Prime MOQ vs Melon Minimum Order Quantity
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
Melon Minimum Order QuantityMelon- Price
- Free plan, then $4.99 to $15.99
- Active rules on free
- 1
- Limit types on free
- Quantity, Value, Weight
- Built for Shopify
- No
- Rating
- 5.0 from 336 reviews
Live from the Discount Prime App Store tracker. Free plan detail below verified against the Melon Minimum Order Quantity listing on July 27, 2026.
Synced July 27, 2026The free plan
What you get on day one
Every row here is taken from what Melon Minimum Order Quantity publishes on its own App Store listing. Nothing is inferred.
| On the free plan | Prime MOQ | Melon Minimum Order Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Active rules | Unlimited | 1 |
| Limit types | Quantity, value and weight | Quantity, value and weight |
| Scheduled rules | Included, on any rule | Included |
| Custom design and messages | Included | Included |
| Impression or view cap | None | None published |
| Sell in pack or multiples | Free | Essential, $4.99 a month |
| Repurchase Limit | Free | Essential, $4.99 a month |
Source and scope
Verified on July 27, 2026 against the Melon Minimum Order Quantity App Store listing. Rows describe what the listing publishes. We do not claim anything about behaviour we have not seen ourselves.
Not yet verified, so deliberately absent from the table above:
- Whether free rules are limited to product level only
- Whether checkout blocking ships switched off
- Whether free test rules expire after a fixed period
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 | Melon Minimum Order Quantity | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limit rules | |||
| Min quantity | Yes | Yes | 84% |
| Max quantity | Yes | Yes | 90% |
| Cart-based | Yes | Yes | 84% |
| Product-specific | Yes | Yes | 71% |
| Variant-specific | Yes | Yes | 57% |
| Collection-specific | Yes | Yes | 53% |
| Price-based | Yes | Yes | 63% |
| Weight-based | Yes | Yes | 45% |
| Customer tags | Yes | Yes | 57% |
| Time-based | Yes | Yes | 39% |
| Geolocation | Yes | Yes | 31% |
| Shipping methods | No | Not recorded | 22% |
| Payment methods | No | Not recorded | 12% |
| Discount-based | No | Not recorded | 20% |
| Purchase frequency | Yes | Yes | 18% |
| Messages and alerts | |||
| Checkout alerts | Yes | Yes | 76% |
| Cart alerts | Yes | Yes | 49% |
| Product page alerts | Yes | Yes | 47% |
| Custom messages | Yes | Yes | 67% |
| Custom branding | Yes | Yes | 24% |
| Multi-language | Yes | Yes | 27% |
| Translation | Yes | Yes | 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 Melon Minimum Order Quantity column covers the whole app, so it includes capabilities that sit behind a paid plan.
Fair view
Where Melon Minimum Order Quantity is ahead
Track record
336 reviews at 5.0 stars. 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 Melon Minimum Order Quantity 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.