Comparison · August 2026
The best Shopify deposit apps, compared — from their own listings, including the one I sell
Seven apps that take a deposit or split payment on Shopify. Every price, rating and review count below was read from each app’s own App Store listing in August 2026, and every listing is linked so you can check it. One of the seven is mine — the one with zero reviews. The page is written so a competitor could read it and find nothing false.
The short version
- Every number on this page comes from the app’s own App Store listing, read in August 2026 and linked in the table. Nothing is estimated.
- I build one of the seven — DepositDesk — so read everything here knowing that. It has 0 reviews, and the table says so.
- The most-reviewed app in this comparison is SPD Split Payment & Deposit: 4.8 from 134 reviews. The only listing here with no paid tier at all is Dibs, at 5.0 from 113.
- The real difference is the pricing model, not the sticker: caps by order value or monthly volume, a processing fee on top, a flat rate, or free.
- Two of the highest-rated apps here are pre-order apps first, in their own words — which matters if your need is deposits on made-to-order goods.
How this comparison works
A “best apps” page written by someone who sells one of the apps deserves suspicion, so the rules come first. I build DepositDesk, the last app in the table below. Every price, rating, review count, cap and feature named on this page was read from the app’s own public Shopify App Store listing in August 2026, each listing is linked so you can check me, and where a listing is quoted, it is quoted verbatim.
Two more rules. Nothing was installed and benchmarked for this page — it compares what the listings say, not how the apps behave, and the reviews linked in the table are a better witness to behaviour than I could be about a competitor. And the table is ordered by review count, most first, which puts my own app dead last. It has zero reviews. A comparison that hid that would not deserve your trust on anything else.
Ratings, review counts and prices move. The listings are the live source; this page is the dated snapshot. If a number here has gone stale, tell me and I will fix it.
All seven, from their own listings
| App | Rating · reviews | Listed pricing | Free trial | The pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD Split Payment & Deposit | 4.8 · 134 reviews | Free (development stores only) · $19–$49/mo | 7 days | Tiers capped by monthly order value processed through the app |
| Dibs – Preorders & Backorders | 5.0 · 113 reviews | Free — no paid tier listed | — | Free only |
| Deposit & Partial Payment Depo | 4.4 · 93 reviews | $9–$149/mo, plus a 0.5%–1% + $0.10–$0.20 processing fee | 14 days | Subscription plus a listed processing fee |
| Downpay: Partial Pay & Deposit | 5.0 · 83 reviews | $29–$249/mo | 7 days | Tiers capped by order value, $5,000 up to $100,000 |
| Partialy: Partial COD Preorder | 4.7 · 65 reviews | Free · $10–$49/mo | Not listed | Tiers capped by monthly orders and revenue |
| K1 PreOrder Now & Deposit | 5.0 · 34 reviews | Free (10 pre-orders, lifetime) · $9.99–$49.99/mo | 7 days (paid plans) | Tiers capped by monthly pre-order revenue |
| DepositDesk (this is my app) | 0.0 · 0 reviews | $29/mo flat | 14 days | Flat — no order-value caps, no per-transaction fees |
What a table like this cannot tell you is whether an app fits your sales channel. Draft orders, POS, COD and pre-orders split this market more sharply than price does, and that is what the profiles below are for.
The pricing model is the real comparison
The seven listings price four different ways, and the model decides your bill more than the headline number does.
Caps by order value
Downpay’s four tiers are set by order value, in its listing’s words “up to $5,000 order value” at $29, then $49 up to $10,000, $99 up to $25,000 and $249 up to $100,000, each with a 7-day trial. Read those caps against the largest orders you take, and confirm with Downpay exactly how the cap counts before you rely on my reading of it — but the shape is clear: the bigger your orders, the higher your tier.
Caps by monthly volume
SPD caps by order value processed through the app per month: $19 up to $1,000, $29 up to $5,000, $49 up to $10,000, with 7-day trials — and its free plan is for development stores only. The listing shows no tier above $10,000 a month. K1 caps by monthly pre-order revenue: $9.99 up to $1,000, $29.99 up to $5,000, $49.99 up to $15,000. Partialy caps by orders and revenue per month — free for 25 orders up to $100 of revenue, $10 for 300 orders up to $1,000, $24 for 600 orders up to $3,000, and $49 for unlimited both. For deposit-shaped goods the revenue cap arrives long before the order cap does: $3,000 a month of revenue is one custom sofa.
A processing fee on top
Depo is the one listing here that adds a processing fee to its subscription: $9 a month plus 1% + $0.20 on Starter, $49 plus 0.75% + $0.15 on Lite, $149 plus 0.5% + $0.10 on Pro, each with a 14-day trial. On a $3,000 order, 1% + $0.20 comes to $30.20 — that is arithmetic on the listed rate, not a quote, and the pricing lines don’t spell out exactly what the percentage applies to, so confirm with Depo before budgeting on my maths. The trade is explicit in the tiers: the higher subscriptions buy down the fee.
