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Customer reviews: Blocky Fraud Filter IP Blocker

Develop by Shopify

Reviews (195)

Overall rating
4.7

What Merchants Think

Merchants generally view "Blocky: Fraud Filter Blocker" positively, with many praising its ease of use, efficient blocking capabilities, and helpful customer service. The app provides peace of mind by effectively blocking fraudulent attempts, which is especially valued by those facing regular threats. However, not all feedback is positive, as some users express dissatisfaction with its functionality and customer support.

Key Strengths

  • Easy to setup and configure, providing quick protection against threats.
  • Effective at blocking unwanted traffic based on geographic locations and suspicious activity.
  • Real-time analysis of attempted fraudulent activities, including IP tracking.
  • Responsive and helpful customer support with clear guidance.
  • Peace of mind for merchants concerned with online security threats and fraud.

Common Concerns

  • Customer service perceived as rude and unhelpful by some users.
  • Reported issues with the app's billing process, such as charges after trial period cancellation.
  • Inadequate performance in blocking VPNs and advanced threat actors.
  • Some merchants find the app's protection insufficient against determined attackers.

Final Thoughts

Overall, "Blocky: Fraud Filter Blocker" is well-regarded among many merchants for its straightforward use and effective basic blocking capabilities, making it a valuable tool for enhancing online security. While the app successfully meets the needs of numerous users, experiences vary, and some improvements in customer service and technical performance are necessary to address all merchant concerns.

Exodus Beauty

Nov 19, 2025  on Shopify

I genuinely didn’t want to leave a negative review, but this experience has left me no choice. I installed the app on November 6th to block bot traffic from China using VPNs—specifically from the US and Seychelles. Initially, everything seemed to work fine. However, by November 9th, I noticed Seychelles appearing in my abandoned checkouts, which was strange given that I had blocked the country. All other blocked countries were showing as successfully blocked, except for Seychelles. I contacted support immediately. A developer responded, explaining, "we are actively investigating an issue on our end where blocked visitors are indeed getting blocked, but their abandoned checkout is still getting mistakenly logged by Shopify as an abandoned checkout because they are still at checkout, getting blocked. We are actively working on a fix that should be deployed shortly for that problem." The response did not make much sense to me since all other blocked countries were being blocked by their app. They also advised I enable Shopify’s email verification at checkout—knowing it might deter genuine customers. Despite this, the issue persisted. The bots began using valid, generic email addresses. I followed up again and was asked to grant store access to the dev team, which I did and confirmed. It’s now been three business days with no update. Meanwhile, the Seychelles bot continues to create abandoned checkouts, skewing my store analytics. Support is reading my messages but choosing not to respond. I can only assume they’re struggling to resolve the issue and don’t have a fix. Still, a status update—even if it’s not a solution—would be appreciated. I’ll wait another 24 hours for a response. If I don’t hear back, I’ll initiate a chargeback for the amount paid and delete the app while I search for a more reliable and consistent alternative.

Web Deals

Nov 12, 2025  on Shopify

Its working well just need to add a few things to assist with correct scamers who conitinue to trying to purchase I love this app I added the IP address, addresses, Phone Numbers used, email addresses used we are more than happy this happens right after or before Halloween every year as Christmas approach I would advise everyone to protect your hard work this is not a game these scammers are serious about what they do. Thank you Blocky

The Bamboo Seed

Nov 10, 2025  on Shopify

Outstanding responsiveness and technical support; easy to install and use; an excellent tool for us to seamlessly block and/or redirect traffic of specific origin, whether individually or countrywide. With Blocky we're able to quickly identify and block the source of suspect traffic spike/bot anomalies, and the occasional scammer gambit. Blocky hums along in the background without issues, greatly valued by those of us who have neither the time nor the resources to be constantly monitoring or finessing finicky apps. We are highly selective in deploying apps, and Blocky is one of only a few that we do use, and we'll likely also be adding their Terms & Conditions app based on our experience with this Blocky app.

The Autistic Innovator

Nov 10, 2025  on Shopify

There was a China bot that was on my store website at almost all times for nearly 24 hours, so I downloaded this app to block China and after a couple of days no more China bot visitors. I also blocked Russia and Nigeria since that is where a lot of these attempted bot orders come from. I don't believe the "total country blocks" number because I think it's heavily inflated, but it does obviously work. In the end though, $10 a month or $60 a year is really expensive just to block 3 countries. All I need is the country blocker. There should be a cheaper plan option just for that one feature.

