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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "rapid-search",
 "name": "Rapid Search",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "rapidsearch.app",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify app that replaces the search icon with an always-visible AI search bar (typo tolerance, synonyms, instant results, SKU search) and adds product and collection filters on tags and metafields, hand-set pins and boosts, and search analytics.",
 "best_for": "Shopify stores whose shoppers arrive knowing what they want, with catalogues from a few hundred to 100,000 products, that want typo-tolerant instant search, filters on tags and metafields and hand-set pins and boosts without editing theme code",
 "skip_if": "you sell outside Shopify; your catalogue is past 100,000 products, which only the $349 unlimited tier covers; or you have heavy traffic and light search use, because the meter counts every visit, not every search",
 "honest_knock": "The meter is your traffic, not your searches. Rapid Search prices on monthly sessions, and its own FAQ defines a session as a visit to the store. A shopper who never touches the search box still counts. So the plan you need follows your total storefront traffic: 2,000 sessions free, 5,000 on the $14 tier, 25,000 on the $39 tier. A store with modest search use but a lot of visitors pays for headroom it does not search with.\n\nGoing over the cap does not bill you, it switches you back. The vendor's FAQ says it sends several warnings as you approach the limit, and that if you do not upgrade, search reverts to Shopify's built-in search until the limit resets with the next charge. That is more honest than a surprise overage, but it means the best month of the year is the month your search can quietly downgrade itself. Upgrade before a sale, not during it.\n\nThe two pricing pages tell different stories. The Shopify listing stops at Basic 3, $39 a month for 25,000 sessions. The vendor's pricing slider goes on to $59, $79, $129, $199 and $349 a month, and the product cap stays at 100,000 on every tier up to $199; the listing's line that it scales to 1M+ products describes only the $349 unlimited tier. The customer logos (Levi's, Skechers, alo) and the claims of 5,000+ stores and a doubled search conversion rate come from the vendor's own site and are not sourced there. We have not installed the app.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$14",
  "entry_price_terms": "Basic 1 · per month for 5,000 monthly sessions and 100,000 products, unbranded, billed through Shopify every 30 days with a 14-day free trial",
  "from_price_usd_month": 14.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-09-26, re-read 2026-10-21 without changes, on apps.shopify.com/rapid-search and on the vendor's own pricing page at rapidsearch.app/pricing) Every plan carries every feature; the tiers differ only in monthly sessions and catalogue size. The Shopify listing shows four tiers. Free covers 2,000 monthly sessions and 5,000 products with email support, and the search carries Rapid Search branding. Basic 1 is $14 a month, or $140 a year, for 5,000 sessions and 100,000 products; Basic 2 is $27 a month, or $270 a year, for 12,000 sessions; Basic 3 is $39 a month, or $390 a year, for 25,000 sessions. The paid tiers are unbranded, add chat support and start with a 14-day free trial. The vendor's pricing slider continues past the listing: $59 a month for 45,000 sessions, $79 for 75,000, $129 for 130,000 and $199 for 500,000, all still capped at 100,000 products, and $349 a month for unlimited sessions and 1,000,000 products. The listing quotes annual billing as a 17% saving and only for the three Basic tiers. The vendor site says the trial needs no credit card and offers a refund within the first 30 days on a paid plan. All charges are in USD through Shopify's billing, every 30 days.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-21",
  "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/rapid-search",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 14.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Basic 1, per month for 5,000 monthly sessions and 100,000 products, unbranded, billed through Shopify every 30 days with a 14-day free trial. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-21.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/rapid-search-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-10-05",
   "last_read": "2026-11-08",
   "read_days": 6,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-10-05",
    "until": "2026-11-08",
    "reads": 6,
    "days": 34
   },
   "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": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Free covers 2,000 monthly sessions and 5,000 products with email support, and the search carries Rapid Search branding.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "meter: unit · sessions",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-21",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/rapid-search"
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "The listing quotes annual billing as a 17% saving and only for the three Basic tiers.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-21",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/rapid-search"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Dynasort",
  "why": "Dynasort is the closest comparison in our own dossiers, and it does a different job on the same catalogue. Dynasort (read 15 September 2026) re-orders your collection pages automatically from sales, stock and margin signals, starting at $99 a month for 25 sorted collections after a free demo tier. Rapid Search makes the search box and the filters work: typo tolerance, synonyms, instant results, filters on price, tags and metafields, and merchandising you set by hand, pinning, boosting, demoting or hiding products in the results. Its paid tiers start at $14 a month and are sized on store sessions rather than collections. A store that loses shoppers at the search box starts here; a store that loses them scrolling a badly ordered collection starts with Dynasort. The two do not replace each other."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/rapid-search.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/rapid-search-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/rapid-search/",
  "vendor_site": "https://rapidsearch.app"
 },
 "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_Q9pJWoF6",
  "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: 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": "rapid-search:rapid-search-q1",
   "key": "rapid-search-q1",
   "question": "Does the $349 Unlimited plan cover 1,000,000 products or 500,000?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "rapid-search: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": "rapid-search:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "rapid-search:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "rapid-search: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"
  }
 }
}