Why buy this theme: honesty, evidence and app cost
Three arguments, each one you can check rather than take on trust. They are the reasons this theme is worth paying for, and the reasons to disbelieve anyone — including us — who states a number without a method.
Updates that do not cost you your customisations
Every theme sold outside the Shopify Theme Store updates by reinstall, and the reinstall takes the settings, templates and edits with it — which is the complaint at the top of all three big rivals' one-star reviews. This one comes back as an unpublished theme with your work still in it, checked byte for byte against Shopify's API on a real store.
Why this theme has no fake countdown
Fabricated reviews, invented stock counts and countdowns to nothing are prohibited conduct under the UK DMCC 2024 and the EU Omnibus directive. Every block here renders empty rather than inventing the number — which is the correct state, and the one most themes fill in for you.
The numbers, and how they were measured
What a page actually downloads, how it was measured, and on what. A performance claim with no method behind it is a marketing sentence, so the method is on the page beside the figure.
What your apps cost, and which ones a theme replaces
Quick view, bundles, quantity tiers and a cart drawer are usually four subscriptions. Put your own numbers in the calculator — it publishes none of ours and none of anyone else's.
Does Shrine include updates?
For one year, then as a separate purchase — in Shrine's own words, dated. And the half of the question their pages do not answer: what taking an update does to the store you have already built.
Shopify theme refund policies, compared
Theme Store purchases are final sale, Shrine refunds nothing, Booster gives seven days and Debutify's plans are non-refundable. Hullara gives thirty. Each policy quoted from its own page.