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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "storista",
 "name": "Storista",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "storista.io",
 "category": "Marketing",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify app that turns TikTok, Reels and UGC clips into shoppable video widgets — carousels, stories, grids and spotlights — with auto-sync from TikTok and Instagram.",
 "best_for": "Shopify stores that already produce TikTok or Reels content and want it on the storefront as shoppable video, with the free tier's unlimited views making it cheap to test whether social video converts on your product pages at all",
 "skip_if": "you have no UGC or short-form pipeline to feed it — the widget displays content, it does not create any — or you want automatic product-to-video tagging without paying $49 a month for it",
 "honest_knock": "The first thing to know is that the brand sells two different products, and the one you find by searching the name is not the one this link installs. storista.io is an AI UGC video generator priced per render, roughly $1 to $4 a video, free to start with a $19 a month Pro plan. The Shopify app is a shoppable-video widget priced at $0, $15, $49 and $199 a month. Same company, same name, unrelated ladders, and nothing on either page maps one to the other. If you arrive at a price expecting the other product, you will be wrong by a factor of ten in either direction.\n\nSecond, read the headline against the pricing table. AI Smart Tagging is one of four bullets in the app's own pitch and one of the four features named in the listing summary. It appears on Business at $49 and above. On Free and Basic you tag products to videos yourself.\n\nThird, the rating deserves its detail. 5.0 from 49 reviews is excellent, and the breakdown is 47 five-star, one four-star and one one-star — so the round number is a rounding, not a perfect record. That is a small point, but it is the kind of thing worth checking on any app whose average sits exactly on the ceiling.\n\nFinally, the data access. The listing states the app views customer device and activity data and can view and edit customers, products, store analytics, custom data and Shopify admin. That is a wide grant for a widget that displays video, and it belongs in your processing register whatever you decide about the product.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$15",
  "entry_price_terms": "Basic · per month for 50 videos and basic analytics, billed in USD every 30 days with a 14-day free trial",
  "from_price_usd_month": 15.0,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Free",
    "price": "no published price",
    "includes": "10 videos, unlimited views, TikTok Shop/Shop app integration, GEO/SEO, Carousel/Spotlight widgets, Storista branding"
   },
   {
    "name": "Basic",
    "price": "$15 a month",
    "includes": "50 videos, unlimited views, basic analytics, videos on any page"
   },
   {
    "name": "Business",
    "price": "$49 a month",
    "includes": "unlimited videos, AI Smart Tagging, advanced analytics, all widget types"
   },
   {
    "name": "Scale",
    "price": "$199 a month",
    "includes": "for Shopify Plus stores, VIP support, multiple stores"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(read 2026-08-23 on apps.shopify.com/storista-stories, listed as “Storista Shoppable Video UGC”) Four tiers. Free covers 10 videos with unlimited views, TikTok Shop and Shop app integration, GEO/SEO optimisation and the Carousel and Spotlight widgets, and it keeps Storista branding on the widget. Basic is $15 a month for 50 videos, unlimited views, basic analytics and videos on any page. Business is $49 a month for unlimited videos, AI Smart Tagging, advanced analytics and all widget types. Scale is $199 a month for Shopify Plus stores and adds VIP support and multiple stores. Every paid tier carries a 14-day free trial, all charges are billed in USD, and recurring and usage-based charges are billed every 30 days. The app is English-only, carries Shopify's “Built for Shopify” badge and works with Checkout, Shopify Admin, TikTok Shop, the Shop app, Instagram Reels, TikTok Videos, GemPages, Rebuy, Skio, Shogun and Subscriptions. Developer Storista LLC, Sheridan, Wyoming; the app launched on 19 February 2021 and had 49 reviews at a 5.0 average at the time of writing. Note that storista.io, the vendor's own domain, sells a different product on a different meter — AI-generated UGC video at roughly $1 to $4 a render, free to start with a $19 a month Pro plan — and not the widget ladder above.",
  "verified_at": "2026-08-23",
  "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/storista-stories"
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Free covers 10 videos with unlimited views, TikTok Shop and Shop app integration, GEO/SEO optimisation and the Carousel and Spotlight widgets, and it keeps Storista branding on the widget.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "meter: unit · videos",
   "verified_at": "2026-08-23",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/storista-stories"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": null,
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/storista.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/storista-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/storista/",
  "vendor_site": "https://storista.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_Koyaq7Kj",
  "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.",
  "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": "storista: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": "storista:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "storista:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "storista: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"
  }
 }
}