TnC Review (2026)The Free Plan Is Dev Stores Only
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 25 Aug 2026
| This tool | $7.99 | 2nd cheapest of 16 |
| Cheapest | $4.99 | Scarcity.AI |
| Median | $30 | |
| Most expensive | $250 | Seller Snap |
Entry price per month, USD. Our own dated readings of 16 e-commerce tools — not a market survey, and cheapest is not best.
Every paid tier costs more than it did a day earlier: read on 24 August 2026 the ladder was $6.99, $9.99 and $12.99, and read again on 25 August 2026 the same three plans, carrying the same feature lists, showed $7.99, $12.99 and $14.99. Four plans on the listing, and the free one is not for you. Development Stores is free and carries every Pro feature, but the listing states it is for development and partner stores only and that payment will be activated on upgrade — so the “Free plan available” line at the top of the listing describes a partner sandbox rather than a free tier for a store that takes orders.
Basic is $7.99 a month or $67.12 a year and covers the AI terms-and-conditions checkbox with support for Buy It Now and express checkout buttons. Advanced is $12.99 a month or $109.12 a year and adds the consent date logged into the order's details plus the ability to show the checkbox for specific countries and products. Pro is $14.99 a month or $125.92 a year and adds newsletter and contact forms, translation of the checkbox into multiple languages, the checkbox in Shopify POS and an AI-powered policies generator.
Every paid tier carries a 7-day free trial, and the listing states charges are billed in USD and recur every 30 days. The vendor's own pricing article, last updated 25 August 2026, carries the same raised rates and lists a fifth plan the App Store listing does not: a Plus Plan at $19.99 a month or $167.92 a year, for Shopify Plus merchants only, adding “the ability to show the checkbox in the actual Checkout page of your store”.
The Plus Plan is the one rate that did not move, so the gap between the top listed plan and the hidden one narrowed from $7 to $5. That article puts the annual saving at approximately 30% on every plan, which the listed annual rates match to the cent, and answers its own question “are there any hidden fees?” with “No. All pricing is transparent and listed above” — while being the only page where the Plus Plan appears at all.
It also notes that uninstalling during an ongoing billing period still incurs that period's charge. Developer Effective Apps, trading as Effectify, at 13 Max Nordau, Ashdod, Israel; the app launched on 2 December 2019, carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge, and had 514 reviews at a 4.9 average at the time of writing. The listing names English, Vietnamese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese and Chinese (Simplified) as supported languages. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
“Free plan available” is displayed twice, and the free plan is Development Stores — for development and partner stores only, with payment activated on upgrade. A store that takes real orders has no free tier here. It is the same shape as this developer's Blocky and TiXel listings, where the advertised free plan is also development stores rather than a working free tier, so read it as a house pattern rather than an oversight.
Second, the App Store's pricing table is incomplete. The vendor's own help-centre article lists a Plus Plan at $19.99 a month, Shopify Plus only, and describes it as the plan that shows the checkbox in the actual checkout page. The App Store listing shows four plans and not that one. The same article answers its own hidden-fees question with “No. All pricing is transparent and listed above”, which is true of that article and not of the listing most buyers will read first.
If you are on Plus and you want consent captured in checkout rather than in the cart, the price is two and a half times the headline. Third, the feature that makes the app defensible costs extra, and what it costs is not stable. Basic at $7.99 shows the checkbox; it does not record when anyone ticked it. Consent-date logging starts on Advanced at $12.99. Read a day earlier, on 24 August 2026, those same two plans were $6.99 and $9.99 with identical feature lists, so the step from checkbox to audit trail went from $3 to $5 overnight while the listing said nothing about it.
For an app whose pitch is chargebacks and legal risk, an audit trail as a paid upgrade is worth knowing before you compare $7.99 against anything else. Fourth, be clear about what this can and cannot enforce. On a store that is not on Shopify Plus the checkbox lives in the cart and on express-checkout buttons, not inside Shopify's checkout, because Shopify does not open that page to apps below Plus.
The listing is honest about the surfaces it does cover — cart drawers, Buy It Now, express checkout buttons, floating carts, PayPal and Apple Pay — but a shopper who reaches payment by another route has not passed a gate. Whether that is sufficient consent is a question for your own counsel rather than for an app listing. Finally, the data access. The listing states the app views device and activity data including geolocation, IP address, browser and operating system and browsing behaviour, and can view and edit customers, products, orders for the last 60 days, store analytics, web pixels and the Online Store script tags and theme.
Geolocation is what the country targeting on Advanced and above runs on, so the scope is explicable, but an app installed for compliance reasons that itself processes IP addresses and browsing behaviour belongs in the same register as everything else you had to write down.
What TnC does
Shopify app that puts a mandatory “I agree to the terms” checkbox on the cart and on the Buy It Now, PayPal and Apple Pay express buttons, logs the consent timestamp against the order, and can show it only for chosen products or countries for GDPR and age gates. From $7.99 a month, with the consent timestamp starting at $12.99; the checkbox inside Shopify's own checkout page needs Shopify Plus and a $19.99 tier the App Store listing does not show.
What buyers report about TnC
Recurring themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run TnC ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • 498 of the 514 reviews are five stars, and unusually for this developer a good share of them carry long tenures rather than minutes. Stupidbubble® LifeStyle Platform (United States, 10 months, 27 June 2026) describes a support agent working through digital products that had never been linked to the app until the checkbox appeared on all of them. OrthoTape.com (United States, eight months, 19 June 2026) credits it with helping “with many chargeback issues”. SP BOUTIQUE (United States, over a year, 10 April 2026), GRINDBasketball (United States, nine months), Cowgirl Couture (United States, six months) and Three Moons Body Shop (United States, over a year) are all still on it.
