By coffee_dan · 2026-08-19 · 689 views · 11 votes
Small roastery. We have about 40 active subscribers on a subscribe-and-save setup and we're growing maybe 5-8 a month.
Got a quote that starts at $99/mo plus a % per transaction. That's more than we make on the subscriptions. Am I missing something or is this app just not for stores our size?
Selin
You're not missing anything — that pricing is built for stores with thousands of subscribers. Anything running on Shopify's native subscription API (which all the newer ones do) will give you the same core: subscribe & save, customer portal, failed-payment retries. Several start free and the paid tiers kick in around $10-20/mo.
At 40 subs you'd struggle to spend $10/mo. Look at the Subscriptions category picks here, the cheaper two are exactly this.
Selin · 2026-08-20 · 9 votes
You're not missing anything — that pricing is built for stores with thousands of subscribers. Anything running on Shopify's native subscription API (which all the newer ones do) will give you the same core: subscribe & save, customer portal, failed-payment retries. Several start free and the paid tiers kick in around $10-20/mo.
At 40 subs you'd struggle to spend $10/mo. Look at the Subscriptions category picks here, the cheaper two are exactly this.
coffee_dan · 2026-08-20 · 0 votes
Okay that's a relief. Migrated to one of the free-tier ones over the weekend. Existing subscribers stayed subscribed (it uses Shopify's contracts so nothing broke). Portal is actually nicer than what we had.
Anonymous · 2026-08-24 · 2 votes
Only reason to pay for the big one at small scale is if you need their analytics or a headless build. Otherwise you're paying for a brand.