Overview

In this part, we will focus on probably the most important aspect of your awesome apps, How do we charge app users.

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Subscription-based

We support your apps to charge on a subscription basis. You can set a recurring price for each subscription cycles, and regions. Let's assume your awesome app is an accounting app that serves HK merchant and US merchant. The following table illustrate the idea of how your can structure your pricing.

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Subscription Cycle

This is a recurring cycle that indicates how long will a merchant be charged for Shopline's services.
We support your app to charge merchants following our subscription-based pattern. Currently we offer 4 subscription cycles for our merchants, which are monthly, yearly, 2-year, and 3-year

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Subscription currency

In the above example, we support you to decide pricings per regions. What we mean regions here is the subscription currency of the merchant. Basically the subscription currency indicates where is the merchant based. For details, you might visit here.

	US	HK
Monthly	9.99$	49.9$
Yearly	110$	590$
2year	200$	1,150$
3year	299$	1,700$

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Other Pricing Modes

Currently we only support recurring charge for your apps. We plan to rollout more pricing modes for you so as to make your pricing strategy more flexible. In our roadmap, we have one-off pricing and on-usage pricing. Feel free to contact us if your pricing need is very specifc.

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Legacy Subscription System

Our subscription system has evolved a lot recently. All of our new merchants should be using our new subscription system instead of the previous one, and merchants of the legacy subscription system are gradually migrating to the new one.

Developer Center and Apps Store aim at serving merchants of the new subscription system. It means your apps are also serving them primarily. Yet, If you want your apps to support merchants of legacy subscription system, we do provide limited support on it. For details, please contact us.

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App's Pricing

For details of setting price, please visit here.

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Checkout

If you want to know more about the checkout flow of an app, please visit here.

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Subscription Ends

When merchant's subscription to Shopline services ends, all the apps this merchant has installed will be unsubscribed and uninstalled at the some time.

subscription to Shopline services end this means the status of merchant's subscription to Shopline services is locked.

Example 1:

1. Merchant has a subscription to Shopline service expires at 30 April
2. it is not recurring
3. Now it is 1 May
4. All installed apps will be unsubscribed and uninstalled

Example 2:

1. Merchant has a subscription to Shopline service expires at 30 April and start next cycle automatically
2. Now it is 1 May
3. All installed apps will not be affected.