I’m looking for real-world examples of using Shopify primarily as a subscription billing platform, rather than as a storefront for selling products.
The model I’m considering is:
We build and manage Shopify stores or websites for clients
Clients do NOT enter credit card details into their own Shopify stores
Instead, clients pay us a monthly subscription fee on our own Shopify site
Shopify is used mainly for recurring billing, payments, and customer management
The client’s actual website or Shopify store is technically separate from our billing system
This would be similar to a “website / Shopify store as a service” or agency subscription model.
I understand Shopify officially supports subscriptions, but I haven’t been able to find clear public case studies or named examples of agencies or SaaS companies using Shopify this way.
If you’ve:
Personally built something like this
Worked at an agency that used Shopify for client billing
Seen documented examples or public references
I’d really appreciate any links, names, or firsthand experience.
I recommend the third-party solution Shopify Stripe Checkout & Subscriptions because you don’t pay for subscription apps, you don’t pay extra Shopify commission, and you can accept subscriptions with other recurring payment methods (that have lower commissions than the cards) supported by your Stripe account.
What’s the actual goal for the clients.
Without that critical detail this is a “just a build it on wordpress et al.” post.
You can’t white label shopify.
And the way your using the word “subscription” is twisted up so it’s not clear what you think that word means on shopify.
There’s subscriptions for the prices of the platforms PLANS, shopify plan subscriptions.
And the subscriptions system for selling PRODUCT on a single store, product subscriptions.
Regardless , standard plans billing and management will be all over the place.
Bills won’t automagically appear in the merchants mailboxes if your the owner of the stores that custom stuff has to be custom built.