Rise.ai alternatives: a store-credit wallet from $19.99, with no free plan and no tiers
Rise.ai is a store-credit and gift-card wallet with 766 reviews at 4.8: cashback balances, bulk gift cards, referrals, a claim page. Merchants look for an alternative when they want a points program with VIP tiers around that credit, when the per-order meter outgrows the sticker price, or when they want the credit to live in the phone's wallet and at the register. Here is what the alternatives cost, from the App Store listings, and where Toki fits.
Prices and plan details checked November 2026 · Toki is our app
Rise.ai is a store-credit wallet. Its listing says so in the title, and its plan cards list what that means: an advanced gift card program, manually issued store credit, referrals, a claim page, a balance page, an apply-credit button and bulk gift card creation, with 766 reviews at 4.8. It does that one thing well, and only that one thing: the loyalty program most brands want around the credit is what the cards don't list.
This page is for the merchants who search for a Rise.ai alternative, usually because they want a loyalty program around the credit: points, VIP tiers, a wallet pass, the register. It covers what Rise.ai's plans cost and include, Toki next to it line by line, four other alternatives, and what each app would charge at 300, 500, 1,000 and 3,000 orders a month. Every figure is from the apps' Shopify App Store listings, checked in November 2026. Toki is our app; read its column accordingly.
Rise.ai pricing in 2026
Rise.ai has three paid plans and no free plan. Each includes a number of monthly store orders and meters every order above it: $0.20 on Starter, $0.15 on Small-Business, $0.10 on Pro.
| Plan | Price | Orders | VIP tiers | What the plan card lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $20/month | 100 monthly store orders included, $0.20 per order above 100 | No | Advanced Gift Card Program · Manually Issue Store Credit · Referrals |
| Small-Business | $60/month | 400 monthly total store orders included, $0.15 per order above 400 | No | All Starter plan features · Claim Page Customization · Check Balance Page |
| Pro | $200/month | 2,000 monthly total store orders included, $0.10 per order above 2,000 | No | All Small Business plan features · Apply Store Credit Button · Bulk Gift Card Creation |
Rise.ai's plans as listed in November 2026: App Store listing · pricing page. Prices in USD.
Three things on those cards shape the comparison:
- There is no free plan. A store with 100 orders a month pays $19.99; the meter starts at order 101.
- The included volumes are small for the price. Starter's 100 orders and Small-Business's 400 are the lowest inclusions of any app here, so the meter does most of the billing: a 1,000-order store on Small-Business pays $150.
- It is credit, not a program. VIP tiers, a points program, Shopify POS and wallet passes aren't on the cards. Rise.ai is what you add to a loyalty app, or what you use instead of one when gift cards are the point.
Toki vs Rise.ai
Toki's free plan covers up to 1,000 orders a month and includes points, cashback and store credit as reward types, VIP tiers, referrals, the Customer Hub, 25+ integrations and Shopify POS; Pay as you Go at $49 adds gift cards that work in every store on your program, Apple and Google Wallet passes that show the balance, paid memberships and one program across several stores.
| Toki | Rise.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Up to 1,000 orders a month, with points, VIP tiers, referrals, the Customer Hub and Shopify POS | None: Starter is $19.99/month with 100 orders included |
| First paid plan | Pay as you Go, $49/month, 1,000 orders included: adds wallet passes, paid memberships, gift cards, multi-store, communities and workflows | Starter, $19.99/month, 100 orders included, then $0.20 per order: gift cards, manual store credit, referrals |
| VIP tiers | Every plan, the free plan included | Not on the plan cards |
| Orders above the plan | $0.15 per order above the plan's volume, on every plan; no forced upgrade | $0.20 per order above 100 (Starter), $0.15 above 400 (Small-Business), $0.10 above 2,000 (Pro) |
| Shopify POS | Every plan: a Toki tile in Shopify POS to earn and redeem at the register | Not on the plan cards |
| Redeem at checkout | Checkout blocks to spend points or store credit, Pay as you Go and up; Shopify allows checkout app blocks on Shopify Plus only, for every app | Apply Store Credit button, Pro, $199.99/month |
| Apple & Google Wallet passes | Pay as you Go and up | Not on the plan cards |
| Paid memberships | Pay as you Go and up: monthly, annual or lifetime plans with trials | Not on the plan cards |
| One program, several stores | Pay as you Go and up | Not on the plan cards |
| Languages | Storefront modules in 22 languages on every plan; any language on Growth | English on the listing |
| Integrations | 25+ Shopify tools on the free plan | Klaviyo, Gorgias, Attentive, Loop Returns, Tapcart |
| App Store rating | 4.9 (98 reviews) | 4.8 (766 reviews) |
From both apps' Shopify App Store listings and pricing pages, November 2026: App Store listing · pricing page. “Not on the plan cards” means the listing's plans don't mention it, not that the app can't do it.
