Blockify Fraud Filter, Blocker
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Im honestly so mad at this app. It has a block countries screen. It says "Add the countries you want to Block" it lists all countries, and includes at the top a "Add non-US countries" "Add Non-EU countries" etc... So i click those, as Im trying to block basically China/India and other non-US, non-EU etc... Done right? Easy? I assumed those were at the top because they were frequently used too. I needed to walk away, but came back to half a dozen messages from customers saying the website was down. And it was.
Support said, sorry, "Add non-US" blocks the US. Im sorry... when its a "Block these countries" and you have a "non-US" option, that means block NON-US. Ie, The US is whitelisted. I mean, I should have realized before turning it on that that is BADLY worded. But I assumed both being an option at the top AND having read it over twice (and now again) that I had it set right. But no... they failed to account for their own double negative and Im out hundreds (if not thousands) because of it.
Thank you for taking the time to share this and we're truly sorry for the experience and the impact it had on your store.
You're absolutely right. The wording of "Add Non-US Countries" inside a "Block Countries" screen creates a double negative that reads as "block everything that is NOT the US," meaning the US should be safe. We completely understand why you interpreted it that way and honestly, it should have worked exactly as you expected.
The reality is that each rule in our app works independently, so combining "Non-US," "Non-EU," and "Non-AUS" rules ended up blocking all traffic rather than protecting those regions. This is a design and UX problem on our end, and we take full responsibility for the confusion and the lost revenue it caused.
We've already escalated this to our product team to improve so no other merchant has to go through the same experience.
We'd love the opportunity to make this right. We've reached out to you directly via chat and hope you'll give us a chance to show you the app working the way you intended.
Again, we're very sorry. Your feedback is directly driving changes to how we present these rules, and we genuinely appreciate you calling it out.
I have used it for approximately 3 weeks, It blocked many unwanted orders but also I still kept getting orders in so I chatted with them and they suggested to use their beta option that blocks bot checkouts. 1 week later with almost 0 sales and 2k+ on ad spent ( usually averaging 1,5K revenue) I realized it was blocking 95% of the people that they were trying to checkout.
Thousands of dollars in lost revenue because their beta version did not work with my theme. thanks but no thanks
Hi there,
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience, we truly value your feedback and understand how concerning this situation must have been, especially with the impact on your sales.
After carefully reviewing your case, our team has been looking closely into the behavior you described. Your cooperation and detailed report have been incredibly helpful, and we’re actively working on improvements to ensure the feature performs as expected across different setups.
We’d really appreciate the chance to support you further. Please check your email, our team has reached out via direct support so we can assist you more closely and help review everything together.
Thank you again for your feedback and for helping us improve. 🙏
The app is blocking so many other apps from my website, and we just can not fix it. We tried to contact you for so long, but no luck. Would love to change this review to 5 stars, but for now it looks impossible.
Hi there, we’re truly sorry you’ve had to deal with this, especially after trying for so long to reach us. We understand how disruptive it is when an app interferes with other apps on your Shopify store, and this isn’t the experience we want for you.
We’ve carefully checked our support inbox but we still can’t find your earlier message. The last conversation we have on file is from December, so we’ve reached out to you again to get a few details and properly investigate what’s happening on your store. I hope you can give us another chance, we’ll prioritize this and work with you until it’s resolved.
We really appreciate the chance to make this right.
Best regards,
Kaylee - Customer Support Leader at Blockify Team
This app doesn't work.
We signed up for the Enterprise tier.... but we still get bot abandoned checkouts and page views.
Not worth the time or money.
I've got screenshots, but they conveniently cannot be uploaded.
Hi,
We’re truly sorry for the frustration you’ve experienced. We’d like to clarify that on Shopify, the checkout page is a protected area, meaning no third-party app (including Blockify) can fully prevent visitors or bots from entering checkout or creating abandoned checkouts. This is a platform-level limitation across the entire Shopify ecosystem, not specific to our app or plan.
What Blockify can do is help validate and restrict risky order placements and reduce bot impact through rules and filters, but abandoned checkouts cannot be completely blocked by any app.
Our support team has reached out to you directly via email to follow up on your case in more detail. We truly hope you’ll take a moment to read our message and allow us the opportunity to review your setup, understand the bot patterns you’re seeing, and support you properly. We’d really appreciate the chance to work with you and see if we can improve the situation together.
One star. I engaged with two support agents, Lina and later Florence. Lina stopped responding for extended periods, resulting in a chat that lasted nearly an hour solely because of prolonged response times. The issue itself was not complex, but the lack of timely communication made it impossible to proceed. By the time Florence intervened, I was already preparing to exit due to the delays.
Lina made several statements that were incorrect, contradictory, and misleading. She stated that the bots “won’t hurt anything,” despite the fact that they were actively affecting my analytics and abandoned checkout data. She also stated that “blocking is not foolproof” and the app may or may not work because bots can change their IP addresses. This directly undermines the fundamental purpose of a security and bot-prevention solution. Her claim that the free plan is primarily for “exploring” features rather than actually using them contradicts the way the app is marketed and creates a misleading expectation for new users.
Florence later reiterated the same limitations and added that DNS-level blocking, a critical security function, is still “in testing” and not available. This indicates that essential protection mechanisms are incomplete or not fully operational, regardless of whether a merchant is on a free or paid plan. For a security-focused app, this represents a significant reliability concern.
After uninstalling the app, I immediately received back-to-back emails from Florence containing shifting explanations. Additionally, within thirty minutes of the initial installation, I was already receiving promotional emails from Blockify. The frequency, timing, and volume of these emails felt excessive and spam-like.
