HeyMantle Is Shutting Down -
8 Best Alternatives
for Shopify App Developers
HeyMantle winds down August 14, 2026. The most complete migration guide: a direct alternative for all 8 Mantle modules - including SASI App Store rank tracking, which most guides leave out entirely.
Why This Shutdown Is Different From a Normal SaaS Sunset
Mantle told developers on June 16, 2026 that it was winding down. The shutdown touches every part of the platform - the dashboard, the APIs, and the MCPs. Most services stop on August 14, 2026. Teams on Mantle Billing get a longer runway, keeping their full account until September 30, 2026. After each cutoff, Mantle plans to delete the underlying data, so exporting everything comes first, before you pick anything else.
Mantle wasn't just an analytics dashboard. It was a bundle - MRR and revenue analytics, billing, affiliates, helpdesk, email, usage events, automation flows, and Shopify App Store keyword tracking (SASI) - all stitched into one platform. No single product replaces that entire bundle. Every team migrating off Mantle ends up rebuilding it with a small stack of focused tools.
Lose visibility into revenue, churn, and app growth overnight once analytics switches off.
SASI's keyword and category-rank data is a time series. Once it's gone, no tool can reconstruct it.
Charges, subscriptions, and usage fees fail if nothing replaces Mantle Billing in time.
Mantle plans to destroy data after the wind-down - anything unexported is gone for good.
Export everything before your deadline hits. You can always rebuild a workflow later on a new tool - you cannot recover data Mantle has already deleted. Treat exporting as the one non-negotiable step, regardless of which replacements you choose.
What Happens If You Don't Migrate in Time
Missing a deadline carries real cost, and the risks compound fast:
Revenue and growth views go dark, and you lose sight of how your app performs day to day.
Any flow that fires emails, updates records, or triggers actions stops without warning.
Charges, subscriptions, and usage fees fail if nothing replaces Mantle Billing in time.
Helpdesk tickets and customer threads sit in a system that no longer responds.
Mantle plans to destroy data after the wind-down, so anything you skip exporting is gone for good.
SASI's keyword and category-rank data is a time series. Once Mantle shuts it off, there's no export that reconstructs it after the fact.
Why Is HeyMantle Shutting Down?
Mantle hasn't published a detailed reason, so anything here is informed context rather than a confirmed explanation. But the timing lines up with one clear event: on May 12, 2026, Shopify rolled out Shopify App Pricing, replacing Managed Pricing as the default billing system for apps. That release made usage-based billing native - the App Events API turned per-action charging, which used to take real engineering work, into a configuration step in the Partner Dashboard.
That matters because metered billing and clean revenue reporting were the two hardest problems Mantle originally solved. A flat monthly subscription fee was never the hard part - Shopify has supported that natively for years. When a platform absorbs the layer a company is built on, the product can still be good and lose its reason to exist at the same time.
"A sudden, clean wind-down after your core problem becomes a platform feature is a more coherent story than the usual 'ran out of runway' - even if Mantle itself hasn't confirmed it."
- Editorial readFor migration purposes, the practical takeaway is the same either way: if Mantle Billing was your setup, Shopify App Pricing is now the default destination, and it already exists rather than needing to be built from scratch.
Connecting Your Shopify Partner Account to Elevate
Getting your app data into Elevate is a one-time connection, not a rebuild. Here's exactly how it goes:
Sign-up is instant and self-serve - no approval wait, no waitlist to join.
From the Elevate dashboard, connect your Shopify Partner account so Elevate can read your app's install, subscription, and revenue data directly from Shopify.
MRR, ARR, churn, and install-source data start populating with no manual CSV work required.
While both are live, compare a week of overlapping data to confirm the numbers line up before you rely on Elevate alone.
Once every module you use is replaced and historical data is exported, close out the Mantle account before its deadline.
For the exact click-by-click steps, Marmeto has published a full walkthrough: How to Connect Your Shopify App Store Data to Elevate.
