Apps & Integrations
Choose, price and replace the apps your store runs on, one business function at a time, and know when Shopify's native tools make an app unnecessary.
Common Questions
Can Shopify actually do subscriptions natively now, or do I still need Recharge/Skio/Loop?
Shopify Subscriptions, Shopify's own app, runs replenishment natively for $0: weekly, monthly or yearly renewals with discounts that customers pause, skip or cancel (Shopify App Store, October 2026). Bundles don't work with it (Shopify Help Center), so curated boxes need a paid platform. Recharge, Skio and Loop earn fees on retention depth: gifting, prepaid cycles, failed-payment recovery.
Klaviyo vs Omnisend vs Attentive: which is the right email-and-SMS stack for a $20M-$100M Shopify Plus brand?
Klaviyo wins email and segmentation for a $20M to $100M Shopify Plus brand; SMS (text messaging) is a separate decision. Add Attentive only when SMS has its own team, and Omnisend only when budget outranks segmentation depth. Klaviyo's SMS consent block runs on Plus checkout pages (Klaviyo Help Center, October 2026), so Attentive's checkout edge has narrowed.
Postscript vs Attentive: which one is the right SMS platform once a Shopify brand needs two-way conversational texting?
Postscript fits Shopify brands that answer two-way texts themselves; Attentive fits brands buying live agents, not staffing the inbox. Postscript publishes $0.007 to $0.009 per SMS (text message) plus carrier fees (Postscript's pricing page, October 2026), so Postscript can be priced without a sales call. Attentive publishes no SMS plan or per-message prices (Attentive pricing, October 2026).
Gorgias vs Zendesk: which is the right helpdesk once support tickets outgrow a simple Shopify-native tool?
Gorgias is the right helpdesk once tickets outgrow Shopify's native tools, but only while the store dominates the support queue. Zendesk wins when multi-brand routing, business-to-business (B2B) contracts or contractual service levels shape the queue. Gorgias prices tickets, never agents, so cost tracks volume; Zendesk charges $55 or $115 per agent a month, billed annually (gorgias.com, zendesk.com, October 2026).
What's the actual subscriber-loss risk migrating from a legacy subscription platform onto Skio mid-replatform?
Subscriber loss moving onto Skio mid-replatform runs 2 to 5% in community-reported migrations (Deploi Build vs. Buy, July 2026 research), mostly because payment methods cannot follow the subscriber. Skio counts the unmovable part of your own base before cutover: its migration preview lists every subscription it cannot migrate, and why (Skio Help Center, October 2026).
What is GemPages, and how is it different from a plain page builder like PageFly or Shogun?
GemPages is a Shopify drag-and-drop page builder that adds two things PageFly and Shogun do not sell: upsell offers between payment and the thank-you page (GemPages Help Center, October 2026) and a landing page hosted outside Shopify (GemPages Help Center, October 2026). Its Optimize plan charges $10 for every incremental $1,000 of monthly upsell revenue past the first $1,000, so the funnel's cost grows with its sales.