Subscriptions turn single buyers into recurring revenue, and they are more common than most store owners realize. The apps below add subscribe and save, subscription boxes, and prepaid plans to your store, then handle the recurring billing, the customer portal, and the failed payments that come with them. The right one depends on your stage: some are free and simple, others are built to scale into serious subscription businesses.<\/p>\n
Subscriptions are the largest alternative business model on Shopify. Across the stores in our dataset, more run on subscriptions than on dropshipping, wholesale, or print on demand. For a fuller view of the tools these stores rely on, see what subscription Shopify stores actually run<\/a>. The live breakdown below shows where each model sits.<\/p>\n Share of all Shopify stores in our dataset running each business model.<\/p>Shopify Business Models by the Numbers<\/h2>