Retail Cloud Connect™ by Nimstrata is a SaaS tool that connects your ecommerce platforms to Google Cloud. You maintain full control and ownership over the underlying Google Cloud platform environment, including your data and retail configuration settings, but this also means that you are responsible for paying Google Cloud charges separately.
Retail Cloud Connect™ is an integration tool, also referred to as middleware, and empowers you to activate Google’s Product Discovery AI solutions without developing custom software or managing infrastructure. Retail Cloud Connect™ keeps your product catalog data synchronized, imports real-time user events, and can serve search, browse, recommendations, and autocomplete suggestions on your online storefront.
Shopify Merchants
If Retail Cloud Connect™ is purchased through the Shopify App Store, app charges will be included on your Shopify invoice. Recurring and usage-based charges are billed every 30 days. All charges are billed in USD. We do not charge for Shopify test or development stores.
Retail Cloud Connect™ Pricing
The most up-to-date app pricing is available on our website. Custom pricing is available for large merchants.
Our base platform fee is tiered and based on the number of Shopify catalog SKUs and markets - this fixed fee helps us keep our global infrastructure running, your catalog up-to-date, and our high-performance APIs ready to serve results on your storefront
Our serving fee costs $0.50 per 1,000 Retail Search API calls and $0.05 per 1,000 Recommendation AI API calls
We follow Google’s pricing model and do not charge a fee for autocomplete requests
We do not charge a fee to import real-time user events to Google's Retail API
Google Cloud Pricing
The most up-to-date Retail Search and Recommendations AI pricing is available on Google’s website. As of August 2023:
Browse and Search serving costs $2.50 per 1,000 API calls
The first 20,000,000 Recommendations AI predictions are $0.27 per 1,000 API calls, then tiered at lower prices based on total volume
Recommendations AI model training is $2.50 per node, per hour
Google Cloud charges can be paid by credit card via a self-serve, automatically paid billing account, or you can apply for monthly invoiced billing. The Cloud Billing overview page in Google Cloud’s documentation contains details on this application process.
Nimstrata can simplify your deployment by managing your underlying Google Cloud environment as a certified Google Cloud Partner. Please contact us to learn more.
Pricing Estimates
Pricing estimates are based on catalog size and user traffic, ultimately depending on a store’s usage patterns. Nimstrata can help you estimate your total Retail Cloud Connect™ and Google Cloud bills if desired. If you are a heavy user of the service, we can also help you reach the right contacts at Google Cloud to discuss volume-based discounts.
