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Editor's Note
In Issue 29, we covered Mantle’s shutdown and what it means for Shopify app founders.
Today’s issue is the practical follow-up.
The big question founders are asking now is simple:
What should we use instead of Mantle?
The honest answer is that there is no perfect, full Mantle replacement today.
Mantle was valuable because it combined billing, analytics, affiliates, usage data, customer history, flows, email, support, App Store intelligence, and business visibility into one place.
Most founders will now need a small stack instead of one platform.
So I spent time looking at the current options and put together a category-by-category migration playbook.
Let’s get into it.
The Mantle Migration Playbook
Category-by-category, tool-by-tool replacement guide for Shopify app founders
Hello Founders,
Today’s issue is the Mantle Migration Playbook.
Inside the full playbook, we cover replacement options across:
App Store Analytics and SASI
App Store keyword tracking
Revenue and business metrics
Affiliate management
Customer support
Billing and subscription management
Broader Mantle-style replacement attempts
What still does not have a clean replacement
A few key takeaways:
Ranksy is where I would start for App Store intelligence, keyword tracking, competitor visibility, and business metrics. They have been around for a while, and the platform is stable.
AppstorePulse is also a strong product and worth trying if you want broader App Store intelligence, listing analytics, competitor monitoring, and revenue metrics.
For affiliate management, we cover PartnerDock, Shoffi, and Affilitrak with the trade-offs of each.
For support, Convot looks founder-friendly for early-stage app teams, while SuperRelay is worth evaluating for larger teams that want deeper Shopify-native support workflows.
For billing, Shopify App Pricing is the default direction, but complex Flex Billing setups need careful mapping before migration.
We also call out what is still not cleanly covered today:
Flows and automations
Email marketing tied to product usage
Usage events with Shopify app-specific context
Read the full playbook here: The Mantle Migration Playbook
A quick note on PartnerDock
Affiliate management came up again and again during the Mantle migration conversations.
So we built PartnerDock.
It is an affiliate program platform for Shopify app founders, with free Mantle migration, support for existing ?mref= links, and a forever free plan.
PartnerDock is our product, so I have disclosed that clearly inside the issue.
If you want a personal migration or platform overview call, book here:
You can also check PartnerDock here: https://getpartnerdock.com
If you are migrating off Mantle
Reply and tell me:
Which Mantle products are you using?
Which tools are you testing?
What has worked so far?
What has been difficult?
Which workflow still feels hard to replace?
I will keep updating the migration playbook as I learn more.
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