Recharge vs Skio for DTC subscription brands

Neither is better in the abstract. Recharge has the larger footprint (it says it powers 71% of subscriptions sold on Shopify stores) and the lower entry price, with Starter at $149 a month and a 60-day free trial. Skio publishes one plan at $499 a month billed annually, with every feature in it, and sells on its portal, cancel flows and migration. Both charge 1.25% + 20¢ per transaction at the $499 tier (Recharge’s Starter is 1.50% + 20¢). If you sell subscriptions on a Shopify store, pick by budget and by which retention tools you will use. If you sell subscriptions in funnels, neither fits, and Funnelish is the third option.

Recharge publishes three plans: Starter at $149 a month with a 1.50% + 20¢ fee per transaction, Scale at $499 a month with 1.25% + 20¢, and Custom with volume-based rates and no public price. Fees apply to all transactions processed by Recharge. Starter has a 60-day free trial; Plus and Custom plans run on 12-month terms. Source: Recharge pricing, November 2026.

Skio publishes one plan, Scale, at $499 a month billed annually or $599 month to month, plus a 1.25% + 20¢ transaction fee on orders involving a subscription. Enterprise is custom, for high-volume or unique business models, with volume pricing. The pricing page lists a free-trial question in its FAQ but shows no answer, so a trial is not published. Source: Skio pricing, November 2026.

By footprint, Recharge: it says it powers 71% of subscriptions sold on Shopify stores. By feature depth on a single published plan, Skio, which puts its portal, cancel flows, Journeys, build-a-box and migration into Scale. Both are Shopify subscription apps in the strict sense: they sell subscriptions on a Shopify store. If your subscriptions are sold in funnels you send ads to, the best Shopify subscription app is not an app at all. Funnelish sells and bills subscriptions on your own checkout and syncs every renewal to Shopify as an order, on every plan.

Yes. On Funnelish a subscription is a product setting in your funnel: switch the product to a subscription, pick whether your gateway or Funnelish bills it, set the cycle and an optional trial, and sell it on the page, as an order bump or as a one-click upsell. Rebills run on any MID, plus PayPal and local methods where the PSP supports them. Keep Shopify as the store and back office and every renewal syncs to it, or run standalone with orders sent to ShipBob, ShipStation, AfterShip or Google Sheets. Subscriptions are on every plan.

Yes. Migration is free on every Funnelish plan: our support team plans the move with you, including how saved cards move between gateways, while your current setup keeps selling. Talk to them before you switch so the order of steps is right for your gateways.

On Recharge and Skio, their pricing pages do not say, so ask each vendor where cards are vaulted and whether renewals can move to a new gateway without re-collecting them. On Funnelish, gateway-agnostic subscriptions managed by Funnelish keep the card vault and the renewal schedule in Funnelish, not in your gateway account, so you connect another MID and the next rebill runs there. On a smart payment routing rule (Advanced plan) it happens on its own. Subscriptions held by the gateway stay with that gateway account.

Yes. Keep Shopify as your store and back office. Your paid traffic lands on Funnelish funnels, the subscription is sold and billed on your Funnelish checkout and your own gateways, and every first order and renewal syncs to Shopify as a paid order, so your team ships as usual. Subscriptions are on every plan from $49 a month; customer portals and smart payment routing are on Advanced.