CartPulse: Checkout Monitor vs Firebell
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 11, 2026 for CartPulse, Oct 14, 2026 for Firebell.
The short answer
- Only Firebell lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $29/month for CartPulse and $19/month for Firebell.
- Firebell lists 2 features CartPulse’s listing doesn’t mention, including Notification rules, Scheduling.
Head to head
Spark
- · 7 days of history and screenshots
- · Alerts with a checkout screenshot
- · Checkout checked every 60 minutes
- · Daily health report
- · Email alerts when checkout breaks
- · Monitor up to 3 stores
Pro
- · 30 days of history and screenshots
- · 50 key products tested hourly
- · Alerts with a checkout screenshot
- · Checkout checked every 30 minutes
- · Hourly health report
- · Monitor up to 10 stores
Enterprise
- · 150 key products + full catalog daily
- · 90 days of history and screenshots
- · Alerts with a checkout screenshot
- · Checkout checked every 10 minutes
- · Email and Slack alerts
- · Monitor up to 25 stores
Free
- · 12 months of backup history
- · Alert your team or developer
- · Instant email alerts
- · Monitor your homepage, hourly
- · Monthly summary report
- · Monthly theme backups
Starter
- · Checks every 5 minutes
- · Everything in Free, plus:
- · Monitor up to 5 pages
- · One-click backup restore
- · Slack alerts
- · Watch 3 apps for outages
Pro
- · Checkout test every hour
- · Daily theme backups (keeps last 14)
- · Everything in Starter, plus:
- · Monitor up to 20 pages
- · Pages checked every minute
- · Watch up to 10 apps
Scale
- · Backups from every 6h (keeps last 30)
- · Checkout test every 15 minutes
- · Everything in Pro, plus:
- · Monitor up to 50 pages
- · Priority support
- · Watch all your apps
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureCartPulse runs a real shopper’s path through your store around the clock: it opens a product, adds it to the cart and loads checkout, the same way a customer would. If any step fails, you get an email with the failing step, the error and a screenshot of the page (plus Slack on Enterprise), and another when it recovers. Pick key products to test every hour, or have every in-stock variant tested daily.
Your store can break without you knowing. A theme update stops the add-to-cart button, a page goes down, or an app has an outage - and the first sign is often a drop in sales. Firebell monitors your pages and tests your checkout like a real customer, then emails you and your team the moment something breaks - and again when it's fixed.
- Checkout tested automatically every 10, 30 or 60 minutes, day and night
- Instant alerts with the failing step, the error and a checkout screenshot
- Key products and their variants added to the cart every hour
- Every in-stock variant in your catalog tested once a day (Enterprise)
- Around-the-clock monitoring of your homepage and the pages you choose
- Automatic checkout testing that catches broken buy buttons before customers
- Instant email and Slack alerts with clear steps on what to check and fix
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 |  Firebell | |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | Not enough data | 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 | Firebell | |
|---|---|---|
| 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
CartPulse and Firebell: common questions
- Is CartPulse or Firebell cheaper?
- Only Firebell lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $29/month for CartPulse and $19/month for Firebell. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- Firebell lists 2 the others don’t mention, such as Notification rules, Scheduling. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- 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 11, 2026 for CartPulse, Oct 14, 2026 for Firebell; 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 11, 2026 for CartPulse, Oct 14, 2026 for Firebell. 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.