By Patrick King


Installed apps continue to grow whether we like it or not. The merchant base for Shopify does the same. It makes us wonder how they decide which of them are actually worth their own price though. How do they do it? What are their expectations on a pricing model of a particular application? It is a bit hard to determine the Shopify Pricing App.

When the sub is due, they can add the usage charges to the invoice of the merchant. The people behind Shopify has been seeing this trend of devs using this type of charge because of the flexibility behind it. In all honesty, it sounds a lot better than the usual, since it helps support the developers.

Now, right before you pick on how much you want your application to be paid, determine first what kind of billing model makes the most sense for all the services you have offered. For those apps that have been made for Shopify, those charges are being set up and are processed through this thing called Billing API.

We suggest you add some visual indicators so they will know. It will definitely alert them and maybe adding in a notification just in case they cannot get the memo and get it through their head that they are making a purchase of some sort. They still need to pay for that, man. Maybe even put in a progress bar or even other kinds of reporting tools.

That way, you get to educate them about what they have been doing in your app and get the easy money without even cheating at all. They might even want an additional functionality that counts as something severely important to your app. Count yourself lucky. Demands mean costs and that means more cash for you.

As for the second one, let us call in an example. A hypothetical one. Order Follow Up sends out order confirmation emails to all customers that have ordered the product. Shopify handles all the invoicing plus that merchant payment. The one who made the app will get eighty percent from the revenue once the merchant has paid the invoice.

Let us say the merchant would pick one of the add ons you have available. That is when you post the additional five dollars and they will be billed for it by the next billing period. And if they decide they do not want the add on anymore, then you simply will just not post anything and cancel out the charge.

As a side note, so you will not get screwed over by the people paying you, you need to get them to agree about any new changes and charges first. This is so they do not get shocked about anything new on their bill. That could turn ugly and will have them calling you out on unnecessary charging.

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