Zapiet ‑ Pickup + Delivery

We have been using Zapiet for years across multiple businesses.
However, in recent weeks, something has been happening with incorrect tagging across all our businesses.
Their support is unable to fix this and responds with massive emails.

Highly do not recommend this app.

It rarely works, and when it does, it's very confusing. Our staff keeps finding orders that have been fulfilled in Zapiet but don't get updated in Shopify. And we have to keep training them to use Zapiet ONLY for in-store pickup orders or local delivery orders, but to use Shopify for UPS orders.

That said, this type of incomplete, poorly planned app integration seems to be the standard at Shopify. If I knew a year ago what I know today, I would not have chosen this suite of poorly planned products. And, to rub salt in the wound, the monthly license fees border on rapacious, even if the product actually worked well.

Too many Bugs.
Most recently, the delivery date that the customer placed an order for was incorrect in the system, causing us to miss orders, and their response was "we are working on it, there is no ETA".

It was quite smooth earlier, but have been facing too many issues recently.

Previous review was positive, but I have to edit it as after using the app for a few months we have experienced numerous issues that can never seem to get fixed, and support, though responsive, can never solve.

We are constantly having issues with customers selecting pick up. Some products cause pick up options to disappear for no rhyme or reason. Whenever I bring it up to support, they ask about all the other apps we are using, when clearly zapiet is the issue as this has nothing to do with our other apps. They escalate the issues, and then something 'magcically' gets fixed, but it is a temporary fix, and the issue then comes back.. and we start the process again. I am frustrated but have no other options then to keep working through these issues. As a small business, having to constantly go back and fourth to deal with these issues is time consuming and frustrating. Hope they can improve this part of the app.

OLD REVIEW: Great easy to use and so much better than any other options! Integrates with everything you need. Customer support actually knows what they are talking about too and very quick to respond.

Unfortunately, despite their best attempts, the customer service at Zapiet is to be desired. Bugs have kept arising over several years since we have used them, and the support has consistently fallen short.
They keep asking for access, keep suggesting fixes, when the issue is Zapiet side. Reading other reviews, it seems consistent.

Potential buyers should approach Zapiet with caution due to significant issues with customer service responsiveness. While the platform offers robust features for managing local deliveries and pickups, frequent problems require human intervention that is often difficult to access. I often have to wait hours to get issues resolved during which my customers are unable to complete purchases, resulting in lost sales. Unless Zapiet improves its support infrastructure to provide more reliable and timely assistance, businesses reliant on seamless online transactions may find the risk of downtime unacceptable.

Response to Claudia: Thanks for the response. You mentioned that the problem is related to multiple shipping profiles, which is typically advised against due to potential complications. However, I am not aware of any multiple shipping profiles I have set up because my entire setup was done using Zapiet customer help. If there are indeed multiple profiles, it was configured based on their advice.

Additionally, this does not align with what the service representative initially identified as the problem. The representative indicated that my customers were bypassing the widget and not seeing the options for checkout. Resolving this specific issue is crucial for my business operations. I was sent a link to directions that did not work.

I would greatly appreciate your assistance in addressing both the widget issue and the potential multiple shipping profiles, if they exist. I look forward to hearing back from someone who can help me with these matters.

I'm paying from 1 year 49 $ per month for this app, the app is very unstable and the customere care is very slowly ! From one month every day is a new problem, i opened many tickets and every answer it was an escalation with a "senior"...i'm so frustrated

I have installed this app since I launched my website with Shopify. And at the beginning, they were incredible and completely quick with their feedback. And it went swimmingly. I even referred this app to all my Shopify friends. But recently, I have encountered issues after issues. My main issue with the app is on the shipping feature. Knowing that I will launch shipping for the holiday season, I started working in the summer with Zapiet to install this in. I specifically worked with Sebastian and he was incredible. We set it up exactly the way we wanted it. But after a week of launching the shipping option, we realized that we needed to do some more improvements. So we made changes in the Shopify end and things went haywire in the Zapiet App. I would change an option in the app, and it would take a while for it to be updated on the site. Reached out to customer serviced and received feedback 24 hrs later. Because I can’t afford for being down so long, I figured a solution that would tie us over. But our shipping option is still not functioning the way it should. Currently the app is displaying all 5 shipping options. But due to the type of product we have, we can only use 2 of them. After another 24 hrs, I get a quick email saying problem is resolved and I can enable the shipping option. But that is not the case, all 5 options are still shown to our customers. I've requested multiple times for them to just jump on a quick call (no more than 15 minutes ) to just iron this all out. But it seems that they specifically skip that part of the email. They say there is a phone and email support 24/7. This definitely has not been my experience. From my experience, you get 1 email support/ day and you hope they answer all your questions. Or you'll have to wait for another 24 hrs.