Best Alternative for Each Mantle Module
Mantle bundled eight distinct functions. Here's the strongest option for each, based on what most Shopify app teams actually need to replace.
| Mantle Module | Best Alternative | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics Live now | Elevate by Marmeto | Purpose-built to carry Mantle's MRR/ARR/churn workflow forward. Same metric structure, near-zero learning curve. |
| Billing | Shopify App Pricing / Billing API | Official, native successor. Flex Billing logic may need manual rebuilding. |
| Affiliates Live now | Orbit by Marmeto | Full partner ecosystem: onboarding, referral tracking, flexible commissions, payouts, white-label portals. |
| Helpdesk | Zendesk, Gorgias, Intercom, Help Scout | Dedicated ticketing with Shopify-aware integrations; pick based on team size. |
| Klaviyo, Customer.io, Loops, Resend | Lifecycle and transactional email, matched to complexity of your journeys. | |
| Usage Events | PostHog | Product analytics and event tracking with a generous free tier. |
| Flows | Rebuild in-house / Customer.io journeys | No export exists. Rebuild only the business-critical automations. |
| SASI (App Store Index) | Asomify, AppJubilee, AppStorePulse, Rankbase | Dedicated ASO tools tracking daily keyword and category rank from public data. |
Module-by-Module: What to Export and Where It Goes
The table above tells you the destination. Here's the actual export mechanics for each module, so nothing gets left behind on Mantle's servers.
Analytics. Nothing here needs rebuilding - the reports are just calculations on data you already own (subscriptions, charges, events). Most sections carry an Export button that emails you a CSV; the same data flows through the Core API. Mantle keeps data for roughly 30 days after your end date before backups age out, so don't wait until the deadline week to pull it.
Billing. Mantle Billing wraps Shopify's own Billing API, so your subscriptions already live on Shopify - Mantle just manages them. Shopify App Pricing is the recommended landing spot, though as of this writing it's rolling out to new apps first while Shopify finishes the migration tooling for existing apps. The Shopify Billing API remains a direct legacy fallback in the meantime. One caveat worth flagging: Flex Billing logic may not map cleanly onto Shopify App Pricing, so budget time to rebuild that piece by hand if it drives meaningful revenue.
Helpdesk. Re-route your support email, chat widget, and Slack connections to the new platform first. Ticket history and message threads come out through the Core API - there's no CSV export for this one. If you host docs on Mantle, they go offline on the shutdown date along with any custom domain; since docs sync two-way with GitHub, connect a repo, pull your content out, and rebuild the knowledge base before repointing your domain.
Email. Export contacts as a CSV from the Contacts section - note that unsubscribes and the suppression list don't come with it, so account for that gap manually on the new platform. Export send history from the Emails section. There's no bulk template export, so plan to copy each template's HTML over by hand. Audience segments in Mantle are saved filters, not static lists, so they won't export as files either - you'll rebuild segment logic on the new tool.
Affiliates. Three separate CSV exports, each emailed to you: affiliates (one row per affiliate), referrals (one row per customer per affiliate), and payouts. If you pay affiliates through Mantle, sequence the wind-down: move affiliates to the new platform first, turn off auto-payouts, run one final payout before the deadline to clear pending commissions, then re-create ongoing deals like lifetime commissions using the referrals export as your reference.
Usage Events. Redirect new events to a tool like PostHog as soon as the replacement is wired up, then separately export historical events tied to your customers via the usage events page or the Core API.
Flows. No export exists, and there's no drop-in replacement - flows run on Mantle's own data and triggers. Audit which flows are actually business-critical (onboarding emails, renewal nudges, internal alerts) and rebuild only those on your own system or a journeys tool. Anything you don't rebuild simply stops firing on the shutdown date.
SASI (App Store Index). This is the module most migration guides skip entirely - but it's the one with the highest cost of delay. SASI's keyword and category-rank data is a time series: once Mantle turns it off, that history can't be reconstructed from any public source afterward. There's no "export and restore later" option here. If your team tracks App Store keyword rank at all, start logging it in Asomify, AppJubilee, AppStorePulse, or Rankbase now - every day you wait is a permanent gap in that record, not a recoverable one.
