Take Control of Your Checkout
Custom packages. Transparent fees. Real revenue recovery.
CartVIP is the checkout platform built for nightlife, hospitality, and experience-based businesses that need more than just a shopping cart. We are a true Revenue Recovery Platform. Stop leaking money at checkout.
We’ve lived the pain ourselves.
As operators in the nightlife industry, we ran our online sales through Shopify - the world’s leading e-commerce platform. Over the course of three years, we paid $35,500 in platform fees, including a $105/month plan and a 1% cut of every online sale, and that doesn’t even include payment gateway or credit card processing costs.
When we asked for more control at checkout, the only option was Shopify Plus at $2,500/month (or $2,300/month if paid annually). Even then, customization was limited. You could apply a single fixed or percentage-based fee at checkout — alongside sales tax — but not stack multiple charges like gratuity, service fees, and tax together.
Full Width To be clear, this isn't just a Shopify issue.
No mainstream platform, not WooCommerce, not Wix, not Squarespace, not BigCommerce, offers full control over how fees are structured or recovered at checkout. None of them were built with venues, packages, and hospitality flows in mind. And while most platforms take their cut quietly, their own terms are clear:
“Transaction fees and credit card rates vary by region.”
Most online orders face 2.4% to 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction - That’s before you’ve even collected a dollar - without a native way to recover those costs, your margin takes the hit.depending on your plan.
CartVIP changes that.
It’s the solution we built because nothing else fit. A flexible platform made for how real-world venues operate — and sell. With CartVIP, you can: * Add platform, service, or handling fees directly * Stack gratuity, tax, and processing offsets transparently * Build and update custom packages, ticket types, and add-ons with ease * Accept payments via Stripe, Authorize.net, PayPal, Apple Pay, or any custom gateway * Manage guest lists and updates through simple, no-code forms
This isn’t just a cart.
It’s a revenue-first system designed for clubs, venues, and experience-based businesses ready to stop bleeding margin — and start taking control.