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Surprise fee increases and charges with no warning

Merchants get charged more than they agreed to, with no warning, by apps they believed were free or on fixed plans

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

7 public reports · first reported 25 December 2023 · last reported 24 August 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Merchants on Shopify report apps raising fees or starting charges without warning.

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 7 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.