Shopify took the checkout
The gateway, the card vault, the billing: every order runs through Shopify Checkout now.
OpenSubs is the world’s only self-hosted subscription platform for Shopify. It takes 0% of your revenue. And it comes with an AI engineer that ships while you sleep.
Fair question. Subscription platforms used to run their own checkouts and payment gateways, and a percentage is simply how payment processing is priced. Then things changed.
The gateway, the card vault, the billing: every order runs through Shopify Checkout now.
Migrations, coding, day-to-day operations: the work that used to take a platform team.
The $3 billion revenue engine: open-sourced, running on your own Supabase and Vercel.
Self-hosting used to have one catch: someone has to run the platform. Now the platform ships with its own engineer.
The closest thing to having OpenSubs’ creator on your team. English is the hottest new programming language: ask questions, navigate the codebase, make enhancements, add features of your own. Just talk.
Meet the AI EngineerWired to your OpenSubs data out of the box. Then connect whatever you run: Shopify, Klaviyo, your ad accounts. Ask it anything. Then put it to work: readouts, forecasts, win-back drafts, generative AI on your own data.
Meet the AI Data AnalystNew model drops → your platform gets smarter. Free.
Subscriptions are sold at the offer, and the Subscription engine runs any offer you can price: any frequency, one-time add-ons, selling plans of any shape. Build it once; sell it anywhere your store sells.
The portal isn’t a settings page: it’s shelf space you own. Paid memberships charge for the club, not just the box: recurring access on any cadence, annual included, priced to reward the commitment. Analytics & reporting show MRR, cohorts, churn, live, and because the data is yours, the numbers answer to you. Never graded on someone else’s homework.
The Customer portal wears your storefront’s clothes, not a vendor’s iframe: passwordless login, one-tap edits, skip by text. Self-healing billing chases the failed card, runs the dunning, clears 3DS, holds for out-of-stock before any of it becomes churn. And the cancel button opens a conversation: Cancellation saves land the offer before the charge, the winback after.
Gifts and deepening discounts that unlock as orders stack up: Perks & rewards auto-apply, no codes, and make staying worth more than the discount it would take to win them back.
The Merchant admin, rebuilt by the people who were known for it: bulk edits, plans, discounts, one search away. Integrations ride Klaviyo-first: every subscription event straight into the flows you already run. Own it means exactly that: your architecture, your security review, about $45 a month to run. Less than the fee costs you before breakfast on the first.
The wizard walks you in: about ten minutes of your hands, the rest builds itself.
Subscriptions start selling on OpenSubs while your old platform keeps running. No cutover, no risk.
Your subscribers follow. Cards stay in Shopify Payments; nothing moves until verified.
The daily patrol reads every queue, chases every failure, and reports. You read one page.
Your engineer and analyst come online. English is the interface.
The Growth Program takes it from here.
| Other Guys | OPEN SUBS | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue Share | 1%+ | 0% |
| Transaction Fee | $0.20 | $0 |
| Code Access | No | Yes |
| Growth Program | No | Yes |
| AI Program | No | Yes |
| Built for AI Era | No | Yes |
| Increases Your Valuation | No | Yes |
Yours without the percentage. On the call: a live demo, the math on your numbers, and the script that lowers your current bill.