Curated boxes, on autopilot.

Yes — Curobi. Recharge charges 1.25% + $0.19 per transaction on top of a monthly plan that starts at $99/month for new merchants, and Loop starts around $99/month + 1%. Curobi charges 0% transaction fees on every plan, always, because recurring charges run on Shopify's own Subscription Contract billing rails — Curobi is never in the payment flow, so there's no fee to recover. You pay a flat $29.99 or $69.99 per month instead, regardless of how much subscription revenue you process.

Recurring product subscriptions, prepaid subscriptions, build-your-own boxes, merchant-curated subscription boxes, product bundles, and memberships. Plans apply to individual products, variants, or entire collections.

Shopify's free native Subscriptions app is a fine place to start if you sell one or two products on a simple recurring schedule. Most stores outgrow it: there are no build-your-own or merchant-curated boxes, Shopify documents that bundles aren't compatible with it, its customer portal stops at skip, pause, resume, cancel and payment or address edits, and while it does run configurable failed-payment retries there is no recovery workflow around them and no cancellation save flows. Curobi runs on the same native Shopify Subscription Contracts — so you keep Shopify's checkout and billing — but adds the boxes, bundles, self-service portal, and churn recovery growing stores need, without adding a per-transaction fee on top.

Yes — coffee is Curobi's core use case. Coffee-of-the-month plans, pick-your-roast and Build-a-Box bags, and merchant-curated sampler boxes that rotate monthly are native features on the Pro plan, not workarounds, with a per-item cutoff that locks the box before billing runs. Paired with 0% transaction fees on every plan and CSV migration from Recharge, Appstle, Loop, Bold, or Seal (included on Pro), it's built for roasters switching off tools that take a cut of every recurring charge.

Yes. Curobi's purchase-option widget renders inside your existing theme via Shopify app blocks — no theme swap, no separate checkout. Because subscriptions run on Shopify's native Subscription Contracts, the tools already in your stack — reviews, loyalty, email/SMS, analytics, and upsell or bundling apps — see subscription orders exactly like any other Shopify order, with no proprietary billing layer to integrate around.

Yes. Curobi runs on Shopify Subscription Contracts and Shopify's native checkout. Subscriptions are created at Shopify's checkout and mirrored into Curobi for management — no third-party billing processor or redirect, and Curobi never touches or stores card data.

Curobi keeps your products, prices, and purchase options on Shopify's native product and checkout layer — the same surface Shopify exposes to its own agentic-commerce and AI shopping features — rather than behind a third-party widget or redirect. As Shopify's agentic checkout and AI shopping agents roll out through 2026, a store on Curobi keeps its subscriptions on native rails those agents can read, instead of a proprietary billing flow they may not see.

Recharge's net-new Starter plan is now $99/month plus 1.25% + $0.19 per transaction, its Pro plan is $499/month, and in April 2026 Recharge acquired Skio — consolidation and price increases that have merchants re-evaluating. Curobi is a flat-rate alternative: $29.99 or $69.99/month with 0% transaction fees, so a percentage of every recurring charge never leaves your account. Migration from Recharge is built into the Pro plan via CSV import, at no extra cost, and doesn't interrupt active subscriptions.

Curobi is a newer, focused alternative — it doesn't try to match a decade of Recharge's feature breadth. It concentrates on three things: box formats (build-your-own and merchant-curated boxes) on its $69.99 Pro plan, a price point where the established players are still charging $299–$499/month; retention and failed-payment recovery; and a reliable, idempotent billing core — all on Shopify's native checkout with flat pricing and 0% transaction fees. If you need SMS flows, A/B testing, or enterprise-scale tooling, Curobi isn't there yet — if you want a real subscription program without a transaction-fee tax, it is.

Curobi is free to install, with a 14-day free trial on both paid tiers: Starter at $29.99/month (up to 100 active subscribers) and Pro at $69.99/month (unlimited) — 0% transaction fees on either. On the Pro plan, CSV-based migration tooling lets you bring existing subscribers in from Recharge, Appstle, Loop, Bold, or Seal without interrupting active subscriptions.