If a 15 USD app fixes the shortcomings your store has, then by all means, what are you waiting for?
15 USD *per month
If I could find the various, often very simple functionalities which I seek for an upfront one-time cost of $15 or even several hundred dollars I’d engage them immediately, and in the past have done just that when I really need something to be a certain way and shopify, as usual, does not provide the functionality I require. While that’s more palatable, what I have not and will not do is pay multiple subscriptions fees to multiple different third party devs for functionalities that in my opinion should be baked into shopify to start with, or at the very least included in the higher tier pricing plans for shopify. I only pay $29/mo for my plan and for what is provided I feel that’s a more than acceptable cost (ignoring the literally thousands of dollars I pay yearly in transaction fees, I suppose). But because of this 3rd party artificial marketplace where Shopify is having their cake (direct income from merchants like myself) and eating it too (income from devs selling basic functionality to merchants) that I refuse to increase the level of my shopify plan, because doing so in no way at all increases the actual core functionality of the platform other than improved reports, which does nothing whatsoever for my customers or storefront. If I moved from the $29/mo plan to the $79 or $299/mo plan I would still have to shell out more monthly payments on top of that to 3rd party devs for missing functionality. The way Shopify is marketed is as a comprehensive e-commerce solution, just google the phrase “comprehensive e-commerce platform” and a Shopify ad will likely be the first thing that pops up, they PAY to advertise the platform as comprehensive. The way shopify actually works is as a basic e-commerce platform upon which 3rd party devs stand with their hands out seeking subscriptions. To my way of seeing things Shopify looks more like a platform for selling functionality to merchants in the form of multiple monthly subscriptions than it looks like platform designed to provide merchants with comprehensive solutions to their needs.