The 10 Best Pay Later Apps for Shopify
The top 10 apps merchants see when they search the Shopify App Store for pay later, in the exact order the store ranks them. Only Shopify's organic ranking is shown, never sponsored ads.
Updated September 8, 2026 · Organic rankingCash on delivery is already a payment method on Shopify, one of the manual ones sitting alongside bank transfer and money orders. Manual means exactly what it sounds like: the order arrives marked unpaid and stays that way until somebody marks it paid, because there is no gateway involved to confirm anything on its own.
Nearly every app here is selling the one thing the platform has nowhere: a fee. A manual payment method has fields for instructions and for extra details, and no field for an amount, while the function that customises payment at checkout can rename, reorder, hide and set terms but has no verb for charging. Conditional hiding, on the other hand, is properly supported, if only through code, and Shopify's own worked example of it is hiding cash on delivery above a certain cart value. So this category splits neatly: the fee has to be constructed out of something else, while the rules have an official path.
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COD King‑Part COD & OTP Verify
COD verification via OTP & Partial COD & partial payments
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Partialy: Partial COD Payment
Collect Partial payment, Dropshipping Fee, Deposit at checkout
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EasySell COD Form & Upsells
Cash on Delivery Form for Dropshipping with Upsells Offers OTP
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PayPal Pay Later Messaging
Help convert more customers by adding Pay Later messaging.
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Payflow: COD & Checkout Rules
COD fees, payment and delivery rules with checkout validations
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RUBIX Cash on Delivery:COD Fee
Charge a COD fee and apply limits to Cash on Delivery orders.
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ACOD: Cash On Delivery COD Fee
Add a COD fee, limit Cash on Delivery & hide COD at checkout
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Neo COD Form & Upsell
COD Cash on Delivery for dropshipping, fraud control & upsells
Built for ShopifyCompare the top 3 head-to-head
What to look for in a Pay Later app
- What the fee actually becomes
- Since no fee field exists, the app has to express your surcharge as something Shopify does understand. Ask which, because that single answer decides how it prints on the order, whether it attracts tax, what a partial refund does to it, and whether your accounting treats it as revenue or as a recovery of cost.
- Rules share a budget with everything else
- Payment customisations are capped per store and every app that hides or reorders a payment method spends from the same allowance. If you already restrict methods for B2B customers or by country, find out how many the COD app expects before you find out the hard way.
- Order confirmation is entirely the app's invention
- Verifying a COD order by SMS code or a call is not a platform capability, so whatever the app does there is its own machinery. The question that matters is what happens to an order nobody confirms: does it cancel, sit unpaid forever, or quietly ship anyway.
Frequently asked questions
Which is the best Pay Later app for Shopify?
Based on the Shopify App Store's own organic ranking for "pay later", Releasit COD Fee currently holds the #1 spot, with a 4.8 star rating across 596 reviews. The best choice for your store still depends on your requirements, so compare the top results above.
How is this ranking determined?
We record the organic results merchants actually see when searching the Shopify App Store for "pay later", refreshed daily. Shopify's own sponsored ("Ad") results are excluded, so positions reflect its real search ranking rather than paid promotion. Source: the Shopify App Store search results for "pay later", you can verify the current ranking there yourself.
Which Pay Later apps are Built for Shopify?
6 of the top 10 pay later apps hold the Built for Shopify badge: Releasit COD Fee, COD King‑Part COD & OTP Verify, Partialy: Partial COD Payment, Payflow: COD & Checkout Rules, Cartsaver COD & OTP and more.
What does the Built for Shopify badge mean?
Built for Shopify
Built for Shopify is the highest level of recognition Shopify awards an app. To earn
the badge, an app must meet Shopify's standards for safety, performance, ease of use,
and proven usefulness: it cannot slow down the admin, storefront, or checkout, must
integrate seamlessly into the Shopify admin, and must demonstrate quality through
installs, reviews, and ratings over time. When comparing similar apps, preferring
ones with the badge is a safe default.
Learn more about the Built for Shopify badge →
As of September 8, 2026, the top-ranked pay later app on the Shopify App Store is Releasit COD Fee, with a 4.8 star rating across 596 reviews. 6 of the top 10 carry the Built for Shopify badge, and the average rating is 4.7 stars across 2,954 reviews.
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Rankbase is made by Craftshift, a Shopify Partner building apps for product images, variants, and bulk catalog work. We built Rankbase to track the App Store rankings of our own apps first, then opened it to other developers, and this directory grew out of that work. The rankings on these pages are Shopify's own organic search results; we never edit them, including for our own apps.
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