# Plans and limits

> What each plan includes, what counts toward its limits, and what happens when you change plans.

Reference · 2 min read · Updated November 4, 2026

Metascheduler has three plans. Shopify bills them, and they appear on your Shopify bill. Prices are in US dollars, per store, per month.

|   | Free | Extra | Unlimited |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $0 | $5 | $9 |
| Free trial |   | 7 days | 7 days |
| Active schedules at once | 1 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Items per change | 10 | 250 | Unlimited |
| Content, catalog and online store changes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Variant prices |   | ✓ | ✓ |
| Store policies |   | ✓ | ✓ |
| Follow a rollout | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Repeating schedules |   | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flow triggers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flow actions |   | ✓ | ✓ |

> **Try it:** [Which plan do I need?](https://metascheduler.app/help/plans-and-limits)

## What counts

- **Active schedules** are the ones **Scheduled** or **Live**. Drafts, paused, ended and archived schedules don't count, so you can plan as many as you like.
- **Items per change** are the products, variants, entries or other items one change lists.

When you reach a limit, the editor tells you, with **See plans**.

## Change your plan

Open **Settings > Plan** and select **Change plan**. Shopify shows the plans and handles the trial and the charge. Metascheduler picks up the new plan when you next open **Settings**, and within the hour either way.

- **Upgrading** starts as soon as you approve it in Shopify.
- **Downgrading** from a paid plan to Free takes effect at the end of the billing cycle.

## When your plan covers less

If your plan no longer covers a schedule (it repeats, it uses prices or policies, it lists too many items, or you have more active schedules than the plan allows), Metascheduler pauses it, newest first, and tells you in **Needs you**:

- Nothing is deleted.
- Anything live still reverts at its end time.
- Resume a paused schedule when your plan covers it again.

## Related articles

- [Change types](https://metascheduler.app/help/change-types.md): Every kind of change Metascheduler can schedule, what it does, how it reverts, and which plan has it.
- [Repeat a schedule](https://metascheduler.app/help/recurring-schedules.md): Run the same change every day, week or month, like weekend-only products or a weekly promotion.
- [Automate with Shopify Flow](https://metascheduler.app/help/automate-with-flow.md): Run a workflow when a schedule starts, ends, fails or finds an edit, and start, end or create schedules from Flow.