Shopify Collabs

The app is ok for managing your own collabs.

But collabs that you get from Shopify, i.e. collab applications are mostly SEO parasites. All they did about a year ago - get your coupon, add it to a coupon website and make money of your on your brand.
Shopify tried to deal with this.

What they do now is create a website that has some info from your website and add their collab link there. Some people click on their page found in Google and that's it - they make money of you. The more traffic your attract - the more well known your brand is, the more they will make money of your. BUT THEY WON'T BRING YOU TRAFFIC or any extra money. They will simply reduce your margins.

So app itself if ok, but most collabs applying via Shopify are scammers.

Also, if you have a subscription model, app does not correctly attribute sales.

Payment transparency is very low, support provide no help and affiliates can be frustrated at long unclear payouts.

DO NOT USE!!
We have used this for a few years and it was all good. But recently I checked into how it was doing and saw DISTURBING fraud and scams. I do not know how they are doing it, but these affiliates are able to attribute sales to themselves. I had a $6000 wholesale order done directly via draft invoice and one of the affiliates was able to get commission on it. After digging into more orders, I found almost every single order coming from these affiliates were fraudulent due to attribution errors via shopify and fraud. All the affiliates are from out of the country (Not US) and have fake social media profiles.

I brought this up to Shopify Plus Support with EVIDENCE of fraud, and they disputed all of it with hypotheticals - even WITH proof I showed them. In total I am out $9,000 in the last 90 days. Don't even think about getting this app.

Shopify Collabs has been a great tool for growing brand awareness at GatorStrike Pickleball. It makes it easy to connect with creators who genuinely align with our brand and products, streamlining outreach, tracking, and collaboration all in one place.

As a performance-focused pickleball brand selling paddles and accessories at https://www.GatorStrike.com
, having a simple way to build creator partnerships is huge. Shopify Collabs helps us discover new partners, manage gifting, and scale influencer marketing without unnecessary friction.

Great product. This is what I have been looking for for a long time as it easily integrates with Shopify products and allows me to send gifts. I wish there was a way I could set up individual campaigns that creators could apply for.

Not sure why no one knows or mentions this but partial refunds are not deducted from commissions!!! We have had orders that were mostly returned and the affiliate keeps their entire commission unless it’s a full refund. This is so basic and dumb that Shopify collabs doesn’t deduct partial refunds. BEWARE!

How can you not filter by age?? Seems like the next most obvious filtering choice

It's good. Takes a lot of time to search for the influencers you want. Everytime you select one - you have to GO BACK TO THE start of the list and rescreen everything and then scroll down just to go to the next page.

Maybe allow additional screening options like
- AGE
- member of collabs already
- etc

À date on adore! Super userfriendly. J'ai un peu de difficulté avec la traduction en français mais sinon on se demande pourquoi on ne l'a pas connu avant!

Filled with fraud, not worth it in the slightest. More of a headache than emails.