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Customer reviews: ShareASale

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Reviews (27)

Overall rating
1.7

What Merchants Think

Merchants have a mixed perspective on "ShareASale". While some find the app helpful, especially for tracking and affiliate marketing, others highlight significant challenges, particularly with customer service, configuration difficulties, and unexpected fees. Overall, there seems to be a balance of positive and negative experiences, with a considerable number of merchants expressing dissatisfaction with the support and setup process.

Key Strengths

  • Effective tracking capabilities for upgraded Shopify carts.
  • Potential to significantly drive revenue and grow brand visibility.
  • Perceived as a strong platform with good long-term affiliate marketing potential.

Common Concerns

  • Poor and unresponsive customer support, with long response times.
  • Unexpected and high setup fees, not clearly communicated upfront.
  • Technical difficulties with app configuration, data feed syncing, and self-service setup.
  • Sales and tracking features not working as expected.
  • Frustrations over refund processes and being charged without adequate service or sales.

Final Thoughts

The "ShareASale" app offers potential benefits in terms of tracking and affiliate marketing, but the recurring issues with customer support, unexpected costs, and technical shortcomings significantly undermine its utility for many merchants. Businesses considering ShareASale should thoroughly evaluate the costs and support structure to ensure it aligns with their needs and expectations.

Fore Cards

Sep 09, 2024  on Shopify

Just awful. All app screens are blank and the pixel code won't save because there's errors. Impossible to configure.

Atomic Flare

May 08, 2024  on Shopify

Similar to other user experiences - I had to place 3 test orders which resulted in me getting charged with Shopify fees, only to find out after two hours of the application that they expect almost 1K in setup fees. If they had informed me up front I would never have bothered.

WONDERCRAFT LTD

Apr 09, 2024  on Shopify

We've been very hesitant in joining ShareASale due to the very poor ratings of their Shopify application. We finally set up the account and spent a number of days emailing back and forth with the company ( of which all their responses were slow), and very annoyingly when we finished installing and applying the code to our website, we were met with a page asking us to pay a setup fee. The fees consisted of $625 joining fee (non-refundable), THEN an additional $125 minimum deposit AND (if that wasn't enough), a $35 per month account fee. These costs were never displayed to us until after creating an account and applying code. This has wasted many hours of our time and we will not be using ShareASale due to such high costs involved. We will take our business elsewhere.

Mentionables

Nov 29, 2023  on Shopify

I'm not one to ever write a negative review and can usually resolve issues easily but the customer service with shareasale is the most unresponsive and worst I have ever dealt with as a business owner. We've tried to get help with an urgent issue for over two weeks now (which should have a simple solution) and their team doesn't address and resolve the issue and won't hop on a 10 min call to solve it together. I have emailed, called and submitted tickets and nothing. I asked them to help escalate the issue but the two responses I have gotten from Maxine and Stephan have gotten us nowhere. Super disappointed in our experience so far and unfortunately since they won't help solve the problem we will likely be switching affiliate programs. If you're looking for an affiliate program with support, this is not the one to go with.

Freedom Electric Marine

Sep 11, 2023  on Shopify

The program seems to be good, but the customer service is non-existent. I can't get a hold of anyone. They are incredibly responsive on the sales side, but once you sign up, they drop off the face of the earth. I am shocked to find that they don't have an implementation team to help you get up and running. You are left to try and figure things out on your own. They have some help articles, but non of them address my issues and questions. I have called, emailed, submitted tickets...and nothing. I even tried going back to my original sales rep, who blew me off and told me to submit a ticket. I hope I can come back and change this review later, but right now, it doesn't look promising. I'll give it through tomorrow and then I'll be asking for a refund and moving on to another program. For such a high up front implementation fee, I expect better. Update: So I finally got to talk to someone who was very polite and helpful, but it wasn't at ShareASale. I had to call their parent company Awin to actually speak to someone. Still don't have my issues fixed though and was told by them that there is a 48 hour turnaround time for email responses. That's far too long.

Dentiphoto

Aug 11, 2023  on Shopify

They have charged me over $1,000 and there is not a single sale. I asked for a refund of $ 150 that was on my balance, but support does not answer. Scammers. You need to be careful. After they answered me, I correct the review: there were 2 sales. At the same time, I paid $750 for connecting to the platform and several hundred dollars for sales and monthly maintenance. Now I'm trying to close my profile and get $133 back. Trust me it's hard... My request is 1091380

Belovia

Jul 21, 2023  on Shopify

I don't think such poor rating is unjustified. Just the other day after I paid, I tried to seek some official tutorials on how to set up the program, but I received a reply that it was a self-service platform and they could only give some suggestions. Didn't even read my email needs carefully and I don't think the cooperation will provide any good service after that. I suggest that merchants who haven't joined yet can consider working with other affiliate marketing platforms that offer better services, seriously.

Rosebud Woman

May 05, 2023  on Shopify

We were willing to pay the fees. We installed the tracker. We went through all the pop up blocking. Could not get the "self service" set up wizard to pick up a sale. Support kept sending us form responses, would not get on the phone to screen share. Gave up. Installed a different app that was working in 8 minutes, required no browser manipulation, picked up our theme template, and was live with our existing affiliates in a day. This is just superbly outdated tech.

Paneros Clothing

Oct 28, 2022  on Shopify

Technical issues are occuring with this app and data feed synch. Rather than attempt to resolve the problem, ShareASale tech support blamed silly issues such as having " characters in product descriptions for the bug and said I would have to rewrite all of them manually for their app to work. I keep asking for support and will follow up if they ever get back to me. Overall a bad app experience so far.

Gemini Sound

Feb 02, 2022  on Shopify

The app does not transfer a datafeed from Shopify to Shareasale. That should be one of the main reasons for the app. Why does it not exist?

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