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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "skip-to-checkout",
 "name": "Skip To Checkout",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "effectify.io",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Free Shopify app from Effective Apps that puts a sticky add-to-cart bar on product pages and can send the shopper straight to checkout, skipping the cart. It also hides PayPal, Apple Pay or the add-to-cart and buy-now buttons when you want a single path to payment. Free is the only plan and there is no usage meter. Built for Shopify, on the App Store since November 2019.",
 "best_for": "Shopify merchants who want a free sticky buy button, or who need to hide add-to-cart and express-payment buttons on products they list online but sell in person",
 "skip_if": "your cart page carries shipping thresholds, discount codes or upsells you depend on, you manage the store on add-to-cart rate and cannot afford to lose that signal, or you are unwilling to grant read and write access to customers, products and analytics for a display widget",
 "honest_knock": "The cart skip blinds the measurement you would use to judge it. The vendor's own help article confirms that bypassing Add To Cart and Start Checkout makes your add-to-cart rate read lower, and recommends watching overall sales trends instead — so the feature is sold on conversion while switching off the funnel that would show it. Skipping the cart also bypasses the page where shipping thresholds, discount codes and cart upsells normally work. For a free widget the permissions are broad: view and edit customers, products, store analytics, Shopify Functions and the online store, plus customer device and activity data. And because there is no paid tier there is no support contract behind it; what you get is the vendor's goodwill, which a six-year run and a 4.6 average suggest is real, but is not something you can buy more of. The app also carries at least three different names across the listing, the help centre index and its own setup article, which makes it harder to know what you are running.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-19 on apps.shopify.com/cart-auto-update, where the listing now names the app PF: Skip To Checkout/Skip Cart; first read 2026-09-18) Free, and free is the only plan. The listing carries no pricing table at all: no paid tier, no usage meter and no surcharge tied to your Shopify plan. The app has been on the App Store since 29 November 2019 and carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge, which is the store's own bar for performance, design and integration. One of the 34 reviews on the listing on 18 September (36 on 19 October) alleges being billed twice, which is worth knowing about an app the listing prices at nothing; we cannot verify that claim from the outside, and the listing shows no charge to make.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-19",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": null,
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/skip-to-checkout.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/skip-to-checkout-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/skip-to-checkout/",
  "vendor_site": "https://effectify.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://platform.shoffi.app/r/rl_QNwl6ZDo",
  "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": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "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": "skip-to-checkout: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": "skip-to-checkout:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "skip-to-checkout:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "skip-to-checkout: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"
  }
 }
}