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Advertised free or lower price differs from first charge

Shopify marketing apps charge merchants more than the free or lower price shown before install, sometimes right after installing.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

5 public reports · first reported 19 December 2017 · last reported 6 May 2026

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

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What's going wrong

Merchants of several marketing apps report being charged more than the free or lower price the listing showed before install.

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 5 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.