Guide
Find every recurring charge on your Shopify bill
To find every recurring charge on your Shopify bill, look in three places: your app subscription charges, your usage-based app charges, and any one-time charges that quietly became recurring. Shopify records all of them, but across separate bills and without a single per-app running total — so a charge you approved once and forgot can keep billing unnoticed for months.
The three kinds of app charge
- Recurring subscription charges — the flat monthly or annual fee for each app.
- Usage-based charges — fees that scale with volume: email sends, extra orders, shipping labels, SMS. These vary every cycle and are the hardest to eyeball.
- One-time charges — often a setup or add-on fee, occasionally the start of a recurring plan you didn't register as ongoing.
Why they're easy to lose
Each Shopify bill shows a single cycle. There's no view that says 'here is every app charging you right now, and here's the total.' So spend is only ever visible one slice at a time, and an app you installed for a seasonal campaign can keep billing long after you stopped using it — because nothing ever puts the whole recurring picture in front of you.
Compiling the list by hand
Work through your billing history and note every app that appears more than once, with its amount and cadence. Watch for apps whose charge changed between cycles, and for usage lines that have grown. It's tedious but doable — the discipline is checking several months, not just the latest bill, so recurring items actually reveal themselves.
Or read it straight from billing
StackWatch does the compiling for you: it connects to your store read-only (a single read_apps scope), reads every recurring app charge from your Shopify billing, deduplicates them, and shows the full recurring picture — current total, per-app breakdown, and any charge that has moved since last cycle. It can only ever read your charges; it can't change anything in your store.
Frequently asked questions
Does Shopify show a total of all my app charges?
Not as a single running figure. Shopify itemises app charges on each bill, but it doesn't present one combined per-app or all-apps total across cycles. That's the gap tools like StackWatch fill by reconciling every recurring charge into one view.
How do I find a charge I forgot I approved?
Look for an app that bills every cycle but you don't actively use — often installed for a one-off campaign. Reviewing several months of bills together makes these stand out; a tool that reconciles all recurring charges surfaces them automatically.