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Customer reviews: Shopify Collabs

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Reviews (295)

Overall rating
3.3

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.

Indigosea

Sep 11, 2024  on Shopify

It will automatically generate a 6.8% off in my shopping cart! This is crazy, please fix it quickly, I have uninstalled it, but the discount is still there

By SHANTEA

Aug 28, 2024  on Shopify

Not sure if it was the app or the people doing the collabs, not a good experience, we didn't receive feedback of all the people we sent our product to try it. It was a waste of time and money. Good or bad feedback is good but need the feedback to improve our service, that's why we sent our product. A good quality product. Bad quality of collaborators, they do not show after they receive the product and you end up looking for them without any success.

KetoMe

Jul 26, 2024  on Shopify

I am very disappointed with how influencers are handling brand collaborations on the Shopify Collab. Many influencers send their applications, and after accepting some of them, I sent gifts. They received the gifts but failed to post or share stories about the products. They also do not respond to emails or Instagram messages. Additionally, there is no option to rate these creators/influencers, which allows them to act unaccountably.

Dogs Cats Boutique

May 04, 2024  on Shopify

The app looks good at the beginning because it allows to look for influencer pretty easily...but: 1) there is no rating about the influencer...if they do a good job or not 2) There is no internal chat to communicate with them, after the first message, you need to switch to email 3) there is no mechanism to force the influencer to do their jobs...sometime they get free gifts but they don't do any promotion.

MICHE

Apr 25, 2024  on Shopify

It’s ok. Helps get name out, but not always the best. A lot of collabs are just looking for free product. We should be able to rate the Collabs and leave feedback. Sent out $$$$ in free product to promote to only have it grouped in with a bunch of other promo items and taking no time to explain our product.

Unicorn Snot

Feb 28, 2024  on Shopify

There's a lot of work to do here in terms of making influencers not hate the signup flow. On our side, the UI continues to be weirdly unintuitive even after years of using it. Extra star deducted because the app just straight up stopped working on our store recently with no warning. We just discovered a little message saying "this app may not work as expected. Collabs needs to be updated by the app developer. Contact them for support or uninstall the app." Considering Shopify is the developer, you'd expect them to have this sort of thing covered.

Milk Box Candle Co.

Feb 02, 2024  on Shopify

***Update*** Received this response to my review: "Hi, there. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. I can understand your position and I'm happy to pass on your feedback. Unfortunately, there is no way to force a creator to promote a brand, but if you choose to use Collabs again you can create a contract that outlines the expectations for the work the creator will do. We recommend seeking legal advice if you do choose to create contracts going forward." Essentially, these "influencers" are under no obligation to review (good or bad) the product you send to them, so there's a real possibility you're just sending out free product and paying shipping for absolutely nothing. Learned my lesson, time to uninstall this app. Well, sent two applicants products and nothing. Just throwing out product for free, apparently. I had hopes for this but it just ended up costing me money for the product, shipping supplies, and shipping costs, not to mention some fun goodies for presentation. I am reticent to do this again, seeing as there's no legitimate return.

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