Flat, and free
DepositDesk — mine — is $29 a month flat, with unlimited deposit orders, no order-value caps and no per-transaction fees, per its listing and this site. Dibs is free, with no paid tier listed at all.
Notice what this framing does, because I did it on purpose: flat pricing is the axis my own app wins on. The honest counterweight is real. At low volume, $29 flat is not the cheap option. It is the boring one. Partialy has a genuine free tier, K1’s Starter is $9.99, SPD’s is $19, Depo’s is $9, and Dibs is free entirely. Flat rates only start winning when your order values or your volume outgrow the caps.
The seven, one at a time
Ordered by review count, as in the table. The opening line of each profile is the app’s own positioning sentence from its listing, verbatim — the fairest summary available, since they wrote it.
SPD Split Payment & Deposit
4.8 · 134 reviews“Offer your customers the flexibility of split/partial payments and deposits to accelerate purchases.” — by FINLOOP SOLUTIONS LLC, and the most-reviewed app in this comparison. What its listing names that nobody else’s here does: different payment methods on a single transaction — two credit cards, or a card and PayPal — and shareable payments, where several people split one order through emailed invitations. Instalment and BNPL options are listed too.
Worth knowing: the caps are monthly — order value processed through the app, topping out at the $49 tier’s $10,000 a month. I keep a fuller side-by-side at SPD Split Payment & Deposit alternatives.
Dibs – Preorders & Backorders
5.0 · 113 reviews“Pre-order manager for coming soon, presale & sold out products. Backorder out-of-stock items easily.” — by Logbase. Free, with no paid tier listed, and its 113 reviews are 100% five-star on the listing’s own breakdown, which is remarkable at that count. It is a pre-order manager in its own words; deposits appear among its payment features — partial and full payment, book now pay later with built-in preorder discounts, payment schedules and split shipping.
Worth knowing: if your need is deposits on made-to-order goods rather than pre-orders, read the listing with that lens — the positioning line above is about stock states, not custom work. Side-by-side: Dibs alternatives for deposits.
Deposit & Partial Payment Depo
4.4 · 93 reviews“Manage partial payment split payment, preorder and deposit on online and draft orders. COD Supported.” — by Sidepanda Services LLP, and the widest channel coverage on this page by its own listing: draft-order deposits, Shopify POS integration, COD, checkout-extension compatibility, card vaulting for collecting the remaining payment automatically, and a storefront in six languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch. Of its 93 reviews, 85% are five-star per the listing’s breakdown.
Worth knowing: it is the only app here whose listing prices a processing fee on top of the subscription. If draft-order deposits are the thing you actually need, taking a deposit on a Shopify draft order walks through every route to them.
Downpay: Partial Pay & Deposit
5.0 · 83 reviews“Offer deposit and split payment to improve pre-order sales and trust for customers.” — a 5.0 rating across 83 reviews. Its listing names a customer order portal, all 15+ Shopify Flow integrations on every plan, API and sandbox access on the Scale plan, and positions itself as white-label with no credit checks or outside financing.
Worth knowing: its caps go highest of any tiered app here — up to $100,000 of order value on Scale — but Scale is $249 a month. The tier ladder is the whole pricing question with this one.
Partialy: Partial COD Preorder
4.7 · 65 reviews“Collect partial payments at checkout; enable deposits, COD fee or afterpay & advance COD options.” — by NxtSphere Tech. COD is the specialty: its listing names advanced COD rules segmented by order amount, location, customer, product or discount, plus extra discounts for prepaid orders. The $49 Enterprise tier is unlimited on both orders and revenue and removes the Partialy branding from the widget.
Worth knowing: the free tier is real but tiny — 25 orders a month up to $100 of revenue — and, unlike most rivals here, its listed tiers show no free trial.
K1 PreOrder Now & Deposit
5.0 · 34 reviews“The Operating System to manage your pre-orders and accept deposit payments.” — by K1 Apps. Pre-order operations is the pitch: Smart Cart Inventory Allocation (excluded from the Starter plan), continue-selling-when-out-of-stock automation for backorder and presale products, mixed carts, and split and deferred payments. Free for up to 10 pre-orders as a lifetime limit, then $9.99 to $49.99 capped by monthly pre-order revenue, with a 7-day trial and a 60-day money-back guarantee on the listing.
Worth knowing: 34 reviews is the smallest count of the six competitors here, at a 5.0 rating. If pre-orders are the actual job, taking a deposit on a Shopify pre-order covers the mechanics that apply whichever app you pick.
DepositDesk — this is my app
0 reviews“Let customers reserve with a partial deposit — DepositDesk collects the balance automatically.” — by Skeg Software, which is me. $29 a month flat with a 14-day free trial, unlimited deposit orders, no order-value caps, no per-transaction fees. Percentage or fixed deposits, with the balance due a set number of days after checkout, on a date, or when you fulfill the order. Shopify saves the customer’s card at checkout and charges it when the balance comes due — DepositDesk never sees, stores, or touches a card number — and a declined balance is retried after 1, 3 and 7 days, with an email to the customer each time and a flag for you when the ladder runs out.
