CashShield vs COD Flex: Cash on Delivery
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 1, 2026 for CashShield, Oct 13, 2026 for COD Flex.
The short answer
- Only COD Flex lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $19.99/month for CashShield and $19.99/month for COD Flex.
Head to head
Premium
- · Cancel anytime via Shopify billing
- · Embedded Shopify admin — no theme edits
- · Hide, rename, or reorder COD at checkout
- · Pay yearly and save 17% (2 months free)
- · Pin code, cart, customer & product rules
- · Widget health alerts & reporting
Free
Pro
Scale
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureCashShield helps Shopify merchants control when Cash on Delivery is available at checkout. Create rules based on cart value or item count, product type or tags, customer tags or order count, and the delivery postal (pin) code, city, state, or country to decide when COD is shown, hidden, renamed, or reordered. Rules are managed inside Shopify admin, with no code or theme edits.
Your buyers pay with Shopify's own Cash-on-Delivery method at the native checkout — COD Flex never places orders and never touches checkout. When a COD order arrives it scores how likely it is to be refused, from the delivery region, the order value and the buyer's past refusals, and tags the risky ones so you call-confirm or hold them before paying to ship.
- Restrict COD by cart value, delivery area, customer type, product, or collection
- Hide, rename, or reorder COD at checkout without code or theme edits.
- Manage postal code rules, product rules, and customer rules directly inside Shop
- Refusal-risk score and a review or hold tag on every native COD order
- Learns from refused parcels via courier tracking — repeat refusers score higher
- Multi-courier AWB labels + delivery tracking (Sameday, DPD, FAN, Cargus)
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 |  CashShield |  COD Flex |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | CashShield | COD Flex |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Pricing
| Measure | CashShield | COD Flex |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $19.99/month | $19.99/month |
| Longest free trial | 7 days | Not listed |
| Plans listed | 1 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | CashShield | COD Flex |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #129(ahead) | #130 |
| Shopify App Charts | #3 on Pricing moves in Payment experience | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | May 8, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Atlas & Lila, Inc. | DevShopHub |
FAQ
CashShield and COD Flex: common questions
- Is CashShield or COD Flex cheaper?
- Only COD Flex lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $19.99/month for CashShield and $19.99/month for COD Flex. 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 1, 2026 for CashShield, Oct 13, 2026 for COD Flex; 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 1, 2026 for CashShield, Oct 13, 2026 for COD Flex. 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.