BSS B2B Wholesale Solution

All very promising at first however after time you will realise this app messes with the code of your site and their developers have to constantly play with the theme code to fix issues. This is all whilst they say everything is fixed and working.

We had to build our theme again from scratch because of the code from this app broke our site. It’s as a shame because the interface is very easy to use however our whole site crashed for multiple days because of the BSS code.

We used this app for customer discounts, alongside other apps for different features.

Everything worked great however one weekend around two months ago the whole website stopped loading.

They then said repeatedly over a couple of weeks that everything was fixed when it wasn’t (each time I provided screenshots and videos to prove the site was still broken).

We can no longer use the first theme this app was installed on as it doesn’t load and they couldn’t fix the problem even though their app caused it….

They eventually found a cause which was the BSS app clashing with code from another app. This wasn’t an issue for some time until randomly they started clashing.

Once the site was back live, the discounts stopped showing in customer pages and only in the checkout. They kept repeatedly saying this issue was fixed when it wasn’t.

There was then another issue not related to another app that stopped the site from loading which they fixed by changing more core theme code.

When I asked them to remove all code, they told me they had, when they hadn’t…. I had to ask multiple times and provide screenshots to prove their code was still in our site.

This app is too risky to use. Look at other one star reviews and you’ll see similar issues. They ask you to write a nice review straight away before things go wrong..

Die app funktioniert nur schlecht und nur auf einigen themes. Die Hilfe ist gleich null. Man muss Tagelang auf eine Antwort warten. Nicht zu empfehlen

Gut gedachte App! Wir haben uns über die Ansicht und die Einstellungsmöglichkeiten der App sehr gefreut, aber leider ist sie nicht funktionsfähig mit Sendcloud.

We have used this app for many year, and still it does not work.
Your orders will randomly come in without your set prices.
Your customers will have problems checking out. Your customers will not be able to check out.

The team work hard when you have a problem. But don't sell an app if it doesn't work.

I had given this app 5 stars for having so many different functions. Unfortunately, the app is too invasive to the theme's code and any small change can break your website. I followed the team's instructions step by step to remove one of their functions safely, resulting in 404 pages when you clicked on any link or product. They apologised and fixed the issue first thing in the morning, but the result unfortunately is sloppy and my theme not as polished as it used to be and cannot be fixed through the editor. They take the liberty to change the appearance of certain aspects of the website to fix the issues at hand which I do not like.

EDIT: Currently paying around 950 EUR yearly and any issue that comes up due to app updates is solved extremely slowly by contacting the team . Only get small steps towards the solution each day and then communication stops. Was having a hard time communicating as I got answers not relevant to my issue, only to realise the "expert" used AI to reply. Will be switching to Wordpress and Wholesale Suite which costs 99USD yearly for the same function, tried and tested.

Terrible app, it is very complicated to set up and the support team took a long time to respond. If you use a custom theme, you need a special developer to implement the functions of the app. There is also no way to NOT charge a wholesale customer the VAT fee. When you apply a % discount for a customer across different markets, you need to manually enter a custom pricing for each product price, because the app is not able to automatically calculate the discounted price without the VAT %. We have wasted so many days trying to fix this and get this to work, all to no avail. You are much better off handling the orders manually or try out another app.

Our store isn't compatible with the app and they weren't willing to help us unless we uninstalled other apps we currently use (we are unable to uninstall those apps). We paid $50 for the app, had it less than 24 hours, and they refused to refund us. We really wanted to work with the development team to make this app work for us, but it is unfortunate they were not willing to issue a refund.

[UPDATE] While B2B has obviously taken great strides to address my previously reported issues, they are still missing the mark, especially regarding communication. B2B has begun sending out weekly updates to note the changes ALREADY made within the past week, but unfortunately all communication is still reactive, rather than proactive and there is no acknowledgement of basic change management practices. Ideally, we would love to be notified before new enhancements are put in production and given the chance to test with a test environment or at least update our own code to match. Instead, we are notified after-the-fact and in such general terms that we don’t always know the exact changes that were made. For example, there was a recent update to the API response received upon failure to update a price rule. The layout of the JSON response was so different from the previous responses that our process posting the updates could no longer recognize failures. This change resulted in hundreds of price rule updates failing without retries or notifications. End result: our catalog pricing is completely off and must be diffed back in. This has resulted in the lost of not only orders, but a partnership that was under discussion. All things considered, I am rather surprised that this is such a highly-recommended solution in the Shopify App store.

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On the surface, it looks like a really good tool, but our experience has not been stellar. In the end, better communication and follow up would be a very helpful.
Here is a rundown on the issues we have/are encountering:

- The B2B/Wholesale team updates the app with no advanced notice and no release notes. Which wouldn’t be a big problem except that recently most updates have included changes that break the solution. This has resulted in a wide range of issues including - but not limited to - inaccurate pricing, inconsistent pricing, no pricing, and in the most recent incident – selling all items on the site for $5 each. Without advance notice we cannot even plan to test or be on alert for potential issues, which leaves us at the mercy of the customer reporting issues.

- Additionally app updates have – more than once – overwritten our custom code in various places on the site, resulting in inaccurate/incomplete information displayed to the customer. We have had to rollback or modify their changes several times to correct introduced bugs.

- We have two outstanding issues at present where:
o Liquid code contains multiple price rules for same item (only one rule defined) – customers may see either price (seems to be selected at random)
o In rare circumstances, the prices displayed to customer change when either added to the cart, or during the checkout process.

- Updates have been pushed to the API without warning and without documentation which changed how the API responds to calls, resulting – in one instance – in the creation of thousands of duplicate price records. The API online documentation has still not been updated to reflect these changes, though we did get them to rollback (or at least change again) the issue that caused the duplicate price records.

- We have submitted many tickets to customer support. While we have had great support on some tickets, others have been very poorly handled – in one instance our ticket was merged with a ticket from an entirely different customer and we started getting copied on that customer’s ticket updates, and we believe they were receiving our updates on the same issue including screenshots and documentation. In another instance our ticket was “merged with another ticket” and we never received another update; those updates are probably going to someone else.

Overall, need better release testing, communciation and overall process control while improving helpdesk ticket management and follow up.

I have had the app installed for a few months. It is full of features but it is also unreliable and has a fair share of bugs. The pricing has failed MULTIPLE times and charged customers full price instead of the discounted rate. Previously (not in the past 2 months) the "servers" have also failed and caused customers to see and be charged full pricing. Now today I have added new products to custom pricing lists and the discounts are not working. It's really fustrating to pay $50/m for an app that is not reliable.

Tried to partner with this app because it looked ideal and had good reviews. Being in Australia, we were directed to an office in Vietnam. Had a rushed demo and then we sent an email with one single question. A "ticket" was sent to us but had no content. Followed up a few times seeking an answer or more info. No replies to the emails. Eventually sent one saying will you assist, or should I give up? No response. Very disappointed.