# Mantle alternatives for Shopify apps > Mantle shut down in 2026. What now replaces its billing, analytics, CRM, email, affiliates, help desk and SASI rank tracking, with prices from each vendor. Source: https://www.the-meridian.ai/blog/mantle-alternatives [All articles](https://www.the-meridian.ai/blog) Billing ## Mantle alternatives for Shopify apps, job by job Mantle shut down in 2026. What now replaces its billing, analytics, CRM, email, affiliates, help desk and SASI rank tracking, with prices from each vendor. By [Matthias Gayaud](#author), Founding Engineer at Meridian · Updated 3 November 2026 Mantle, the billing and growth platform for Shopify apps, shut down in 2026: most of its services stopped on 14 August and Mantle Billing on 30 September. No single tool took over everything it did. For billing, Mantle itself pointed to Shopify App Pricing, and its SASI rank tracker has several successors. Meridian covers every one of Mantle’s jobs but the help desk, in one place, and adds hosting. **In short.** Simple plans only: Shopify App Pricing, free and hosted by Shopify. Usage caps, feature gates or one-time charges: manual pricing with Shopify’s Billing API, which you build yourself or get from a tool. Meridian’s Plan Builder covers caps, gates and discounts. App Store tracking: App Store Pulse or Letsmetrix, both with a free plan. Affiliates: Affilitrak, PartnerDock or Letsmetrix Affiliate. All of it, with hosting: Meridian. ### What happened to Mantle? Mantle announced on 16 June 2026 that it was winding down. Its notice was explicit: > This wind down will be a complete shutdown of all Mantle properties and eventual destruction of data. You don’t have to worry about it switching hands. Mantle, wind-down notice Accounts that didn’t use Mantle Billing lost analytics, affiliates, usage events, flows, email and the help desk on 14 August 2026. Mantle Billing accounts kept everything until 30 September 2026. Mantle said it keeps data for 30 days after each end date, then deletes it, so both windows have now closed. SASI, the Shopify App Store Index that Mantle bought from Union Works in 2024, went with it. ### What replaces each part of Mantle? Mantle and SASI covered seven jobs between them. Most teams now cover them with several tools. The options below come from Mantle’s own migration pages, where it named them, and from vendors that sell a replacement. | What Mantle did | Options | In Meridian | | --- | --- | --- | | Plans and billing | Shopify App Pricing, which Mantle recommended. Manual pricing with the Billing API, built yourself or through a tool | Plan Builder, on manual pricing | | Revenue analytics | Letsmetrix, App Store Pulse, Baremetrics, SaaS Insights, all reading your Shopify Partner data | Revenue, churn, retention and trial analytics | | Customer management | Lunvo, Elevate by Marmeto, or a general CRM such as Twenty | CRM with stores, contacts, segments and custom fields | | Email and flows | Customer.io, Klaviyo, Loops or Resend for email (Mantle's list). Flows have no export and must be rebuilt | Email builder with your own sending domain, automations | | Affiliates | Affilitrak, PartnerDock, Shoffi or Orbit (Mantle's list), Letsmetrix Affiliate | Affiliate programs | | Help desk | Gorgias, Zendesk, Intercom or Help Scout (Mantle's list) | Not offered | | App Store rank tracking (SASI) | App Store Pulse and Fusion Metrics (Mantle's list), Letsmetrix, AppJubilee | Keyword rankings, reviews and Market Intel | | Hosting | Mantle never hosted apps | Included in every plan | ### Which billing should you use now? Mantle’s billing notice explained where subscriptions live: > Mantle is a wrapper around Shopify’s Billing API: your subscriptions actually live on Shopify, and Mantle creates and manages them for you. Mantle, wind-down notice for billing So replacing it means choosing how your app creates Shopify charges from now on. Shopify offers two routes. | | Shopify App Pricing | Manual pricing (Billing API) | | --- | --- | --- | | Status | The default for new public apps since 12 May 2026, and the route Shopify recommends | Still supported, labelled legacy by Shopify since the same day | | Plans | Recurring (monthly or yearly), usage (fixed, graduated or volume tiers) or both. Up to eight public plans | Whatever you build on the API, including one-time charges | | Usage caps | Not supported | Supported | | Currency | USD only | Prices in a local