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Customer reviews: Shopify Subscriptions

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Reviews (122)

Overall rating
3.1

What Merchants Think

Merchants have mixed feelings about "Shopify Subscriptions". While some appreciate its user-friendly interface and simplicity, many express frustration over significant limitations, especially when dealing with more complex subscription needs. The app seems primarily catered to basic use cases, leaving more advanced users disappointed with its lack of features and flexibility.

Key Strengths

  • User-friendly setup process
  • Suitable for simple subscription models
  • Good for beginners or businesses with basic subscription needs

Common Concerns

  • Lack of API access and insufficient data analytics capabilities
  • Inability to customize subscription details or handle complex plans
  • Issues with migration and error reporting
  • Problems with inventory management and subscription order processing
  • Glitches and bugs affecting subscription updates and customer interactions
  • Limited language and customization options for international users

Final Thoughts

"Shopify Subscriptions" may serve basic needs effectively for those new to subscription models, but it falls short for businesses that demand more advanced functionality and customization. Its lack of flexibility and robust features make it less appealing to companies with intricate subscription requirements. Merchants seeking a comprehensive subscription tool might need to explore other options for a more complete solution.

Fashion Tech

Nov 16, 2024  on Shopify

Thanks

Russell and Atwell

Sep 20, 2024  on Shopify

It's just about OK. We had (and continue to have) glitches moving across from Recharge (that got expensive). Really basic subscription stuff like a customer wanting to postpone an order by a few days just doesn't look possible. Even the support help couldn't do it. Having significant doubts about this after a time-consuming migration. Be careful of this app - if you need anything above a super-basic sub, it's unlikely to be what you want...

Grow Goodness

Sep 10, 2024  on Shopify

A bit limited at this time. We were hoping we could do a limited time subscription (for example: a 12 mo. plan), but that is not possible. We also were desiring to send a different product or product bundle each of those months, but you are limited to the same item(s) every month.

PureBites

Jul 28, 2024  on Shopify

The app is functional and you can't beat the cost...but it leaves a lot to be desired from a subscription app, a few of the issues we've run into: -customers can't edit their subscriptions, so people have to cancel and resubscribe if they ever want to add items, or edit quantities - even if people wanted to 'shift' their subscription delay it by less time than skipping a whole shipment (they can only skip/pause/cancel and update billing info) -when recurring orders are generated, they commit the needed inventory, but when the order then goes through the process and gets fulfilled the committed inventory is stuck as committed and requires a lengthy support ticket to resolve - this is happening with every SKU variant on every subscription order so it very quickly becomes a phantom inventory commitment problem -There's no forecasting or upcoming order view, even if you export the contracts it exports in Shopify's variant ID (not our SKU#s or UPCs that we would need to cross reference for forecasting purposes) -There's no way to contact the current subscribers or a given item with a message or new item (i.e. one item is being discontinued and replaced with a like item that they'd likely want to subscribe to) -There's no setting/way to apply price change logic, if you have prices change, your current subscriptions are stuck at the old price unless you manually change each individual one (I understand how this might be a desired behavior, but that should at least be a setting or option "use current price" or "use original price") -The app auto-tags orders which is handy, but we have no control over what the tags are, the logic applied, or anything....it's stuck with what the developer set (and you can't even see/change it, you just have to guess based on observed behavior) Those are just a few of the pain points to managing it as we grow (for context we've been using this app since its 'early access' days and have several hundred active subscription contracts). But again....you can't beat the price.

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