Great question! Mainly the difference is cost. If you are skeptical about monthly subscriptions and want to see what we are all about, you can choose to build a cocktail box for a one time charge in our "Shop Kits" section. These buildable boxes consist of fan favorite past boxes and recipes that we keep on hand and ship asap after ordering. We also offer our "feature box of the month" in this section. If you choose the feature box in the "Shop kits" section, it will ship with all of our subscribers boxes when we have that specific box ready to go. If you want to save some money you can join our monthly subscription and each month we will send you a new box starting with our next featured box.