Shop

The shop is a feature of where in-game items can be bought for coins or real-world money. Various types of items are available, organized into different sections. The contents of the shop have changed frequently over the game's lifespan. The shop is accessed from a button on the main menu.

Limited time offers
The top section of the shop contains items only purchasable for a limited time.

Special offer
The Special Offer section, added on 22, contains a single item, the Free Daily Pack. This pack costs 0 coins, and its contents are random each day: either 5 nectar or 10 petals, where the nectar and petals can be any color of regular flowers or any color of the current monthly flower. It can only be purchased once per day, and once it is purchased the section disappears until it resets at midnight in the player's local timezone.

Upgrades
These increase the maximum amount of a particular type of item that can be stored.

Upgrades can also be bought with real-world money, with the price being the same for all upgrades: $1.99 USD / $2.79 CAD / ¥250 / $2.99 AUD / €2.49 / ₱99.00 / £1.99. As a result, the value of coins versus real money is vastly different for each upgrade type.

The postcard storage upgrade was added to this section on 23.

Initial flower petal storage capacity increased from 200 to 300 on 11, and maximum flower petal storage capacity increased from 1000 to 1200 on 19.

On 14, the 5 upgrades costing real-world money were removed and the 5 upgrades costing coins were added. On 7, the upgrades costing real-world money were re-added back to the game as an alternative to the upgrades costing coins.

On 16, the upgrades costing coins for Pikmin, nectar, and flower petals changed amounts and prices. Before this date, a Pikmin storage upgrade cost 180 coins and increased the limit by 20, a nectar storage upgrade cost 180 coins and increased the limit by 25, and a flower petal storage upgrade cost 180 coins and increased the limit by 25.

Mii costumes
This section contains costumes for Miis. It was added to the shop several months after the game's release, initially appearing inconsistently between 11 and 22, before becoming a permanent part of the shop on 23. On 13 (as part of update 55.0), the section was renamed from "Mii Items" to "Mii Costumes" and was reduced in size, only showing 6 featured items, and a button labeled "See other items" was added to link to the Mii editor, where the rest of the items can be bought from.

Items
The following items are purchased with coins, and make basic functions like growing Pikmin easier. The detector was added to this section in version 45.0; before this update, detectors could only be individually bought from the detector menu.

The weekly challenge ticket and mushroom recharge ticket were added on the introduction of these items.

On 18, the amounts and prices of petals changed. Before this date, they were bought in packs of 180 instead of 200, and cost 50, 150, 200, and 180 coins for white, yellow, blue, and red petals respectively.

On 1, red nectar, yellow nectar, and blue nectar were added to this section.

The flower planting accelerator was added to this section in update 63.0/63.1 on the introduction of the item.

A 10-pack of mushroom recharge tickets and the 10-pack of detectors were added in update 66.0.

On 6, the price and content pack of mushroom recharge tickets was adjusted. It changed from 1190 to 1200 coins and from 10 tickets to 11 tickets. This change was announced on 29.

On 1, the price of a weekly challenge ticket was adjusted from 100 coins to 200 coins. This change was announced on 25.

Bundle packs
This section contains packs of items. It was introduced on 17, and before that date, packs in this section were in the limited time offers section. These packs are still limited-time, but are available for much longer time periods.

Gift bundles
These packs of items can only bought to be gifted to friends. This section was introduced on 14.

Coins
Coins can be purchased with real-world money to make buying other items easier. Counterintuitively, buying coins in bulk can result in fewer coins gained for the same cash amount, depending on the exact currency being used.

Trivia

 * Early beta testers of the app have increased storage limits by default. These are:
 * 500 of each kind of nectar instead of 200.
 * 500 of each kind of petals instead of 200.
 * 1000 Pikmin instead of 300.
 * 50 seedlings instead of 30.