Trama: Buy vs Skip (Agency Storefront Monitoring and Headless Builds)
IF your agency runs 10 or more live Shopify, Wix, or Webflow client storefronts and wants to sell monitoring as a retainer line, THEN the Pro plan at $79/mo covers 10 projects and 50,000 API requests per month, while the Agency plan at $199/mo adds white-label AI support, governance controls, and fleet management for up to 50 projects. IF you only need to watch a handful of sites or have no React/Next.js delivery work, THEN the Free tier (1 project, 1 Site Health scan per month) or Starter at $29/mo (3 projects, 10 scans per month) is the ceiling worth paying for.
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Trama: Buy vs Skip (Agency Storefront Monitoring and Headless Builds)
“IF your agency runs 10 or more live Shopify, Wix, or Webflow client storefronts and wants to sell monitoring as a retainer line, THEN the Pro plan at $79/mo covers 10 projects and 50,000 API requests per month, while the Agency plan at $199/mo adds white-label AI support, governance controls, and fleet management for up to 50 projects. IF you only need to watch a handful of sites or have no React/Next.js delivery work, THEN the Free tier (1 project, 1 Site Health scan per month) or Starter at $29/mo (3 projects, 10 scans per month) is the ceiling worth paying for.”
- You manage a fleet of 10 or more client storefronts and need continuous Site Health coverage across SEO, headers, TLS, exposed secrets, indexing, and script issues without migrating any site
- You already sell or plan to sell custom React/Next.js frontends on top of Shopify, Wix, or Webflow backends and want the trama-sdk to handle auth abstraction, product, and cart retrieval
- You want a resale line: the Agency plan at $199/mo includes white-label AI support and fleet management for up to 50 projects, which supports a monitoring retainer
- Your delivery team needs one dashboard for webhooks, rate limits, and structured API error triage instead of chasing issues per client site
- You sync member identity through Memberstack or Outseta and want that auth layer connected to existing platform backends rather than rebuilt
- Your book of business is fewer than 3 storefronts: the Free tier allows 1 project and 1 Site Health scan per month, and Starter at $29/mo only reaches 3 projects and 10 scans
- No client work touches Shopify, Wix, or Webflow, so the Site Health monitor and SDK connectors have nothing to attach to
- You need deep API gateway controls such as inbound AI agent traffic management or LLM call routing, which sit outside what Trama's operations layer covers
- Clients refuse third-party monitoring access to their storefronts, which blocks the OAuth connection the Site Health workflow depends on
- You expect headless migration tooling to replace the platform backend; Trama's SDK connects custom frontends to the existing backend and does not remove it
More on Trama
- StrategyWhy Trama Turns Storefront Monitoring Into Retainer Evidence
- ConceptTrama Retainer Stack
- Evaluation RuleTrama Rule: Adopt Only When Monitoring Retainer Revenue Exceeds the $199/mo Agency Plan
- Failure PatternThe Trama Scan-Only Trap: Why Agencies Sell Monitoring But Never Touch the Storefront
- Implementation BlueprintTrama Storefront Health Retainer Build (6-8 days)
- Operating ProcedureTrama Client Storefront Health Baseline (Onboarding)
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