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Customer reviews: XERO SYNC Orders and Inventory

Develop by BOLD

Reviews (214)

Overall rating
2.7

What Merchants Think

The app "XERO SYNC by BOLD" receives mixed reviews from merchants. While some users appreciate the app's essential integration capabilities for managing bookkeeping within Shopify-powered businesses, many express frustration over its customer support and reliability issues. Complaints about support access, unresolved technical difficulties, and recent pricing changes are common, overshadowing the app's potential benefits for successful Shopify-Xero synchronization.

Key Strengths

  • Considered essential for integrating Xero and Shopify for bookkeeping purposes.
  • Acknowledged efficiency in automatically exporting and updating data after resolution of issues.

Common Concerns

  • Pervasive issues with contacting and receiving timely support from BOLD.
  • Frequent technical errors preventing order exports, particularly with existing customer names.
  • Unreliable syncing, causing significant delays and manual input burdens.
  • Consistent dissatisfaction with recent pricing increases and lack of prior notification.
  • Compatibility issues with browsers like Safari and general lack of updates.

Final Thoughts

Overall, while "XERO SYNC by BOLD" plays a crucial role in syncing data between Shopify and Xero for many businesses, its effectiveness is marred by considerable customer service issues and technical limitations. Merchants find themselves facing uncertainties and manual workload challenges due to unaddressed app faults and evolving pricing structures. Improvement in support services and stability is critical for regaining trust and maximizing the app's utility.

MODE Auto Concepts

Feb 25, 2025  on Shopify

[URGENT] Please help with issue! (There were errors with your settings: Tax overrides) Cannot contact developer, 1 Star Review as NO SUPPORT! Shopify integration has stopped working, we are unsure as to why stopped or how to fix? I cannot upload screen shots and your app should have a support section not rely on this website contact us box. Cannot contact developer.

EarBuddies™

May 15, 2024  on Shopify

As a general point, the Xero Sync Integration is absolutely essential to our business - I don’t know how we’d do the bookkeeping for a Shopify-based business without it. I am writing a review after the resolution of a recent problem; we had a longstanding issue where we had a gap in our data for 18 months that we hadn’t got round to solving due to Covid backlogs. When I finally got around to it sorting it, I couldn’t make the data exports work properly. I was very worried this meant months of extremely tedious labour to manually enter all the data into Xero. Thankfully Irfan came to the rescue. He worked diligently and very efficiently with the developers, and they were able to investigate and diagnose the problem, and offer a solution. All of the data is now in automatically exported into Xero, and completely up to date. I am incredibly grateful to Irfan and the developer he worked with - please keep doing what you're doing guys, it is really appreciated.

King & Tuckfield

Oct 05, 2023  on Shopify

Poor customer service. Emailed and received no answer. I then connected via chat and took a while for them to take note of it. Opened a new ticket disregarding any screenshots or descriptions I put before. Did no thorough investigation and came back after two days telling me something I already knew, washing their hands that it was a XERO mistake (clearly wasn't). I re-wrote on an email the issue and asked to escalate. I received a standard response that it will "take a while" and I should upload to XERO manually. We pay $20/mth for a product that doesn't work and has no solution, unless you sell without Duties and Tax.

Three Peaks Challenge Shop

Oct 05, 2023  on Shopify

Throws an error and flat out doesn't export orders if the customer name already exists in Xero... Isn't that a pretty basic flaw? We have to manually add orders regularly. Why we have to pay for this amateurish app with no alternative options and Shopify don't make their own I've never understood.

Trader Trove

Feb 16, 2023  on Shopify

was great for a while but then sync didn't work anymore so after 3 months of trying to fix and still having to pay for it. I uninstalled.

CGC Emporium

Dec 20, 2020  on Shopify

TLDR - Avoid like the plague - Downgraded from a 2 to a 1 - App stopped working - support terrible with days turnaround - (had to wait 3 days for a reply as the support agent had some time off!) - All they could suggest was disconnect /reconnect and then they blamed xero and suggest I contact them directly - Makes me wonder what the $60 a month was for - Add in the total lack of improvements over a number of years this feels like abandonware - Now using an alternative at half the price that works better

Emerald Energy

Nov 30, 2020  on Shopify

Bold has made it VERY clear that they don't actually support this app or offer any service for it. As others have mentioned, this app is not compatible with the current version of Safari and Bold has absolutely no plans to fix that (and they will simply string you along with shockingly terrible customer service if you dare to ask). At this point, Xero should permanently ban Bold from having access to their API.

Yull

Nov 11, 2019  on Shopify

This app is a disgrace. Cannot export anything today. Fails everytime with zero support from Bold. SHOPIFY you need to address this asap as I will be leaving otherwise. The app has been a disaster since Bold took it. And that's putting the ludicrous pricing to one side. Undermines the Shopify product.

Parabolica Press

May 27, 2019  on Shopify

Started charging us $59.99/month WITHOUT WARNING for last several months and we just noticed it. We were well under their FREE tier...PLUS no invoices had been exported for the last 2 months anyway. They charged even though we were not using their service! Will be cancelling and uninstalling BOLD's Xero integration ASAP.

INGREDIENTS LDN

Feb 26, 2019  on Shopify

The new pricing structure feels like extortion! This is a really basic app that often doesn’t work in our experience and now they introduce fees without any justification at levels that seem unreasonably high. Very disappointing given the fees we are already paying to Xero. Very unhappy with this.

Shawbury Wine

Sep 30, 2018  on Shopify

Are you guys aware of how completely broken the Bold - Xero integration is?? I've had ongoing issues since late June!! I'm seeing a number of negative reviews cropping up on the App site so realise I'm not alone in having problems. I know this is now a third party issue (Bold) but many of your users must rely on this APP and as it was yours originally, this reflects badly on Shopify too. We are facing a VAT return in the next few weeks and I have no idea of our liabilities because the Xero App has been so unreliable. This is not a small problem, it creates a massive logistical headache, how do we know what is correctly synced and what isn't. How do we handle the huge amount of work involved in correcting the problems? This integration is absolutely fundamental in making the use of Shopify viable for us and I'm sure many other merchants. We are a multi million pound business shipping 500 orders per week. This is not a trivial matter and yet the months of delays seem to imply that Bold are not taking this seriously enough!

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