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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "doba",
 "name": "Doba",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "doba.com",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Dropshipping marketplace that connects online sellers with wholesale suppliers, with one-click listing to Shopify, eBay, Amazon, TikTok Shop and other channels, inventory lists and AI listing tools.",
 "best_for": "online sellers on Shopify, eBay, Amazon, TikTok Shop and similar channels who want to dropship from one wholesale catalogue and push listings into several stores, starting from the Basic tier",
 "skip_if": "you want to hold your own stock or build a private-label brand; or you need a clear refund promise before you pay, because the help centre and the terms say different things",
 "honest_knock": "The subscription only buys access: product costs, shipping, handling and transaction charges come on top of every order. Limited is too small to run a store on (20 inventory places, no monthly downloads), and Doba's refund terms contradict each other, from a 72-hour full refund in the help centre to 'all fees are non-refundable' in the terms.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$29.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "Limited · billed monthly",
  "from_price_usd_month": 29.99,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-22 on doba.com/pricing with the Monthly, Quarterly and Annually toggles; prices in USD) Doba sells four subscription tiers. Billed monthly, Limited is $29.99 a month, Basic $59.99, Standard $149.99 and Enterprise $299.99. Quarterly billing takes 5% off (Limited $28.67, Basic $57.00, Standard $142.67 a month) and annual billing 15% (Limited $25.50, Basic $51.00, Standard $127.50 a month); Enterprise is sold monthly or annually only. Basic has a 7-day trial and Standard a 5-day trial, each for US$0.99. The fees policy says the full fee of the chosen tier is charged automatically when the trial ends, and the terms limit trials to first-time users. The subscription is not the whole bill: the fees policy says product costs, shipping, drop or order handling fees and transaction charges are paid separately at the time of purchase. Paid add-ons such as the AI Store Builder renew on their own cycle. On refunds Doba's own pages disagree: the help centre says a full refund is issued automatically if you cancel within 72 hours of payment, the fees policy excludes trial subscriptions, and the terms say all fees, including subscription fees, are non-refundable.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-22",
  "source_url": "https://www.doba.com/pricing",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 29.99,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Limited, billed monthly; Limited is $28.67 a month billed quarterly and $25.50 a month billed annually; Basic $59.99, Standard $149.99 and Enterprise $299.99 a month billed monthly; Enterprise is offered monthly or annually only; product costs, shipping, handling and transaction charges are paid separately. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-22.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/doba-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "free_trial",
    "plan": null,
    "quote": "7-day Trial for US$ 0.99",
    "source_url": "https://www.doba.com/pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-15"
   },
   {
    "field": "refund",
    "plan": null,
    "quote": "Full refunds are automatically issued if you cancel within 72 hours of payment.",
    "source_url": "https://www.doba.com/help/detail/CkKeqPVHbJvc",
    "read_on": "2026-10-15"
   }
  ]
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Paid add-ons such as the AI Store Builder renew on their own cycle.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-22",
   "source_url": "https://www.doba.com/pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Quarterly billing takes 5% off (Limited $28.67, Basic $57.00, Standard $142.67 a month) and annual billing 15% (Limited $25.50, Basic $51.00, Standard $127.50 a month); Enterprise is sold monthly or annually only.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-22",
   "source_url": "https://www.doba.com/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Spocket",
  "why": "Spocket is in our dossiers too and sells the same kind of supplier catalogue: when we read it on 1 October 2026 its Starter plan was $39.99 a month for 25 products. Doba's Limited is cheaper at $29.99 a month but caps the inventory list at 20 products and lists no monthly downloads, so the fair comparison is Doba Basic at $59.99. Compare the supplier range for your niche and the shipping times, not only the plan price."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/doba.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/doba-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/doba/",
  "vendor_site": "https://doba.com"
 },
 "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.kqzyfj.com/click-101832528-17307316-1785746808000",
  "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.",
  "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": "read",
  "free_trial": "quoted",
  "refund": "quoted"
 },
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "doba: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": "doba:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "doba:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "doba: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"
  }
 }
}