Companies Using MonkCommerce

I expected MonkCommerce to be a storefront framework, because that's where our catalogue files it. It's a Shopify app. A domain counts here when its pages load Monk's script from js.monkcommerce.app, and on the stores I fetched, that script came from the theme embed of Monk Free Gift with Purchase, Monk Commerce's free-gift and upsell app. Our October 2026 crawl finds it on 1,761 live domains, 666 of them matched to a company, 4th of 15 in Headless Commerce with 9.57%.

Domains, stores and live offers

Two corrections come before any prospect count. The first is aliases. Where we could read the Shopify store id, 634 domains belonged to 474 stores, about 1.3 domains each, and 32 of 100 randomly sampled domains redirected to another domain. Mahlkönig, the coffee grinder maker, holds 38 domains alone. The second is that an install isn't an offer. Monk's storefront API returns each store's live offers, so I asked it about 473 stores on 16 October. 309 had at least one offer live, 148 had the app installed with nothing switched on, and 16 no longer had it installed. A random sample of 100 domains gave a similar split: 53 of 93 stores live, 37 idle and 3 removed. A closed store, a gambling page on a former store's domain and a blank page were 3 of the 100.

Sales signal: dedupe by store, then split the list. The idle group is the better pitch for a rival or an agency, since those merchants may be paying for an app with nothing running.

Growth: too early to read

The chart reads 1,407 in August, 1,751 in September and 1,761 in October. August is the first month we recognised Monk's script, so there's no earlier line. The step into September reflects changes on our side, both the domains we cover and how fully we detect the signal, rather than a wave of installs, and the crawled domain set turns over every month as dead sites drop out and new ones are added. Since 4 August, 229 domains have dropped Monk on at least one hostname. 29 still run it on another, so 200 dropped it outright.

"About two in three Monk stores we checked had an offer running. The rest had the app installed and nothing switched on, and that idle group is the most useful part of the list." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: at 1.3 domains per store, 1,761 domains is roughly 1,300 stores. Treat it as a niche list. The chart is too short to call a trend.

Who the customers are

57.3% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees and 29.52% have 11 to 50. Only four have more than 500 staff. That puts Monk between CartBot (63.21% at 1 to 10) and Rebuy (54.34%). By age, 46.34% were founded in the 2010s and 18.54% in the 2020s, against 27.15% in the 2020s for CartBot. These are established small brands more than new launches: Candle-lite, Ten Thousand Villages, Sundek and Alce Nero sit beside Squishable and Redcon1. Monk's own site quotes four merchants by name, and two of them, Ollie Studio and The Hotel Sheet, are in our count with Monk's embed on the page.

Sales signal: the buyer is the founder or e-commerce lead of a brand with 50 or fewer staff. Pitch average order value.

Beauty, and a German tilt

Retail leads at 15.57%, then Retail Apparel and Fashion and Personal Care Product Manufacturing at 10.38% each. Personal care is the outlier: CartBot's profile has it at 6.67%. Samples and travel sizes cost a beauty brand little to give away, which suits a gift-with-purchase app. The country mix is odd too. The United States has 291 matched companies, the United Kingdom 55 and Germany 52, one German company for every 5.6 American ones. CartBot's ratio is one for every 7.3, and Germany doesn't make Rebuy's top six, which ends at the Netherlands with 90. Monk's listing is in English only, though the app's widget text can be translated.

Sales signal: German, French and Dutch Monk stores (52, 23 and 20 matched companies) are a short, specific list for anyone selling localisation, EU payments or German-language conversion work.

Switching: no corridor yet

We have no published switching rows for Monk. The history is short, and the overlaps we can see are two tools on one store. 14 domains run Monk and GemCommerce today, of 17 ever seen with both, because a page builder and a cart offer app do different jobs. BOGOS, a rival free-gift app, is on 4.42% of Monk domains, so some merchants run two gift tools at once. The 16 stores that removed Monk after our last crawl are the nearest thing to churn we can name.

"Monk sits in a category with Magento themes and page builders, but it doesn't compete with them. Its overlap with GemCommerce is 14 domains, and those stores use both." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: for a rival gift app, the stores running BOGOS and Monk together are the consolidation pitch. For Monk itself, the idle installs (148 of the 473 stores we checked) are a reactivation list before Black Friday.

The stack around it

Shopify is on all 1,765 domains in our cleaned set, the base for the shares here. Instafeed is on 20.0%, Show Recent Orders on 6.69% and BOGOS on 4.42%. Lodash and Underscore.js both read 81.19%, which looks odd for Shopify stores until you open Monk's bundle: it carries Lodash 4.18.1, the same version the page reported on the Monk stores I loaded. Google Analytics is on 75.81% and Elevar on 2.21%. Page builders are rare, with Shogun Page Builder at 2.72% and PageFly at 2.44%.

Sales signal: these stores already add conversion apps beside Monk, Instafeed on one in five. A seller of reviews, loyalty or bundles has a warm audience here; a page-builder seller has a cold one.

Ratings and pricing

Monk's Shopify listing showed 4.9 from 600 reviews and the Built for Shopify badge when I checked on 16 October 2026, and Shopify's review summary credits fast support and complex automatic gift rules. Its pricing page charges by order volume: $49 a month up to 1,000 orders and $149 above that, every feature on both plans, a 7-day trial and a $1 first month as its Black Friday 2026 offer. Our live-offer test adds what the rating can't: two in three stores keep an offer running.

Sales signal: a $49 floor is a considered spend for a 1 to 10 person brand, and a store that passes 1,000 orders a month roughly triples its bill. That's when a competitor's call is most likely to land.

Key takeaways

1. 1,761 live domains, about 1.3 per store, 4th of 15 in a category it doesn't belong to.

2. 309 of 473 stores we checked had an offer live, and 148 had none.

3. Small, established brands: 57.3% have 1 to 10 staff and 46.34% were founded in the 2010s.

4. Beauty-heavy, with Personal Care Product Manufacturing at 10.38%, and more German companies per American one than CartBot.

5. Its real rivals are CartBot, BOGOS and Rebuy, not Hyva Themes or GemCommerce.

How to use this list

Dedupe by store first, then filter by country and size. For the full list of 1,761 MonkCommerce domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io. Our Shopify analytics report covers the wider platform these stores run on.