Progeny Apps / Customers, loyalty & subscriptions / Handsel
For shopify merchants doing bespoke work
Take a deposit at checkout, then invoice or charge the balance on a date you set.
Handsel is for made-to-order work: furniture, tailoring, commissions. Set a deposit per product or collection, as a percent or a fixed amount, with a minimum. The buyer chooses to pay a deposit at your Shopify checkout. The balance falls due days after the order, on a fixed date, or after the order ships, and is invoiced or charged to the card used at checkout. One ledger shows every balance still owed and how late it is, with at most one reminder per order a day. No cap on deposit volume.
On its way to the Shopify App Store. Write to us and we will set your store up first - it is billed through your Shopify bill, like any app.
The problem
Take a deposit at checkout, then invoice or charge the balance on a date — with one ledger of every balance still owed, how late it is, and who gets a reminder today.
It answers what a merchant taking deposits actually asks:
- How much does the buyer pay today on this product, and what is left?
- When is the rest due — a number of days after the order, a fixed date, or after it ships?
- Is it invoiced, or charged to the card they used at checkout?
- Who still owes me, how much, and how late are they?
- Who should get a reminder today, and what does it say?
What it does
Inside Handsel
balances owed, overdue, due in the next 7 days, deposits taken, balances collected; every problem in words with a link; the reminders to send today; the ageing bands.
per product, per collection, or every product: percentage or fixed amount per item, a minimum deposit per item, a minimum line before a deposit is offered at all, when the balance is due (days after the order, a fixed date, or days after fulfilment), and whether it is invoiced or charged. Each rule shows the selling plan group Shopify gets. Below, the whole catalogue priced at one of each — deposit and balance — with the bad rows marked.
put items in a cart and see "Pay in full" against "Pay a deposit" the way the product page offers it, what is paid today and what is left and when. Place order records it as a bench order with the deposit paid, so it can be followed through the ledger.
every deposit order; each in detail with the money, the terms it was sold on (editable), payments (record a balance payment or a refund), the reminder timeline, and the exact Admin API calls for its balance. Record a phone order is for a commission agreed off the shop.
every balance still owed, most overdue first, banded by age (not late, 1–30, 31–60, 61–90, over 90, no due date), with a total and Save as CSV.
shop name, currency, "due soon" window, the reminder days, the "as of" day, look, backup / restore / sample / erase. Records live in this browser under the localStorage key handsel.v1. Save a backup file from Settings now and then. A record that cannot be read is set aside under its own key, never written over.
Pricing
One flat price
No tiers to decode and no share of your sales.
$19 a month
- Deposit as a percent or fixed amount, with a minimum
- Balance due after the order, on a fixed date, or after it ships
- Invoice the balance or charge the card saved at checkout
- Ledger of every balance owed, grouped by how late it is
- Automatic reminders, one per order per day at most
Billed through Shopify's own app billing. Cancel by uninstalling. Privacy for this app
Questions
The ones merchants actually ask
Which Shopify plans does it work on?
Works on every Shopify plan.
How am I billed?
$19 a month through Shopify's own app billing, on your normal Shopify bill. No card is taken here and there is no share of your sales.
What happens to my data if I uninstall?
Shopify tells the app the moment you uninstall, and the app erases what it kept for your store. Customer data requests from Shopify are answered the same way. The full detail is on the app's own privacy page.
Is it on the Shopify App Store?
On its way to the Shopify App Store. Write to us and we will set your store up first - it is billed through your Shopify bill, like any app.
Who do I talk to?
A person, at support@progenyapps.com or (541) 208-6685. FHL Stephens LLC, Roseburg, Oregon.
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Take a deposit at checkout, then invoice or charge the balance on a date you set.