Compare free shipping membership apps
Compare Memberply, Appstle and Conjured for a paid shipping program. Check the app fees, checkout rules and delivery costs before choosing.
Memberply Growth: US$49/month, unlimited members and a 14-day trial.
Which Shopify app fits a free shipping membership?
A free shipping membership charges customers to join a program that waives eligible delivery charges. The app needs to manage membership eligibility and apply the shipping benefit at checkout. The merchant still pays delivery costs.
Memberply, Appstle Memberships and Conjured Memberships are worth evaluating for this use case. Choose by the rules your offer requires, the rest of your member benefits and your total program cost. This is a Memberply-published comparison based on official documentation and our implementation, not a hands-on test of competing apps or a universal ranking.
Jump to the shortlist, app pricing, the shipping example or checkout tests.
Three membership apps to compare
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| App | Documented shipping approach | Buying question |
|---|---|---|
| Memberply | Automatic shipping benefit with order minimums, country settings, a shipping-cost ceiling and product exclusions. | Do its cart-wide exclusions and cost-based shipping rules match your offer? |
| Appstle Memberships | Create a Shopify free-shipping discount and link its numeric ID to a membership perk. | Does the linked discount cover the countries, order minimum and usage rules you need? |
| Conjured Memberships | Publish an automatic tier shipping perk; eligible shipping names must match the store’s rates exactly. | Can you maintain matching rate names across your checkout and delivery setup? |
Setup sources: Memberply shipping benefit, Appstle shipping perk and Conjured shipping perk. All three support a member shipping benefit; they should not be treated as identical rule engines.
App prices: compare the plan and fee structure
These are monthly USD app prices from the linked listings. They are separate from what customers pay for membership and from the cost of delivering their orders. Check the required features and current offer before subscribing.
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| App | Published monthly plans | What changes the total |
|---|---|---|
| Memberply Growth | $49; unlimited members; 14-day app trial. | No Memberply transaction fee. Shipping, Shopify and payment-provider costs remain separate. |
| Appstle Memberships | Free up to 25 members; Starter $19 up to 100; Business $39 up to 500; Business Premium $79 up to 750. Paid plans list a 14-day trial. | Select for member allowance and required features. Higher volumes need a quote; confirm the shipping perk on your selected plan. |
| Conjured Memberships | Limited Special $9.99 + 2.9%; Starter $19 + 1.9%; Growth $69 + 0.9%. Paid plans list a 30-day trial. | Percentage fees apply to membership transactions, with a $0.10 minimum per transaction. The special is a limited offer; development-store free access is not a general free live-store plan. |
Annual billing discounts, where available, are separate from these monthly prices. Include setup work and any additional shipping tools in your budget. Appstle can cost less at smaller member counts; Memberply’s flat fee is one consideration, not proof of the lowest complete program cost.
For detailed plan comparisons, see Appstle versus Memberply and Conjured versus Memberply.
How the shipping setup differs
Memberply: configure the benefit on the tier
Choose no minimum, a merchandise amount or a quantity minimum, then set countries and an optional maximum shipping cost. An eligible active member can qualify, as can a shopper adding the matching membership to the same cart. A membership-only cart does not qualify. Review Memberply’s shipping rules.
Appstle: connect a Shopify shipping discount
Its guide starts with a free-shipping discount in Shopify, including country, minimum-order and usage settings. You then attach the discount ID to the plan’s shipping perk. The documented member experience applies it automatically without a manual code. Test the actual discount configuration and membership state. Read the Appstle setup guide.
Conjured: match the shipping rate names
Its guide describes an automatic shipping perk for each eligible tier and exact shipping-name matching. Publish the app discount after configuring it. The guide also describes a shopper receiving the shipping benefit when adding membership in the same checkout. Test new and existing members, and recheck after renaming a shipping rate. Read the Conjured setup guide.
Memberply limits to check before promising free delivery
Memberply is a fit when shipping is one part of a tier with other benefits such as discounts or store credit. Its rules need to match the promise you advertise:
- Merchandise minimum. A $50 minimum is not met by $40 of eligible merchandise plus a $20 membership. The membership product does not count.
- Mixed carts. In the current checkout implementation, an excluded merchandise item blocks this shipping benefit for the whole cart. It does not split one item into free delivery and another into paid delivery.
- Shipping-cost ceiling. With an $8 ceiling, an available $6 option can qualify and a $12 option cannot. It is not an $8 credit toward the $12 option. The rule checks cost, not whether the rate is named Standard.
- Delivery coverage. Your store must offer a shipping option for the address, and the country must meet the benefit rules. The membership does not create shipping zones or carrier services.
Confirm minimum boundaries, multi-item carts and every delivery option in checkout. Do not assume another app has the same exclusion behavior when its documentation does not specify it.
