Best Shopify Reporting Apps for Q4 2026
Compare the 7 best Shopify reporting apps for Q4 2026, ranked on reviews, reports, security and cost.
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Data Export and Report Toaster both build custom Shopify reports that you can schedule and share. Data Export costs less on Basic, Advanced and Plus stores, includes every feature on every plan, and delivers to Google Drive, FTP and SFTP. Report Toaster adds an AI report builder, SMS and Slack delivery, PDF export and a free plan for Basic and Grow stores.
The price gap grows with your Shopify plan. An Advanced store pays $35 a month on Data Export and $60 on Report Toaster. A Plus store pays $50 against $150, which adds up to $1,200 a year at monthly rates.
Prices and plans checked November 3, 2026
The five differences that matter most when choosing between Data Export and Report Toaster.
Data Export costs $12, $25, $35 or $50 a month by Shopify plan. Report Toaster costs $18 on Basic and Grow, $60 on Advanced and $150 on Plus, with a free plan for Basic and Grow stores. Data Export is cheaper on Basic, Advanced and Plus. Report Toaster is cheaper on Grow.
Data Export includes every feature on every plan. Report Toaster's free plan covers the last 90 days of orders, and scheduling, shared links, premium reports and multi-store reporting sit on paid plans.
Data Export runs hourly, daily, weekly or monthly and delivers to email, Google Sheets, Google Drive, FTP and SFTP. Report Toaster runs daily, weekly or monthly and delivers to email, SMS or Slack.
Report Toaster offers an AI report builder and PDF export. Data Export includes an AI assistant and builds custom reports for you for free.
Data Export has been on the Shopify App Store since February 2016 with a 5.0 rating from 2,021 reviews. Report Toaster launched in April 2021 and holds 4.9 from 219 reviews.
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Data ExportSame on both apps
Data Export costs less on Basic, Advanced and Plus stores, and the gap widens as your Shopify plan grows. Report Toaster costs less on Grow, and its free plan for Basic and Grow stores covers the last 90 days of orders.
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Over a year at monthly rates, that gap is $72 on Basic in Data Export's favor, $300 on Advanced and $1,200 on Plus. On Grow, Report Toaster saves you $84 a year. Every Data Export plan includes the full toolkit, so the price does not change with the features you use.
Think about where your reports need to land. Data Export schedules reports hourly, daily, weekly or monthly, and delivers them to email, Google Sheets, Google Drive, FTP or SFTP. That fits a nightly file for an accountant, a warehouse or a vendor, and an hourly run helps when a team needs fresh numbers during a sale.
Report Toaster schedules reports daily, weekly or monthly and delivers them by email, SMS or Slack. If your team lives in Slack, that is a real advantage, because Data Export does not list Slack or SMS delivery. Report Toaster also lets you share a live report link with people who have no Shopify admin access, on paid plans.
Data Export exports CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, JSON and TXT. Report Toaster exports CSV and PDF. Need a PDF for a board pack or an email attachment? Report Toaster has it. Need Excel files, or JSON and TXT for an accounting tool or custom integration? Those come from Data Export.
Report Toaster's headline feature is its AI report builder. You describe the report you want in plain English and the app builds it. It also offers 130+ templates (70+ free and 60+ on paid plans), a spreadsheet-style interface and calculated fields such as profit margins and aging buckets.
Data Export takes a different route to the same goal. You can build a report from any field in the Shopify store API, including metafields, line item properties and note attributes, and add calculated fields for profit, margins and fees. Data Export also includes an AI assistant. Or you can skip the building. Send a request and the team builds and schedules the report for free, on every plan.
Report Toaster markets itself to large stores, including Shopify Plus merchants, and says its AI report creation handles millions of orders in seconds. Data Export makes no such claim on its site. That is a vendor claim either way, so test it. Run your largest report on both apps during their free trials (15 days for Data Export, 14 days for Report Toaster on Advanced and Plus) and compare how long each takes.
Data Export is ISO certified and deletes your store data within 48 hours of uninstall. Whichever app you pick, ask any reporting vendor the same two questions, because it will read your orders and customers: which security standards does it hold, and how fast does it delete your data after you uninstall? For Report Toaster, we could not find information about security certifications or data deletion after uninstall on its public pages.
you are on Shopify Basic, Advanced or Plus and want to keep costs down, you want hourly schedules and delivery to SFTP, Google Drive or Google Sheets, you want every feature included at one price, or you want live human support behind it.
you want an AI report builder, Slack or SMS delivery, PDF reports, or a free plan with a 90-day history limit.
Mostly. Data Export costs $12 on Basic, $35 on Advanced and $50 on Plus, against $18, $60 and $150 for Report Toaster. Report Toaster is cheaper on Grow ($18 against $25) and has a free plan for Basic and Grow stores.
Scheduled reports, shared links, premium reports and multi-store reporting are listed on Report Toaster's paid plans, while its free plan covers the last 90 days of orders. Data Export includes scheduling and every other feature on every plan.
Data Export runs reports hourly, daily, weekly or monthly and delivers them to email, Google Sheets, Google Drive, FTP or SFTP. Report Toaster runs reports daily, weekly or monthly and delivers them to email, SMS or Slack.
Yes. Report Toaster lets you describe a report in plain English and builds it for you. Data Export also includes an AI assistant, and its team will build and schedule any custom report for you for free.
Data Export offers a 15-day free trial on every plan. Report Toaster has a free plan for Basic and Grow stores with 90 days of order history, and 14-day free trials on its Advanced and Plus plans.
Install once and let your store data show up on its own, in the format you want, where you want it.
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