A checklist to reduce your Shopify app costs
Most stores accumulate apps faster than they remove them. Run this checklist quarterly to keep your app bill — and your data sprawl — under control.
Audit what you actually use
List every paid app, its monthly cost, and the last time someone opened it. Apps installed 'to try' have a way of becoming permanent line items.
Flag anything whose only job overlaps a tool you already pay for — overlap is the easiest saving.
Group by job-to-be-done
Sort apps into marketing, retention, fulfilment and service. Within each group, ask whether one consolidated tool could cover all of it.
Categories with three or more apps are prime consolidation targets.
Count the hidden costs
Add the human time spent reconciling data between apps and switching tabs. It's usually larger than the subscription fees.
If a single back-office can absorb a category, you remove both the bill and the busywork.