Pause and Build plan no longer available?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A user currently on Shopify’s Pause and Build plan wants to upgrade to the Basic Plan to enable checkout functionality. However, a warning message indicates the current plan is no longer offered.

Key Clarifications:

  • Once upgraded to Basic Plan, reverting to Pause and Build will be impossible since Shopify has discontinued this plan option
  • Multiple respondents confirm this is a one-way change
  • The upgrade makes sense if checkout is needed, but the ability to pause the store in the same manner will be permanently lost

Remaining Question:

  • One participant asks for clarification about whether Pause and Build can only be used once, suggesting some confusion about the plan’s limitations remains unresolved
Summarized with AI on October 27. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi I am currently on Pause and Build plan and would like to switch to Basic Plan so my store will have check-out feature. But before I do that I see this message “This store is on a plan that is no longer offered and some of its features aren’t available on other” - does this mean that once I am switched to Basic Plan I will no longer be able to go back to Pause and Build?

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Hi @tc79

Yes, it means you cannot go back to Pause and Build plan after upgrading to Shopify Basic plan because this plan is no longer available anymore.

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Yes, that message means that if you switch to the Basic Plan, you won’t be able to go back to the Pause and Build plan since it’s no longer offered. If you need checkout, upgrading makes sense, but just keep in mind that you won’t have the option to pause the same way again.

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so are you saying you can only use pause and build once?