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 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Private-label coffee and tea dropshipping for Shopify: they roast, bag and ship from their own US facilities within 3-5 business days, with your brand on the packaging.",
 "best_for": "someone who wants a turnkey private-label coffee or tea brand on Shopify (their roasting and packaging, your label on the bag) and is content to stay inside one product category",
 "skip_if": "you want product breadth, fulfilment outside the US, or control over sourcing and packaging cost: this is a single-supplier pipeline and the higher tiers only add coaching",
 "honest_knock": "Read the ladder before you climb it. Starter already carries unlimited orders, unlimited products and automatic fulfilment: the whole product, in other words. Professional at $99 adds live monthly training, priority support and a success manager; Elite at $197 adds monthly one-on-one coaching on top. You are buying people, not capability: nothing above Starter makes the coffee ship faster or cost less per bag. The annual rate is the move worth noticing in the other direction, since $240 a year against $30 a month is a third off the same tier. Beyond that the model is narrow by design: one product category, roasted and shipped from their own US facilities in 3-5 business days, with no route to source elsewhere or negotiate the per-order cost.",
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  "notes": "(re-read 2026-10-19 on apps.shopify.com/dripshipper, listed as “Dripshipper: Coffee & Tea”, and on dripshipper.io/pricing) Starter $30 a month, Professional $99 and Elite $197, each listed with a 14-day free trial — all three unchanged since 19 August 2026. The help centre's cancellation article (2 September 2026) contradicts that for Elite, saying it has no trial and bills immediately. Starter is also sold annually at $240 a year, which is $20 a month for the same tier, and it is the only tier with a published annual rate. The listing does spell out what the steps buy: Starter carries unlimited orders, unlimited products, automatic order fulfilment, a dedicated support team and 1-click product add; Professional adds live monthly training, priority support and a dedicated success manager; Elite adds monthly one-on-one coaching on top. Product and shipping cost is charged per order on top of the subscription, as a Dripshipper invoice rather than a deduction from your checkout. An FDA-Compliant Address Service is a separate $30 a month add-on. Dripshipper's own pricing page shows no annual rate; the $240 Starter annual appears on the App Store listing only. All charges are billed in USD and recur every 30 days. The listing now carries 159 reviews averaging 4.8, up from 142 averaging 4.7 on 19 August, distributed 130 / 14 / 7 / 4 / 4 from five down to one on 17 September; on 19 October the listing still showed 159 at 4.8, now with 131 five-star, 13 four-star and 8 three-star. Developer The Doughty Organization; the app launched 11 April 2018.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-19",
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   "description": "Starter, per month, or $240 a year which works out at $20 a month; product and shipping cost is charged per order on top. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-19.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/dripshipper-review.html"
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  "vendor_site": "https://dripshipper.io"
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  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://platform.shoffi.app/r/rl_82dCreuw",
  "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."
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  "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."
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     "evidence": "Starter $30 a month, Professional $99 and Elite $197, each listed with a 14-day free trial — all three unchanged since 19 August 2026. The help centre's cancellation article (2 September 2026) contradicts that for Elite, saying it has no trial and bills immediately. Starter is also sold annually at $240 a year"
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    "Starter is the only tier with a published annual rate, and only on the App Store listing.",
    "Elite's free trial is contradicted by the help centre (no trial, billed immediately)."
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 "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: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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   "key": "dripshipper-q1",
   "question": "Does the Elite plan include the 14-day free trial?",
   "status": "open"
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   "status": "open"
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   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
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   "key": "pricing_gap_1",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: Product and shipping cost is charged per order on top of the subscription and depends on what you sell. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
   "status": "open"
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  {
   "question_id": "dripshipper:pricing_gap_2",
   "key": "pricing_gap_2",
   "question": "Our price check could not put a number on this part of the cost: The optional FDA-Compliant Address Service add-on ($30 a month) is not included. Can you publish the price or the rule?",
   "status": "open"
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   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "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"
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