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How Far Free Shopify Flow Actually Goes — The Published Limits and Where an App Starts Earning Its Fee
Shopify Flow is free on every plan, and its ceilings are published: 1,000 workflows, 100 objects per Get data action, 40 wait steps, a 10-minute minimum schedule. Here are all the documented limits in one table, plus the four situations where a paid automation app is the rational call. Researched August 31, 2026.
Shopify Forms Caps at 25 Forms and 31 Fields — And Every Popup App Meters a Different Thing
Shopify Forms is free, but the Help Center documents hard limits: 25 forms per store, 31 fields per form, no multi-step forms, no conditional logic, no A/B testing. Meanwhile third-party popup apps meter their free tiers on impressions, pageviews, contacts, or submissions — four different units, so the monthly prices aren't comparable. Boundaries drawn from official documentation and App Store listings. Researched August 31, 2026.
Shopify's Free Google Channel Overwrites the Feed You Already Have
The first-party Google & YouTube channel costs nothing, but the Help Center documents what it does on the way in: it overwrites an existing Merchant Center feed, refuses multi-client accounts, syncs only your General shipping profile, and requires product options in English. Here is when native is enough, and how Simprosys and Multifeed bill differently. Researched August 31, 2026.
Every Shopify Loyalty App Bills on Monthly Orders — What Happens Past the 200 to 400 Order Free Tier
Shopify has no points program, but store credit is built in — with a third-party transaction fee on stores created after May 12, 2025, and no partial redemption. We line up Smile.io, Growave, Rivo and LoyaltyLion on one axis: how many monthly orders you get for how much. Researched August 31, 2026.
Shopify Loyalty Apps Compared — Checkout Redemption Requires Plus on Every One of Them, and the Free Tiers End Sooner Than You Think
Shopify has no native points program. Smile, BON, Rivo, and LoyaltyLion all bill on monthly orders, all gate checkout redemption behind Shopify Plus, and all handle uninstall differently — one of them states in its own help docs that uninstalling does not cancel billing. Real pricing, real limits, and what happens to your points data when you leave. Researched August 31, 2026.
Your Thank You Page Just Went Quiet — The August 26, 2026 Script Tag Shutdown
On August 26, 2026, script tags stopped running on the Order status page for every non-Plus store. Review requests, tracking widgets, and conversion pixels may have vanished from your post-purchase pages. Here is what stopped, how to check your own store from the admin, and the two deadlines still ahead on October 1, 2026 and March 1, 2027. Researched August 31, 2026.
Pre-Orders Don't Require Plus — Shop Pay, Apple Pay, and POS Are What Break
Shopify pre-orders with deposits and deferred balance charges do not require Shopify Plus. The documented constraints are payment gateway support, the fact that Shop Pay, Apple Pay, and Google Pay can't buy pre-order items, and that POS, B2B, and draft orders are out of scope. Back-in-stock notifications don't exist natively at all. Plus a look at why pre-order apps meter on four different axes. Researched August 31, 2026.
Shopify Raised Variants to 2,048. Options Are Still Capped at 3.
On October 15, 2025, Shopify raised the per-product variant ceiling from 100 to 2,048. The three-option limit did not move, and Shopify's own docs still point merchants to third-party apps. Here is what breaks past 100 variants, what Combined Listings can and cannot do, and how Globo, Easify, and Infinite Options actually bill. Researched August 31, 2026.