The Shopify subscription app built for food & grocery brands.

Why food subscriptions are their own problem

Food is two habits at once: the staples people restock without thinking, and the tasting boxes they subscribe to for the surprise. A program has to do both — dependable replenishment on the pantry items and rotating variety on the discovery side — or subscribers drift to whichever brand does the missing half.

Food is also perishable and often fulfilled on delivery or local-pickup windows, so a real per-item cutoff — locking the box before you pack fresh goods — is essential, not cosmetic. Because Curobi runs on Shopify's own checkout, it doesn't break native features like local pickup the way redirect-based apps can.

What you can run

Built on Shopify's native rails

Every recurring charge runs on Shopify Subscription Contracts and Shopify's own checkout — there's no third-party billing processor, no redirect, and Curobi never touches or stores card data. Your reviews, loyalty, email/SMS, and analytics apps see subscription orders exactly the way they see any other Shopify order. It also keeps your products on the same native product and checkout layer Shopify exposes to its agentic-commerce and AI shopping features, instead of behind a proprietary widget those agents may not read.

Setting up a food subscription

1. Create your subscription plans

   Set the cadence and any subscribe-and-save discount, and apply it to pantry staples, specific variants, or a whole collection.

2. Add the purchase-option widget

   The widget renders inside your existing theme so shoppers can buy once or subscribe from the same product page — no separate checkout or redirect.

3. Set the per-item cutoff

   For build-your-own or curated boxes, set the cutoff so each box is locked before the recurring charge and before you pack perishable goods.

4. Turn on the portal and recovery

   A self-service portal (skip, pause, reschedule around a trip, change frequency) and automatic failed-payment recovery are included, so customers manage their own box without emailing you.

Keeping food subscribers (reducing churn)

The biggest churn drivers in food are boxes arriving while the pantry is still full, wanting more variety, and failed payments that silently cancel customers who never meant to leave. Curobi counters each — a self-service portal to skip a delivery or change frequency around a trip or a full shelf, rotating curated boxes and build-your-own selection for variety, save flows that offer a pause instead of a cancel, and automatic dunning that retries declined cards. Letting a customer skip a box instead of cancelling is the single most effective retention lever — see churn for why.

Switching from another app

Moving off a tool that takes a cut of every recurring charge is free: Curobi provides CSV-based migration from Recharge, Appstle, Loop, Bold, or Seal without interrupting active subscriptions. Compare the specifics: vs Recharge, vs Appstle, or vs Loop.

Food & grocery brands FAQ

Is there a Shopify subscription app for food and grocery brands?

Yes. Pantry replenishment, build-your-own grocery boxes with a per-item cutoff, and curated monthly tasting boxes are all native features in Curobi. With 0% transaction fees and CSV migration from Recharge, Appstle, Loop, Bold, or Seal on the Pro plan, it fits food brands running both restock and discovery without a cut taken from every recurring order.

Does Curobi work with local pickup and delivery?

Yes. Because Curobi runs on Shopify's native checkout and Subscription Contracts rather than a third-party billing redirect, subscription orders behave like any other Shopify order — so native fulfillment options like local pickup and delivery keep working. Redirect-based subscription apps are where those native features tend to break.