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Common Questions
Can Shopify actually do subscriptions natively now, or do I still need Recharge/Skio/Loop?
Shopify Subscriptions, the free first-party app, handles recurring replenishment on standard products without a paid platform: weekly, monthly or yearly billing, subscribe-and-save discounts, and customer-managed pause, skip and cancel (verified September 2026). Recharge, Skio and Loop earn their fees at retention depth, meaning gifting, swaps, prepaid cycles, bundles and dunning. Bundles and draft orders remain native hard stops.
What's the actual subscriber-loss risk migrating from a legacy subscription platform onto Skio mid-replatform?
Subscription platform migrations lose 2 to 5% of active subscribers and run 60 to 90 days, per the July 2026 research behind Deploi's migration decision page. The loss concentrates in the payment method: cards vaulted with Shopify require a Shopify Payments data transfer request, and Shop Pay payment methods cannot move to a new store at all (per Skio's migration docs, September 2026).
What's the real implementation timeline for Skio on a $10M-$30M GMV Shopify Plus brand with an existing subscriber base to migrate?
A Skio implementation on a $10 million to $30 million GMV Shopify Plus brand with subscribers to migrate runs 60 to 90 days end to end, the community-reported envelope behind Deploi's migration decision page (July 2026 research). Skio's own store-to-store migration window is 1 to 3 weeks minimum and cannot be expedited (per Skio, September 2026). The rest is theme, data and billing work.
What subscription features does Shopify's native Subscriptions app NOT cover that force an upgrade to Recharge or Skio?
Shopify Subscriptions excludes five things that push mid-market merchants onto a paid platform: product bundles, draft orders, local payment methods, order edits through the order editing API, and gift cards or Scripts discounts beyond the first payment (per Shopify's Help Center, September 2026). Retention tooling is the sixth gap, and the one that actually drives upgrades.
What is Loop Subscriptions, and how is it different from Loop Returns (they are NOT the same company)?
Loop Subscriptions is a Shopify subscription platform from Loop Solutions Inc, priced free to $399/month plus 0.75 to 1.0% of transactions, and shares nothing but a name with Loop Returns, a separate US returns and exchanges vendor charging $155 to $340/month (both verified September 2026). Two companies, two App Store listings, two contracts.
Is there a subscription app built specifically for Shopify Plus checkout (not just a bolt-on), and does that matter for conversion?
Every Shopify subscription app now bills through Shopify's own checkout, so "built for Plus checkout" describes a migration that already finished rather than a product category. Recharge's Shopify Checkout Integration routes subscription and one-time carts through one native checkout (per Recharge's support docs, September 2026). Plus buys checkout customization and extensions, not a different subscription engine.