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Charged for gift wrap apps after uninstall or cancel

Merchants keep getting charged for gift wrap app subscriptions after uninstalling, cancelling, or letting a free trial lapse without any warning

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 16 September 2021 · last reported 17 June 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Across several gift wrap and gift message apps on Shopify, merchants report being billed after they removed the app, cancelled a subscription, or let a free trial end.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.