{
 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "smarty-discounts",
 "name": "Smarty Discounts",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "neezon.com",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify discount engine for the rules the native one cannot express: capped and fixed-amount discounts that hold up across currencies, tiers by quantity, subtotal or weight, BXGY, gifts and mix-and-match, targeted by product, customer, cart, market, country or company. Each tier includes two discounts at the level above. Launched January 2025, six reviews as of 4 Sep 2026.",
 "best_for": "Shopify merchants whose promotions have outgrown the native discount engine — capped amounts, a fixed amount that behaves correctly in several currencies, tiers by quantity, subtotal or weight, BXGY, gifts, mix-and-match — and who want to build them with rules rather than with a developer, targeting by product, customer, cart, market, country or company",
 "skip_if": "your promotions are ordinary percentage or fixed-amount codes, which Shopify's built-in discounts already do for free; or you want a long support and reliability record before a young app gets write access to the discounts in your checkout",
 "honest_knock": "The evidence base is thin. The app launched on 14 January 2025 and carried six reviews on 4 September 2026, all five stars; on 11 October 2026 the listing still shows six, five at five stars and one at four, and six is not a track record, and the vendor, Neezon, is a small developer in Ho Chi Minh City rather than a company with a support contract behind it. The listing is unusually candid about what that means at the bottom of the ladder: the free plan's own feature list says low support. Add to that what the app needs to do its job. The data-access panel says it reads customer data flagged as sensitive and can view and edit customers, products, discounts and the Online Store, which is the access any discount engine needs but is still broad. And because the ladder gates discount types rather than volume, the plan you land on is decided by the one rule you cannot live without: if the campaign you have in mind needs time-period scheduling or free shipping on a single rule, you are on Pro at $25.99 regardless of how few discounts you run.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$9.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month or $99.99 a year (17% off vs monthly)",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-09-04 on apps.shopify.com/smarty-discount) Three tiers, all billed in USD and recurring every 30 days. Forever Free costs nothing, Lite is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, and Pro is $25.99 a month or $259.99 a year; the annual price on both paid tiers saves 17%, and both carry a 7-day free trial. What you are buying is capability, not volume: there is no order cap, no revenue meter and no surcharge tied to your Shopify plan anywhere in the block. Free covers product and order discounts with basic targeting and what the listing itself calls low support. Lite adds shipping and mix-and-match discounts, enhanced targeting and priority support. Pro unlocks every discount type, every targeting rule, active time periods and free shipping on a single rule. One detail in the plan table is worth reading twice, because it is unusual and it is in your favour: each tier gives unlimited discounts at its own level plus up to two at the level above. On Free you can build two Lite-grade discounts, on Lite two Pro-grade ones. That is a working trial of the next tier rather than a locked door, and it means you can prove the rule you actually need before you pay for it. Re-verified 11 October 2026 on apps.shopify.com/smarty-discount: the three tiers, both prices, the 17% saving and the 7-day trials are unchanged. The vendor's plans page (neezon.com/docs/smarty-discounts/plans, read the same day) adds the gates the listing leaves out: shipping and mix-and-match need Lite, while Buy X Get Y, Combine and discount code rejection need Pro; bulk code generations are capped at one on Free and five on Lite; multi-currency is not on Free, 'compare in multi-currency' on Lite and full on Pro. The same page says the in-app Billing page can show promo, coupon or legacy pricing and is the source of truth for the price your shop sees.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
  "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/smarty-discount"
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "The listing is unusually candid about what that means at the bottom of the ladder: the free plan's own feature list says low support.",
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Shopify's own native discounts",
  "why": "the honest comparison is not another app but the discount engine already sitting in your admin. Shopify does percentage, fixed-amount, buy-X-get-Y and free-shipping discounts at no cost, and for most stores that is enough. Smarty Discounts starts earning its $9.99 or $25.99 at the point where you need a cap on the discount, a fixed amount that converts properly across markets, tiers built on weight or subtotal rather than quantity, or targeting by company or market — the rules the native engine cannot express at all"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/smarty-discounts.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/smarty-discounts-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/smarty-discounts/",
  "vendor_site": "https://neezon.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://neezon.com/",
  "affiliate": false,
  "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."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "smarty-discounts: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": "smarty-discounts:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "smarty-discounts:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "smarty-discounts: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"
  }
 }
}