Side by side!
Copia vs Recharge
Recharge is a subscription platform for fast-growing Shopify brands, with a fee on each transaction above its starter offer. Copia runs in your Shopify store too, priced by members, and is built around a CSA season.
Subscription app or CSA app?
Both run in your Shopify store, and members are Shopify customers either way. Recharge sells products on a recurring basis, with cards charged automatically through Shopify checkout. Copia is built around a CSA: seasons and share sizes, pickup locations and hours, a plan for each delivery and a cutoff for changes. Shopify’s free Local Delivery app can plan routes from orders with any of them; Copia plans routes from each delivery date’s boxes and groups the pack list by route.
Choose Recharge if…
- You want failed-payment recovery and win-back campaigns for lapsed subscribers
- You want subscribers to manage their subscription by text (Concierge SMS, Plus plan)
- You want loyalty rewards and a referral program (Plus plan)
- You want cards charged automatically, and gift subscriptions
Choose Copia if…
- You’d rather not pay a fee on every charge: Copia’s price follows your members
- You want to plan each delivery once: enter a full share and Copia works out every size, the harvest totals and the pack list
- You want delivery routes built from each delivery date’s boxes, split between drivers, with arrival times
- You want members emailed on your delivery schedule: pickup and delivery reminders, what’s in the box, and “Your box is here” from the driver
What each costs your farm
Your farm
Recharge
$282/mo
Starter plan $99/mo, plus 1.49% + 19¢ on each charge (one per member each delivery week).
Recharge’s App Store listing offers $25/mo with no transaction fees for your first 50 subscribers; its pricing page starts at Starter. Plus is $499/mo plus 1.34% + 19¢. 60-day free trial.
Double your farm: +$183/mo
Card fees: 2.9% + 30¢ online through Shopify Payments (Basic plan), as with Copia
Copia
$68/mo
Seedling plan $49/mo for 50 members, plus 25 more at $0.75 each. After the first payment, members pay each bill from an emailed Shopify invoice.
Double your farm: +$31/mo
Card fees: 2.9% + 30¢ online through Shopify Payments (Basic plan)
At 75 members, Copia is $214/mo less than Recharge. Both run on your Shopify plan.
How each runs a CSA
From what each company publishes about itself.
For CSAs, Copia also has
Things Recharge’s site doesn’t mention.
- Harvest planning: enter a full share and every other size follows
- A pack list for each delivery date, with harvest totals and a slip for every member, grouped by pickup location or route
- A “what’s in your box” email for each delivery, sent from your harvest plan
- A member cap on each share, with a waitlist when it’s full
- A cutoff for skips and swaps before each delivery
- A check-in list at each pickup, to mark members off as they collect
- Where members sign up
- RechargeA subscription widget on your product pages and Shopify checkout; a no-code customer portal with passwordless login
- CopiaA signup form on your own Shopify store; members become your Shopify customers
- Box types
- RechargeSubscriptions, prepaid and gift subscriptions; curated bundles, and customizable bundles on Plus
- CopiaSet shares, or customizable boxes members build each week; plan each delivery once and Copia works out every size
- Delivery frequencies
- RechargeNot stated on their site
- CopiaWeekly, every other week or monthly for each season, and members can pick their own
- Billing options
- RechargeCards charged automatically through Shopify checkout, with smart retries for failed payments
- CopiaEvery delivery, every 2, 4 or 8 deliveries, or once upfront; or one price for the whole season. After the first payment, members pay each bill from an emailed Shopify invoice; cards aren’t saved and charged automatically
- Add-ons
- RechargeUpsells at checkout and after purchase; members add products from upcoming-order emails
- CopiaExtras like eggs or bread, offered every delivery, every other, monthly or just once
- What members can change
- RechargeSkip, swap, add products and reschedule in the portal; by text with Concierge SMS on Plus
- CopiaWhichever you turn on: skip a week, swap items, pause, add extras, or cancel (with a pause offered first), up to a cutoff you set
- Pickup and delivery
- RechargeNative integration with Shopify shipping, tax and discounts
- CopiaPickup locations with hours; check-in at the stand or on Shopify POS; delivery routes split between drivers
- Automatic messages
- RechargeUpcoming-order emails and win-back campaigns; Concierge SMS on Plus (3¢ per US message segment)
- CopiaEmails for welcome, pickup and delivery reminders, skip and pause confirmations, a moved delivery and a delivered box. No texts.
- Help and support
- RechargeReplies within 8 hours on Starter and 6 on Plus; hands-on implementation and migration support on Plus
- CopiaGuided setup wizard, step-by-step help center and email support
Switching from Recharge
- 1
Export your members
Your members are already Shopify customers. Export them from Shopify’s Customers page as a CSV; Copia imports any file with an email column and uses the existing Shopify customer for each email.
- 2
Set up Copia and import them
Add Copia to your Shopify store and follow the setup checklist, then upload your member file and pick the season, billing and pickup or delivery for everyone at once. Or have us do it in a setup package.
How importing works - 3
Start after your last charge
Date your first Copia delivery after the last charge in Recharge, then cancel members’ subscriptions in Recharge so their cards aren’t charged again. From then on, members pay each bill from an emailed invoice.
Prices and descriptions from Recharge’s own site (App Store listing, pricing page) and Copia’s, as of October 22, 2026, using the Recharge plan that fits your farm and the Copia plan that costs least at your member count. Both need a Shopify plan, which isn’t included. Setup fees and card fees aren’t included in the monthly figures. Prices change, so check Recharge’s pricing page before you decide. Recharge is a trademark of its owner; Copia isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Recharge. See something out of date? Email [email protected] and we’ll fix it.