What Rise.ai does well, by its own listing: the gift-card product. Bulk gift card creation, a customizable claim page, a check-balance page and an apply-store-credit button are purpose-built for stores that issue a lot of gift cards and returns credit, and its integrations (Loop Returns, Gorgias, AfterShip) point the same way. 766 reviews to Toki's 98. It is a good wallet; it is not a loyalty program, and from $19.99 plus a meter it costs more than most of the programs in this comparison.
Why Toki comes out ahead for most Shopify stores: a free plan to 1,000 orders where Rise.ai has none; a loyalty program around the credit, with points, VIP tiers, referrals and POS at $0 (GardenCup's members redeem 67.3% of their rewards and spend 3.2x more over their lifetime); the balance in Apple or Google Wallet and at the register; and gift cards at $49 as part of a platform rather than the whole product. A store that starts on Rise.ai and later wants tiers buys a second app; a store that starts on Toki already has them.
Four more Rise.ai alternatives
The other apps merchants shortlist against Rise.ai, with what their listings say:
Growave
4.8 (1,285 reviews)- Free plan
- 200 orders a month; points, a wishlist and product reviews, with Growave branding
- Paid from
- Entry, $15/month, 500 orders included: referrals, POS, Shopify Flow, one integration
- VIP tiers
- Growth, $199/month
Best for: Stores that want loyalty, wishlists and reviews from one app and are fine with a per-100-orders meter on every paid plan.
Check first: VIP tiers and wallet passes start at Growth ($199), and checkout extensions at Plus ($499).
Smile.io
4.9 (4,669 reviews)- Free plan
- Up to 200 monthly orders; points, referrals and Shopify POS, no VIP tiers
- Paid from
- Essential, $15/month, up to 500 monthly orders: a loyalty page, free-product rewards and one integration
- VIP tiers
- Growth, $199/month
Best for: A simple points-and-referrals program that has to be live this afternoon, at a store doing a few hundred orders a month.
Check first: VIP tiers, the Loyalty Hub and more than two integrations all start at Growth, $199/month, whatever your volume.
Joy Loyalty
4.9 (1,789 reviews)- Free plan
- 250 monthly orders; points and rewards, referrals with fraud prevention, a loyalty widget and email notifications
- Paid from
- Essential, $29/month, 500 orders included, then $15 per 100: a loyalty page, points expiry, 30+ integrations, Shopify Flow
- VIP tiers
- Advanced, $129/month
Best for: Stores past 1,000 orders that want VIP tiers, POS, wallet passes and a membership program on one $129 plan with a cheap meter.
Check first: Everything beyond points lives on Advanced, checkout extensions and the API are Ultimate at $499, and the free plan stops at 250 orders.
Rivo
4.7 (1,440 reviews)- Free plan
- Up to 200 monthly orders; a points program, branding and automated emails
- Paid from
- Essential, $15/month, up to 500 monthly orders: loyalty page, POS, two integrations
- VIP tiers
- Scale, $49/month
Best for: Fast-moving DTC brands that want weekly product updates, a developer toolkit and VIP tiers at a low entry price.
Check first: Scale's $20 per 100 orders adds up quickly between 400 and 2,500 orders, and checkout extensions are a Plus feature.
What each app costs at your order volume
Toki, Rise.ai and the four alternatives at four volumes. The first line in each cell is the cheapest plan for a points-and-referrals program; the second, where it differs, is the cheapest plan that includes VIP tiers. Rise.ai's cells carry no second line because no plan lists tiers.
| Orders a month | 300 | 500 | 1,000 | 3,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toki | $0 Free | $0 Free | $0 Free | $299 Growth |
| Rise.ai | $60 Small-Business VIP tiers not on the plan cards | $75 Small-Business VIP tiers not on the plan cards | $150 Small-Business VIP tiers not on the plan cards | $300 Pro VIP tiers not on the plan cards |
| Growave | $15 Entry with VIP tiers: $199 (Growth) | $15 Entry with VIP tiers: $199 (Growth) | $115 Entry with VIP tiers: $199 (Growth) | $424 Growth |
| Smile.io | $15 Essential with VIP tiers: $199 (Growth) | $15 Essential with VIP tiers: $199 (Growth) | $79 Standard with VIP tiers: $199 (Growth) | $299 Growth |
| Joy Loyalty | $29 Essential with VIP tiers: $129 (Advanced) | $29 Essential with VIP tiers: $129 (Advanced) | $104 Essential with VIP tiers: $129 (Advanced) | $229 Advanced |
| Rivo | $15 Essential with VIP tiers: $49 (Scale) | $15 Essential with VIP tiers: $69 (Scale) | $169 Scale | $499 Scale |
The cheapest plan at each volume, computed from the plan cards on the Shopify App Store (November 2026): the plan's price plus its printed per-order or per-100-orders rate above the included volume, and never a plan whose ceiling is below the volume. “With VIP tiers” is the cheapest plan that includes them (an add-on doesn't count). “From” marks a rate range on the listing (Yotpo Pro: $0.08–$0.20 an order); the low end is shown. Custom quotes have no public price. Monthly billing, USD, before taxes and trials; your own volume: pricing calculator. Above 5,000 orders a month most vendors, Toki included, quote Enterprise pricing.