UPDATE OCTOBER 15, 2024: IT'S BEEN OVER THREE WEEKS AND ZAPIET IS STILL BROKEN AND ONLY GETTING WORSE -- DROPPING DELIVERY/PICKUP INFO FROM ORDERS SO CUSTOMERS GET INCORRECT CONFIRMATION EMAILS AND CUSTOMERS ORDERING DELIVERY BUT NOT GETTING CHARGED DELIVERY FEE. We've reached out multiple times to "support" whose responses take days and sound like nobody is reading what we write. The issues have gone from bad to worse, and Zapiet's only "workaround" was to edit our confirmation email template without our permission and to send multiple incorrect emails to our real, live customers about their real, live orders (also without our permission). Zapiet staff seem to work in a vacuum and have no idea what it's like doing business in the real world because they think it's okay that using their app means we're getting live orders during the busiest season of the year with dropped fulfillment attributes, and sending incorrect confirmation emails to live customers, and making changes to our confirmation emails without our permission.

UPDATE January 8, 2024: DOES NOT WORK WITH ANY MOBILE APP SERVICE -- DON'T USE ZAPIET IF YOU WANT YOUR SHOPIFY STORE TO BE A MOBILE APP.
We spend over five weeks getting the runaround from MageNative and Shop2App because Zapiet told us both worked with Zapiet...but never got a correctly functioning app and had to follow up multiple times with Zapiet before they admitted Zapiet actually DOES NOT WORK WITH ANY MOBILE APP PROVIDER AT ALL, including the ones they had been advertising compatability with (MageNative and Shop2App). Zapiet Support staff repeatedly gave us conflicting answers, deletied their previous replies, and we left with very little evidence that anyone at Zapiet actually knew what was going on, or even took to heart all the time and money we wasted having taken Zapiet's advice. Eventually, Zapiet did finally remove MageNative and Shop2App from their list of compatible apps only after we asked them again and again and again--hoping other potential customers don't waist the money and time we did bringing on Zapiet, let alone taking their advice.

(Side note about the mobile app provide Zapiet said their app worked with when it never actually did: Our experience working with MageNative was horrible--they led us on w/misleading replies, consistently missed deadlines, wouldn't reply until we'd reached out repeatedly, and morel At times we had trouble understanding their replies at all (not sentences, using terms incorrectly). Besides checkout never ever working correctly w/ Zapiet settings on our app developed by MageNative, there were lots of other issues on our app by MageNative (like not being able to select quantity of item before adding to cart and more). Zapiet and MageNative each blamed one another for why our mobile app never worked correctly and neither actually did anything we witnessed that helped identify or solve issues. After we repeatedly outlined all these issues to both Zapiet and MageNative, finally a MageNative rep who seemed to have some level of authority offered to try building our app w/Zapiet settings again, but given our experience over 5+ weeks trying to work with MageNative and Zapiet, we definitely did not want to tie our business to these horrible services. All this to say, even without Zapiet, we would not recommend working with MageNative. )

Original Review Jan 23, 2023: Does not work with Shopify Basic Plan (even if billed annually). Their website was misleading about this, which we shared with their Support Staff and they've updated the text now, but they also still have on their site as of right now: "If you are on Shopify Starter or Basic plan, you can still use our app without the Rates feature." This doesn't make any sense because, just as one example, in order for only the pickup rate to show when a customer selects pickup during checkout, you cannot be on a Shopify Starter or Basic plan. It's like saying, you can download our app on any shopify store...but then leaving us to discover on our own that it will only work correctly if they have a Shopify plan other than Starter or Basic. As of right now, upgrading beyond the Basic Shopify plan would cost us $540...and we haven't even paid for the Zapiet app yet! What's more, we see lots of other customers on the support pages complaining about code left on their sites after uninstalling Zapiet...and this leftover code impacting the performance of other apps, too. Sounds like we have even more frustrating surprises from Zapiet in our future even though we've ended the trial and uninstalled the app. Definitely looking elsewhere for another app that provides these services before investing $540 + the app's monthly fee to even see whether or not it's a good fit for our site. Overall feel misled by the bait-and-switch of Zapiet.

When this app goes down or has issues, sales cannot go through. it happened once in the past, and now a second time today with a server issue. If it happens once, i can understand but a second time with the same problem is not reasonable for something that stops sales if it doesn't work.