Trusted by 5,000+ Shopify brands growing recurring revenue with Joy

Why merchants switch to Joy.

Joy Subscriptions dashboard showing active subscriptions and revenue metrics trending up

Everything you rely on — without the billing surprises, the multi-day support waits, or features that quietly disappear on you. Here’s what changes the day you move to Joy.

  • Migration done for you, safely

    A dedicated specialist runs your entire migration for free — subscriptions, customers, billing schedules, and history carried over intact. Most stores go live within 24 hours, and your subscribers never notice a thing.

  • Billing you can trust

    Every charge is accurate, every fee transparent, every renewal on schedule — no double-billing, no surprise line items. Your subscribers keep paying smoothly and your revenue reconciles cleanly, month after month.

  • Real humans, fast

    Reach a real person in under two minutes on any plan — no chatbots blocking the way, no multi-day waits. When an order or renewal needs fixing, it gets fixed the same day.

  • Features that grow, never regress

    You get the full retention toolkit from day one — cancellation flows, smart dunning, bundles, analytics — and it only deepens over time. Nothing you depend on quietly disappears in the next update.

Joy vs Bold, side by side

Published pricing, compared honestly — then estimate your exact number below.

Free, then $49

Free Forever plan plus the lowest transaction fee in the segment.

BoldFrom $24.99/mo

Cheap base, but up to a 2% fee and no free plan.

Free Forever plan

Yes — 50 subsNo free tier (30-day trial)

Starting paid price

$49/mo$24.99/mo

Lowest transaction fee

0.5%0.9%

Highest transaction fee

0.75%2.0%

Top paid tier

$199/mo · Pro$399.99/mo · Ultimate

See what you keep by choosing Joy over Bold.

Number of subscription orders

Recurring orders you process each month

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Average order value ($)

Typical value of one subscription order

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Subscription revenue: $2,500/mo

Saving comparison
JoyFree Forever · $0/mo + no fee$0/mo
BoldLaunch · $24.99/mo + 2%$75/mo

You keep with Joy

$900/yr

Joy is $0 at this size — $75/mo you keep

Not just a subscription app — Joy is the retention engine.

From painless migration to smart dunning and a branded portal — brands compound customer lifetime value with Joy.

94%

of merchants keep more revenue after switching to Joy — the deepest toolkit at the lowest fee.

Read the case studies
Joy isn’t just a subscriptions app — it’s the retention engine our brand runs on. Churn dropped and LTV climbed within a quarter.

Featured merchant · Shopify Plus brand

Migrating from ReCharge was painless and support was hands-on. Our subscribers never noticed a thing.

Operations Lead

Coffee subscription

Smart dunning alone paid for itself — we recovered failed payments we used to just lose every month.

Growth Manager

Supplements brand

We left free but rigid subscription tools because they can’t give customers control. With Joy’s customer portal, we know that it doesn’t quietly kill retention and AOV.

Founder

Pet food brand

Switching from Bold to Joy.

Because it's the best free plan on the market right now. It unlocks more of Joy's features than any competitor's free tier, so you get the truest sense of what Joy can really do — not a stripped-back demo. For micro and small businesses, it's more than enough to run on. For mid-sized and larger merchants, it's a great, no-pressure way to test Joy before you commit.

Most stores are fully migrated in as little as 2 hours, and almost always within 24 — and a real Joy specialist runs the whole process with you, free. We import your existing subscriptions, customers, payment methods and billing schedules intact, and can run Joy alongside your current app so you verify everything on live data before cutting over. Your subscribers never notice the switch.

Start with the fee itself: Joy is a low, flat fee plus the lowest transaction fee in the category — no percentage tax that balloons as you grow. Then, for the custom features you can't lose, our Build-to-Order service rebuilds them for you, free — you pay nothing while we build your custom solution. And once your customization is complete, we refund your subscription fee. It's a genuine no-risk policy for any Shopify store that wants to give Joy a try. Talk to us to learn more.

You prove it on your own data before you commit. Before migrating, we run a feature-parity audit against your current setup and flag anything that must be matched or custom-built. Then Joy runs in parallel with your existing app for up to a week, so you can watch your real subscriptions, billing and edge cases behave correctly — and you only cut over once you've verified it. If your model needs something Joy doesn't do out of the box, our Build-to-Order team builds it, and the free plan and no-card trial let you pressure-test everything before any money changes hands.

The fastest path is a 30-minute call: we'll look at your current app and bill, map your subscription model onto Joy, and give you a straight answer on fit, savings and migration timeline. Want to explore first? Run your current pricing through our savings calculator to see your number, or install the free plan and try Joy on your own store with no card required. Whichever you choose, there's a real person on the other end.

Three reasons. Price that stays fair as you scale — an affordable flat fee plus the lowest transaction fee on the market; most merchants leaving Recharge save around 60%. Retention built in — Joy is a retention-focused subscription app with a cancellation-flow builder, smart dunning to recover failed payments, and win-back tools that protect the revenue you already have. A team that does the work with you — free white-glove migration, Build-to-Order customization, and the backing of Avada, trusted by 300,000+ Shopify merchants and rated 4.9★. Incumbent-grade capability, without the incumbent price.

5,000+

Shopify merchants trust Joy

4.9

Average rating · 379 reviews

2 min

Human support — under 2-min response

60-day

Free gift on Starter & Pro plans

Ready to leave the
growth tax behind?

See what your store keeps by switching from Bold to Joy — free migration included.