billing currency | | Plan page | Hosted by Shopify | Built into your app, by you or by a tool | Mantle recommended App Pricing, and warned that it “may not support the Flex Billing model we developed”. Once an app opts in to App Pricing, it can’t create new recurring charges with the Billing API. Since 29 September 2026, apps on the Billing API can move their existing subscriptions to App Pricing, and merchants don’t approve them again. Whichever route you take, Shopify’s revenue share applies: for most developers, 0% on the first $1,000,000 of lifetime app revenue and 15% above it, plus a 2.9% processing fee. Meridian’s Plan Builder runs on manual pricing. It creates the subscriptions through the Billing API, and adds what App Pricing doesn’t do: feature gates your code reads by key, usage with an included quantity, an overage rate and a spending cap, discounts by code or automatic, and a pricing page and an account page inside your app. Meridian takes no cut of what you bill. Charging through Plan Builder needs your app hosted on Meridian. ### Which tools are sold as Mantle replacements? Several vendors now sell themselves to former Mantle and SASI users. Each one covers part of what Mantle did. Prices are as each vendor lists them on its own site. | Tool | What it covers | Price, as listed | | --- | --- | --- | | Lunvo | CRM, install tracking, revenue analytics and affiliates, behind the same API as Mantle | Free during early access | | Elevate by Marmeto | Analytics, customer data and affiliates, with a Mantle import | Not listed on its page | | App Store Pulse | App Store rankings and competitor alerts, MRR, churn and trials from your Partner account | Free, Starter $49/month, Pro $99/month | | Letsmetrix | App Store rankings, revenue analytics from your Partner account | Free, Pro $19/month, Studio $49/month | | AppJubilee | App Store rankings with unlimited keywords, listing and review tracking | From $29/month | | Affilitrak | Affiliate programs, with a Mantle import and the same referral links | $0, plus 20% of what you pay affiliates found on its marketplace | | PartnerDock | Affiliate programs, and it moves your Mantle program for you | Free for one app, $19 or $49/month | | SaaS Insights | Revenue analytics only, read-only | $49/month flat | | Baremetrics | Installs, trials, MRR and churn from Shopify Partners | Based on your MRR | | Meridian | Plans and billing, revenue analytics, CRM, email and automations, affiliates and App Store tracking, with hosting | From $69/month per app | If you would rather rebuild in-house, Mantle published open-source guides, [mantle-brain](https://github.com/Hey-Mantle/mantle-brain), for recreating its billing, analytics and automations in your own stack. ### Where does Meridian fit? For a former Mantle user, Meridian puts plans and billing, revenue analytics, the CRM, email, automations, affiliates and App Store tracking next to the app’s hosting. It is priced per app, from $69 a month on Lite, with a 14-day free trial, no card needed. - Lite includes 1,000 emails a month from your own sending domain, 1 affiliate program with up to 25 members, and 3 tracked App Store keywords. Pro raises each of them. - Automations start from 23 built-in triggers, with templates for an install welcome, trial reminders, billing recovery and an uninstall win-back. - Affiliate commissions are calculated every night from the revenue Shopify reports for your app. - An app hosted elsewhere still gets feature gating, the CRM, segments, automations, emails, affiliates and the App Store tools. ### How do you move from Mantle to Meridian? 1. Connect your Shopify Partner account. Meridian reads your merchants’ subscriptions from the Partner API, so nobody approves them again. 2. Recreate your plans in Plan Builder, with features as keys your app checks, and send usage with the SDK’s `track()`. 