OpenMogul vs SimpleSubscription

OpenMogul provides subscription analytics for SaaS businesses, including monthly and annual recurring revenue, churn, and customer lifetime value. It tracks new business, expansions, contractions, and churn in real time, presenting results in a visual dashboard with interactive charts and graphs. OpenMogul is described as fully self-hosted: data stays on the user's servers and can be exported at any time. It is also available as a web product and API. The REST API covers data sources, customers, plans, subscriptions, invoices, metrics, activities, and a health-check endpoint. Requests use HTTP Basic Auth with an API key. The site describes the API as compatible with ChartMogul and says existing integrations can work after changing the base URL; Stripe is given as an example data source. OpenMogul is open source under the MIT License. Its Free plan is listed at free, with no per-seat charges or usage limits, and the site says there are no hidden fees. Documentation, a community, and contact information are linked for support.

SimpleSubscription is a Shopify subscription management app for merchants, covering recurring billing, storefront subscriptions, and a customer portal. Its Subscribe & Save widget supports flexible discounts, delivery frequencies, annual billing, and Shopify native checkout. Subscribers can skip, pause, swap, or cancel subscriptions, change frequency, and update payment methods in the portal. The app retries failed payments and sends reminder emails on every plan, including Free. Shopify Sidekick AI features let merchants ask about subscription data, run subscriber actions with a confirmation step, and navigate to app editors. Migration options include Appstle, Seal, Recharge, Bold, Loop, and Skio, as well as CSV import and API migration. Plan caps count active subscribers only; paused, cancelled, and expired subscriptions do not count. SimpleSubscription says it charges no transaction fees, though Shopify’s standard payment processing still applies. Free includes up to 100 active subscribers; Growth costs $39 a month and Premium costs $99 a month. The pricing note lists a 14-day trial; annual billing options are advertised for paid plans.