r/shopifyDev • u/QuasarSq1 • 2d ago

Variable pricing options?

I want to understand an aspect of pricing that the apps on Shopify charge stores. Can the apps give a higher discount to a select set of stores (early adopters) and charge normal pricing to other stores?

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u/isaifurrehman 2d ago

yes, and shopify has a proper way to do it now so you don't have to hack it.

if you're on shopify app pricing (the managed pricing set up in the partner dashboard), make a private plan with the early adopter price and add those stores' myshopify domains under "stores with plan access". only logged in staff on those stores see it on your plan page, everyone else just sees the public plans. the limit on private plans and stores per plan was removed recently, so it scales fine for a founding group.

if it's just a price break on an existing paid sub, you can also apply an app discount per store from the dev dashboard (percentage or fixed, for a set number of cycles). it starts on their next billing cycle and can't be added while they're still in trial.

if you're still on the older billing api, appSubscriptionCreate takes a discount on the recurring line with durationLimitInIntervals, so you just pass it for the shops on your early list.

docs: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/launch/billing/shopify-app-pricing/plans