Recharge

Subscription platform built for fast-growing Shopify brands

Deployment
Cloud
Market
All
Pricing
Subscription
Price Range
$100 - $500/mo
Founded
2014
HQ
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Company Size
501-1000 employees
Free Trial
Yes
API
Available

Overview

Recharge is a subscription-commerce platform, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Santa Monica, that powers recurring billing and subscription management for Shopify and Shopify Plus merchants. It provides no-code customer portals, subscription bundling, tiered discounts, churn-reduction tooling, analytics, and a REST API with webhooks. The company states it serves over 20,000 merchant businesses, and it does not store card data directly, instead using a PCI-compliant card vault.

Our verdict

Recharge is a mature, Shopify-centric subscription-commerce platform best suited to DTC and subscription-box brands that need recurring billing, customer self-service portals, and churn-reduction tooling rather than a general-purpose WMS. Its security posture is well-documented (SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA on an official trust center), and a published REST API with webhooks supports integration into a broader fulfillment stack. The tradeoff is cost and scope: pricing combines a monthly fee with per-transaction fees, and the product is tightly oriented to Shopify.

Strengths

  • Strong, officially documented compliance (SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA) on a public trust center
  • REST API with webhooks plus deep Shopify and Klaviyo integration
  • Subscriber self-service portal, bundling, and dedicated retention tooling
  • Generous 60-day free trial on the Starter plan

Watch-outs

  • Per-transaction fees on top of monthly cost can get expensive at scale
  • Tightly coupled to Shopify and Shopify Plus, not a general fulfillment platform
  • No published contractual uptime SLA

Assessed by Third Fin Editorial. How we evaluate →

Trust & security

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Integrations

Offers an API for custom integrations. Developer docs ↗

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Reputation & reviews

Capterra 4.5/5 25 reviews as of 2026-06

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Sources & verification

Last verified Jun 21, 2026 by Third Fin Editorial. See how we evaluate & verify.