Selleasy's free plan is one of the better ones on the App Store: 50 orders a month, renewing. The catch is in the wording — it counts your store's total order count, not orders Selleasy influenced. A store can lose the free plan purely from growth the app had nothing to do with.
Selleasy rates 4.9 across 2,525 reviews and its free plan renews monthly rather than expiring, which already puts it ahead of several apps in this category. Merchants still look around for two reasons.
The cap counts your whole store. Selleasy's listing is explicit: "Up to 50 orders/mo. Your store's total order count will be considered." So the app can be influencing almost nothing and still push you past the cap, because the rest of the business is doing well. An app that counts only its own attributed orders — or its own generated revenue, as Essential does — behaves very differently as you grow.
Recommendation breadth is not promotional depth. Selleasy's strength is frequently-bought-together recommendations across the product page, cart, and post-purchase. If what you need is a spend-threshold free gift, a BOGO ladder, or a bundle builder, that is a different category of logic, and a recommendation engine is the wrong tool rather than a weaker one.
Worth noting what is not a reason: price. At $9/mo, Selleasy's first paid tier is among the cheapest in the set, so stores that outgrow the free plan are not facing a $29.99 or $54.99 step.
| App | Free plan | First paid tier | Listing rating | Standout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selleasy | $0 · 50 orders/mo, counted on total store orders (renews monthly) | from $9/mo | 4.9 · 2,525 reviews | Frequently-bought-together across product, cart & post-purchase |
| Wiser AI | $0 · 0–50 orders/mo | from $9/mo (51–100 orders) | 4.9 · 513 reviews | AI-driven recommendation matching |
| iCart | $0 · 100 orders lifetime (one-time, never renews) | from $9/mo (101–200 orders) | 4.7 · 434 reviews | Replaces the cart drawer itself |
| Essential | $0 · up to $100 additional revenue generated (one-time) | from $9.99/mo (up to $500/mo generated) | 5.0 · 2,234 reviews | Only bills once the app has generated revenue |
| BOGOS | $0 · 30 orders lifetime (one-time, never renews) | from $29.99/mo (300 orders) | 5.0 · 4,092 reviews | Gift with purchase, BOGO, bundles & mix-and-match |
| Honeycomb | $0 · 100 funnel views/mo (views, not orders) | from $54.99/mo (2,000 views) | 4.6 · 146 reviews | Split testing included on the free plan |
| Upsell.com | $0 · development stores only | from $4.99/mo | 4.8 · 2,803 reviews | Full-stack post-purchase funnels |
Every figure above is read from the vendor's own Shopify App Store listing, checked 26–27 August 2026. App Store pricing changes without notice — check the listing before you commit.
| If you… | Look at |
|---|---|
| Want a cap tied to what the app actually produced | Essential — its free plan is $100 of app-generated revenue |
| Want a similar monthly order cap from a different vendor | Wiser AI — 0–50 orders/mo free, $9/mo above that |
| Prefer a large one-time allowance over a monthly one | iCart — 100 orders lifetime |
| Need gift with purchase, BOGO or bundle mechanics | BOGOS for depth; see our free-gift feature pages for the mechanics themselves |
| Want split testing on a free plan | Honeycomb — included free, though capped at 100 funnel views/mo |
| Do not want a cap at all | NUO AI — disclosed vendor pitch, see below |
None of these is the right answer for every store, and the deciding factor is almost never the feature list — it is what ends the free plan and what the first paid tier costs when it does. A cap counted in views behaves nothing like a cap counted in orders, and a lifetime allowance behaves nothing like a monthly one.
We maintain direct comparisons between these apps, each built from the vendors' own listings rather than from feature-matrix marketing:
If you are deciding between two specific apps, those pages are more useful than this one — they go into the exact wording each vendor uses to describe its cap.
This page is published by NUO AI, so treat this section as a vendor pitch and the rest of the page as research. We build a free Shopify cart upsell, cross-sell and free-gift app with no order cap, no view cap, no revenue cap, and no paid tier to graduate into — which sidesteps the cap question entirely rather than answering it.
What we do not claim: we are a newer app with far fewer reviews than any vendor in the table above, and we do not match the promotional depth of a specialist that has spent a decade on gifting mechanics. What we do offer is every feature at $0 — auto-added free gifts, spend thresholds, quantity breaks, funnel analytics and A/B testing included — plus a founder onboarding call on every install.
If your reason for looking at alternatives is that a cap ended your free plan, that is the specific problem we built around.
Yes, and it renews every month rather than expiring once — which is unusual in this category. The constraint is the unit: the 50-order cap counts your store's total orders, not the orders Selleasy influenced.
Because general business growth can end your free plan even if the app is contributing almost nothing. Apps that cap on attributed orders or generated revenue only charge you when they have done something.
On first paid tier, Upsell.com at $4.99/mo is the lowest in this set, though its free plan is limited to development stores. Wiser AI matches Selleasy at $9/mo with a comparable monthly order cap.
Its listed strength is frequently-bought-together recommendations across product, cart, and post-purchase. Promotional mechanics like spend-threshold gifts and BOGO ladders are a different category of logic — check the current listing if that is your requirement.
The free caps are near-identical — 50 orders a month either way, $9/mo above it. The split is in approach: Selleasy spreads one recommendation engine across three placements, Wiser AI emphasises AI-driven recommendation matching. Our Selleasy vs Wiser AI page covers the detail.
They were read from each vendor's Shopify App Store listing on 26–27 August 2026. Pricing changes without notice, so verify on the listing before you commit.
