Manual Discounts: Cost & More vs Retail Price Discount: Sales
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 7, 2026 for Manual Discounts, Nov 3, 2026 for Retail Price Discount.
The short answer
- Paid plans start at $0.99/month for Manual Discounts and $9.90/month for Retail Price Discount.
- Manual Discounts lists 4 features Retail Price Discount’s listing doesn’t mention, including Checkout discounts, Custom discounts, Flat discounts.
Head to head
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Standard plan
- · Access to all the app features.
- · No additional charges
Basic Plan
- · Best Price Wins against catalog discount
- · Discount from Compare-at Price
- · Promotion Dashboard
Pro
- · BOGO and incremental from Compare-at
- · Delivery-address eligibility
- · Different discounts for each variant
- · Discount to a target Price
- · Display discounted prices on front end
- · Everithing in basic
Legacy
- · Our old fashioned version
- · This plan is only for legacy customers
Enterprise
- · Bulk discount upload with CSV
- · Discounts butch 1 parent/ 500 children
- · Everything in pro
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featurePreset discounts for staff or employee, loyalty or VIP, military, senior, student or teacher, friends and family, price match, damaged item markdown. On POS: cashiers pick one from a tile, or apply your default from its own tile in one tap. Fixed or percentage: one discount on the whole cart.
Retail Price Discount lets merchants create virtually any promotion from the Compare-at Price or selling price without changing existing catalog sales. Run automatic discounts, codes, BOGO, Buy X Get Y, free gifts, quantity and variant-based discounts, or combine product discounts and free shipping in one code with delivery-address rules.
- Create manual discounts for your POS
- Apply default discounts via shortcut on the main screen.
- Sync between devices
- Apply discounts from compare-at amounts
- Automatic fallback to regular amount
- Prevent stacking with existing catalog sales
- Optional product-level discount targeting
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 |  Manual Discounts |  Retail Price Discount |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Manual Discounts | Retail Price Discount |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 6 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Manual Discounts | Retail Price Discount |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Not listed |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $0.99/month(ahead) | $9.90/month |
| Longest free trial | 30 days | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 1 | 4 |
Listing
| Measure | Manual Discounts | Retail Price Discount |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #633 | #185(ahead) |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Feb 3, 2023 | May 5, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Merchbytes | Octopus Digital Agency |
FAQ
Manual Discounts and Retail Price Discount: common questions
- Is Manual Discounts or Retail Price Discount cheaper?
- Paid plans start at $0.99/month for Manual Discounts and $9.90/month for Retail Price Discount. 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?
- Manual Discounts lists 4 the others don’t mention, such as Checkout discounts, Custom discounts, Flat discounts, Templates. Retail Price Discount lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Campaigns, Discount codes, Discount stacking. 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 7, 2026 for Manual Discounts, Nov 3, 2026 for Retail Price Discount; 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 7, 2026 for Manual Discounts, Nov 3, 2026 for Retail Price Discount. 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.