CloudFO: AI Finance Colleague vs PayHelm: Analytics & Reports
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 14, 2026 for CloudFO, Oct 13, 2026 for PayHelm.
The short answer
- Only PayHelm lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $38/month for CloudFO and $20/month for PayHelm.
- PayHelm lists 26 features CloudFO’s listing doesn’t mention, including Abandoned cart, Activity tracking, Benchmarking.
Head to head
Accounting for sales, orders, inventory, tax, profits, & more.
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Pro
- · 1 business bank account
- · Quarterly reports
- · Unlimited app integrations
- · Unlimited reviewers
- · Weekly finance review
Business Plus
- · 5 business bank accounts
- · Monthly, quarterly and annual reports
- · Unlimited app integrations
- · Unlimited reviewers
- · Weekly finance review
Free
- · 12-month data lookback
- · Fulfillment & shipping analytics
- · Import all sales history
- · Orders, refunds & revenue reports
- · Profit & margin reports
- · Top SKUs & product performance
Entrepreneur
- · 1 User + 1 store + marketing channels
- · 100 AI Credits per month
- · 300+ metrics & customer segments
- · AI Chat for reports & tool management
- · Import your entire sales history
- · Powerful ecommerce analytics dashboard
Business
- · 1,000 AI credits per month
- · 5 year historical look back
- · Advanced filters & segments
- · Connect unlimited stores & integrations
- · Everything in Entrepreneur, plus:
- · Google Analytics integration
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureCloudFO, your AI finance colleague, transforms financial management by providing real-time insights and automated reports, helping you stay on top of your business finances and make data-driven decisions that improve your bottom line. Seamlessly integrating with Shopify, business bank accounts, and other apps, CloudFO unifies your data.
Connect all your sources of data together to understand how to grow your profit. Analyze multiple stores, marketing channels, and more like Amazon, Etsy and more. See how your Google Ads or Facebook Ads are performing on ROAS. Analyze your UPS labels or ShipStation costs. Connect your Stripe, Braintree, or PayPal accounts so you can analyze gateway fees and understand Gross Margin % or Profit.
- Net profit, Cash runway, sales, orders & spend insights by category, P&L & more
- Weekly finance reviews with weekly goal setting & tracking in just 5mins a week
- Cashflow forecasts, and answers to your complex questions in seconds
- Scenario planning to forecast & compare decisions before you make them.
- Unlock your data and access mission critical information to grow your business.
- Export your date and integrate it with other mission critical services.
- Analyze your business, products, customers, and get your team on the same page.
- Share and export your reports to PDF, Excel, CSV, Google Sheets.
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 |  CloudFO |  PayHelm |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | CloudFO | PayHelm |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 6 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | 0 |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
FAQ
CloudFO and PayHelm: common questions
- Is CloudFO or PayHelm cheaper?
- Only PayHelm lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $38/month for CloudFO and $20/month for PayHelm. 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?
- CloudFO lists 5 the others don’t mention, such as Bank reconciliation, Cash flow, Expense tracking, Forecasting. PayHelm lists 26 the others don’t mention, such as Abandoned cart, Activity tracking, Benchmarking, Checkout analytics. 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 Oct 14, 2026 for CloudFO, Oct 13, 2026 for PayHelm; 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 Oct 14, 2026 for CloudFO, Oct 13, 2026 for PayHelm. 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.