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 "id": "social-bar",
 "name": "Social Bar",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "effectify.io",
 "category": "Marketing",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify app from Effective Apps that adds a bar of social media icons and share buttons to storefront pages, covering more than 80 platforms, with a per-platform Follow Us bar, shape and colour options, an animation, a one-click hide for shoppers and a click counter. Built for Shopify, on the App Store since April 2020.",
 "best_for": "Shopify merchants who want branded social icons and a WhatsApp chat button on product pages without touching theme code, and who will use the built-in click counter to check whether anyone taps them",
 "skip_if": "your theme already places social links where you need them, you are unwilling to pay a recurring fee for a display element, or you are looking for real social proof such as reviews, user content or engagement analytics rather than a row of icons",
 "honest_knock": "This is a styling subscription, and the listing's own framing oversells it: social icons and share buttons build no trust on their own, and 'boost sales with social proof' is a claim the app has no way to support. The free plan is free in a way that will not help you, since it is restricted to development and partner stores, so any live store is on $4.99 a month or $41.88 a year for something most themes already do in the footer. The 5.0 average deserves reading rather than trusting: two of the three reviews on the listing were written after 11 and 13 minutes of use and praise setup rather than results, while the one longer-running reviewer reports that icon placement is limited and the app is tricky to figure out at first. And more than 80 platform options mainly tempts you to advertise accounts you no longer maintain.",
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  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-19 on apps.shopify.com/sticky-social-media-icons-bar; first read 2026-09-18) Two plans, and the free one is not the one you will be on. Development is free but the listing limits it explicitly to development and partner stores, with billing activated on upgrade — so a real storefront does not run on it. The Monthly Plan is $4.99 a month, or $41.88 a year which the listing presents as a 30 percent saving, after a 7-day free trial. All charges are billed in USD and recurring charges are invoiced every 30 days. The app has been on the App Store since 27 April 2020 and carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-19",
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   "description": "Monthly Plan per store, per month, billed month-to-month. From our pricing notes: “The Monthly Plan is $4.99 a month, or $41.88 a year” Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-19.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/social-bar-review.html"
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    "quote": "or $41.88/year and save 30%",
    "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/sticky-social-media-icons-bar",
    "read_on": "2026-10-19"
   },
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   "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."
  }
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  "vendor_site": "https://effectify.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.",
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  "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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  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
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  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "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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  "refund": "being_verified"
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   "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": "social-bar:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
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  {
   "question_id": "social-bar:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
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   "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"
  }
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