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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "compass",
 "name": "Compass",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "thecompassapp.io",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify app that joins Meta ad spend with real store sales to show blended ROAS per campaign, answers plain-English questions about your ads and products (Ask Compass) and sends a weekly report with suggested actions. One plan with every feature.",
 "best_for": "Shopify merchants who spend on Meta ads and want one simple view of which campaigns turn into real store sales, with plain-English answers instead of Ads Manager reports",
 "skip_if": "your ad budget runs mostly through Google, TikTok or other channels, or you are not comfortable giving a new app broad access to store and customer data",
 "honest_knock": "It covers Meta ads only. The app asks for broad store access, including edit access to customers, products and orders, for what is an analytics tool. The privacy policy names OpenAI among the services that receive your inputs, and the terms allow usage limits at the developer's discretion. Compass launched in May 2026 and had 3 reviews on the listing when we read it, and no refund policy is published.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$49",
  "entry_price_terms": "Compass · per month, one plan with every feature, billed in USD every 30 days through the Shopify App Store",
  "from_price_usd_month": 49.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-27 on the Compass listing in the Shopify App Store; the terms and privacy policy were read on 2026-10-15) Compass has a single plan with every feature included: $49 a month, or $490 a year, which the listing says saves 17%. There is a 14-day free trial and no free plan. The listing says all charges are billed in USD, every 30 days, through Shopify. Compass's site adds that there are no setup fees and that you can cancel at any time. We found no published refund policy, and no stated limit on Ask Compass questions, stores or ad accounts; the terms do say the AI assistant is for reasonable business use and that usage limits may be imposed.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-27",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 49.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Compass, one plan with every feature, billed in USD every 30 days through the Shopify App Store; $490 a year on annual billing; 14-day free trial. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-27.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/compass-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Compass",
    "quote": "$490/year and save 17%",
    "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/compass-4",
    "read_on": "2026-10-15"
   },
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Compass",
    "quote": "$49 / month",
    "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/compass-4",
    "read_on": "2026-10-15"
   },
   {
    "field": "free_trial",
    "plan": null,
    "quote": "14-day free trial, cancel anytime",
    "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/compass-4",
    "read_on": "2026-10-15"
   }
  ],
  "recent_change": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Helm",
  "why": "Helm is in our dossiers as a broader Shopify business-intelligence app: on 4 October 2026 its single Operator plan was $129 a month or $1,299 a year. Compass is narrower and cheaper at $49 a month: it is built around Meta ad spend against store sales, with an AI assistant for questions"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/compass.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/compass-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/compass/",
  "vendor_site": "https://thecompassapp.io"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=130911&awinaffid=2880219",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "quoted",
  "free_trial": "quoted",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "compass:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "compass:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "compass:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "compass:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}