Downpay is a Shopify app that solves the collection problem properly: the buyer pays a deposit at checkout, the card stays on file, and the balance is charged automatically or gathered in bulk later. If every order you take comes through your Shopify checkout, it does the money half better than Ordamo can from outside, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What it does not do is know anything about the order after the deposit — no production status, no cost, no margin, and nothing at all for the orders that arrive as messages.
Downpay · checked 10 September 2026
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| Downpay | Ordamo | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Collecting a split payment in a Shopify checkout | The order between the deposit and the delivery |
| Where the order can come from | Shopify only | A message, a quote, or a store export imported as orders |
| Taking the deposit | Yes — at checkout, with the card kept on file | No. You record what arrived; the link or your bank details sit on the customer's page |
| Collecting the balance | Auto-charged from the saved card, or gathered in bulk | Recorded with its due date; collecting it is yours |
| Where the piece has got to | Not part of it | A status and a readiness date on the order |
| What a production run cost per piece | Not part of it | A received batch writes what the run really cost onto its products |
| Margin per order | No | Per order, after the real cost lands |
| A page the customer can open | A portal for their split-payment orders and the card on file | One link per order: what is paid, what is owed, when it will be ready |
| What the price is tied to | Order value: $29 to $5,000, then $49, $99, $249 | Nothing |
| Trying it | 7 days | $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click |
Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.
Add a customer and their order
Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.
Send your customer their order page
One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.
Record what the batch cost
What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.
See what you actually made
Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.
Downpay answers how the money arrives; Ordamo answers what happens between the deposit and the delivery. Neither replaces the other for a Shopify seller, and the honest recommendation for that seller is to keep Downpay collecting and let the order live here — which is why this page ends with running both rather than switching.
The card is charged, the money is in, and then the piece takes eight weeks. Nothing in a payments app records what stage it is at, what the workshop charged, or what you are owed across every open commission — and the customer, who has now paid you real money, is asking for exactly that.
For most made-to-order businesses the storefront is one channel among several: the rest arrive in Instagram DMs, WhatsApp and emailed quotes. An app inside Shopify cannot see those, so they end up in a spreadsheet beside it, and the figure that matters — everything outstanding — is a sum across two systems.
The tiers are set by the order value the app handles: $29 up to $5,000, $249 at $100,000. That is a rational way to price a payments tool and it does mean the bill grows with the business rather than with the work you get out of it. Here $29 covers the business whatever the orders add up to.
From $29/mo
Essentials, billed every 30 days, with the plans priced by the order value they handle: $29 up to $5,000, Standard $49 to $10,000, Pro $99 to $25,000 and Scale $249 to $100,000, plus custom managed plans. Every tier includes a stored card per order, the customer portal and bulk balance collection. The trial is 7 days. Its listing shows 5.0 from 92 reviews.
$29/mo
One plan, per business, everything included, whatever your order value. $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click. 14-day money-back on the first month. Nothing is metered.
What is in the planWe are not the only answer, and pretending otherwise wastes your afternoon.
Materials, recipes and cost of goods for makers who hold stock, with lot traceability. From $20 a month, with its real tiers from $83 billed annually.
QoblexStock, wholesale and production for a multi-channel brand. From $99 a month, orders metered by the year.
Zoho InventoryStock, invoices and retainers in one suite, at the same $29 a month. Free to 50 orders a month.
The whole categorySix families of tool, what each one answers, and the three questions that pick between them.
Not really, and it would be dishonest to sell it as one. Downpay takes the deposit inside your checkout and charges the balance from a saved card; Ordamo does neither. What Ordamo replaces is the spreadsheet you keep beside Downpay — where the piece has got to, what it cost, what you are owed across everything open.
Its listing publishes Essentials at $29 a month up to $5,000 of order value, Standard $49 to $10,000, Pro $99 to $25,000 and Scale $249 to $100,000, with custom managed plans above that and a 7-day trial. Ordamo is $29 a month with nothing metered. Confirm the current position on the Shopify App Store before deciding on the strength of a number here.
That is the recommendation for a Shopify seller. Downpay collects at checkout, then a Shopify export brings the orders into Ordamo, where the deposit becomes a position on the order and the production cost lands against it. The only thing recorded twice is the amount already paid.
No. There is no storefront integration and no card processing: your bank details or your own payment link go on the customer's order page, and you mark the payment when it arrives. For a store-first business that is a real disadvantage, and Downpay is the better answer to that specific problem.
That is the gap Ordamo exists for. An order agreed in a DM, on WhatsApp or in an emailed quote is entered here — or read out of a chat screenshot by the assistant — and it carries the same deposit, balance, readiness date and order page as an imported one.
No, and this is the sharpest difference on the page. Downpay keeps the card and charges it; Ordamo records that a balance is due on a date, shows it to the customer and gives you a one-click message. If unattended collection is what you need, keep the app.
For collecting money on Shopify, the honest answers are the other apps in that market rather than this one. For tracking the order the deposit belongs to — status, cost, margin, a page the customer can open — that is what Ordamo is, at $29 a month.
Export orders from Shopify as CSV and import the file as it comes. There is no template to fill in: the columns are read for you and you confirm what was found before anything saves. Mark what Downpay already collected as the deposit, and the balance stays visible with its due date.
Plan names, prices, the order-value tiers, the stored card, customer portal and bulk balance collection, the 7-day trial and the 5.0 rating from 92 reviews read from the Downpay listing on apps.shopify.com on 10 September 2026. App pricing moves; confirm on the listing before deciding on the strength of a figure here.
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Built for orders that take weeks to deliver