Legwork
Questions we had to answer for the books, written up because the honest answer was not already online. Each one states at the top where its numbers came from. When a vendor changes something, we come back and mark the piece as updated rather than quietly editing it.
RSS feed — no tracking, no open pixels.
Shopify
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Zapier bills successful actions; Make moved to credits; n8n Cloud bills executions. What counts, what doesn’t, and how the entry plans compare.
Billing units and entry plan figures from Zapier, Make, and n8n Cloud published pricing and docs as reviewed for this piece, including Make’s 27 August 2025 switch from operations to credits. Confirm against your own plan before migrating.
Shopify
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Klaviyo bills every contact who could be emailed. Tier prices, the February 2025 definition change, the 90-day suppression lock, and the 20% high-spend surcharge.
Tier examples and billing rules as published for Klaviyo email plans, including the February 2025 active-profile definition and the high-spend surcharge threshold. Confirm against your own billing page before acting.
Shopify
Gorgias helpdesk plans start cheap; AI Agent is a separate meter. Two overage lines, marketed automation rates, and how both can hit the same conversation.
Plan floors and overage framing drawn from Gorgias published pricing and case-study ranges as reviewed for this piece. AI Agent is an add-on billed per resolved conversation. Your invoice will differ by plan and volume.
We publish slowly. Roughly two emails a month: what we are researching, what a tool actually charged us this month, and a note when a new title is out.
This form is not connected yet. Set
PUBLIC_EMAIL_ENDPOINT
in the build environment and redeploy.
Until then the field is disabled rather than quietly dropping addresses.