3. Rebuild your flows as automations and your emails in the email builder. Mantle’s merge tags [map to Meridian’s names](https://help.the-meridian.ai/automation-variables#coming-from-mantle), with a few exceptions listed in the docs. Mantle’s contact export left out who had unsubscribed, so check consent before your first send. 4. Set up your affiliate program again, and invite your affiliates. > We migrated our app to Meridian after Mantle shut down. With the team's help, it took 4 days. Customer Account Blocks Migration services are included on Enterprise. ### When is Meridian not the right choice? - Your plans fit Shopify App Pricing and you need nothing around them: App Pricing is free. - Your app has opted in to App Pricing: Plan Builder charges through the Billing API, which such an app can no longer use for new recurring charges. - You want to keep your app on its current host and charge through Plan Builder: charging needs Meridian hosting. - You need a help desk or a knowledge base for your merchants: Meridian doesn’t offer one. - You only need App Store tracking: App Store Pulse and Letsmetrix both have a free plan. [Plan your move with us](https://www.the-meridian.ai/contact-sales) [See Plan Builder](https://www.the-meridian.ai/plan-builder) [Compare plans](https://www.the-meridian.ai/pricing) Sources: [Mantle’s wind-down notice](https://web.archive.org/web/20260710224112/https://docs.heymantle.com/migrating-off-mantle/wind-down) and its pages on [each product](https://web.archive.org/web/20260710223343/https://docs.heymantle.com/migrating-off-mantle/wind-down-products), [billing](https://web.archive.org/web/20260710230247/https://docs.heymantle.com/migrating-off-mantle/wind-down-billing), [affiliates](https://web.archive.org/web/20260710225430/https://docs.heymantle.com/migrating-off-mantle/wind-down-affiliates), [email](https://web.archive.org/web/20260710224929/https://docs.heymantle.com/migrating-off-mantle/wind-down-email) and [SASI](https://web.archive.org/web/20260710224608/https://docs.heymantle.com/migrating-off-mantle/wind-down-faq). Shopify’s [App Pricing documentation](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/launch/billing/shopify-app-pricing), [its launch](https://shopify.dev/changelog/posts/shopify-app-pricing-charge-for-usage-recurring-subscriptions-or-both), [the subscription move](https://shopify.dev/changelog/posts/move-existing-subscriptions-to-shopify-app-pricing) and [revenue share](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/launch/distribution/revenue-share), and each vendor’s own pricing page. All checked on 3 November 2026. Written by Matthias Gayaud, Founding Engineer at Meridian Works across the Meridian platform, from Plan Builder and the SDK to webhooks and automations. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-gayaud/) [The Meridian team](https://www.the-meridian.ai/about#matthias) ### Questions. #### Is Mantle still running? No. Mantle announced on 16 June 2026 that it was winding down completely. Most of its services stopped on 14 August 2026, and Mantle Billing on 30 September 2026. Mantle said it keeps data for 30 days after each end date, then deletes it. #### What did Mantle recommend instead of Mantle Billing? Shopify App Pricing, with Shopify's Billing API as a back-up. App Pricing has been the default for new public apps since May 2026: recurring and usage plans on a plan page Shopify hosts, but no one-time charges, no usage caps and prices in USD only. #### What replaced SASI? SASI, the Shopify App Store Index, shut down with Mantle. Mantle pointed its users to Fusion Metrics and App Store Pulse, and Letsmetrix and AppJubilee also track keyword rankings. Meridian tracks rankings and reviews next to billing and the CRM, for any public app, wherever it is hosted. #### Do merchants have to approve their subscription again when we move? No. Your merchants' subscriptions live in Shopify, and they keep running when you move. Meridian reads them from the Shopify Partner API, so current plans and billing history show up in Meridian without any merchant approving again. #### We used Mantle. Can we move to Meridian? Yes. Meridian brings plans and billing, CRM, revenue analytics, email, automations and affiliates together with hosting, in one place. Customer Account Blocks moved its app to Meridian in four days after Mantle shut down, with our team's help. Migration services are included on Enterprise, and the team helps on every plan as much as it can. Talk to us to plan yours. ### Keep reading. More from the Meridian team. [ Security #### Shopify's protected customer data requirements, explained What Shopify counts as protected customer data, the Level 1 and Level 2 requirements, when Shopify reviews your request, and how to get ready. ](https://www.the-meridian.ai/blog/shopify-protected-customer-data) ### Ready to ship your next Shopify app? Try Meridian free, or book a personal walkthrough. 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