I signed a contract with Recharge and came to find out just a couple days later during our first implementation call that the app would unfortunately not work with my store's existing membership/discount system. I immediately reached back out to my sales rep to see if there was a way to make it work, and when there wasn't, I asked them to cancel the contract. They have refused and are charging me $500 per month for a year for something that was never even implemented in our store. This is so unethical, I cannot believe they would enforce this when nothing was even setup and no costs were incurred on their end. I explained that the app's features won't allow it to work with our existing membership system and they have refused to let me out of the contract. It's not like I took a bunch of their engineering time and set up the whole system and changed my mind or jumped ship to another app. The app is literally not even installed in my store and was never setup to be operational to begin with. Be very careful signing contracts with unethical app developers. I got burned here and never imagined someone would treat me this way! There are many other subscription apps who told me they would never treat a customer this way given what happened here.

The Analytics Have not been working since end of day Jan 25th(today is Jan 29th) , and not a single email from them explaining what's going on. Full 24 hours after they stopped working they uploaded a small banner on the analytics page saying they're working on fixing it. Didn't respond to any tickets. HORRIBLE at communicating issues. Also WTF? How can analytics be down for 3 full days? And 2 of them are work work days too. I have never seen a software fuck up this bad.

The most poor customer service ever, never helpful. They have never been able to help on that chat

Was not using this app and had no idea it was charging me monthly for over a year.

They reached out to upsell me on an additional service (Rewards), and said that they would help me set it up before launching. I agreed, but didn't realize the contract I signed said I would start paying right away. I found out 8 months later that I'd been paying $200/month for something I'd never used. My fault for not reading the contract and just believing the sales pitch. When I reached out to explain, they told me I should feel lucky that I don't have to pay more because I'm on a legacy plan.

Pricing is just retarded. There is zero reason for there to be a transaction fee on each subscription. Whoever made this app randomly chose that number because it looks like it does something. the only thing it does is line his pockets.

My customers haven’t been able to subscribe since the update and recharge price went up but I’m not seeing the benefit , also I did the upgrade multiple times and the day the switch happened I was notified I had not successfully done the switch. Not impressed

Since 2018, we’ve relied on Recharge, but the unexpected price increase and the lack of care and communication with our business have diminished its value. Like many others, I was not informed of the planned price hike, and the dismissive response I received when I inquired confirmed that it was time to move on. This rating reflects the poor service and communication. When we first started offering subscription services, there weren’t many great options available. Fortunately, there are now more affordable and customer-oriented alternatives that allow us to move forward without Recharge.

Bad service and way overpriced! Beware. This company only cares about the $ in their pocket. EDIT: You can return funds charged with ZERO justification. Nothing justifies 400% increase. Especially when it is not specifically agreed to. You support can make it right but your company is greedy. So besides replying to this review with nonsense - you won't do anything.

Bad service...

All of a sudden increased their price from less than 10 dollars to 100 dollars without notifying their customers, when contacted, they are not willing to provide a refund.

Edit: NOTHING YOU SAY IS GOING TO JUSTIFY $25 to $100!!! STAY AWAY. THE WORST EXPERIENCE WITH AN APP ON SHOPIFY I HAVE EVER HAD. We are a small business that started using recharge last year. The charges were % based and worked ok for us. We spent around $5-25 monthly for the app. We were not aware and did not receive the emails regarding price change. We found out later on when viewing bills - that we are charged $100!!!! USD every month while we only have under 20 active subscriptions. This is a 500% increase in the fee. If this is not stealing - I don't know what else to call it. There was no reasonable explanation provided besides shoving their "terms" in my face. Horrible company with even more horrible people running it. BEWARE!!!

Poor customer service. AI automated response via email not clear help to get myself migrated over

no good, they put their prices up significantly without notice and direct debited the amounts, when I realised they only refunded a fraction.

So disappointed with this app. It was fine until they began charging $99 a month without the consent of their clients. When you change your prices that drastically, you make sure everyone is on board.

Pending

I've used ReCharge for almost a decade, and when I compare it to new offerings on the market it legs behind. But what has caused us to finally leave is being abandoned by support multiple times in situations where their errors have caused over a grand in monthly losses. The support team does not offer timely or thorough product support once you are signed up. The lack of accessible easy analytics also creates a logitics nightmare for my shipping department. ReCharge is no longer the king-pin for subscription apps on Shopify, I urge new store owners to search elsewhere and try new apps willing to try harder to earn your money.

Would not use again. Changed their billing cycles without informing customers. (They did say they sent emails but I had not received any). Last month they had billed me (a month late) for the app after they went paid, but again, I did not know that they were changing their billing. Getting a refund was difficult. Once refunded I removed the app never to be used again. You'll imagine my surprise when a month later I am billed again for the recharge app, that has been uninstalled for over a month now. I'd highly recommend a different app just based on this experience. Edit Update after response: Based on their reply it is easy to understand that recharge has been a difficult company to work with. My review was not a complaint about the app graduating to a paid app. My review IS however a complaint of their lack of communication, not informing me I was getting moved to this plan in any way whatsoever, improper billing cycles, improper billing, and unwillingness to accept the facts as they have played out. Please re read my review recharge, I have been working within your customer service parameters, and they have failed. On the customer service side, the individual I have dealt with this time around has been great, but unfortunately she must be getting bad information, as she was told my requested refund was completed (it wasn't).

No way to get rid of this useless app and they have been charging me on the sly a $99 fee for months on end when I’ve removed all my products from their site months ago!

They certainly increase the prices of the app without any warning at all and now since our subscribers are still in this we cannot close and canceled app. WARNING do not ever use this app they are stealing money