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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "vyreel",
 "name": "VyReel",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "vy-reel.com",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify app that turns Instagram and TikTok reels or your own UGC into shoppable carousels, stories, grids and a watch-and-buy viewer, with AI product tagging on every plan.",
 "best_for": "Shopify stores that already publish short-form video on Instagram or TikTok and want it on the storefront as shoppable reels, stories and grids, with AI product tagging included from the free tier up",
 "skip_if": "you sell outside Shopify; you have no video to feed it, since the app displays and tags clips rather than making them; or you run high traffic and need to know your cost at the click cap before committing, which neither pricing page tells you",
 "honest_knock": "The meter is clicks, and nobody says what happens when you run out. Every tier is sized on storefront clicks a month — 500 free, 10,000 on Basic, 30,000 on Growth, 75,000 on Pro — alongside a cap on uploaded videos. Neither the Shopify listing nor the vendor's own pricing section says whether the reels stop, degrade or trigger a charge when a busy month crosses the line, and no overage rate is published. The better your videos work, the faster you use the allowance, so ask support what happens at the cap before a sale weekend answers the question for you.\n\nThe track record is three months long. The app launched on the Shopify App Store on 19 June 2026, and its seven reviews, all five stars, were written between 20 June and 23 July 2026, each after anything from about an hour to 21 days of use. Five of the seven reviewing stores are in Pakistan. A 5.0 from seven early reviews tells you the setup is quick; it does not tell you how the app behaves at 50,000 clicks a month or after a year of theme updates.\n\nThe two pricing pages do not match. The listing stops at Pro, $79 a month; the vendor's own site adds Scale at $129 and Enterprise at $199, and reserves its advanced AI tagging for those two. The attribution panel on the vendor's homepage ($48,210 attributed revenue, 3.1x ROAS on video) names no customer and reads as an illustration, not a reported result.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$19",
  "entry_price_terms": "Basic · per month for 10,000 storefront clicks and 50 videos, billed through Shopify every 30 days with a 14-day free trial",
  "from_price_usd_month": 19.0,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Free",
    "price": "$0 forever",
    "includes": "500 storefront clicks/month, up to 5 video uploads, all features and AI tagging unlocked"
   },
   {
    "name": "Basic",
    "price": "$19 a month, or $182 a year",
    "includes": "10,000 clicks and 50 videos"
   },
   {
    "name": "Growth",
    "price": "$49 a month, or $470 a year",
    "includes": "30,000 clicks and 150 videos with priority email support"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "$79 a month, or $758 a year",
    "includes": "75,000 clicks and 300 videos with priority email support"
   },
   {
    "name": "Scale",
    "price": "$129 a month",
    "includes": "150,000 clicks, 500 videos, advanced AI product tagging, priority in-app chat"
   },
   {
    "name": "Enterprise",
    "price": "$199 a month",
    "includes": "unlimited clicks and videos with dedicated support"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(read 2026-09-24 on apps.shopify.com/vyreel and on the vendor's own pricing section at vy-reel.com) The Shopify listing shows four tiers, the vendor site six. Free: 500 storefront clicks a month and up to 5 video uploads, with every feature and AI product tagging unlocked; the vendor site labels it Trial, $0 forever. Basic is $19 a month, or $182 a year, for 10,000 clicks and 50 videos. Growth is $49 a month, or $470 a year, for 30,000 clicks and 150 videos with priority email support. Pro is $79 a month, or $758 a year, for 75,000 clicks and 300 videos with priority email support. Two more tiers appear only on vy-reel.com: Scale at $129 a month for 150,000 clicks, 500 videos, advanced AI product tagging and priority in-app chat, and Enterprise at $199 a month for unlimited clicks and videos with dedicated support. Every paid tier starts with a 14-day free trial. Annual billing saves 20%; the listing quotes it as a yearly figure, while the vendor's own billing note says annual plans are charged as monthly payments at the discount rather than as one upfront charge. All charges are in USD through Shopify's billing, every 30 days.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-24",
  "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/vyreel",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 19.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Basic, per month for 10,000 storefront clicks and 50 videos, billed through Shopify every 30 days with a 14-day free trial. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-24.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/vyreel-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-09-30",
   "last_read": "2026-11-06",
   "read_days": 10,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-09-30",
    "until": "2026-11-06",
    "reads": 10,
    "days": 37
   },
   "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: 500 storefront clicks a month and up to 5 video uploads, with every feature and AI product tagging unlocked; the vendor site labels it Trial, $0 forever.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "The meter is clicks, and nobody says what happens when you run out.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-24",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/vyreel"
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Annual billing saves 20%; the listing quotes it as a yearly figure, while the vendor's own billing note says annual plans are charged as monthly payments at the discount rather than as one upfront charge.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-24",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/vyreel"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Storista",
  "why": "Storista is the closest comparison in our own dossiers, and it meters the other way round. Storista (read 23 August 2026) counts videos and leaves views unlimited: 10 videos free, 50 for $15 a month, unlimited for $49, with its AI Smart Tagging only from that $49 tier. VyReel counts storefront clicks and videos together: 5 videos and 500 clicks free, 50 videos and 10,000 clicks for $19, and AI product tagging on every tier including the free one. So a store that wants automatic tagging on a small library pays less here, while a store with heavy traffic on a modest library is safer on Storista, whose views are never metered. Storista also carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge and has been listed since 2021; VyReel's listing, launched in June 2026, carries no badge yet."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/vyreel.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/vyreel-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/vyreel/",
  "vendor_site": "https://vy-reel.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://platform.shoffi.app/r/rl_eNg93emv",
  "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.",
  "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": "vyreel: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": "vyreel:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "vyreel:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "vyreel: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"
  }
 }
}