A $60 annual offer: separate member savings from delivery cost
Illustrative scenario: membership costs $60/year, a qualifying order saves the customer a $6 delivery charge, and the merchant pays $7 to fulfill each shipment. Assume 12 qualifying orders per member per year and 100 members throughout the year. These are sample inputs, not a recommended price or a forecast.
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| View | Calculation | Decision |
|---|---|---|
| Customer | $60 ÷ $6 = 10 orders to recover the fee. Twelve orders save $72, or $12 after the fee. | Count only delivery charges the member would otherwise pay. A purchase already above the public free-shipping threshold adds no shipping saving. |
| Merchant delivery cost | 12 × $7 = $84 per member; membership receipts are $60. | The fee alone leaves $24 of delivery cost uncovered before other costs or merchandise contribution. |
| Memberply app allocation | $49 × 12 = $588/year; $588 ÷ 100 = $5.88 per member. | Delivery plus this app allocation is $89.88 per member, or $29.88 above the annual fee, before other costs and merchandise contribution. |
This is not a profit calculation. Include merchandise contribution, processing, returns, support, other perks and the shipping revenue or subsidy you would have had without the membership. More orders are useful only if the additional contribution covers their cost.
Repeat the calculation with frequent shippers, low-value orders, expensive destinations and customers who cancel. Use your store’s actual figures in the free-shipping threshold calculator and read the shipping membership planning guide.
When a public free-shipping threshold is enough
If the goal is simply to offer free delivery above an order value for every shopper, start by reviewing your shipping rates and threshold. A progress bar can explain that existing offer; it is not, by itself, a paid membership or proof that the checkout rate changes.
A paid program makes more sense when repeat buyers have a reason to pay for a distinct benefit. Check whether the intended members already qualify for public free shipping on most orders. If they do, explain what additional value the membership provides before asking them to join.
Test these checkout cases before choosing an app
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| Test case | What to record |
|---|---|
| Active member, non-member and expired member | Who receives the shipping benefit, which account identity is required and when cancellation ends eligibility. |
| Joining in the same cart | Whether the initial merchandise order qualifies and whether removing the membership removes the benefit. Confirm this separately for each app. |
| Below, exactly at and above the minimum | Whether the threshold uses the intended merchandise amount and how discounts affect the result. |
| Excluded item in a mixed cart | Whether the whole cart loses eligibility or another documented rule applies. Do not assume line-level shipping allocation. |
| Standard, express and different destinations | The eligible rate names or cost limits, available delivery services, supported countries and behavior of split shipments. |
| Another discount and a cancelled membership | Whether the desired product/order promotion combines with shipping, and whether access ends immediately or after the paid period as configured. |
Shopify permits eligible shipping and product/order discount combinations when settings allow them, but two shipping discounts do not stack on one order. Check Shopify’s current combination rules and verify the final checkout amount.
The app trial is for the merchant, not a promise of free customer membership purchases. Check renewal and cancellation behavior that falls outside the trial separately. For a broader launch walkthrough, use the paid membership guide.
Free shipping membership app questions
What is the best Shopify app for a free shipping membership?
Compare the shipping rules and complete membership program you need. Memberply offers tier benefits with cost and eligibility controls; Appstle links a Shopify shipping discount to a membership perk; Conjured documents an automatic perk with shipping-rate name matching. Test your checkout before choosing.
Does a free-shipping bar create a paid membership?
A bar can explain a shipping offer or show progress toward a threshold. A paid membership also needs enrollment, payment and eligibility management. Verify what the app actually controls at checkout.
Can shoppers get free shipping when they buy a membership?
Memberply supports the matching membership product in the same cart when its other shipping rules are met. Conjured also documents same-checkout eligibility. Confirm each app’s setup and test removing the membership before payment.
Does Memberply’s maximum shipping cost cover part of an expensive rate?
No. It controls which shipping options qualify for free shipping. An option above the configured ceiling does not receive that amount as a partial subsidy.
What happens when a Memberply cart contains an excluded product?
The current checkout implementation blocks this free-shipping benefit for the whole cart if an excluded merchandise item is present. It does not split free and paid shipping by item.
How do I know whether members will save money?
Compare the membership fee with delivery charges the customer would otherwise pay on qualifying orders. Exclude orders that already receive public free shipping. Calculate merchant delivery costs separately; customer savings do not establish merchant profit.
Merchant reviews
Merchants use Memberply to launch practical membership programs
Read what merchants say about using Memberply for their membership programs. Read reviews on the Shopify App Store.
"The app is great and does exactly what i need it to. It is well priced and Doug is so great."
Olverum Official Store
United Kingdom
"Their pricing is fair, and their support is legendary."
Puzzery
Canada
"Our store is based in Argentina so we don't have access to Shopify Payments... Memberply solved it."
Elemental Outfit AR
Argentina
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