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 "id": "koala-bundles",
 "name": "Koala Bundles",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "profitkoala.com",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify app (by ProfitKoala) for quantity breaks, multi-product bundles, cart volume discounts, BOGO offers and one-click post-purchase upsells, with an announcement bar and countdown timer; every plan has the same features and is metered on the bundle revenue the offers bring in.",
 "best_for": "Shopify merchants who want quantity breaks, multi-product bundles, cart volume discounts, BOGO offers and one-click post-purchase upsells in one app, with every feature on every plan and a price that stays small while bundle sales are small",
 "skip_if": "you need each bundle variant tied to its own SKU for a supplier or 3PL, because reviewers say Koala applies a discount rather than tracking bundle inventory; or your bundle sales swing well past $5,000 in a peak month and you cannot watch the cap, because the offers pause 24 hours after you reach it",
 "honest_knock": "The meter is revenue, and it counts more of it than you might expect. The help centre defines bundle offer revenue as the whole value of the bundle a customer buys through a Koala offer, not the uplift over the normal price: a $70 three-pack adds $70 to the counter even if one unit on its own would have sold for $30. Kickstart's $1,000 a month is therefore roughly fourteen of those $70 bundles, and a store selling a few bundles a day is past it in the first week. Scale Koala's $5,000 is the realistic starting point for a store that actually uses bundles as a main offer, and above that the next step is Unlimited at $59.99, three times the price.\n\nWhat happens at the ceiling matters more than the price. There is no overage charge; instead the store owner gets an email at 80% and at 100%, and if nobody upgrades within 24 hours the offers are paused until the first of the next month. A 24-hour window is short: a cap reached on a Friday night during a promotion can take the bundles off the product pages before anyone reads the email. If bundles are part of a campaign, set the plan on the revenue you expect at the peak, and check the usage counter in the app while it runs.\n\nThe counter is only as good as the attribution behind it. On 29 September 2026 a US merchant with four months on the app wrote that Koala counted an order as a bundle sale when the customer bought one unit of a buy-three offer plus other items and never received the discount. We could not check that claim, but it is worth testing on your own store, because on this pricing model an overcount is not just a flattering report: it moves you towards the cap. Other critical reviews describe a bundle that could not map each variant to its own SKU for the supplier (July 2025), products shown as sold out despite stock (December 2025), and a widget that loaded slowly; the help centre says a delay of four to five seconds goes away once you add the app block to the product template instead of relying on the embed. We have not installed the app.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$12.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "Kickstart · per month for up to $1,000 of bundle offer revenue, or $131.88 a year",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Kickstart",
    "price": "$12.99 a month, or $131.88 a year (15% saving)",
    "includes": "up to $1,000 bundle offer revenue a month; discounted price for first-time users"
   },
   {
    "name": "Scale Koala",
    "price": "$19.99 a month or $191.88 a year",
    "includes": "up to $5,000 bundle offer revenue a month"
   },
   {
    "name": "Unlimited",
    "price": "$59.99 a month or $575.88 a year",
    "includes": "no revenue ceiling"
   },
   {
    "name": "Free tier",
    "price": "no published price",
    "includes": "perfect for development stores"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(read 2026-09-30 on apps.shopify.com/profitkoala-upsell-bundle and in the vendor's billing articles at koala-bundles.crisp.help) Priced on the revenue its offers bring in, not on features: the help centre says all plans include the same features. Kickstart is $12.99 a month, or $131.88 a year at a stated 15% saving, for up to $1,000 of bundle offer revenue a month, and the listing marks it with a discounted price for first-time users. Scale Koala is $19.99 a month or $191.88 a year for up to $5,000. Unlimited is $59.99 a month or $575.88 a year with no revenue ceiling. Every paid plan has a 14-day free trial. The listing also shows a free tier, described as 'perfect for development stores'; the billing article lists only the three paid plans for a live store. Bundle offer revenue is the full value of a bundle bought through a Koala block or post-purchase offer, not the extra amount it earned: a $70 three-pack counts as $70. At 80% of the cap the store owner gets a warning email, at 100% a second email, and if nothing changes within 24 hours the offers are paused until the first day of the next month. All charges are in USD, billed through Shopify every 30 days. Developer ProfitKoala, with an address in Vilnius, Lithuania; the listing gives a launch date of 11 March 2024 and shows 811 reviews.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
  "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/profitkoala-upsell-bundle",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 12.99,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Kickstart, per month for up to $1,000 of bundle offer revenue, or $131.88 a year; Scale Koala is $19.99 for up to $5,000 and Unlimited $59.99 with no cap; same features on every plan; 14-day trial; billed through Shopify every 30 days. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-30.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/koala-bundles-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-10-01",
   "last_read": "2026-11-08",
   "read_days": 6,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-10-01",
    "until": "2026-11-08",
    "reads": 6,
    "days": 38
   },
   "changes": [],
   "method": "Stable = every amount on the vendor's pricing page identical across >= 3 of our reads over >= 30 days. A change is listed only after we confirmed the new price on the page, with a verbatim quote. Differences in raw readings are never published on their own."
  }
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "The meter is revenue, and it counts more of it than you might expect.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/profitkoala-upsell-bundle"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Easy Bundles",
  "why": "Easy Bundles is the closest comparison in our own dossiers, because it is metered the same way: on bundle sales rather than on features or orders. On our reading of 4 September 2026 it was free up to $500 of bundle sales a month, $29 up to $3,000, $49 up to $5,000 and $99 up to $10,000, with no published tier above that. Koala Bundles, read on 30 September 2026, starts at $12.99 for $1,000, charges $19.99 up to $5,000 and $59.99 with no ceiling at all, so at every published level it is the cheaper of the two. The difference is what you get for the money. Easy Bundles builds real bundle products, with build-your-own-box, gift boxes, inventory synced across Shopify and 3PLs and POS support, and adds features plan by plan; Koala puts the same discount toolkit on every plan and is built around quantity breaks, volume discounts and post-purchase upsells. A store that ships bundles as their own SKUs fits Easy Bundles; a store that wants discount offers on existing products for less fits Koala."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/koala-bundles.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/koala-bundles-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/koala-bundles/",
  "vendor_site": "https://profitkoala.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://platform.shoffi.app/r/rl_Jkv1kGVT",
  "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": [
  "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.",
  "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": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "koala-bundles: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": "koala-bundles:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "koala-bundles:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "koala-bundles: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_found",
   "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"
  }
 }
}