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Base44 Pricing 2026: Which Plan a Service Business Needs
Base44 pricing: Free, Starter $16 and Builder $40 a month yearly. What each plan unlocks, what a credit really costs, and which plan a booking app needs.
Base44 Custom Domain: Which Plan, Cost and Setup
A Base44 custom domain needs Starter: $16 a month yearly with a free first-year domain, or $20 monthly without. DNS records, traps, and lead emails.
Make.com Core vs Pro: $16 Buys 20,000 or 10,000 Credits
Up to 40,000 credits, Make.com Pro costs what Core costs at double the credits. What Pro adds, who needs it, and how the yearly credit pool works.
Make.com AI Agents Pricing: Credits Per Agent Run
Make.com AI Agents run on every plan, Free included: 1 credit per run plus about 0.16 credits of tokens on Medium. Booking math for Free and Core.
Make.com Free Plan: What Happens at 1,000 Credits
We ran Make Free to zero: a 15-minute trigger used 998 of 1,000 credits in 10 days, and Make still said Active. What stays free, and when Core pays.
How to Make Your Shopify Store Live: The Password Page
Where the Shopify password lives, the launch checklist, what Sidekick found on our real store, and the payment gap that kept us from going public.
How to Connect a Domain to Shopify (Buy vs Bring Your Own)
We connected a real domain to our Shopify store: one CNAME, a Cloudflare proxy warning, SSL in 3.5 minutes, and what Shopify domains cost to renew.
Shopify Sidekick Tested: 5 Real Jobs on the Basic Plan
We gave Shopify Sidekick five real jobs on a Basic-plan store. It audited, wrote SEO and built an app, and set a discount to end an hour early.
Can You Sell Services on Shopify? Yes, With One Toggle
Selling services on Shopify takes one toggle, tested on our own store: what it changes, the inventory trick for slots, and when a booking tool wins.
How to Add a Product on Shopify (and What Its AI Writes)
Adding a product on Shopify on a real store: what Shopify Magic actually writes, what Shopify fills in by itself, and the fields that decide if anyone finds it.
Shopify Payments: What It Asks For and What It Costs
What Shopify Payments requires, which countries it covers, and what a third-party provider really costs you per plan. Quoted from Shopify, dated September 2026.
How to Open a Shopify Store in 2026, Step by Step
How to open a Shopify store in 2026, step by step on a real store: the $1/month offer, what it costs after three months, and every setup screen.
What Shopify Requires Before ChatGPT Can Sell Your Products
We opened a new Shopify store and worked through every Shopify Catalog requirement to see what it really takes before ChatGPT can recommend your products.
GoHighLevel SaaS Mode: When the $497 Plan Pays Off
GoHighLevel SaaS Mode is Agency Pro only, $200 a month above Unlimited. Three $97 subscribers cover it; email markup alone would need 296,000 emails.
Is Shopify Worth It in 2026? Real Costs, Plan by Plan
Shopify Basic is $1 a month for 3 months, then $39 or $29 paid yearly. We opened a real store, priced every plan and found when Grow pays for itself.
Systeme.io Pricing: Which Plan You Actually Need
Systeme.io costs $0, $17, $47 or $97 a month. On our own free account the upgrade trigger was not contacts: it was one tag, one campaign, one rule.
Make.com Pricing: When Free Runs Out and What Core Costs
Make Core is $10.59 a month for 10,000 credits. We measured 4 credits per booking: 2,500 bookings a month at 0.42 cents each, vs 250 on Free.
GoHighLevel for Coaches and Consultants: Which Plan Fits
GoHighLevel costs $97-$497 a month with no free plan. The per-client math for consultants with 3+ clients, what each plan unlocks, and when to skip it.
Build a Booking App Without Code: Our $0 Base44 Build
We built a real booking app on Base44 Free and logged every credit, then tested free Make and Systeme.io for the jobs the app could not do.
How to Sell on ChatGPT with Shopify in 2026 (What Changed)
Shopify lists your products in ChatGPT by default. How it works after Instant Checkout, who qualifies, fees, and 7 settings to check.
Shopify AI in 2026: What Changed and What It Means for You
Sidekick, free AI tools and selling inside ChatGPT, Copilot and Google: what Shopify's 2026 AI shift means for small shops, with sources.
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