Prime MOQ vs CartGate: Checkout Rules
Both apps set minimum and maximum order rules on a Shopify store. The comparison that matters is what each free plan actually includes, because that is what you get on day one.
- Price
- Free, all features
- Active rules on free
- Unlimited
- Limit types on free
- Quantity, value and weight
- Checkout enforcement
- On by default
- Tracked capabilities free
- 19 of 23
- Status
- In build, not yet listed
CartGate: Checkout RulesSpook Software- Price
- Free plan, then $9.00 to $9.00
- Active rules on free
- Not published
- Limit types on free
- Quantity
- Built for Shopify
- No
- Rating
- Not recorded
Live from the Discount Prime App Store tracker. Free plan detail below verified against the CartGate: Checkout Rules listing on July 27, 2026.
Synced July 27, 2026The free plan
What you get on day one
Every row here is taken from what CartGate: Checkout Rules publishes on its own App Store listing. Nothing is inferred.
| On the free plan | Prime MOQ | CartGate: Checkout Rules |
|---|---|---|
| Active rules | Unlimited | Not published |
| Limit types | Quantity, value and weight | Quantity |
| Scheduled rules | Included, on any rule | Not published |
| Custom design and messages | Included | Not published |
| Impression or view cap | None | None |
| Block incompatible products together | Free | Pro, $9.00 a month |
| Require a compatible base product | Free | Pro, $9.00 a month |
| Match accessory-to-base quantities | Free | Pro, $9.00 a month |
| Set a minimum cart total | Free | Pro, $9.00 a month |
| Warn on the page or block at checkout | Free | Pro, $9.00 a month |
| Require purchase history | Free | Pro, $9.00 a month |
What CartGate: Checkout Rules publishes for its Free plan
Quoted exactly, so you can check the table above against the source rather than taking our reading of it on trust.
- Block products from being sold
- Force a product to be bought alone
- Require add-ons to have a main item
- Set a maximum quantity per order
Source and scope
Verified on July 27, 2026 against the CartGate: Checkout Rules App Store listing. Rows describe what the listing publishes. We do not claim anything about behaviour we have not seen ourselves.
Capabilities
The full comparison
All 23 capabilities the tracker records. The last column shows how common each one is across the 51 apps with recorded data, so you can see which rows are actually rare.
| Capability | Prime MOQ free | CartGate: Checkout Rules | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limit rules | |||
| Min quantity | Yes | Not recorded | 84% |
| Max quantity | Yes | Not recorded | 90% |
| Cart-based | Yes | Yes | 84% |
| Product-specific | Yes | Yes | 71% |
| Variant-specific | Yes | Yes | 57% |
| Collection-specific | Yes | Yes | 53% |
| Price-based | Yes | Not recorded | 63% |
| Weight-based | Yes | Not recorded | 45% |
| Customer tags | Yes | Not recorded | 57% |
| Time-based | Yes | Not recorded | 39% |
| Geolocation | Yes | Not recorded | 31% |
| Shipping methods | No | Not recorded | 22% |
| Payment methods | No | Not recorded | 12% |
| Discount-based | No | Not recorded | 20% |
| Purchase frequency | Yes | Not recorded | 18% |
| Messages and alerts | |||
| Checkout alerts | Yes | Not recorded | 76% |
| Cart alerts | Yes | Not recorded | 49% |
| Product page alerts | Yes | Yes | 47% |
| Custom messages | Yes | Yes | 67% |
| Custom branding | Yes | Yes | 24% |
| Multi-language | Yes | Not recorded | 27% |
| Translation | Yes | Not recorded | 25% |
| Pop-ups | No | Yes | 25% |
Not recorded means the capability does not appear in the app's listing as of the last crawl. It is not a claim that the app cannot do it. The CartGate: Checkout Rules column covers the whole app, so it includes capabilities that sit behind a paid plan.
Fair view
Where CartGate: Checkout Rules is ahead
Track record
An established listing with reviews. Prime MOQ is new and has to earn that.
Available today
You can install it this afternoon. Prime MOQ is in build, so the honest comparison is between something shipping and something coming.
Why we publish this. A comparison page that only lists our own wins is no use to a merchant deciding today. Every claim here is dated and linked to its source, and we correct it when CartGate: Checkout Rules ships something new. If you find a row that is out of date, tell us.
Everything on this page, free
No rule count, no impression cap. The app is in build, so this adds you to the early access list.