---
title: "Initial release on the Shopify App Store"
description: "OrderRules is live! The first public release ships with the complete rule engine, native checkout enforcement, and a 14-day Pro trial for every new install."
contentType: "changelog"
locale: "en"
localized: true
source: "https://orderrules.com/changelog/initial-release"
slug: "initial-release"
date: "2026-04-23"
tags:
  - "New"
---
OrderRules is live on the Shopify App Store. This release ships the complete rule engine end-to-end — admin, storefront, and native Shopify checkout enforcement — with a 14-day Pro trial automatically activated on every new install.

## What ships in v1.0

### 🗓️ Schedule & calendar

- ✨ Per-day-of-week business hours (open/close time for Monday–Sunday).
- ✨ Special dates: close the store, open with different hours, or override the weekly schedule for any specific date (holidays, sales events, inventory days).
- ✨ One-click holiday preset import for US, Canada, and UK.
- ✨ Per-store timezone — all schedules evaluated in your local time.

### 📦 Order capacity limits (storewide)

- ✨ Daily, weekly, and monthly order caps. Block new orders or switch to pre-order mode once a cap is reached.
- ✨ Live dashboard counters showing today / this week / this month progress with visual capacity bars.
- ✨ Customer-facing messaging when limits are reached, with full message customization.

### 🛒 Per-product and per-variant limits

- ✨ Cap the number of orders per product (or per variant) per day, week, or month.
- ✨ Cap the total quantity sold per product (or per variant) per day, week, or month.
- ✨ Minimum order quantity floor — e.g. "must buy at least 5 of this item per order".
- ✨ Bulk-create limits across many products at once.
- ✨ CSV import and export for product limits.

### 📚 Collection limits *(Pro)*

- ✨ Set a per-order cap on how many units a customer can buy from a specific collection (e.g. max 10 from the Limited Edition collection).

### 🏷️ Tag limits *(Pro)*

- ✨ Apply order limits to any product carrying a specific tag — useful for ad-hoc grouping without creating collections.

### 👤 Per-customer limits *(Pro)*

- ✨ Cap how many orders, units, or dollars a single customer can buy per day, week, month, year, or lifetime.
- ✨ Per-product per-customer limits (e.g. one of this product per customer per month).
- ✨ Require customer login at checkout when customer limits are active.
- ✨ Customer usage tracked via Shopify Customer metafields — persistent across sessions.

### 🚫 Native Shopify checkout enforcement

- ✨ All limit rules and store hours are enforced at native Shopify checkout via a Shopify Function — orders that violate a rule cannot complete checkout.
- ✨ Works on Shop Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and standard checkout. No theme edits or developer required.
- ✨ Custom error messages shown directly at checkout.

### 🎨 Storefront experience

- ✨ Theme app embed: a status banner appears across the storefront when the store is closed or a limit is reached.
- ✨ Theme app block: per-product badge on the PDP showing availability and limits.
- ✨ Customizable banner colours, fonts, and padding to match any theme.
- ✨ Live re-evaluation in the customer's browser so the banner updates the moment the store opens or closes — no page reload needed.

### 📊 Analytics *(7-day history on Starter, 90-day on Pro)*

- ✨ KPI cards: total orders, total revenue, average order value, peak day.
- ✨ Daily orders trend line chart.
- ✨ Top products chart by quantity sold.
- ✨ Busiest days of the week pattern.
- ✨ Daily breakdown table with capacity utilization and "limit hit" status.
- ✨ Custom date range picker + CSV export.

### 📧 Email notifications *(Pro)*

- ✨ Threshold alerts when orders hit 80% / 100% of any storewide limit.
- ✨ Optional daily summary email.
- ✨ Per-shop cooldown so you never get spammed.
- ✨ Welcome email on first install.
- ✨ Activation reminder email if you haven't enabled the app after 3 days.
- ✨ Weekly digest of last week's performance every Monday.
- ✨ Monthly report with month-over-month comparison and top products on the 1st of every month.
- ✨ One-click unsubscribe on every email.

### 💳 Plans & billing

- ✨ **Starter** plan — free, forever. Up to 100 daily order cap, 3 product limits, 7-day analytics. No credit card needed.
- ✨ **Pro** plan — $9.99/month or $95.90/year (saves ~20%). Unlimited orders + product limits, weekly/monthly limits, collection/tag/customer limits, 90-day analytics, email notifications, priority support.
- ✨ **14-day Pro Trial** automatically activated on first install — try every Pro feature free.
- ✨ Native Shopify billing integration — Shopify handles all payments.

### 🛠️ Admin experience

- ✨ Step-by-step onboarding guide on first install.
- ✨ Global "app on/off" toggle so you can finish configuring before going live.
- ✨ Live chat support inside the admin (Tawk.to).
- ✨ Multi-timezone aware.
- ✨ GDPR-compliant: customer-data-request, customer-redact, and shop-redact webhooks implemented.
- ✨ Save-bar pattern across all settings pages — no accidental data loss.