BOGOS Alternatives for Shopify: 5 Options Compared for BFCM 2026

The best BOGOS alternative depends on your main offer. For simple "buy 2, get 1" deals, Shopify's free built-in Buy X Get Y may be enough; for gift boxes and build-a-box bundles, Push Bundle ($14 a month, flat); for automatic "spend $75, get a gift" offers, EG Auto Add to Cart Free Gift or Kite; and for cheap quantity breaks, Bundler.

BOGOS itself is still the most reviewed free gift app on Shopify, with a 5.0 rating from 4,695 reviews. So leave only for a clear reason, and with Black Friday on 27 November, the safest time to switch is usually January, not this week.

Key takeaways

• BOGOS plans follow your Shopify plan: $29.99 on Basic, $49.99 on Shopify, $69.99 on Advanced and $109.99 on Plus. Each plan includes a set number of BOGOS orders, then charges $0.05 per extra order.

• The extra-order fee is $5 per 100 orders. For most stores that's small. Better reasons to switch are fit, the Plus price, and wanting fewer apps.

• Shopify's built-in Buy X Get Y is free, but it never adds the free item to the cart. The shopper has to add it.

• Push Bundle is not a like-for-like BOGOS swap. It adds gifts and free shipping inside bundles, not to any order over a spend amount.

• No gift app fully covers express checkouts like Shop Pay on a product page. Test that path before your sale, whatever app you use.

• Switching takes 6 steps. BOGOS's "Reset app data" step removes its cloned gift products and can't be undone, so do it last.

Five BOGOS alternatives side by side: rating, starting price, how the bill grows and whether the app adds the gift for the shopper.

Should you switch from BOGOS two weeks before Black Friday?

Probably not, unless something is broken. Black Friday 2026 falls on 27 November and Cyber Monday on 30 November. A gift offer that silently fails on those days costs more than any app bill.

The stakes are real. Shopify merchants sold $14.6 billion over the 2025 Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend, with an average cart of $114.70. A missing gift on even a small share of those orders means refunds, second shipments and angry emails in the busiest week of your year.

So use the next week to test, not to switch. Install the new app on a draft theme. Rebuild one offer. Run the six checks later in this post. If every test passes by 20 November, you can switch with confidence. If not, keep BOGOS for the sale and switch in January, when orders are quiet and you have December's results to learn from.

Test now, decide by 20 November, change nothing over the sale weekend, and switch in January.

What BOGOS costs in 2026

BOGOS charges by plan and by orders. Your plan depends on your Shopify plan, not on what you use. This is what its App Store listing showed on 13 November 2026.

Above the included orders, every paid plan charges $0.05 per extra order. Yearly billing saves 20%. Every paid plan has a 7-day free trial.

What counts as an order? The listing says "free orders by BOGOS", which reads as orders where a BOGOS offer was used, not all store orders. If your bill matters to you, ask BOGOS support to confirm how they count before December.

What a busy December looks like

Here's the math for a store on the Shopify plan, which puts it on BOGOS Grow at $49.99 with 600 orders included.

BOGOS Grow at four order counts, next to the flat monthly prices of four alternatives.

Be honest with yourself about this number. At an average cart of around $115, 4,000 orders is roughly $460,000 in sales, and the BOGOS bill is $219.99. For most stores, price per order is not a strong reason to leave. The plan rules are a stronger one, as the next section shows.

Why merchants look for a BOGOS alternative

We read BOGOS's 1-star and 2-star App Store reviews and the Shopify Community threads about free gift apps. Only 49 of its 4,695 reviews are 1 or 2 stars, about 1%. But the same few themes come up, and they help you decide whether you have a real reason to move.

1. The plan is set by your Shopify plan. Two Plus merchants said in 2025 reviews that they were pushed to the top plan because they were on Shopify Plus, even though a smaller plan would have covered their use. Today that plan is $109.99 a month.

2. You already pay for a bundle app. BOGOS does bundles too, but if your gift offers live inside gift boxes or packs, you may be paying twice for the same job.

3. Cloned gift products. BOGOS makes a hidden copy of each gift product. Its basic terms page says it "will clone a new product from your original product". This avoids discount clashes, which many merchants like. One developer's review complained about extra products in the admin.

4. Billing after uninstall. A few reviews say charges continued after removing the app. BOGOS replied that it follows up by email. Whatever app you leave, check your next Shopify bill.

5. Headless setups. One long-time user said integration with Hydrogen was hard. If you run a custom storefront, ask any app for a working example first.

None of these says BOGOS is a bad app. Most of its reviews praise fast, hands-on support. They say BOGOS may not fit your store's size, plan or setup.

BOGOS alternatives at a glance

"Not listed" means the App Store listing doesn't name the feature. "Not checked" means we didn't confirm it. Ask the developer before you rely on either.

