
The default subscription engine for Shopify DTC brands, but the real monthly cost runs well above the…
The default subscription engine for Shopify DTC brands, but the real monthly cost runs well above the advertised base price once transaction fees are added at scale.Reviewed
Recharge is a subscription and recurring-billing platform built on top of Shopify (and increasingly other platforms) that lets merchants sell subscribe-and-save products, curated subscription boxes, and recurring bundles. It handles the subscriber-facing billing portal, failed-payment retry logic, shipment consolidation, and one-click upsells at the point of subscription management, and reports powering the large majority of subscription orders processed through Shopify stores. It's used mostly by venture-backed and high-growth DTC brands in coffee, supplements, pet care, and beauty that need enterprise-grade retention tooling. In April 2026, Recharge acquired competitor Skio for a reported $105 million, consolidating a large share of the Shopify subscription-app market under one company.
DTC brands with subscribe-and-save or replenishment products needing a dedicated subscriber portal
Growing subscription brands that need dunning/retry logic to reduce failed-payment churn
Merchants running curated subscription boxes who need bundling and shipment-consolidation logic
Operations teams that need subscriber analytics (LTV, churn, MRR) beyond what Shopify natively reports



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