fee per salePagely:PagelyNonerefR$ 5 + transaction fee
- Mandatory free shippingPagely:PagelyYou deciderefRequired above R$ 19 — out of your margin
- Gateway feePagely:PagelyPassed through (~1% PIX, ~5% card)refBundled — no choice
- Monthly feePagely:PagelyR$ 0refR$ 0
- Store brandPagely:PagelyYour brand, your domainrefShopee brand — you're a listing
- Pixel and remarketingPagely:PagelyYes — Meta, TikTok, GooglerefNot allowed
- SetupPagely:PagelyMinutesrefHours + bureaucratic signup
Para quién
Choose Pagely if you
- Watching your margin evaporate with 20% commission + free shipping
- Want to build a brand instead of competing only on price
- Already run or want to run paid traffic on Meta/TikTok
- Tired of undercutting prices for Shopee's algorithm to show your listing
- Want pixel, remarketing and the customer's email
Choose Shopee if you
- Sell ultra-cheap products (under R$ 30) where Shopee's audience buys
- Accept losing margin in exchange for organic app traffic
- Want to appear on '9.9' and '12.12' campaigns
- Have no paid-traffic budget
Migración
How to migrate from Shopee to Pagely
- 01
Pick your 3 highest-margin products on Shopee
- 02
Create one Pagely landing per product — use the same photos or let AI redo them
- 03
Set up the Meta pixel on the landing
- 04
Run ads pointing to that landing — if it converts, scale
- 05
Keep Shopee running until the landing pays at least 2× of what it pays there
Preguntas
Why does Shopee charge so much?
Because the marketplace covers the cost of customer acquisition (apps, campaigns, subsidized shipping). The seller pays for that, through commission. When you leave for your own landing, you take on the acquisition cost (paid ads) but stop paying for customers who are already on your landing.
But Shopee has 100M users in Brazil. Who's coming to my landing?
You send them via Meta Ads, TikTok Ads or Instagram bio. The difference is they become your customers — you can remarket, email, offer another product. On Shopee, that customer is Shopee's.
Can I sell on both?
Yes — and it makes sense. Use Shopee for organic capture and the Pagely landing for paid traffic, where every real you spend stays with you.