Question 1

How does Curobi help keep subscribers from cancelling?

Accepted Answer

A self-service customer portal lets subscribers pause, skip, and cancel on every plan, with quantity changes, product swaps, and delivery-date edits on Pro; cancellation save flows present retention offers at the moment of cancellation; and failed-payment dunning plus recovery emails reclaim charges that would otherwise lapse. Together they attack both voluntary churn (customers choosing to leave) and involuntary churn (failed cards).

Question 2

Is there a Shopify subscription app with 0% transaction fees?

Accepted Answer

Yes — Curobi. Recharge charges 1.25% + $0.19 per transaction on top of a monthly plan that starts at $99/month for new merchants, and Loop starts around $99/month + 1%. Curobi charges 0% transaction fees on every plan, always, because recurring charges run on Shopify's own Subscription Contract billing rails — Curobi is never in the payment flow, so there's no fee to recover. You pay a flat $29.99 or $69.99 per month instead, regardless of how much subscription revenue you process.

Question 3

What can I sell with Curobi?

Accepted Answer

Recurring product subscriptions, prepaid subscriptions, build-your-own boxes, merchant-curated subscription boxes, product bundles, and memberships. Plans apply to individual products, variants, or entire collections.

Question 4

Do I need a subscription app if Shopify has free native subscriptions?

Accepted Answer

Shopify's free native Subscriptions app is a fine place to start if you sell one or two products on a simple recurring schedule. Most stores outgrow it: there's no build-your-own or merchant-curated boxes, no bundling, only a basic customer portal, and no failed-payment dunning or cancellation save flows. Curobi runs on the same native Shopify Subscription Contracts — so you keep Shopify's checkout and billing — but adds the boxes, bundles, self-service portal, and churn recovery growing stores need, without adding a per-transaction fee on top.

Question 5

Is there a Shopify subscription app built for coffee roasters?

Accepted Answer

Yes — coffee is Curobi's core use case. Coffee-of-the-month plans, pick-your-roast and build-your-own bags, and merchant-curated sampler boxes that rotate monthly are native features, not workarounds, with a per-item cutoff that locks the box before billing runs. Paired with 0% transaction fees and free CSV migration from Recharge, Appstle, Loop, Bold, or Seal, it's built for roasters switching off tools that take a cut of every recurring charge.

Question 6

Does Curobi work with my theme and my other apps?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Curobi's purchase-option widget renders inside your existing theme via Shopify app blocks — no theme swap, no separate checkout. Because subscriptions run on Shopify's native Subscription Contracts, the tools already in your stack — reviews, loyalty, email/SMS, analytics, and upsell or bundling apps — see subscription orders exactly like any other Shopify order, with no proprietary billing layer to integrate around.

Question 7

Does Curobi use Shopify's native checkout?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Curobi runs on Shopify Subscription Contracts and Shopify's native checkout. Subscriptions are created at Shopify's checkout and mirrored into Curobi for management — no third-party billing processor or redirect, and Curobi never touches or stores card data.

Question 8

Will my subscriptions work with AI shopping agents and agentic checkout?

Accepted Answer

Curobi keeps your products, prices, and purchase options on Shopify's native product and checkout layer — the same surface Shopify exposes to its own agentic-commerce and AI shopping features — rather than behind a third-party widget or redirect. As Shopify's agentic checkout and AI shopping agents roll out through 2026, a store on Curobi keeps its subscriptions on native rails those agents can read, instead of a proprietary billing flow they may not see.

Question 9

Recharge raised its prices and acquired Skio — what's a cheaper alternative in 2026?

Accepted Answer

Recharge's net-new Starter plan is now $99/month plus 1.25% + $0.19 per transaction, its Pro plan is $499/month, and in April 2026 Recharge acquired Skio — consolidation and price increases that have merchants re-evaluating. Curobi is a flat-rate alternative: $29.99 or $69.99/month with 0% transaction fees, so a percentage of every recurring charge never leaves your account. Migration from Recharge is free via CSV import and doesn't interrupt active subscriptions.

Question 10

What makes Curobi different from Recharge, Appstle, or Loop?

Accepted Answer

Curobi is a newer, focused alternative — it doesn't try to match a decade of Recharge's feature breadth. It concentrates on three things: box formats (build-your-own and merchant-curated boxes) at a price point the established players gate behind $299–$499/month plans, retention and failed-payment recovery built in, and a reliable, idempotent billing core — all on Shopify's native checkout with flat pricing and 0% transaction fees. If you need SMS flows, A/B testing, or enterprise-scale tooling, Curobi isn't there yet — if you want a real subscription program without a transaction-fee tax, it is.

Question 11

How much does Curobi cost, and can I migrate from another app?

Accepted Answer

Curobi is free to install, with a 14-day free trial on both paid tiers: Starter at $29.99/month and Pro at $69.99/month — 0% transaction fees on either. CSV-based migration tooling lets you bring existing subscribers in from Recharge, Appstle, Loop, Bold, or Seal without interrupting active subscriptions.

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