If you're working on a Shopify development store created in a Shopify Partner account, for example as an agency building stores for clients, you can use every Sufio feature for free for as long as it stays a development store. When the store goes live, you choose a paid plan and keep everything you've set up.
A development store is treated as if it's always in its free trial:
- Unlimited invoices and pro forma invoices
- Every feature unlocked, whatever plan is selected
- No charges and no expiry date
While your store is a development store, Sufio shows a banner letting you know you can't switch to a paid plan until the store goes live.
Note
Sufio recognizes development stores from the information Shopify provides about your store. If Shopify changes your store's status, Sufio updates automatically.
Development stores created within a Shopify Plus organization work differently. Shopify gives them the full Shopify Plus feature set and reports them to apps as regular Shopify Plus stores. App charges apply to them as usual, and Shopify doesn’t give apps a way to tell them apart from a live store.
Because of this, Sufio can’t recognize these stores as development stores. When you open the app, you’re taken to the plans page and asked to choose a plan, just like on a live store.
If you’re working on a development store in your Plus organization, contact our support team with your store URL. We’ll add an extended free trial to your account, so you can set up and test Sufio without being charged while you develop your store.
When your development store becomes a live store, its unlimited access ends. You're taken to the plans page to choose a paid plan, just like a new merchant, and billing starts from that point.
Everything else carries over:
- Your documents, settings, and templates stay exactly as they were.
- You aren't charged for the time your store was a development store.
- Invoices created while it was a development store stay accessible and never count toward your allowance.