These pages are for teams that have already decided to move off a store directory, a technology lookup or a general B2B database.
Each one says what carries over, what changes, what the first week looks like, and when staying where you are is the better call.
The StoreLeads and BuiltWith pages also carry a comparison table with what each vendor publishes as a starting price.
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Three ways people arrive here.
For teams whose list is fine but whose contacts stop at info@. What the move to named people and dated signals actually involves.
Read the switching guideFor teams using a technology research tool to build prospect lists. Keep working from the stack, without the four jobs that came after it.
Read the switching guideFor teams whose whole market is e-commerce brands, and whose industry filter keeps returning marketplaces and resellers.
Read the switching guideShopLeads comes from the team behind 1,000+ interested D2C replies, so these pages are written from the sending side rather than the buying side.
Six questions worth asking any replacement.
Ask them of us too. Our answers are on this page and on the comparison pages, and the ones we cannot answer for another company say so.
- Does it decide what counts as a store? ShopLeads keeps e-commerce stores that sell their own products, checked with rules and an AI check over each store's own site. Marketplaces, resellers, dropship and print-on-demand stores are filtered out.
- Does it name a person? ShopLeads shows the people who decide, with a work email and LinkedIn, as well as store inboxes and phones.
- Is the email tested against the mailbox? Every email gets a mailbox test, shown as verified, or unconfirmed when the mail server accepts any address or the check could not confirm it.
- Is there a dated reason to write? Signals are dated events: Meta and Google ads, hiring, new leaders, funding, app and tech changes, and product launches. Signals are open on every plan, priced in credits: 10 credits a store on a plan, 20 on the free trial. Pro and Scale include signal unlocks every month.
- What exactly costs money? Search, filters and export are free here. Credits are spent only when a contact is opened, and once per person and kind.
- Can your code or your assistant use it? There is a REST API and an MCP server. Search is free with contacts masked, and only unlock_contacts spends credits.
Switching costs you 500 free credits and an afternoon.
It is the same week whichever tool you are leaving, because search costs nothing: you can run your current list and ours over the same segment before you spend a credit.
- Day 1, sign up. A 7-day trial with 500 free credits. A card is needed, nothing is charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel before then.
- Search before you spend. Filters and search are free, so build the segment and look at the stores and the masked contacts without using a credit.
- Put the same segment side by side. Run the list you already have from your current tool next to ours. Comparing costs nothing on our side.
- Open the people you would really write to. A work email with LinkedIn is 2 credits, so 500 free credits is around 250 verified emails.
- Export, or pull it by API. Export is free, the context variables come out as columns, and ShopLeads does not send your email, so your sending tool stays as it is.
- Decide before day 7. Unused free credits end with the trial, so judge it on the replies you get from what you opened.
Still comparing rather than switching?
The compare pages put each tool next to ShopLeads row by row, including the rows where we are the wrong choice.
ShopLeads vs StoreLeads, BuiltWith and Apollo · vs StoreLeads · vs BuiltWith · vs Apollo
Or the long version: StoreLeads vs BuiltWith vs Apollo, a ShopLeads view · Pricing
Need the stores and people in bulk?
Enterprise data is not self-serve. We build custom data sets to your own fields, in bulk, with volume pricing per contact, priced on what you need.
Questions people ask before switching.
What should I look for in a replacement for a store list?
Ask what the tool does after the list. Four questions separate them: does it decide whether a store really sells its own products, does it name the person who decides, does it check that the email will land, and does it say when something changed at that store. ShopLeads answers those four in one search, and search, filters and export are free, so a segment can be compared with the list you already have before anything is spent.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Store Leads?
Store Leads lists Premium at $75 a month, Pro at $250, Elite at $450 and Enterprise at $950, as listed on their pricing page, Nov 12, 2026 (storeleads.app). Lower entry prices are published elsewhere: StoreCensus lists a free tier and Starter at $49 a month (storecensus.com, as listed on their pricing page, Nov 12, 2026) and StoreInspect lists a free tier and Pro at $99 a month (storeinspect.com, as listed on their pricing page, Nov 12, 2026). ShopLeads plans are on the pricing page, where search, filters and export are free and credits are spent only when you open a contact.
Can I keep the tool I send from?
No. ShopLeads does not send your email. Export is free, and there is a REST API and an MCP server, so contacts land in the tool you already send with. Apollo describes sequences on its own pages (apollo.io), so teams that want the database and the sending in one place often keep both.
How do agencies find Shopify stores that need their service?
Start from the gap the service fixes: filter for stores with no email or SMS platform, no reviews app, no subscriptions, no loyalty, no helpdesk or no upsell, then narrow by platform, monthly sales band, country and vertical. Add a signal filter, such as Meta or Google ads activity, hiring, a new leader, funding or an app change, so every store you open did something worth writing about. The people who decide at those stores sit on the same page, with their email status and a plain-text context block.
Is ShopLeads free to try?
Yes. A new account starts on a 7-day trial with 500 free credits. Card required, nothing is charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel before then. Search, filters and export are free, so credits are spent only when you open a contact, and the plans are on the pricing page.