How we compared them

We kept this short list on purpose. Each option had to do at least one of BOGOS's main jobs: a free gift with purchase, Buy X Get Y, or a bundle with a reward. Each had to be on the Shopify App Store with the Built for Shopify badge, or be part of Shopify itself.

We then read every listing on 13 November 2026 for price, plan limits and features, and we quote those listings, not our memory. For Push Bundle, we also used our own help docs and changelog. We didn't run paid trials of the other apps for this post, so where a detail needs testing, we say so.

The 5 BOGOS alternatives

1. Shopify's built-in Buy X Get Y (free)

Best for: simple offers on a few products, where shoppers don't mind adding the free item themselves.

Shopify has a Buy X Get Y discount built into every plan. You can run it as a code or as an automatic discount, and it costs nothing.

The catch is the cart. Shopify's help center says the free or discounted item is never added to the cart for the shopper. They must add it themselves. Many don't, and then they email you asking where the gift went.

Other limits from the same page:

• On POS Lite, Buy X Get Y works only in the online store checkout. POS Pro can use it at the counter.

• If the free item sells out, shoppers can't use the discount.

• Minimum spend counts products at full price, before other discounts.

• Discounts made in the admin don't apply to post-purchase offers.

Our sister app DiscountRay has a longer list in why Shopify's built-in Buy X Get Y falls short. If your offer is "buy 2 candles, get a third free" and the third candle sits right next to the first two, native may be all you need. Try it before you pay anyone, us included.

2. Push Bundle (our app)

Best for: stores whose gift offers are really bundle offers: a build-a-box with a free card, a mix and match pack with a free sample, or a volume tier that unlocks a gift.

We make Push Bundle, so read this section knowing that. It is a Shopify bundle app first. The reward, a free gift or free shipping, is attached to a bundle, not to any order over a spend amount.

What it does that matters here:

• Free gift on a volume tier. You tick Add Gift products on a tier and choose up to three gifts. Shoppers see the gift locked until they reach that tier, then it's added at no charge. Our volume bundle gift guide has the steps.

• Free gift or free shipping in a build-a-box. In Offer & price, you set the discount type to Free gift or Free shipping, for every box or only from a set size, such as 8 items. See free gift or free shipping in a BYOB.

• Shopify POS. Since 27 October 2026, bundles can be sold at the counter, with free gifts and tier discounts that match online. Set-price boxes, mix and match subscriptions and open-ended quantity offers don't price on POS yet.

• Codes still work. Bundle discounts apply automatically and combine with your other discount codes, so a WELCOME10 code still works on a bundle order.

Push Bundle's mix and match pack builder. Each pack size can apply free shipping or a free gift. Image from the Push Bundle App Store listing.

Price: the free Starter plan covers volume bundles and POS. Growth, at $14 a month, adds build-a-box, mix and match and multi-step builders. It's flat, so a big December doesn't change the bill. There's a 14-day free trial.

Rating: 5.0 from 27 reviews on the App Store page we checked. That's a small number next to BOGOS. Weigh it.

Where it's the wrong pick: a store-wide "spend $75, get a free tote" offer, or a gift picker shown to every shopper on every order. Push Bundle doesn't run a gift on its own, outside a bundle. If that's your main offer, keep BOGOS or look at EG or Kite below.

If gift boxes are your big December seller, our guides on pricing a fixed-price gift box and what to do when a bundle product sells out go deeper.

A Push Bundle build-your-own box on a storefront: shoppers pick each item step by step, and the box shows what they have chosen.

3. Kite: Discount, Free Gift, BOGO

Best for: stores that want BOGOS's core gift features, auto-add and progress bars, at a lower price for most order counts.

Kite's listing says it can auto-add and remove gifts at cart value thresholds, run Buy X Get Y and BOGO automatically, and show goal-based progress bars. It has 4.9 stars from 1,390 reviews and the Built for Shopify badge.

Price: the free plan covers the first 50 discount orders each month. Go over and it bills $29. The free plan isn't for Advanced or Plus stores. Starter is $29 with unlimited discount orders, Growth is $49 and Pro is $99. Free gifts added at checkout are Pro and Plus only.

Watch out: Kite is made by Skai Lama, which also publishes a "best BOGOS alternatives" article that ranks Kite first. That doesn't make Kite worse, but it's worth knowing when you read their comparison. Build-a-box isn't listed, so you'd still need a bundle app for gift boxes.

4. EG Auto Add to Cart Free Gift (EasyGift)

Best for: one clear gift-with-purchase offer at a flat price, with no limit on orders.

EasyGift does one job. It adds a gift to the cart when a rule is met, or opens a popup so the shopper picks one. Triggers include cart subtotal, quantity, products, collections and product tags. It has 5.0 stars from 1,156 reviews. Its review summary says merchants like that it uses native Shopify discounts.

