Comparison · Last updated April 2026

Heartly vs Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost

Heartly wins on AI autopilot, competitor intelligence, and dual-platform reach. Hextom wins on price for merchants who just want a countdown widget on their existing Shopify product pages.

01 · About Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost

What is Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost?

Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost (listed as Ultimate Sales Boost until the vendor renamed it) is a Shopify app that adds urgency widgets to product pages — countdown timers, stock counters, sales pop notifications, free-shipping bars. It is a utility layer that sits on top of the merchant's existing storefront. The flash sale itself runs as a Shopify discount code; Hextom adds the visual urgency around it.

Heartly is a flash sale platform, not a utility layer. Each sale gets its own URL, its own brand, its own countdown anchored to live inventory, its own AI recommendation engine, and its own listing on the Heartly marketplace. Hextom adds widgets to Shopify product pages. Heartly creates a campaign that runs alongside or instead of the product page.

02 · Side by side

Feature comparison.

Feature	Heartly	Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost
Countdown timer on product pages	On Heartly sale pages	Onsite widget
Dedicated flash sale landing page	Yes	No
Public Deal Marketplace (deals.heartly.io)	Yes	No
AI Autopilot for sale creation	Pro plan	No
Competitor radar	Pro plan	No
AI crawler optimization (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)	Yes	No
Mobile apps (iOS + Android) for shoppers	Yes	No
Carousel campaigns (multi-product)	Yes	No
Shopify support	Yes	Yes
WooCommerce support	Yes	No
Stock counter widget	Yes	Yes
Free shipping bar	No	Yes

Campaign platform vs widget layer

Heartly creates a campaign — a sale with its own URL, its own brand, its own landing page, its own analytics. Hextom adds widgets to the product pages the merchant already has. For merchants who want to run an actual flash sale as a marketing event, Heartly is the platform. For merchants who want to add a countdown to their normal product page, Hextom is the widget.

AI Autopilot and competitor intelligence

Heartly Pro reads inventory, sales history, and competitor pricing to recommend the next flash sale with predicted lift. Autopilot schedules it at the peak conversion hour. Competitor radar tracks the top 5 competitors and alerts when they discount. Hextom is configuration — the merchant decides what to discount, when, and how steep. Both approaches work; they target different operating modes.

WooCommerce support

Hextom is Shopify-only. WooCommerce merchants cannot use Hextom. Heartly is production-ready on both Shopify and WooCommerce with full feature parity — same dashboard, same Marketplace publication, same AI Assistant. For merchants running both platforms, Heartly consolidates into one tool.

Mobile apps for shoppers

The Heartly iOS and Android apps push notify shoppers the moment a deal goes live. Hextom has no shopper-side app. Merchants on Hextom reach their audience only through the Shopify storefront. Heartly adds a direct mobile push channel for free on every plan.

07 · Pricing

Pricing.

Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost meters on attributed revenue: free up to $200 lifetime, then $9.99, $29.99 or $79.99 per month by revenue band with overage above the included amount (listed August 2026, 4.8 stars across 1,449 reviews). Heartly is free for one active campaign with no revenue cap, then €29 to €99 per month flat. Hextom is cheaper for a merchant who wants widgets on existing pages. Heartly's price covers the sale page, AI Autopilot, competitor radar, mobile apps, marketplace publication, and WooCommerce.

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