Benchtime: Ship‑By Dates vs Cadence
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 10, 2026 for Benchtime, Oct 13, 2026 for Cadence.
The short answer
- Only Benchtime lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $12/month for Benchtime and $9.99/month for Cadence.
Head to head
Free
- · Board, ship-by dates, checkout dates
- · Orders open at install don't count
- · Up to 25 tracked orders a month
Pro
- · Board, ship-by dates, checkout dates
- · Orders open at install don't count
- · Up to 300 tracked orders a month
Studio
- · Everything in Pro
- · Track each item separately
- · Unlimited tracked orders
Founder
- · CSV purchase orders
- · Costs (COGS) for up to 5 variants
- · Demand forecast
- · Margin at risk
- · Restock plan with order-by dates
Standard
- · CSV purchase orders
- · Costs (COGS) for up to 20 variants
- · Demand forecast
- · Email support
- · Margin at risk
- · Restock plan with order-by dates
Pro
- · CSV purchase orders
- · Demand forecast
- · Margin at risk
- · Priority email support
- · Restock plan with order-by dates
- · Unlimited COGS variants
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureBenchtime puts every order you prepare after it's placed on a production board and schedules it against your real capacity: how much you can finish per day or week, your workdays, and days off. Each order gets a ship-by date that moves as work moves. Shoppers see your next date on product pages and next to shipping options at checkout, and you can send each customer a private status page.
Stockouts lose sales; dead stock ties up cash. Cadence reads your sales history and forecasts demand per variant, then tells you exactly how much of each product to reorder and by when. It combines that with your stock on hand and each supplier's lead time to give an order-by date and a reorder quantity per product, ranked by urgency.
- Ship-by dates from your real capacity, workdays and days off
- Show your next ship-by date on product pages and at checkout
- Production board with your own stages, plus search and bulk actions in Orders
- Per-product lead times, order cutoff, rush orders (auto for express shipping)
- Forecasts demand per variant from your last 8 weeks of sales history
- Order-by date and reorder quantity per product, ranked by urgency
- Set supplier lead time and MOQ per product; export a purchase order as CSV
- Flags overstock: cash tied up in slow-moving inventory
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  Cadence | |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | Cadence | |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | Not published |
| App Store reviews | Not published | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
FAQ
Benchtime and Cadence: common questions
- Is Benchtime or Cadence cheaper?
- Only Benchtime lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $12/month for Benchtime and $9.99/month for Cadence. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Nov 10, 2026 for Benchtime, Oct 13, 2026 for Cadence; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Nov 10, 2026 for Benchtime, Oct 13, 2026 for Cadence. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.