# Shopify Billing

Retail Cloud Connect™ by Nimstrata is a SaaS tool that connects your ecommerce platforms to Google Cloud. You maintain full control and ownership over the underlying Google Cloud platform environment, including your data and retail configuration settings, but this also means that you are responsible for paying Google Cloud charges separately.

Retail Cloud Connect™ is an integration tool, also referred to as middleware, and empowers you to activate Google’s Product Discovery AI solutions without developing custom software or managing infrastructure. Nimstrata's app keeps your product catalog data synchronized, imports real-time inventory, pricing, and user events, and can serve search results, category pages, and recommendations on your online storefront.

# Shopify Merchants

If Retail Cloud Connect™, named Nimstrata Search & Discovery in the Shopify App Store, is purchased via Shopify, app charges will be included on your Shopify invoice. Recurring and usage-based charges are billed every 30 days. All charges are billed in USD. We do not charge for Shopify test or development stores.

# Retail Cloud Connect™ Pricing

The most up-to-date app pricing is available on our pricing page. You can also read more about our transparent approach to pricing on our blog.

• Our base platform fees are tiered and based on the number of Shopify catalog SKUs, but we can create a custom plan if you fall in between tiers
• Our serving fee is priced per 1,000 Search & Browse API calls and per 1,000 Recommendations API calls
• We follow Google’s pricing model and do not charge a fee for autocomplete requests
• We do not charge separate fees to ingest real-time user events to Vertex AI Search for Retail

# Google Cloud Pricing

The most up-to-date Retail Search and Recommendations AI pricing is available on the Google Cloud website. As of December 2024:

• Search & Brose serving costs are $2.50 per 1,000 API calls
• The first 20,000,000 Recommendations AI predictions are $0.27 per 1,000 API calls, then tiered at lower prices based on total volume
• Vertex AI Recommendations model training is $2.50 per node, per hour

Google Cloud charges can be paid by credit card via a self-serve, automatically paid billing account, or you can apply for monthly invoiced billing. The Cloud Billing overview page in Google Cloud’s documentation contains details on this application process.

You can also use our Vertex AI Search for Retail pricing calculator to estimate your Google Cloud bill and ROI based on traffic estimates and usage patterns.

# Pricing Estimates

Pricing estimates are based on catalog size and user traffic, ultimately depending on a store’s usage patterns. We can help you estimate your total Retail Cloud Connect™ and Google Cloud bills if desired, along with the potential ROI. If you are a heavy user of the service, we can also help you reach the right contacts at Google Cloud to discuss volume-based discounts.