Should your store buy one app slot or several?

Your stuck point is simple to name: you cannot tell whether paying for app slots will actually move supplier and wholesale conversations forward, or whether the money goes into contacts that bounce before anyone replies. That question sits behind every tier on the page, and it does not resolve by reading feature lists alone.

Look at what you already do by hand. You chase buyers at brands and distributors, you keep track of who was contacted and when, and you hold the record of each deal your store runs. A build from a written brief can carry that work instead of leaving it in spreadsheets and inbox threads you keep re-reading.

The decision is therefore about scope, not about saving a few pounds a month against some subscription you would otherwise rent. You are buying a fixed number of finished builds, counted in apps. That makes the first purchase a test of your own brief writing as much as a test of the platform.

Moving up a tier does one thing: it gives you more lifetime slots. The single app tier holds one build, the three app tier holds three, and the ten app tier holds ten. Nothing in the published tiers promises extra features per slot, so read the jump as more room for separate jobs rather than a richer version of the same job.

That matters when your store runs several distinct tasks. One slot might hold the buyer outreach tool that tracks supplier and wholesale conversations. Another could hold a record of every deal your store sells, kept apart from the outreach log so the two do not tangle.

Buying three or ten slots before you have shipped one build is the usual mistake. Prove the first brief, learn what your descriptions need to include, then decide whether the work in front of you genuinely needs more slots or whether one build can absorb the next job with a little thought.

The objection about paying for contacts that bounce deserves a straight answer. Nothing in the brief promises deliverability, and no tier guarantees a reply from a brand or distributor. What a build can do is hold your outreach records properly and keep the history of each conversation in one place, so you stop losing threads and stop double-contacting the same buyer.

A second worry is whether the build will cover the parts that usually need a developer. Data handling, logins and payments are part of what a build covers, so the tool you describe does not arrive as a shell waiting for someone else to finish it. Describe the brief in the terms your own work uses, and the build follows that description.

The third worry is time. Some builds are detailed enough to need review before they go anywhere, and that step adds a wait. Plan around it rather than against it. Write a tight brief for the first slot and let the review step do its job before you commit to a larger tier.

Set the one app lifetime tier against the three app lifetime tier and the difference is count alone. One slot covers one build. Three slots cover three separate builds, each needing its own brief and its own place in your store's work. Neither tier is a subscription, so there is no renewal to plan for and no monthly line in your accounts.

For a store still testing whether an outreach tool helps at all, the single slot keeps the commitment small. You write one brief, you see what comes back, and you decide whether the way you described the work was clear enough to repeat. That lesson is worth more than a larger tier bought on hope.

The three app tier earns its place once you know the pattern. A store running outreach, supplier records and a deal log has three real jobs, and three slots cover them without sharing. The ten app tier sits beyond most single stores until the app list itself grows past what one owner can brief and maintain.