Price: the free plan allows 1 live gift rule and auto-adds one gift, with no order or revenue cap. Standard is $14.99 for 3 rules, BOGO and Buy X Get Y, schedules and out-of-stock alerts. Unlimited is $29.99 and adds collection triggers and customer targeting. Enterprise, at $49.99, is for Plus.

Watch out: pricing grows with the number of rules, not orders. If you run many gift rules at once in December, check you're on the right plan. No bundle builder is listed.

5. Bundler: Product Bundles

Best for: quantity breaks and Buy X Get Y on a tight budget, with POS on the free plan.

Bundler has 4.9 stars from 2,794 reviews. Its free plan lists Buy X Get Y, volume discounts, quantity breaks, POS and auto-applied discounts, with unlimited revenue and orders. Premium, at $9.99, adds mix and match and free shipping. Executive, at $19.99, adds analytics.

Watch out: the listing doesn't say whether the free item is added for the shopper or shown for them to add. Test that on a draft theme. We compared it with our own app in Push Bundle vs Bundler.

Which BOGOS alternative fits your store?

Start with the offer that makes you the most money in December. Then match it.

Pick by your main offer this season, not by the longest feature list.

Some stores need two tools. A candle shop, for example, might sell a build-your-own gift set with a free matchbox inside, and also run "spend $100, get a free mini candle" across the store. One app can't do both well at every price. Push Bundle Growth for the set ($14) plus EasyGift Standard for the spend rule ($14.99) comes to $28.99 a month. On Shopify Basic, BOGOS Basic would do both for $29.99, until BOGOS orders pass 300. That's almost the same money, so the choice comes down to which tools you find easier to set up and test.

When you should stay with BOGOS

Stay if any of these is true:

• You're on Shopify Plus and use its checkout upsells or the Hydrogen API.

• You run many gift types at once: tiered gifts, multiplier gifts, gift pickers and bundles, all in one place.

• Its support has set up custom work on your theme that you'd have to rebuild.

• It's 13 November and your offers work. Don't fix what isn't broken before the busiest week of the year.

The free gift problem no app fully fixes: express checkout

Gift apps work by watching the cart. Express checkout buttons, like Shop Pay on a product page, can skip the cart. When that happens, the gift rule may never run.

A merchant in the Shopify Community said gifts went missing on express orders, and they had to turn off express payments on product pages. A BOGOS team member replied in June 2025 that "fast checkout methods bypass the cart, so the gift logic doesn't trigger."

This applies to every app on this list, ours included. Before your sale, place a real test order through each path a shopper might use.

Six checks for any free gift app. The express checkout test catches the most problems.

1. Cart. Add the qualifying items. Is the gift in the cart at $0?

2. Remove. Drop below the threshold. Does the gift leave the cart?

3. Express checkout. Buy with Shop Pay from the product page. Is the gift on the order?

4. Discount code. Add a code on top. Do both apply, or does one block the other? Shopify explains the rules in combining discounts.

5. Gift sold out. Set the gift's stock to 0. What does the shopper see?

6. POS. If you sell in person, ring up the offer at the counter.

If test 3 fails, you have three choices. Hide express buttons on product pages during the sale. Put the gift inside a bundle, where it's part of the product the shopper is buying. Or accept the gap and check express orders each morning, adding missing gifts by hand.

How to switch from BOGOS without losing offers

These steps follow BOGOS's own uninstall guide, plus our experience helping stores move between bundle apps.

List, rebuild, test, turn off, reset, uninstall. In that order.

1. List every live offer. Write down each offer's trigger, gift, dates and customer rules. Screenshots help.

2. Rebuild in the new app while BOGOS is still on. Keep the new offers inactive or on a draft theme.

3. Test. Run the six checks above, first on the draft theme, then live on one product.

4. Turn BOGOS offers off. First make sure every open order with a BOGOS gift has shipped. BOGOS says to fulfil related orders and turn off offers before uninstalling.

5. Reset app data. In BOGOS, go to Settings > General and click Disable, turn off the app embed, then use Settings > Reset app data. BOGOS says this removes "all app code and cloned gift products" and can't be reversed. That's why it comes after testing.

6. Uninstall, then check your bill. Remove BOGOS in your Shopify admin. Check your next Shopify bill shows no BOGOS charge.

For the wider checklist, including theme code and analytics, see switching Shopify bundle apps. If you're also weighing Shopify's own Bundles app, read Shopify native bundles vs a bundle app.

In Push Bundle, turn on Point of Sale under Manage publishing to sell the same bundle at the counter.

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If your December offers are gift boxes and packs, try Push Bundle free for 14 days. If they're store-wide gifts, the apps above may suit you better, and we'd rather you pick the right one.