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Shopify Subscription Commerce Writer

Jake

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Articles by Jake

Shopify's free subscription app has retries and a portal but no bundles. How it compares with Recharge and other apps, and when the free one stops being enough.

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Quick answer card asking when the free Shopify Subscriptions app stops being enough, next to a merchant at a laptop weighing an upgrade against advanced pricing, retention, analytics and flexibility

GitHub was down for 7.5 hours on 17 August 2026 at a ~20% error rate. What happened, what GitHub has not said yet, and what it means for recurring billing.

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A cracked GitHub logo splitting apart with red light bursting through the fracture, under the words 'When GitHub goes down, everything stops'

Verified 2026 pricing for Recharge, Skio, Loop, Appstle, Seal, Bold, Shopify's native app and Curobi — plus the fee-model split and how to choose.

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An illustrated Shopify merchant at a laptop weighing up subscription apps, with floating tiles for Recharge, Skio, Loop, Bold, Appstle, Awtomic, Seal and PayWhirl around a crowned Curobi tile, beside a checklist reading easy to use, fair pricing, great support and built for growth.

Recharge alternatives for coffee roasters, compared: Loop, Appstle, Seal, Shopify's native app and Curobi — honest pricing, fee models, and coffee-specific fit.

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Recharge alternatives for coffee roasters — the Recharge logo on a glass tile with Loop, Appstle and other subscription apps faded behind it, an arrow pointing to a brightly lit Curobi tile.

Recharge acquired Skio in April 2026, but the two are still sold separately. How Skio and Recharge compare on price and features, and whether to stay or move.

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Cartoon illustration titled 'Skio is now part of Recharge' — a character in a Recharge hoodie leads a roped Skio character toward a Recharge storefront, with signposts reading 'Bigger future, bigger play' and 'More power, more reach, more merchants'.

How to migrate Shopify subscriptions between apps without losing subscribers: what has to move, how payment continuity works, and a step-by-step process.

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Shopify subscription app migration guide — a diagram of the components that move when switching subscription apps: customers, subscription contracts, selling plans, billing dates and payment methods

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Shopify subscriptions

subscription app migrations

ReCharge

Skio

vendor lock-in

coffee subscriptions

subscription-platform pricing

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