- • The most useful review names a failure mode and its fix. MAG Signature Sound Ltd (United Kingdom, about 16 hours, 18 June 2026) found the checkbox text rendering white on white beside the Pay Now, Apple Pay and PayPal buttons, and had support recolour it — a defect only visible against a live theme, which is the argument for spending the trial on the theme you actually sell on.
- • House Of COHR (United Kingdom, 29 minutes, 15 April 2026) is the clearest statement of what a buyer gets: customers must agree before checkout, and “that data is recorded against the order”. Primrose Cottage (United States, 37 minutes, 16 June 2026) bought it for the EU withdrawal-right exemption on digital goods.
- • Filtering to one, two and three stars returns exactly five reviews out of 514 — three one-star, two three-star, nothing at two — and three of the five are about the price or the free plan rather than the product. Arab Hyphenated (United States, 13 minutes, 28 May 2025): “The app advertises a free plan, but no such option is clearly available. It forces you into selecting a paid plan.” shesbod (Canada, 1 minute, 1 January 2026): “no free plan”. Kis Kis Mjau (Latvia, 29 minutes, 21 July 2026): “a simple checkbox should no't cost an subscription”.
- • The developer answers those in public, and the answers confirm the reading rather than refuting it. Effective Apps replied to shesbod on 13 August 2026 that “The app indeed offers a free plan for stores that are currently being developed, as it states in the app's pricing plans section” — that is the Development Stores tier, not a free tier for a store taking orders. The reply to Kis Kis Mjau on 12 August 2026 defends the price on the grounds that the app also handles compliance work across cart, checkout, themes and order flows.
- • The remaining two are minor and old. Tante-Anne-Laden (Germany, 32 minutes, 18 December 2023) asked for the modal's “Close” button text to be translatable; the developer says the option existed but had been hidden for being too advanced, and re-enabled it. That reply has since been re-edited with an “UPDATE - 08/13/2026” header in which the app's creator says he is personally going over every review. Kasia Laskowska Art (Poland, 4 minutes, 27 February 2026) left a wordless three stars.
- • Nobody in the reviews read names a plan, mentions the consent timestamp that starts on Advanced, or mentions Shopify Plus and the checkout page — the three things that actually decide which tier you need.
Where the ratings disagree. The complaint set is one-note, and the note is not about the software. Across 514 reviews the app's own job — does the checkbox appear, does it hold up the checkout — produces almost no negative reviews at all; what recurs is the “Free plan available” badge and the price behind it. The tenures split the same way: every free-plan complaint comes from a merchant who was gone inside half an hour, while the praise runs to six months, nine months, a year. Read that as a listing problem rather than an app problem. One caveat on all of it: the prices rose between 24 and 25 August 2026 — Basic from $6.99 to $7.99, Advanced from $9.99 to $12.99, Pro from $12.99 to $14.99, with no change to any feature list — so every review above was written against cheaper rates than the ones you will be quoted.
When the paid plan is worth it
One question decides the plan, and it is not about price: where can a shopper reach payment? On a standard Shopify store that is the cart and the express buttons, exactly what Basic at $7.99 covers. The step to Advanced is $5 a month and it buys the thing that turns this app into evidence: the consent date and time written into the order's details. A checkbox nobody can show was ticked is decoration; a timestamp on the order is what a payment processor sees during a chargeback.
Buying this for disputes makes Advanced the floor, not Basic. Advanced to Pro is another $2 and genuinely optional — newsletter and contact forms, translation, Shopify POS, an AI policies generator. Worth it if you sell in person or in more than one language. Then the plan the listing omits. On Shopify Plus, the checkbox inside Shopify's own checkout sits only on the $19.99 Plus Plan, and the App Store will not say so.
It held its price on 25 August while the listed three rose, so it now sits $5 above Pro rather than $7. Plus merchants most want the gate there, and theirs is the tier missing from the table.
How to actually use TnC
Decide first which surfaces you must gate; that picks the plan. Walk your own store the way a shopper does — cart drawer, Buy It Now, Apple Pay, PayPal, and on Plus the checkout page itself — and write down every route to payment. On a standard plan the app covers the cart and the express buttons, not Shopify's checkout; on Plus, that page needs the $19.99 tier which only appears in the vendor's help centre.
Then assume you need Advanced rather than Basic and make the trial prove otherwise. Place a test order during the seven days and open it in your admin: no consent timestamp on the order means the wrong plan. Use the trial on the theme you actually sell on. The most specific complaint in the listing's own reviews is a merchant finding the checkbox text rendering white on white beside the Pay Now, Apple Pay and PayPal buttons — only visible against live theme colours. Support customised it for them quickly, so raise it rather than designing around it.
Distilled from apps.shopify.com/terms-and-conditions-checkbox and the TnC pricing article on effectify.help, both read 25 August 2026.
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- Buyer reviews on Shopify App Store (listing slug terms-and-conditions-checkbox, published as “TnC: Terms and Conditions Box”; 514 reviews at a 4.9 average, two pages of the unfiltered list plus the one-, two- and three-star filter read separately), read August 2026.
- Read 2026-08-25 on apps.shopify.com/terms-and-conditions-checkbox, listed as “TnC: Terms and Conditions Box”, and in the vendor's own pricing article on effectify.help.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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