Getting started with Daima.
From a fresh Shopify store with no subscription product to your first paying subscriber — under 10 minutes, no developer required.
This guide walks you through the four steps to launch subscriptions on your Shopify store with Daima. By the end, you'll have a live Subscribe & Save widget on your product pages, a dashboard tracking your subscriber count, and the customer self-serve portal ready when your first subscriber arrives.
Before you start. You'll need a published Shopify store with at least one product. Daima works on any Shopify plan, including Basic — but Shopify's Subscription APIs require your products to be set up to allow recurring purchases (we'll handle that for you in step 2).
1 · Install Daima from the Shopify App Store
From your Shopify admin, open the App Store and search for Daima Subscriptions, or go directly to apps.shopify.com/daima-subscriptions.
Click Add app, then Install app when Shopify prompts you for permissions. The install completes in a few seconds.
You're automatically placed on the Free plan (zero monthly fee, 2.5% commission per subscription order, capped at $50/mo). You can switch to Pro at $9.99/mo flat from the Daima Billing page at any time, with a 7-day free trial.
2 · Create your first subscription plan
From the Daima admin, open Subscriptions in the left nav. You'll see a list of any existing plan groups — empty on first install. Click the create button to add your first.
A plan group defines:
- Plan name — internal label and the heading customers see in the widget (e.g. "Subscribe & Save")
- Frequency options — one or more delivery cadences (every 1 week, every 30 days, every 3 months, etc.) — each can carry its own discount
- Discount type — Percentage or Fixed Amount, applied to every renewal
- Products — which items this plan applies to. Pick from your full catalog with the Shopify resource picker
Save the plan group. Daima writes the configuration to Shopify's Selling Plan API, which marks the chosen products as subscribable. No theme code changes, no developer involvement.
You can create as many plan groups as you need. Coffee roasters typically run a single "Subscribe & Save 15%" plan with a few frequency options. Beauty brands often run a "Replenishment" plan plus a "Discovery box" plan. There's no limit and no extra cost.
3 · Add the widget to your product page
Open Online Store → Themes → Customize in Shopify admin. Navigate to a product page in the theme editor.
Click Add block on the product information section, then choose Daima Widget from the app blocks list. Position it where you want — most merchants place it directly above the Add to Cart button.
The widget inherits your theme's typography and color tokens automatically. If you want to tune it (custom accent color, button radius, layout style, font weight, badge text), open the Daima admin and go to Widget Editor. The preview panel updates in real time as you edit.
Save your theme. The widget is now live on every eligible product page.
4 · Watch the dashboard
The Daima admin's Home route is a setup guide that walks new merchants through plan creation, widget customization, and billing. Once setup is complete, the pages you'll visit most are:
- Analytics — Subscription Revenue and New Subscribers with period-over-period comparison, plus widget metrics: Widget Views, Add to Cart Clicks, Conversion Rate, and Subscribe Preference (subscription vs one-time)
- Contracts — every active subscription contract on your store, searchable by customer or product
- Churn Prediction — a 0–100 risk score per active subscriber, recalculated daily based on behavioral signals. Use the high-risk list for outreach.
- Subscriptions — manage your plan groups (create new ones, edit existing ones, archive)
The full nav also includes A/B Testing, Loyalty Tiers, Gift Subscriptions, Affiliates, Settings, and Billing. Until your first subscriber, most metrics will read zero — that's expected. Daima fills them in as orders roll through.
Test it before you launch. Place a real test order on your own store using a discount code so you don't pay full price. Subscribe to a real plan, then go to the customer portal (linked from your test order's confirmation email) and try the self-serve actions: skip a delivery, change billing date, swap a product. This is the single best way to confirm everything works before a real customer sees it.
What to do next
Once you have subscriptions live, the obvious next steps:
- Configure loyalty tiers if you want long-term subscribers to earn stacking discounts
- Set up the affiliate program if you have creator partners or referral relationships
- Enable the checkout upsell to convert one-time buyers into subscribers at the highest-intent moment
- Run an A/B test on widget headline or default frequency once you have at least 1,000 monthly visitors per product page
Each of those has its own doc — they'll appear in the sidebar as we publish them. If you need help in the meantime, email [email protected] and we'll walk you through it directly.