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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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!!

BuyExcelTemplates.com

Jul 15, 2024  on Shopify

Improvements I would like to see is better search/filtering capabilities of the affiliates listed in the recruiting section of the app. Also, once an affiliate has joined the program, I wish it was easier for the affiliates to set up their automatic payments. Currently, it looks like the affiliates have to create a separate Hyperwallet account to get paid automatic commissions. I was hoping the affiliates could just enter their PayPal email address.

stok.

Jul 14, 2024  on Shopify

I have only just activated this - and the idea is that I have given a Collaborator 10% off their first purchase and from there they will get 15% on every item sold. The items AOV is $250 plus. It remains to be seen if anyone will bite, however, I see I have nothing to lose and the process to get it set up and reach out to legit micro-influencers is easy. Let's see. I am new to this.

Jacob Bromwell®

Jun 20, 2024  on Shopify

Absolutely terrible experience. Creators just take free gifts and ghost. Shopify Collabs is a way for random people (not actual collaborators or influencers) to take free product from you. Not a way to make money, a way to lose money. Also, there is no expectation set by Shopify Collabs for these "creators". But of course there is an expectation to the business to provide something, whether free or a discount. Very disappointing. You are better off connecting with people yourself on social media platforms.

GoDoggy

Jun 13, 2024  on Shopify

Zero app localization for Japanese. Reached out multiple times to support but they never update the interface to include Japanese.

Belle Emporium

Jun 03, 2024  on Shopify

This app allows the creator to get free item/s upfront and then the creator not fulfilling their task of promoting the item on their socials. Then Ghosting the store, totally rude shameless & actual theft.! Not fair at all if you are a small struggling business. There should be some kind of verification process for the creator to pass or a rating that stores can assign based on the experience with the creator, those creators with low review ratings wont get used

Shrieking Violet®

Jun 02, 2024  on Shopify

The Collabs app is great however it would be useful to see which influencers have already been invited to collaborate when browsing for new partners.

Bijou Boutique

Jun 01, 2024  on Shopify

Shopify Collabs is an affiliate marketing tool designed to connect creators and brands. Whether you’re a business owner seeking partners, sending out gifts, or tracking affiliate offers, Collabs aims to help you drive more sales.

MAXDAHLIA Skincare

May 25, 2024  on Shopify

This app doesn't benefit anyone but the creator. I've had countless creators ghost me after receiving their products even after signing UGC creator contracts. Now I will have to take them all to small claims court! The problem is Shopify shouldn't allow shady people like that on their platform. I've reached out to them to let them know what happened and they're like "unfortunately there is nothing we can do"! How about suspend the accounts of creators who take advantage of brands just to get free products! When I had an issue with a creator on Influenster, the CEO immediately took action and even wanted to send me a refund for the $300 worth of product the creator got. Step it up Collabs. The app is supposed to be a positive, collaborative experience, not one that hurts the very brands that use shopify as their website host to run their businesses.

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.

Just Cats - Gifts for Cat Lovers

May 02, 2024  on Shopify

The app is good, but unfortunately all but one, of collabs, including those who initiated contact, just took the free gifts but did nothing to promote them, even after contacting them. Maybe there should be a rule that anyone receiving a gift via this app is committed to doing at least one promo.

Notfallvorsorge

Apr 30, 2024  on Shopify

Dieses App dürfen nur die Shops verwenden, die eine Kooperation gar nicht mehr brauchen, weil sie schon bekannt und erfolgreich genug sind. Die Start-Ups, die am Meisten Unterstützung zu Beginn benötigen, dürfen es nicht verwenden. Eine Diskriminierung, daher Daumen runter

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.

Chique Design

Apr 04, 2024  on Shopify

Please note: do not install this app, we did not like the app. So removed, major problems with our shop since the removal of this app. The product photos and backend are no longer shown, just like the blog no longer has photos. It's not even worth 1 star!

peachpot.co

Mar 15, 2024  on Shopify

Honestly this app is horrible. Doesn't load half the time, and when it does, 99.9% of the people who have applied to collab with my brand are very small "influencers" (so, people with only around 200 followers on instagram) who are only looking for free items. The fact that there is no way to track or penalize influencers after they receive free items is a huge negative for me. The only thing this app has been useful for so far is for my friends to apply. Organic reach in the "collabs network" is god awful, literally just a bunch of dishonest people looking for free things.

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.

Laughing Ogre Press

Feb 05, 2024  on Shopify

The product categories do not include mine, making his app useless for my business. How can I find anyone or they find me if my type of business is not mentioned? re your reply... what would be close to education?

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