Alert Commerce vs StoreInspect
Compared because they are in the same category. Values come from details confirmed on each vendor's own site. Unknown means the site does not say.
| Alert Commerce | StoreInspect | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Store databases | Store databases |
| What it is | Buying-signal alerts on Shopify stores, with the contact attached. | 1.4M Shopify stores, filtered by the apps they already run. |
| Price | 14-day trial, then $199/mo | Free tier, then $49 / $149 / $349 |
| Pricing tiers | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Free plan | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Trial | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Stores covered | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Platforms | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Install history | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Contacts included | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Export | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| CRM integrations | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Integrations | Not confirmed yet | Not confirmed yet |
| Ownership | Independent, as far as its site says | Independent, as far as its site says |
| Status | Active | Active |
| Launched | Unknown | Unknown |
The caveats
Alert Commerce. Its scale figures differ between its own pages: 1M+ stores on About and 1.5M+ on Pricing, 1M contacts on one and 800K+ on the other. It calls itself a private beta while charging $199 a month, with a card required to start the trial. It names no founder or team beyond operators who have sold Shopify apps. It gives no address or jurisdiction for Alert Commerce, Inc. Every alert gives you a named person's email for outreach they did not ask for. So the consent question is yours, not theirs.
StoreInspect. Nobody is named. There is no company, no founder and no location, and a support address is the whole contact page. That is a lot of trust to give a vendor selling you 1.4 million merchants' contact details. Treat the contact side as your own compliance question. The site says the data is public. That is not the same as saying an outreach campaign built on it is lawful where you or the merchant are. The store counts are self-reported, and the refresh cadence is described as regular without a number. So how current any single record is cannot be checked from outside.
How StoreInspect differs from Alert Commerce
Details for one of these are not confirmed yet, so no difference from Alert Commerce is stated.
How Alert Commerce differs from StoreInspect
Details for one of these are not confirmed yet, so no difference from StoreInspect is stated.
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