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Customer reviews: Shopify Collabs

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Shopify Collabs helps brands connect with influencers and creators to grow sales through partnerships. This review covers its features, pricing, and real user experiences to help you decide if it’s the right tool for your Shopify store.

Reviews (308)

Overall rating
3.7

What Merchants Think

Overall feedback for the "Shopify Collabs" app is quite polarized among merchants. Some appreciate the app for its ease of use and ability to automate affiliate processes, which helps in building relationships with creators. However, many users express significant frustration due to scams, lack of vetting for creators, and financial losses stemming from fraudulent activities and unresponsive influencers.

Key Strengths

  • Easy to set up and use, simplifying the management of affiliate links and collaborations.
  • Facilitates efficient communication with influencers and creators through automation features.
  • Valued by some for enhancing affiliate and influencer strategies by providing a platform to connect with potential partners.

Common Concerns

  • Widespread issues with fraudulent activities including fake creators and scam orders.
  • Lack of accountability and follow-through from creators after receiving free products.
  • Insufficient vetting process for creators, leading to misuse of the platform.
  • Limited communication features and customization options for managing collaborations.
  • Merchants often incur financial losses due to unauthorized commission payouts.

Final Thoughts

The "Shopify Collabs" app has potential as a tool for managing influencer and affiliate collaborations, greatly simplifying some aspects of these relationships. However, its reputation is marred by frequent reports of scams and fraud, a lack of creator accountability, and a need for more robust features to enhance collaboration security and merchant control. Considerable improvements are needed for the app to gain wider trust and provide a truly beneficial experience for users.

Bareback Footwear

Nov 06, 2024  on Shopify

I had a shopify partner log into my store after they did some work, approve a copon harvester to take commission out of my store $352 down so far. Complete scam, do not download this app. Waiting on shopify support now however I am not hopeful.

BST

Oct 09, 2024  on Shopify

Don't loose your money here. "influencers" will receive the product and your money is gone if you don't have a contract. If you are big enough to have contracts you wouldn't use this anyway. Shopify must force creators to do their job or we should be able to impose the ones by leaving a feedback about them and other sellers should be able to see the reviews of that creator.

ShapeWaist

Oct 07, 2024  on Shopify

If you want to lose business, hurt the relationship you have with possible influencers and allow Shopify to charge you up to $10,000 while holding the funds and not paying influencers for over 6 weeks - then download this trash of an app. It has been the worse decision my business ever made. Please please please do not make the mistake of EVER using this.

HartSpan

Oct 01, 2024  on Shopify

Beware!!!! Echoing countless other shop owners, this program allows scammers to promote your products using pre-existing discount codes and then pays them commissions automatically without disclosing it to you. By the time we realized this was happening, we had already paid out hundreds of dollars to "creators" who had never applied to work with our brand and were never approved to earn commissions. The majority of the payments went to a scam website that hosted FAKE reviews of our product. When I brought this to Shopify's attention, they told me that we were at fault for not "catching" the affiliate payments earlier and that there was no recourse to recoup the funds. Furthermore, I am still being charged for additional "affiliate commissions" after completely removing Shopify Collabs from our account and reporting all of this to Shopify Support. Stay away from this app.

COCONEH

Sep 24, 2024  on Shopify

No given results, just lost some products that I´ve sent to some ´´inlcuencers´´ and they never posted or answer our messages your ghosted us. There in no way to report them. If you are looking for quality content and collabs that result in more sales or more traffic to your shop, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE.

BOHIQ

Sep 19, 2024  on Shopify

Please read all reviews before installing, as they are all accurate representation of the app. This app is useless. 1) There is no vetting of the influencers- most are looking for a free product, will never post, and will never drive traffic to your store. 2) Random "collaborators" appear (even if you have never accepted their application), attributing organic sales (customers land via my own marketing efforts), and no notification is ever sent to the merchant. The only way of having any sort of control is by proactively checking ALL the time, the payouts. It's absurd. I uninstalled the app, and all of this happened while the app WAS NO LONGER INSTALLED ON MY SHOP.

DesignbyAthena

Sep 18, 2024  on Shopify

Biggest waste of money and resources. Will never use again.

Cheerfetti Gift Co.

Sep 17, 2024  on Shopify

Today I realized a fake affiliate with fake reviews on their website was referring traffic. I don't even know how that's possible. It's not ok for Shopify to promote an app that promotes fraudulent content.