Its real limits, in the same register as everything above: Online Store channel only — not POS, not B2B, not draft orders. It needs an Online Store 2.0 theme, because the deposit option is a theme app block you add in the theme editor. It needs one of the four gateways Shopify requires for saved-card charges — Shopify Payments, PayPal Express, Stripe, or Adyen. And it is one deposit plus one later balance, not an instalment plan.
Worth knowing: the listing shows 0 reviews because there are 0 reviews. I could have left my own app off this page; putting it in the table with its zero seemed more useful than pretending the number away.
What to choose, by store profile
A judgement call, not a benchmark. Nothing below is a measured result — it is the reasoning I would use, laid out so you can disagree with it, and where the honest answer is a competitor, it names the competitor.
- High-ticket made-to-order: furniture, bridal, cabinetry, jewelryThe cap arithmetic decides this one. Downpay’s Scale tier covers up to $100,000 of order value at $249 a month; DepositDesk covers any order value at $29 but is unproven in public — 0 reviews against Downpay’s 83 at 5.0. Those are the two facts; I sell one of the apps, so weigh them yourself.
- Pre-order drops and restocksDibs and K1 are pre-order apps in their own positioning lines, and Dibs is free with 113 reviews, all five-star. Start there before paying anyone — including me.
- Draft orders, POS, or cash on deliveryDepo is the only listing on this page that names all three. DepositDesk does none of them, so this is a profile where my app is the wrong answer by its own limits.
- One order, several payers or several cardsSPD is the only listing here naming two cards or a card plus PayPal on a single transaction, and payments shared by email invitation.
- COD-heavy marketsPartialy — the deepest COD rule set on any listing here, down to segmenting by order amount, location, customer, product or discount.
- Tiny or experimental volumeUse a free tier before a subscription: Dibs (free outright), Partialy (25 orders a month, $100 of revenue), K1 (10 pre-orders, lifetime). SPD’s free plan is development stores only, so it doesn’t belong on this list for a live store.
If the flat-rate model is where you land, the trial is the honest test of an app with no reviews: every feature free for 14 days, billed only if you keep it — install DepositDesk from the App Store and put a real order through it. And if it is not where you land, every listing above is linked. Pick the one whose caps your orders actually fit.
Related: taking a deposit on a Shopify custom order covers the four methods, including the free one that needs no app at all. Shopify deposits without Shopify Plus separates what needs Plus from what doesn’t. And what happens when the second payment declines is the question to put to any of these apps before you install — it is where deposit setups actually fail.
Questions merchants actually ask
What is the best deposit app for Shopify?
There is no single best one, and a vendor page telling you otherwise is selling you something. Of the seven apps compared here, the most-reviewed as of August 2026 is SPD Split Payment & Deposit, at 4.8 from 134 reviews. The right one depends on your store: pre-order drops point at Dibs or K1, draft orders and POS point at Depo, several payers on one order points at SPD, and high-ticket orders with no volume cap point at Downpay's top tier or at DepositDesk — which is ours, and has zero reviews so far.
Which Shopify deposit apps are free?
As listed in August 2026: Dibs lists only a Free plan, with no paid tier at all. Partialy has a free tier covering 25 orders a month up to $100 of revenue. K1 is free for up to 10 pre-orders, as a lifetime limit. SPD lists a free plan, but it is for development stores only. DepositDesk has no free tier — a 14-day free trial, then $29 a month.
Do Shopify deposit apps charge per-transaction fees?
One of the seven compared here does. Depo lists a processing fee on top of its subscription: 1% + $0.20 on its $9 Starter plan, 0.75% + $0.15 on Lite, 0.5% + $0.10 on Pro. The others price by subscription, most with caps on order value or monthly volume. DepositDesk charges no per-transaction fee. Your payment gateway's ordinary card-processing fees are a separate matter and apply whichever app you pick.
Do I need Shopify Plus to use a deposit app?
Not for DepositDesk — Shopify's built-in deposit feature is only available on Plus, and DepositDesk brings deposits to any standard Shopify plan. What every deposit-at-checkout app does need is a payment gateway that can store a card for a later charge: Shopify's requirement, and it names Shopify Payments, PayPal Express, Stripe and Adyen. For the other apps on this page, check the requirements on their own listings.
Why does DepositDesk have zero reviews?
Because it is new. Its App Store listing shows 0 reviews as of August 2026, and this page reports that number the same way it reports everyone else's. The honest way to judge an app with no reviews is the trial: every feature free for 14 days, and you are only billed if you keep it.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
Every rating, review count, price, cap and quoted line was read directly from the app's own public Shopify App Store listing in August 2026, and each listing is linked from the comparison table. Nothing was estimated and no app was installed and benchmarked for this page. Listings change — if a number here has gone stale, email support@depositdesk.app and it will be corrected.
Sources for this page: the seven Shopify App Store listings linked in the table, read directly in August 2026 — every rating, review count, price, cap and quoted line comes from those listings and nowhere else. No app was installed and benchmarked for this page, and no figure is estimated. Listings change; if a number here has gone stale, or you find something wrong, I would rather hear it: support@depositdesk.app.