Volume One
relationship infrastructure
Make members
feel like they belong.
Zendra is the modern membership engine for Shopify. Sell free or paid memberships, subscriptions, and perks — without stitching together a collection of apps.
Built on modern Shopify. No transaction fees. No code edits.
★★★★★ 4.9
App Store rating
Built for Shopify
Shopify / admin • Zendra
Zendra
Overview
Plans
Members
Perks
Settings
program overview
Membership dashboard
Active
528
▲ 6.2%
Recurring
312
▲ 14
Cancelled
9
▼ 6
Member history
Jun – Aug
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01.
what you can build
Memberships shaped around
the relationship.
Start with how people join and what they receive. Zendra handles the billing, access, and lifecycle underneath it.
001
Paid memberships & subscriptions
Sell access once or on a recurring schedule. Add tiers, trials, signup fees, fixed durations, and gift memberships when the model calls for them.
002
Free & earned memberships
Welcome every new account, grant access from Shopify Admin, or let Flow reward customers when they reach the behavior or spending threshold you choose.
003
Access & exclusivity
Protect content, hide products, restrict purchases, or unlock benefits over time. Members get a clear path in; everyone else gets a reason to join.
004
Perks people can actually use
Offer member pricing, free or discounted shipping, private Discord roles, scheduled promotions, and a portal that keeps every benefit visible.
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Merchant notes
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★★★★★
Sheep Made Simple
After trying a number of membership apps, Zendra is the first one that actually gets it. The support is genuinely some of the best… The app itself is clean, reliable & integrates seamlessly with Shopify… I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Zendra.
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★★★★★
Nextcards
A well-equipped membership and subscription system featuring all the necessary benefits for a robust platform. The app is easy to set up.
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★★★★★
ShopThatApp
Something you don’t see in apps today: fast courteous, relatable, responsible live representative who puts it in perspective and does what you ask. The representative was amazing. Keep up the good work
02.
The product
One membership engine.
Three familiar surfaces.
Zendra lives where your team and customers already work: Shopify Admin, the storefront, and Shopify customer accounts.
03.
three principles
Membership infrastructure,
built with a point of view.
The mechanics matter because they shape how the relationship feels — to you, and to your members.
i / craft: relationship first
Membership is more than a discount mechanism.
Billing, access, perks, lifecycle, & community belong in one system — because members experience them as one relationship.
iI / Fairness: by design
Your members’ money should stay with you.
Zendra charges by active member count, with no transaction fees on membership revenue and no skim on attributed orders.
iII / modernity: Native by default
Built on the Shopify of today.
Theme app blocks, customer account extensions, Shopify Functions, Flow, POS, and Sidekick replace brittle snippets and tagging workarounds.
04.
Provenance
More than a decade of membership software
behind every decision.
Zendra carries forward what the Kestrel team learned building membership systems across major ecommerce platforms—then rebuilds it for modern Shopify.
15+
years building membership platforms
40k+
membership sites powered by our tools
25
storefront languages available
0%
transaction fees, ever
2009
Custom software
Building subscription memberships
Helped grow large membership sites with custom software.
2015
WooCommerce
First membership app shipped
WooCommerce Memberships — still used by 40,000+ WordPress sites today.
2026
Shopify
Current
Zendra launched
Built ground-up on modern Shopify: Analytics, Flow, the newest extensions & APIs.
start with a clear promise
Make a place worth
belonging to.
Start free with up to 75 active members. Launch your first plan in minutes, then add the perks that make people want to stay.
10-day free trial · No transaction fees · Cancel anytime