As a small business owner, this experience was profoundly disappointing. Security tools must be dependable, transparent, and functional upon installation. Hearing directly from support that the app is “not foolproof” and may or may not work—even on paid tiers—raises serious concerns about reliability, consistency, and product readiness. Anything less than stable, predictable performance becomes a costly waste of time and resources.
I strongly encourage prospective users to review the one-star feedback as well as comments from long-term users who have relied on this app for over a year. The recurring themes in those reviews reflect the same support, performance, and reliability issues I encountered.
Hi there,
Thank you for taking the time to share such a detailed review, and we are truly sorry for the frustrating experience you had with both our app and our support.
You are absolutely right that the long response times, inconsistent answers, and unclear explanation about bots and blocking are not acceptable for a security-focused app. Your comment about DNS-level blocking still being in testing and the email frequency feeling spam-like also shows we did not set expectations or our communication correctly.
We have already escalated this case to our product and support leads to review your entire journey, retrain our team on clearer, more accurate messaging, and adjust our features and email flows so they better match what merchants expect from Blockify. Our product manager has reached out personally to share more details and provide a proper solution on your concern. I hope you can get back to us so that we can make things right.
Thank you again for sharing feedback so that we can improve and we do hope to have another chance to serve you.
Best regards,
Kaylee - Customer Support Team Lead at Blockify
The online chat support is very slow and unable to adequately address questions or concerns. The app itself isn’t very intuitive or clear to use. My goal was simply to exclude certain countries from accessing my website, as I noticed a sudden surge in traffic and suspected bot activity. I blocked all the countries I could identify, but unfortunately, the app failed to do what it was supposed to. I have uninstalled it and will search for a more effective solutions.
Hi there,
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re truly sorry to hear about your experience with our app and support team. We completely understand how frustrating it must have been when the blocking feature didn’t work as expected, especially while you were trying to protect your store from unwanted traffic.
Our team is continuously improving both the app’s performance and user interface, and your feedback helps us understand where to focus next. If you’re open to it, we’d really appreciate the opportunity to review what happened and make things right — please reach out again via live chat, email us at support@omegatheme.com, or simply reply to the follow-up email our agent sent earlier today.
Thank you again for giving our app a try, and we wish you all the best with your store.
They advertise saying they can block checkout bots, I get thousands of abandoned checkout bots a day with some placing successful orders, and even after using this app it still continues and support doesn't know why. I do not recommend it if you are having this issue.
Hi,
We’re truly sorry for the frustration and inconvenience this situation has caused you. It’s very upsetting to hear that abandoned checkout bots are still affecting your store despite using our app, and we deeply regret that your experience hasn’t met the expectations we strive to deliver.
Some of these issues can be caused by complex bot behaviors or conflicts with other apps, which may not be fully preventable on our side. That said, we feel responsible for helping you as much as possible and want to make things right.
We’ve sent you an email with detailed steps and we would be very grateful if you could reply so we can work closely with you to find a solution. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us, and we sincerely hope to support you in resolving this issue.
I installed Blockify to manage bot traffic, but it ended up doing more harm than good. It mistakenly treated legitimate search engine crawlers (like Googlebot) as threats and blocked them. As a result, the blocking screen was indexed instead of my actual product and collection pages, which led to a major drop in my search visibility.
According to Shopify Support:
"Blockify is treating legitimate search engine crawlers as threats and showing them the blocking screen, which then gets indexed instead of your actual product pages and collections."
"This explains why disabling the app a week ago didn't help – the damage was already done to your search rankings, and recovery takes time even after fixing the root cause."
This issue has had a serious impact on my store’s organic traffic and overall SEO health. Even after uninstalling the app, recovery is slow and ongoing.
I do not recommend this app unless you're fully aware of the risks and have a way to control how it handles search engine bots.
Hi friend,
We’re truly sorry to hear about your experience and the difficulties you’ve faced. We understand how important traffic and SEO health are for your store, and we regret the frustration this situation has caused.
Our team is continuously working to improve Blockify so that merchants can manage traffic effectively without disruption. We also take feedback like yours seriously, as it helps us identify where we can enhance both features and safeguards.
Our team has already reached out to work with you directly, and we hope you’ll give us the opportunity to continue supporting you.
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us.
It doesn’t block anyone or any countries, it doesn’t work at all. I tried my website on three mobile phones and asked my friends to verify it for me. It doesn’t work!
Thank you for your feedback, and we're truly sorry to hear about your experience. We understand how frustrating it must be when the app doesn’t work as expected.
Our team is committed to resolving issues like this, and we’d love the opportunity to assist you. It’s possible that there might be a configuration issue or a specific setting that needs adjustment. Our support team would like to reach out to you to investigate the problem and ensure the app functions properly for you.
Your satisfaction is our priority, and we’ll do everything we can to make things right. Thank you for giving us the chance to improve!
They just want your money. I downloaded this app and submitted a help desk ticket to figure out how it could solve my problem. I was told to get the enterprise subscription to block checkout. The problem is not that deep and that was the best they could do. Deleting the app
Hi,
We’re sorry to hear about your disappointment with the Blockify Fraud Blocker app.
To clarify, the Fraud Blocker app is designed to protect your store from the moment a visitor accesses it and to prevent high-risk customers from placing orders. It does not directly block checkout, which is why our support team recommended the Blockify Checkout Rules app as a better fit for your specific needs.
We understand that the upgrade suggestion in the Fraud Blocker app may not have matched your expectations, but our customer support team’s intention was to understand your requirements and guide you toward the most suitable solution. Since it seemed you did not wish to continue using the Blockify Fraud Blocker, we referred you to the Checkout Rules app, which is specifically designed to manage checkout-related blocking and restrictions.
We have already reached out to you privately to provide further assistance. Please check your email and reply to us, or feel free to share more details with us directly at support@omegatheme.com — we’d really love to hear from you.
