InCircle vs Recharge for paid memberships
Recharge is built for shipping products on a schedule. InCircle Memberships is built for paid memberships: a recurring fee for perks, members-only access and in-store member cards, with tools to market the membership and keep members. It starts free, with no transaction fee from InCircle.
How do InCircle and Recharge compare side by side?
| InCircle Memberships | Recharge Subscriptions | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Paid memberships with perks | Recurring product subscriptions |
| Free plan | Yes: 30 members, no time limit | No (60-day trial on Starter) |
| Entry price on the vendor's pricing page | $0, then $9.99 / month | $99 / month |
| Transaction fees | No transaction fee from InCircle | 1.49% + 19¢ (Starter), 1.34% + 19¢ (Plus) |
| Member perks (discounts, free shipping) | Yes, set on the plan (every plan) | Built by the merchant, per Recharge's membership guide |
| Members-only products and pages | Yes: products, collections and pages (Starter) | Not listed |
| Retention when a member cancels | Yes: pausing on every plan; reasons and an offer before a cancel (Growth) | Yes: cancellation flows with targeted offers |
| Gifting | Yes, with claim links (Growth) | Gift subscriptions |
| In-store member cards | Yes: digital member cards with a QR code, scanned at the register (Growth) | Works with Shopify POS; member cards not listed |
| Tracked join links and attribution | Yes: tracked join links show which campaign brought each member (Growth) | Not listed |
| Shopify Flow | Yes: Flow triggers (Growth) | Yes |
| Analytics | Yes: members, renewals, revenue, cohorts, CSV export | Yes, with benchmarks |
| Developer API | Yes: webhooks and API, set up with our team (Scale) | Yes (Plus) |
What does InCircle Memberships do best?
Widgets for every part of your store
A join offer on product pages, an announcement bar, a buy-together offer, members-only locks and a member card, all ready to add to your theme.
AI that styles them for you
Describe your store and AI suggests widget looks that match your theme's colors, so everything feels like part of your brand.
Analytics in detail
Members, renewals, revenue and cohorts in one place, with CSV export whenever you need the numbers elsewhere.
Works with Shopify POS
Staff scan a member's card at the register and their perks apply to the sale. You choose how the card looks.
Easy ways to pay
Members join at Shopify's own checkout, so they can pay with Shop Pay, Apple Pay or Google Pay when your store offers them.
Support on every plan
Chat and email support from the day you install, even on the Free plan, from the team that builds the app.
Already on Recharge Subscriptions? We'll move you across.
You don't have to rebuild your membership yourself. Our support team migrates your plans, perks and members to InCircle, and starts as soon as possible after you get in touch.
Tell us what you use now
Email our support team with the app you're on, roughly how many members you have, and when you'd like to switch.
We plan the move with you
Together we map your current plans, prices and perks onto InCircle, along with any members-only products and pages, and agree a switch date.
Our support team does the migration
We set up your plans and perks in InCircle and move your members across, starting as soon as possible after you get in touch.
You check it and go live
You review everything before the switch. Once you're happy, the join widget goes live on your store and you turn the old app off.
Your next loyal member is already shopping with you.
Launch a membership this week. InCircle is free for your first 30 members, so it can pay for itself before you pay for it.