Plans and billing
Checkout Buddy has three plans: Free, Deals & Rules and Buddy. Checkout blocks and checkout branding need Shopify Plus, so the Buddy plan is for Shopify Plus stores, and development stores, which Shopify gives Plus checkout features for testing. Those stores can choose any of the three. Other stores choose from Free and Deals & Rules.
| Plan | Price | Who it’s for |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Trying the app with one customization |
| Deals & Rules | $12/month, or $115/year | Any store that wants discounts, bundles, checkout rules, upsells and free gifts on product and cart pages, thank you page blocks and customer account blocks, without the Free plan’s limit of one |
| Buddy | $67/month, or $643/year | Shopify Plus and development stores that want checkout blocks, checkout upsells and gifts, checkout fields, and everything in Deals & Rules |
Paying yearly saves about 20%. Charges appear on your Shopify invoice.
The two things that decide what your store can use:
- Your Shopify plan. Anything inside checkout (upsells, gifts, fields, content and automations there) needs Shopify Plus, and so does checkout branding. Discounts, kits and multipacks, checkout rules, purchase limits, and payment and shipping rules work on every Shopify plan. Product offers on product and cart pages, build a box, thank you page blocks and customer account blocks work on every Shopify plan except Starter. See what needs Shopify Plus.
- Your Checkout Buddy plan. Free includes one customization. Deals & Rules includes every discount, bundle and checkout rule, and every block outside checkout. Buddy adds the blocks inside checkout.
What each plan includes
Section titled “What each plan includes”| Free | Deals & Rules | Buddy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many customizations | 1 in total: a discount or other function, a thank you page block, a customer account block, or, on Shopify Plus, a checkout block | As many discounts, bundles, checkout rules, Product offers on product and cart pages, thank you page blocks and customer account blocks as Shopify allows | As many of everything as Shopify allows |
| Hide, rename, and reorder payment and shipping methods (hiding accelerated checkout buttons needs Shopify Plus) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Product, collection, and order discounts, automatic or with a code, and automatic shipping discounts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Volume, spend tiers, group price, combo, Buy X get Y and flex discounts | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Unique codes and discount code rules | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Bundles: kits, multipacks and build a box | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Checkout blocker, address blocker, purchase limits | ✓ | ✓ | |
| B2B order review (Shopify Plus) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Product offers on product and cart pages (every Shopify plan except Starter) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Progress bars on the cart page (every Shopify plan except Starter) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Thank you page blocks (every Shopify plan except Starter) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer account blocks (every Shopify plan except Starter) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Checkout content and one simple field (Content blocks, Reviews, What happens next, a progress bar that tracks money or items, a Custom fields form with one field that isn’t a date) (Shopify Plus) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Checkout upsells and free gifts (Product offers in checkout, Line item upsell, Cart line editor and others) (Shopify Plus) | ✓ | ||
| Custom fields forms with more than one field, or a date field with its calendar and time slots (Shopify Plus) | ✓ | ||
| Automations: Add a discount code, Set a cart attribute, Remove items (Shopify Plus) | ✓ | ||
| Progress bars in checkout with a cart weight goal (Shopify Plus) | ✓ | ||
| Analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Checkout and customer account branding (Shopify Plus) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Translations, markets and conditions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Checkout blocks and checkout branding need Shopify Plus on every plan. Translations are in each block’s own editor; the separate Translations page is for older checkout blocks, so only Shopify Plus stores with those have it. Analytics works on every plan, for the customizations your store has. See all blocks for which blocks the Free plan includes. Every thank you page and customer account block type works on Free.
Product offers aren’t on the Free plan. One that shows only on product and cart pages needs Deals & Rules or Buddy. One that also shows in checkout is a checkout block: Shopify Plus and the Buddy plan.
Deals & Rules used to include one checkout block. It doesn’t anymore: only Free (as its one customization) and Buddy include checkout blocks. A Deals & Rules store’s checkout block from before keeps running, but changes to it can’t be saved, except to turn it off.
What needs Shopify Plus
Section titled “What needs Shopify Plus”| Shopify Plus | Other Shopify plans | Shopify Starter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discounts, kits and multipacks, checkout rules, purchase limits, payment and shipping rules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Product offers on product and cart pages | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Build a box, quantity breaks and mix and match on product pages | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Thank you page blocks and customer account blocks | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Anything in checkout: upsells, gifts, fields, content, automations | ✓ | ||
| Checkout and customer account branding | ✓ | ||
| Hide accelerated checkout buttons, B2B order review | ✓ | ||
| The Buddy plan | ✓ |
Shopify Starter’s theme takes no app blocks, and Shopify shows no app blocks on Starter’s thank you page or customer accounts. So Starter stores are offered Free and Deals & Rules, for discounts, kits and multipacks, and checkout rules.
Development stores count as Shopify Plus in Checkout Buddy, so you can try everything before you buy. Shopify itself only runs checkout blocks on development stores created with Shopify Plus checkout features (since March 20, 2026; older development stores kept them), so on another development store a checkout block can be set up in the app and still not show in checkout.
What the Free plan’s one customization can be
Section titled “What the Free plan’s one customization can be”On the Free plan, one customization means one in total, turned on or off: one discount or other function, one thank you page block, one customer account block, or, on Shopify Plus, one checkout block. Current plan on the Plans page says whether you’ve used it.
| It can be | It can’t be |
|---|---|
| A product, collection or order discount, automatic or with a code, or an automatic shipping discount | A volume, spend tier, group price, combo, Buy X get Y or flex discount, unique codes, or discount code rules |
| A rule that hides, renames or reorders payment or shipping methods | A checkout blocker, an address blocker or purchase limits |
| Any thank you page block or customer account block | A Product offer, on product and cart pages or in checkout, a progress bar on the cart page, or a bundle: kits, multipacks and build a box. They need Deals & Rules or Buddy (Product offers in checkout, Buddy) |
| On Shopify Plus: a content block, Reviews, What happens next, a progress bar in checkout that tracks money or items, or a Custom fields form with one field that isn’t a date | On Shopify Plus: an automation, a progress bar in checkout with a weight goal, or a form with several fields or a date field |
A function on Free can have one setting. Once you have a customization, Create customization shows (Free plan limit reached) on every tab of the Customizations page, and you can still edit, turn off or delete the one you have.