Rise.ai's row is the meter: $60 at 300 orders, $75 at 500, $150 at 1,000 and $300 at 3,000 on Pro, for store credit and gift cards without tiers or a points program. Toki is $0 through 1,000 orders with cashback, store credit, tiers and POS included and $299 at 3,000 on Growth, which covers 3,000 orders and every feature, gift cards included. All eleven apps side by side adds LoyaltyLion, Yotpo, BON, Appstle and Marsello.
Switching from Rise.ai to Toki
Balances move in a CSV. Export your customers and their credit from Rise.ai, paste them into Toki's template (email and balance required; names, birthdays, join date and Shopify customer ID optional) and upload it from Members → Import members. Toki converts each balance by what a unit was worth in your old program, shows progress, and can roll the import back; see Import members. Gift cards that were issued as Shopify gift cards keep working at checkout whatever app you run; chat with us about any other outstanding balances before you switch.
Then build the program: a cashback or store-credit reward in points and rewards, tiers in VIP tiers, gift cards in gift cards, the Customer Hub app embed in your theme, and Klaviyo or Gorgias reconnected. Growth includes migration support, Power white-glove migration, and Pay as you Go free onboarding sessions.
If issuing gift cards in bulk and crediting returns is the entire brief, Rise.ai's tooling for that is deeper than Toki's, and the bill is $60 to $300 a month for it. If the credit is meant to bring customers back, that is a loyalty program, and Toki runs one around the credit free to 1,000 orders, with tiers, referrals, POS and the wallet pass; the table above has your number, or run your own volume through the pricing calculator. How much cashback a loyalty program should pay covers the math before you set a rate.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Rise.ai cost?
On its Shopify App Store listing in November 2026, Rise.ai has no free plan. Starter is $19.99/month with 100 monthly store orders included and $0.20 per order above that; Small-Business is $59.99/month with 400 orders and $0.15 per order above; Pro is $199.99/month with 2,000 orders and $0.10 per order above. Annual billing saves 15 to 20 percent. The plans cover gift cards, store credit, referrals, a claim page, a balance page, an apply-credit button and bulk gift card creation.
Does Rise.ai have VIP tiers or a points program?
Not on its plan cards. Rise.ai's listing describes a store credit wallet for gift cards, cashback, loyalty and rewards; its plan cards list gift cards, manual store credit, referrals, claim and balance pages and bulk gift card creation, with no VIP tiers or points program. Toki includes points, VIP tiers and referrals on its free plan, and cashback and store credit as reward types alongside them.
Is Toki cheaper than Rise.ai?
Yes at every volume in the table. Rise.ai is $60 at 300 orders, $75 at 500, $150 at 1,000 and $300 at 3,000 (Pro plus usage), with no free plan; Toki is free up to 1,000 orders, including cashback and store credit rewards, VIP tiers, referrals and POS, and $299 at 3,000 on Growth with every feature. Gift cards on Toki are a Pay as you Go feature at $49/month.
Does Toki do store credit and gift cards like Rise.ai?
Yes. Toki's rewards can pay out as points, cashback or store credit, customers spend the balance at checkout or with their own total code, and Toki gift cards work in every store on your program; one balance in the Customer Hub, the Apple or Google Wallet pass and at Shopify POS. Rise.ai's bulk gift card creation and claim-page customization go deeper on the gift-card side alone; Toki puts the credit inside a loyalty program with tiers, referrals and the register.
Can I move my customers' balances from Rise.ai to Toki?
Yes. Export your customers and their balances from Rise.ai, copy them into Toki's CSV template (email and balance required; names, birthdays, join date and Shopify customer ID optional) and upload it from Members → Import members. Balances are converted by what a unit was worth in your old program. Migration support is included on Growth and white-glove migration on Power; on any plan you can run the import yourself.