The Keratin Store

Sep 10, 2024  on Shopify

I’ve been using Shopify Collabs with the expectation of partnering with genuine creators to help promote my store and drive sales. Unfortunately, my experience has been far from ideal. First, I received no email updates or notifications regarding commissions paid or orders generated through referrals. This lack of communication meant that I was completely unaware of how and where these commissions were coming from. By the time I realized what was happening, I had already paid out $648.25 in commissions for orders I never approved and from "creators" that were coupon farming code websites. It wasn’t immediately clear that these so-called "Creators" were actually discount-farming websites, not influencers promoting my products in good faith. This wasn’t something I could notice easily—I had to spend considerable time investigating the issue deeply on my own to uncover the fact that coupon code sites were essentially hijacking the affiliate program and benefiting from commissions. This experience has been extremely frustrating, as the Shopify Collabs program was intended to connect merchants with legitimate influencers. Instead, it’s being taken advantage of by bad actors looking to exploit the system. While I appreciate Shopify’s willingness to provide preventive measures for the future, this doesn’t address the financial losses already incurred due to this oversight. If Shopify had better systems in place to vet creators or provide clear notifications about referral activities, I could have avoided this situation entirely. Shopify is taking no responsibility for protecting merchants from these issues and is unwilling to refund any of the fraudulent commissions that were paid.

Skin Nutrient™ Award Winning Skincare

Sep 04, 2024  on Shopify

We used several Influencers and not one single one of them did anything, they all where happy to collect the FREE gift, after we informed them the gift is your use and to promote our product to their followers. One replied and added that they don't care... it is free and they do not need to do anything else.... this is an absolute disgrace that they demand FREE products and are not willing to promote your business ... nothing in life is for free... Do not use this App there are no rules for the influencer - unless you are happy just to give stuff for FREE

Boona

Sep 01, 2024  on Shopify

2.9 star average rating tells you everything you need to know. It's exactly what others are saying. This app is knowingly hosting scams. Shopify isn't filtering the "creators" at all so you just get people that are coupon harvesting. Money gets paid out and Shopify does nothing to protect the stores that pay its bills. We've lots thousands because we foolishly put our trust in this app because it was built by Shopify.

Wyxs Unlimited

Aug 27, 2024  on Shopify

My account apparently got hacked by someone after the app was downloaded. Some started posting their content connected to my store.

Fret Zealot

Aug 25, 2024  on Shopify

I don't like writing 1-star reviews, but this app is useless. We spent serious time looking up applicable creators and offered them free $250 products, but had no responses. Now we're just getting spammed by "beauty" influencers who have zero applicability to us. It seems like Shopify didn't actually verify any of the creators. They either didn't sign up or are fake accounts looking for free things.

B.Different Clothing

Aug 14, 2024  on Shopify

I installed this app about two years ago but never used it. Today, I randomly decided to check something in the app, and to my shock, I found that two people I never accepted as collaborators or invited (again, I NEVER used the app) had scheduled payments, taking a percentage of two of my orders! This is insane! If I hadn't checked the app by chance, they would have stolen my money without me even noticing. This app is an absolute scam. Be very careful! I do NOT recommend installing it. I contacted Shopify support, and the first line support had no idea what to do. They had to escalate the issue to the Shopify Collabs team. I still don't know what's going to happen, but this experience is beyond frustrating and concerning. Stay away from this app! EDIT: the support team replied and I must say that your app is nothing short of a scam. Nowhere in the process of installing or using the app do you mention that people, even if they are not invited or have declined as collaborators, can still create affiliate links of their own. What is the point then? The entire purpose of this app is to allow control, and if I cannot control this, your app is worthless. To make matters worse, support has informed me that the holding period has passed, meaning these unauthorized individuals are now going to take my money—just as I suspected. This is outrageous and reeks of fraud. Your app and the way it operates are simply disgusting.

Diaita (Formerly The Rotten Fruit Box)

Aug 13, 2024  on Shopify

It's a horrible app. just scammers making money off our already recurring commissions and our existing customers.

FS Drinks

Aug 13, 2024  on Shopify

Influencers take products and ghost, fix this now!

kyacay

Aug 06, 2024  on Shopify

Have sent product to multiple different creators through this app and not a single one reviews the product. I feel like its all scam people.

MADD

Jul 23, 2024  on Shopify

cant manually settle the payouts is a deal breaker

Gleam Layer

Jul 17, 2024  on Shopify

I will reconsider my review when "influencers" can be rated and reported for failing to comply with agreed terms. I do not want to give free gifts to random individuals and then be ghosted!!!

noireblanc

Jun 30, 2024  on Shopify

this app continued to charge me after deleting it from my store!!

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