Volume and combo discounts, and Product offers on product and cart pages, used to be on the Free plan. If your Free plan’s one customization is one of them, you can keep editing it.
When your plan doesn’t include something, or the Free plan’s one customization is used, the app shows Free plan limit reached or Not on your plan, asks you to upgrade your plan and suggests the plan that fits best. It picks the cheapest plan your store can choose that adds what you want and keeps everything you already use. For example, a Free store with a discount that wants customer account blocks is pointed to the Deals & Rules plan, and any store on Shopify Plus that wants upsells in checkout is pointed to the Buddy plan.
Older plans, names and prices
Section titled “Older plans, names and prices”New prices apply to new subscriptions. Your price stays the same while you keep your plan, so if you subscribed to Deals & Rules at $10/month or $96/year, or to Buddy at $50/month or $480/year, you keep that price unless you change plans.
Deals & Rules was called Discounts & Rules until November 2026, when it added bundles, and your Shopify invoice still calls it that. Before October 2026 it was More Functions, at $9/month: if you subscribed then, you keep that price unless you change plans, and your Shopify invoice still shows that name. Buddy was called Business until October 2026; older invoices show that name.
Thank you page and customer account blocks had their own plan, Thanks & Accounts (called Customer Accounts until October 2026), until November 11, 2026, when they joined Deals & Rules. If you’re on Thanks & Accounts, you keep it and its price, it now includes everything in Deals & Rules, and your Shopify invoice still calls it Customer Accounts.
Free trial
Section titled “Free trial”Paid plans start with a 10-day free trial. Shopify’s plan page shows your trial before you confirm, and you won’t be charged if you switch to Free before it ends. During a trial, Current plan shows the day it ends.
Change your plan
Section titled “Change your plan”- In Checkout Buddy’s app menu, click Plans. If your menu has App settings instead (Shopify Plus stores with checkout blocks made the older way before November 11, 2026), go to App settings → Plans.
- Choose Monthly or Yearly (save 20%).
- Click Upgrade. For a plan that isn’t an upgrade, for example from Buddy to Deals & Rules, the button says Switch to and the plan’s name. To keep your plan and change how you pay, your own plan’s button says Switch to yearly billing or Switch to monthly billing.
- Shopify’s plan page opens. Confirm the plan and billing cycle there.
You come back to the Plans page, which says You’re on and your plan’s name. If it says Shopify is still confirming your plan, reload the page in a minute. Billing in Shopify’s own settings for the app opens the same plan page.
When you switch to another paid plan, customizations it doesn’t include aren’t deleted and keep running, but you can’t add more of them, and you can’t save changes to them, except to turn one off. Switching to Free is different: see below.
Current plan, at the top of the page, shows what you pay and when your plan renews.
If you stay on your plan, your price doesn’t change. Changing plans, or switching between monthly and yearly billing, moves you to today’s price.
There are no discount codes. If we’ve given your store a discount, Shopify’s plan page shows the discounted price.
Downgrade to Free
Section titled “Downgrade to Free”Click Downgrade to Free, then choose Free on Shopify’s plan page. Your paid plan ends right away, trial included. If your subscription started before plans moved to Shopify’s plan page, Checkout Buddy asks you to confirm instead, then cancels it right away.
Customizations the Free plan doesn’t include are deleted when you switch to Free, in Checkout Buddy and in Shopify:
- Checkout blockers, address blockers, purchase limits, B2B order reviews, price changers and discount code rules
- Volume, spend tier, group price, combo, Buy X get Y and flex discounts. A Buy X get Y discount’s Add to the cart offer goes with it.
- Product offers, wherever they show, automations, and the other checkout blocks Free doesn’t include
- Custom fields forms with more than one field or a date field, and progress bars with a weight goal
Build a box turns off instead of being deleted. Your boxes stay in Shopify as products, but buyers can’t add them to the cart until you upgrade again and click Turn on on the Bundles tab. Kits and multipacks keep selling.
Before you continue, Checkout Buddy names each customization it will delete and how many there are, and how many boxes turn off. A plan cancelled in Shopify’s billing settings deletes them the same way when it ends.
Your other customizations stay and keep running. You won’t be able to create more than the Free plan allows. While you have more than one customization in total, you can’t save changes to any of them. You can still turn any of them off, or delete them, to get back under the limit.
Uninstalling
Section titled “Uninstalling”Uninstalling cancels your subscription at the end of the period you’ve paid for. If you reinstall before then, your plan comes back until that date.
Everything stops when you uninstall, and not all of it comes back:
- Discounts, checkout rules, and payment and shipping rules are deleted by Shopify, and reinstalling doesn’t restore them. After a reinstall they’re still listed in Checkout Buddy as Deleted in Shopify: delete them there and create them again. On the Free plan, they count as your one customization until you delete them.
- App blocks are removed from Shopify’s checkout editor. Your block settings are kept, so your blocks show again once you add the app blocks back.
- The Product offers block and app embed are removed from your theme, with Checkout Buddy’s other theme blocks. There’s no theme code to clean up.
See data and privacy for what happens to your data.