Back2Nature Herbals

Oct 23, 2025  on Shopify

fast and effective. Worth the peace of mind. Ahead of this holiday season I had a HUGE influx of bots scraping my site from China and Singapore and burying me in Google rankings driving down my analytics and destroying my conversions. Problem solved. Thank you.

grace + hudson

Oct 10, 2025  on Shopify

I've had some strange fraud issues on my website over the past few years and I've been happy with the features of Blocky. I only sell to US and Canada, so I am able to block visitors from all other countries. I'm also able to block individual users, which I never had to use until recently. I would recommend. I haven't had any tech issues with it at all and I think I've had it for 2 years now.

Viridian Bay

Oct 09, 2025  on Shopify

It's easy to understand and to set up. Be prepared that you will need to educate your customers if they get caught by the blockers due to their personal computers being compromised or if they use VPNs. Much of our custom "you've been blocked" page is about why they've been blocked. I know we've lost a few customers over this - some are willing to give up their IP numbers to whitelist them, others think we're overdoing it on security. There are a very specific improvement I'd like to see: 1- ability to better style the blocked message; it needs margins and the ability to make it fit with our branding. It is not professional looking right now.

EcoLeo

Sep 02, 2025  on Shopify

I am questioning if this works. I have all countries besides US blocked and also VPN blocked becaue I was getting alot of fake email subscribers. Well now I am getting many successful and unsuccessful orders from these blocked countries. It is obvious they are running credit cards to see which work and some of the orders go through and some are declined. When checking the transaction gateway details in the Shopify order page, it shows the country the order was placed from (Russia, Malaysia, Algeria, etc). I then have to cancel these fraudulent orders however I still have to pay the credit card processing fees as those are non-refundable. Therefore, Blocky is not doing it's job at blocking these countries. Perhaps the bots used are too fast for the Blocky app to trigger a block. I have contacted customer support and was told the development team would get back to me and they never did. So I will be cancelling.

Street Iron Gear

Aug 27, 2025  on Shopify

Set-up was a breeze. Had a question on feature set. Support was quick and courteous. We will see how it works over time. More to follow.

Couch Potatoes Furniture

Aug 19, 2025  on Shopify

time will tell. And Time did Tell. I was doing all the legwork for deleting and watching everything coming into our store. now with Blocky Fraud Filter In 2 days time there have been 144 country blocks, 221 ip blocks, 117 bot blocks and 4 customer blocks and i can take a nap. thanks.

difiorenewyork

Aug 12, 2025  on Shopify

I can't quite tell if the countries I 've blocked are indeed blocked, since they still show up on my"live view" sessions.

Breathe Jewellery and Holistic's

Aug 02, 2025  on Shopify

Loving this app so far. Being able to block countries that are potential threats is fantastic. We have been getting some unwanted contacts so this app will help reduce the potential fraud and threat from our website. Highly recommend.

Nicole's paint Escape

Jul 25, 2025  on Shopify

It is ok but bots are still getting through, as well as the right click disabling does not work at all. I am looking at another app that offers similar for less and if it works I will be switching over.

ila & alice

Jul 09, 2025  on Shopify

These guys gave me top notch and excellent customer service. I had questions and they responded in a timely manner and in great detail. The app is easy to install and understand. Both of the people I spoke to were helpful, courteous and knowledgeable. I wish all apps were as great as this one to deal with. Thanks for great customer service!

Range Rulerz

Apr 05, 2025  on Shopify

I manually track and investigate traffic activity when customers download freebies from my site to weed out bots. When I first installed the app I quickly began blocking bot IP addresses and yesterday an IP that I thought was blocked was able to get through and download another free product. The blocker DID NOT DO ITS JOB. if you use this software make sure you manually track and investigate customer profiles. Btw, the software isn't very effective if you're not getting the Pro Plan, you're pretty much forced to get it.

Le Royaume de Lecki

Mar 21, 2025  on Shopify

Application très utile, et service client très réactif qui a résolu le problème de facturation.

Le Royaume de Lecki

Mar 05, 2025  on Shopify

Beaucoup de fonctionnalités ont été récemment transférés vers un plan beaucoup plus cher !! Vraiment dommage de faire cela...

Clarity of Sight Ltd

Oct 05, 2024  on Shopify

I had a technical issue with this app, and support were very helpful and resolved my issue very quickly. I would highly recommend.

Love That Glass

Sep 30, 2024  on Shopify

Started using Blocky Fraud Blocker because of concerns at being hacked from some suspicious countries. I absolutely love that I can not only block certain countries, but it also gives you a real time analysis of who is trying, along with their IP addresses. Great peace of mind and well worth the low cost!

smartshoptic.com

Jul 03, 2024  on Shopify

Do Not USE this app.... incredibly below awful not even average app. So may better apps for cheaper on shopify. The support was so useless and rude then left my store open to multiple attacks, do to the underperformance of the "bot" as well as the design in software. Do yourself a favor and don't use this beyond useless app, with incredibly rude and awful support.

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