Crevio vs Shopify: Built for what you can't put in a box

Shopify is the best place on the internet to sell physical products at scale. If you sell courses, downloads, memberships, or your time, Crevio is built around that, and its AI does the marketing and follow-up as well.

Last updated September 2026

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Crevio

Crevio is an AI platform that builds and runs an online business. Courses, downloads, memberships, bookings, and paid communities are built in, and AI bots write and send the marketing. Choose Crevio when what you sell is digital, or your time.

3,000+ integrations
Payments built in
Free plan

Shopify

Shopify is the leading e-commerce platform, with hosted stores, checkout, shipping, point of sale, and thousands of apps. Sidekick, its AI assistant, helps in the admin. Choose Shopify for physical products, inventory, and scale.

Crevio and Shopify, side by side

FeatureCrevio

Shopify

Built forCrevioDigital products, courses, memberships, bookings, and services.ShopifyPhysical and digital goods, with deep inventory, shipping, and retail tools.

Courses and membershipsCrevioBuilt in, including content libraries, paid communities, and bookings.ShopifyThrough third-party apps, which are usually billed separately.

AICrevioAI bots that build the store, write and send marketing, and run scheduled work, with approvals you choose for spending and sending.ShopifySidekick answers questions, edits products, and drafts content in the admin, showing you changes to review.

MarketingCrevioEmail broadcasts and sequences, plus social posts and ads, written and sent by the AI with your approval.ShopifyShopify Email, with 10,000 free emails a month, and marketing apps you run yourself.

IntegrationsCrevio3,000+ apps the AI uses directly.ShopifyThe Shopify App Store, the largest in e-commerce.

Physical goodsCrevioSupported, with stock limits, but not built for shipping-heavy stores.ShopifyBest in class, with inventory across locations, shipping labels, and point of sale.

FeesCrevio5% on the free plan, 2.5% on Pro, and 1% on Business, plus Stripe's processing.Shopify2.9% + 30¢ per online card payment on Basic, plus 0.6% to 2% extra if you use another payment provider.

PricingCrevioFree plan. Pro is $20/mo and Business $50/mo.ShopifyBasic $39/mo ($29 billed yearly), Grow $105/mo, and Advanced $399/mo.

Made for things you can't ship.

Shopify's strength is physical retail, with inventory, shipping, warehouses, and point of sale. Courses and memberships work too, through apps you add and pay for.

Crevio starts from digital. Courses, downloads, memberships, bookings, and paid communities are built in, and buyers get access as soon as payment clears.

Sell my 6-week yoga course at $199, with a private Telegram group for students.

Creviofinished the work in Crevio

Crevio

Strong Spine: 6-Week Program

Course · $199

Lessons: 18 videos across 6 weeks
Community: Private Telegram group, invite on purchase
Checkout: Live and tested
Page: yoga-with-ines.com/strong-spine

Students get the course and the group invite as soon as they pay

An assistant in the admin, or a team that does the work.

Sidekick is a genuinely useful assistant. It answers questions about your store, edits products, and drafts content, then shows you the changes to review.

Crevio's bots work beyond the admin. They write and send the email campaign, post to Instagram and TikTok, follow up with leads, and send you a report on Monday, and you choose which of those actions ask first.

Draft this week's Instagram posts from our best sellers and schedule them.

Creviofinished the work in Instagram

Instagram

yogawithines

Studio photo · Strong Spine

Week 3 of Strong Spine starts Monday. 18 minutes a day, no equipment. Link in bio to join.

Scheduled for Tue 9:00 · 4 more this week

Fewer apps to stitch together.

A Shopify store that sells a course usually runs on a course app, an email app, a reviews app, and a bookings app, each with its own bill and settings.

In Crevio they're one system with one customer record, so a refund, a support email, and a campaign all know the same customer.

Which course buyers never booked their free coaching call? Invite them.

Creviofinished the work in Crevio

Crevio

Course buyers without a coaching call

Name	Bought	Invite
Grace Liu	Aug 28	Drafted
Marco Ruiz	Sep 4	Drafted
Nadia Haddad	Sep 11	Drafted

6 invites drafted · waiting for your approval

The honest take

Where Shopify is the stronger pick

No tool wins every comparison. Shopify is a strong product, and for some people it is the better fit. Here is where we would point you to it.

Physical products at scale

Inventory across locations, shipping labels, fulfillment, and returns. For a product you ship, nothing beats it.

Checkout and every sales channel

A very well-tuned checkout, point of sale for in-person selling, and listings on marketplaces, social, and AI chat apps.

The biggest ecosystem

The largest app store in e-commerce, thousands of experts, and the track record to support a business of any size.

Pricing at a glance

Free to start. Pay as the business grows.

Crevio

Free to start

Starter$0/mo · 5% transaction fee
Pro$20/mo · 2.5% transaction fee
Business$50/mo · 1% transaction fee

Paid plans include monthly credits for AI work. Top-ups cost $0.02 per credit. Transaction fees are on top of Stripe's own processing fees.

Shopify

From $39/mo

Basic is $39/mo, or $29/mo billed yearly. Online card payments cost 2.9% + 30¢ on Basic. Apps for courses and memberships usually cost extra.

When to choose Shopify vs Crevio

Choose Crevio if

You sell courses, downloads, memberships, bookings, or services
You want the AI to write and send your marketing, not just draft it
You want one system instead of a stack of apps
You're starting out and want a free plan

Choose Shopify if

You sell physical products that need shipping and inventory
You sell in person as well as online
You need marketplaces, wholesale, or multiple locations
You're already large and want the most proven platform

The short version

Shopify is the right answer for most physical-product businesses, and it has earned that reputation. For digital products it works too, but courses, memberships, and bookings come from third-party apps, and the marketing is still yours to run.

Crevio is built the other way around. Digital products, courses, memberships, bookings, and communities are the core, and AI bots write and send the email, schedule the posts, follow up with customers, and report on what sold.

Which one should you pick?

If you ship boxes, pick Shopify. If what you sell is knowledge, access, or time, Crevio will get you selling with less setup and fewer apps, and it keeps marketing for you after launch. Plenty of businesses use both, with physical products on Shopify and everything digital on Crevio.

Questions people ask before choosing

Yes. You can sell physical products and set stock limits so you never sell more than you have. Crevio isn't built for shipping-heavy stores, though. If most of what you sell ships in a box, Shopify is the better choice.

Yes. Crevio connects to Shopify, so many businesses keep their physical products on Shopify and sell courses and digital products on Crevio, with one AI handling marketing across both.

For digital products usually, yes. Crevio has a free plan, and Pro is $20 a month with a 2.5% transaction fee, with courses and memberships included. Shopify starts at $39 a month, or $29 billed yearly, and course and membership apps are extra. At high sales volume, compare the fees on your own numbers.

Sidekick is an assistant inside the Shopify admin. It analyzes your store, edits products, and drafts content, and you review the changes. Crevio's bots also send the emails, publish the posts, and run scheduled work, and you choose which of those actions ask first.

Yes. Describe your products to Crevio, or share the files, and it creates them with prices and checkout. Point your domain at Crevio when you're ready to switch.