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 days-long waits across time zones, the silent payment failures, or hitting a wall as you scale past your first thousand subscribers. Here’s what changes the day you move to Joy.

  • Support in your timezone

    Reach real humans in under two minutes on your schedule — never stranded days behind a single overseas inbox when a billing or renewal issue needs fixing right now.

  • Billing that never slips

    Charges process reliably every cycle — no silent failures, no phantom charges after a customer cancels, no monthly manual fixes just to keep your recurring revenue flowing as it should.

  • A portal that won’t break subs

    Customers update their address or payment details themselves without severing the subscription — every edit syncs cleanly, so products keep shipping and no one drops off your list unnoticed.

  • Built to scale past 1,000

    Deep analytics, retention reports, and automation keep working as you grow well beyond a thousand subscribers — no reporting ceiling, no toggling between apps just to fulfill a single order.

Joy vs Seal, side by side

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

Free, then $49

Free plan plus the deepest retention toolkit and real human support.

SealFrom $5.95/mo

Lowest price in the category — but email-only support and depth that thins out at scale.

Free plan

Yes — 50 subsYes — 50 subs

Human support

Under 2 min · liveEmail · EU hours

Retention toolkit

Cancel flow · dunning · win-back

Built inLimited

Deep analytics past 1,000 subs

YesReporting thins out

Free white-glove migration

Included

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 Seal 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 Seal to Joy — free migration included.