Before vs. After: Migrating Off Mantle
Here's the contrast between teams who wait until the deadline and teams who move now:
- Dashboards go dark on August 14 with no warning
- Ranking and revenue history lost permanently
- Billing scrambles happen mid-cycle, risking failed charges
- Support tickets sit unanswered during the switch
- Team rebuilds flows and templates under deadline pressure
- Analytics keeps running same-day via Elevate, zero visibility gap
- App Store rank tracking started early, gap measured in days
- Billing migrated to Shopify App Pricing before it's urgent
- Support and email routed to dedicated tools on your own timeline
- Historical data safely exported and archived, not lost
The module that costs teams the most when delayed is SASI. Analytics and billing history can be exported after the fact. App Store rank history cannot - every day of delay is a permanent gap in that record.
How to Roll This Out Before August 14
Analytics history, ticket threads, contacts, and event records — pull it all before any deadline hits.
List every module your team actually relies on so nothing gets missed.
Link your Shopify Partner account — it's live now, so you can be running the same day.
If you use App Store keyword data, move now — this is the one module where delay is unrecoverable.
Choose based on what your team actually uses. For affiliates, Orbit is the direct move.
Among the remaining modules, billing comes first — a gap there hits revenue immediately.
Charges, automated emails, support routing — verify all of it before fully relying on the new stack.
Once every replacement is running clean and data is safely exported, close the account.
Pro tip: connect Elevate and let it run alongside Mantle for a week before you cut over. Comparing overlapping MRR and churn numbers is the fastest way to trust the new dashboard before you depend on it.
Elevate vs. Other Shopify Analytics Tools
Analytics is the module most Mantle users feel first, and it's not one-size-fits-all:
Best for Shopify app developers replacing Mantle's subscription/MRR analytics specifically. Free to start, live self-serve sign-up, built around the exact metric structure Mantle developers already know.
Best for ecommerce brands needing multi-source marketing BI (ads, email, CAC, ROAS) across 45+ data sources. From roughly $470–750/month, scales with GMV. General-purpose, not built around Mantle's structure specifically.
Best for the SASI gap specifically: daily keyword and category rank tracking from public App Store data, plus a Keyword Efficiency Score most rank trackers don't offer.
If your team's Mantle usage was mostly "check MRR, churn, and installs daily," Elevate is the closer match and the faster switch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most services end August 14, 2026. Mantle Billing customers keep their full account - including analytics, helpdesk, and email - until September 30, 2026.
Mantle hasn't published a detailed reason. The timing lines up with Shopify's May 2026 rollout of Shopify App Pricing, which made usage-based billing and revenue reporting native platform features. This is informed context, not a confirmed explanation.
No. Mantle has stated the wind-down includes eventual destruction of data. Exporting before your deadline is the only way to keep it.
SASI (Shopify App Store Index) was Mantle's keyword and category-rank tracker, acquired from Union Works in 2024. Because rank history can't be reconstructed after the fact, start a replacement - Asomify, AppJubilee, AppStorePulse, or Rankbase - as soon as possible.
Elevate by Marmeto for teams replacing Mantle's MRR/ARR/churn workflow directly. Polar Analytics for teams needing broader multi-source marketing BI at a higher price point.
It covers analytics specifically. Pair it with Orbit for affiliates, and dedicated tools for billing, helpdesk, and email.
Sign up at elevate.marmeto.org - live now, no waitlist. Link your Shopify Partner account and tracking starts the same day.
One Deadline, Eight Decisions - Start With Analytics
The Mantle shutdown isn't one migration, it's eight small ones. You don't need to solve all eight today. But analytics and SASI are the two where waiting has a real cost - one because your team runs blind without it, the other because the history genuinely can't be rebuilt.
Elevate by Marmeto exists specifically to make the analytics piece a same-day switch instead of a rebuild. Sign up now, connect your Shopify Partner account, and keep MRR, ARR, churn, and install tracking running without a gap when the August 14 deadline hits.