Monthly Budget

Your monthly budget is the maximum amount 1ClickImpact can charge you for environmental impact in a billing cycle. It acts as a spending cap managed through Shopify's billing system.

How it works

When you set a budget, Shopify creates a usage-based subscription with that amount as the cap. Each time impact is triggered (by an order, product sale, or monthly schedule), the cost is recorded against your budget. Once your budget is reached, no new impact is triggered until the next billing cycle.

Setting your budget

You set your budget during the setup wizard. The minimum budget is $5/month.

Choose a budget that matches your expected order volume. For example:

• A store with ~50 orders/month using "Plant Trees" ($0.40/tree) would need about $20/month
• A store with ~200 orders/month would need about $80/month

How the budget resets

Your budget resets automatically at the start of each Shopify billing cycle (typically every 30 days from when you first approved the subscription). All usage counters go back to zero, and impact starts triggering again.

Changing your budget

To change your budget:

1. Go to the Setup page in the 1ClickImpact app
2. Update your budget amount
3. Click Save to confirm
4. Approve the updated billing subscription in Shopify

What happens when the budget is exceeded

When your budget is fully used:

• New orders will not trigger impact — orders are still processed normally in your store, but no trees are planted, ocean waste removed, etc.
• You'll receive an email notification letting you know your budget has been reached
• Existing impact is not affected — everything already triggered will still be fulfilled
• Customer add-on purchases are also paused — all impact processing (including add-ons) stops when the budget is exceeded

To resume impact immediately, increase your budget. Otherwise, impact will resume automatically when your billing cycle resets.