Agentis vs Checkout Boost
By Herzel MishelFounder, AgentisLast reviewed
Quick Verdict
Checkout Boost is a checkout-page upsells, conditional discount rules, and content customization tool. Agentis is the only platform that enforces profit floors in real-time at Shopify Plus checkout, evaluating live COGS, freight zones, and FX rates in under 10ms before an order is confirmed. They solve fundamentally different problems.
The Core Difference
Checkout Boost excels at checkout-page upsells, conditional discount rules, and content customization. It gives you visibility into what happened after orders are placed, helping you understand trends and make better decisions over time.
Agentis operates at a different layer entirely. Every checkout on your Shopify Plus store is evaluated against your live profit floor, pulling real COGS from NetSuite, applying freight zone costs, and adjusting for live FX rates, in under 10ms. Orders that fall below your margin threshold are blocked or modified before they're confirmed.
The result: you stop losing money on every unprofitable order, not just understand that you lost it.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | Agentis | Checkout Boost |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time checkout enforcement | ||
| COGS tracking | ||
| Margin alerts | ||
| Shopify Plus integration | ||
| NetSuite / ERP integration | ||
| Freight zone modeling | ||
| FX rate adjustment | ||
| Checkout order blocking | ||
| Profit dashboard | ||
| Ad attribution | ||
| LTV analytics |
Why choose Agentis
- Blocks below-margin orders before they are confirmed. No post-purchase regret.
- Syncs live COGS from Oracle NetSuite via Celigo in real-time
- Applies freight zone cost modeling per shipment destination
- Adjusts for live FX rates on international orders automatically
- Evaluates every checkout in under 10ms with zero customer friction
- Purpose-built for Shopify Plus mid-market merchants ($1M–$50M GMV)
When to choose Checkout Boost
Choose Checkout Boost if you want to add upsells, conditional offers, and custom content or trust elements to your Shopify checkout without writing code, and you want an AI-assisted way to configure discount and Buy X Get Y rules by cart condition. It is complementary to Agentis, not a competitor. Checkout Boost decides what offers and content the customer sees and which discount rules trigger; Agentis decides whether the order that actually results, once every discount, shipping cost, and FX conversion is accounted for, still clears your profit floor. A Checkout Boost rule that looks reasonable in isolation can still combine with other active promotions to ship an order at a loss, which is exactly the gap Agentis is built to catch.
Checkout Boost Strengths
- 60+ smart conditions (cart value, product tags, collections, customer segments, geography) for showing offers, discounts, and content at checkout
- Automates discount codes, Buy X Get Y deals, and free-gift rules through an AI-assisted discount-rule builder
- Adds trust badges, custom fields, surveys, and banners to the checkout without code
- Free plan available; built on Shopify's native Checkout Extensibility framework rather than legacy Scripts
Honest Assessment
Where Checkout Boost falls short for margin protection
- Customizes what displays and which discount rules trigger at checkout; it does not evaluate order-level profitability
- No COGS, freight, or FX awareness, and no ERP integration — it cannot compute whether a given order, once its own rules apply, is profitable
- No real-time margin-floor enforcement: an order it has upsold and discounted can still confirm below cost
- Its automated discount and BXGY rules can themselves compound with other active promotions in ways it has no visibility into
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Checkout Boost the same as Agentis?
No. Checkout Boost is a no-code checkout customizer, upsells, conditional offers, discount and Buy X Get Y rules, and custom content, built on Shopify's Checkout Extensibility framework. Agentis evaluates whether the order that actually results, after every discount and cost is accounted for, is profitable, and blocks or adjusts the ones that aren't. One shapes the offer; the other governs the economics.
Should I use Checkout Boost or Agentis?
They don't overlap, so many merchants use both. Use Checkout Boost if you want upsells, conditional offers, and custom discount or BXGY rules at checkout without code. Use Agentis if you need every resulting order to clear a real profit floor, accounting for live COGS, freight, and FX, regardless of which discount rules triggered it.
Does Checkout Boost check whether an order is profitable?
No. It has no COGS, freight, or FX awareness and does not evaluate order-level margin. Its automated discount and Buy X Get Y rules can themselves stack with other active promotions in ways it has no visibility into. Agentis is the layer that checks the final, fully-discounted order against your profit floor before it confirms.
Can Checkout Boost and Agentis run together?
Yes. Checkout Boost configures the upsells, offers, and discount rules a customer sees; Agentis evaluates the order that results from whatever rules and discounts actually applied, against your live profit floor. Since Checkout Boost's own automated rules can combine with other promotions, running Agentis alongside it is how you catch combinations Checkout Boost has no visibility into.
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