Shopify Collabs

Shopify Collabs

Pricing
Free to install. Additional charges may apply.
Highlights
Popular with businesses in United States
Use directly in Shopify admin
Works with the latest themes
Rating
3.2 (271)
Developer
Shopify

Affiliate marketing integrated with your Shopify store

Collabs is built to help you drive more sales. Grow your affiliate program with a custom creator application page showcasing your unique brand, by sending affiliate offers and gifts to known creators, and by sharing commission offers with the Collabs creators. Get set up for free, and only pay when sales are driven. Stay up to date on commission payouts with auto-payments. Built on Shopify, means you can trust attribution and order tracking.

Collabs is built to help you drive more sales. Grow your affiliate program with a custom creator application page showcasing your unique brand, by sending affiliate offers and gifts to known creators, and by sharing commission offers with the Collabs creators. Get set up for free, and only pay when sales are driven. Stay up to date on commission payouts with auto-payments. Built on Shopify, means you can trust attribution and order tracking. more
  • Recruit creators & gather applications with a custom affiliate application page
  • Kickstart affiliate sales by sharing commission offers with Collabs creators
  • Send & track gifts through Shopify
  • Customize affiliate offers with personalized links & codes for approved creators
  • Track & pay affiliate commissions automatically via your Shopify bill
Highlights
Popular with businesses in United States
Use directly in Shopify admin
Works with the latest themes

Languages

English

Works with

Shopify Flow, Checkout, Instagram, YouTube, Shopify Flow, Klayvio, Yotpo, Subscriptions

Discount types

Discount codes, Percentage discounts, Free shipping, Shipping rates, Gifts, Custom discounts

Managing discounts

Automations, Analytics

Commission options

Automated rules, Tracking, Custom commission, Product commission, Tiered benefits

Referral management

Affiliate links, Analytics, Auto-tracking, Discounts

Affiliate experience

Page creation, Custom registration, Custom links and discounts

Payments

Auto payments, Scheduled payouts

Pricing

Free

Free to install

+ 2.9% commission processing fee on automatic payments may apply

All charges are billed in USD.

Reviews (271)

Overall rating
3.2
Counts per rating level
  • 39% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 7% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 11% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 11% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 31% of ratings are 1 stars
September 11, 2024

I’ve been using Shopify Collabs with the expectation of partnering with genuine creators to help promote my store and drive sales. Unfortunately, my experience has been far from ideal.

First, I received no email updates or notifications regarding commissions paid or orders generated through referrals. This lack of communication meant that I was completely unaware of how and where these commissions were coming from. By the time I realized what was happening, I had already paid out $648.25 in commissions for orders I never approved and from "creators" that were coupon farming code websites.

It wasn’t immediately clear that these so-called "Creators" were actually discount-farming websites, not influencers promoting my products in good faith. This wasn’t something I could notice easily—I had to spend considerable time investigating the issue deeply on my own to uncover the fact that coupon code sites were essentially hijacking the affiliate program and benefiting from commissions.

This experience has been extremely frustrating, as the Shopify Collabs program was intended to connect merchants with legitimate influencers. Instead, it’s being taken advantage of by bad actors looking to exploit the system. While I appreciate Shopify’s willingness to provide preventive measures for the future, this doesn’t address the financial losses already incurred due to this oversight.

If Shopify had better systems in place to vet creators or provide clear notifications about referral activities, I could have avoided this situation entirely.

Shopify is taking no responsibility for protecting merchants from these issues and is unwilling to refund any of the fraudulent commissions that were paid.

The Keratin Store
United States
Over 1 year using the app
Edited September 3, 2024

9/3/2024 Update - I had a very nice video call with a Shopify rep. They are genuinely trying to improve this app, which is giving us hope. We're updating our review to 5 stars in hope of a brighter future here!

I don't like writing 1-star reviews, but this app is useless. We spent serious time looking up applicable creators and offered them free $250 products, but had no responses.

Now we're just getting spammed by "beauty" influencers who have zero applicability to us.

It seems like Shopify didn't actually verify any of the creators. They either didn't sign up or are fake accounts looking for free things.

Fret Zealot
United States
About 2 years using the app
October 10, 2024

Don't loose your money here. "influencers" will receive the product and your money is gone if you don't have a contract. If you are big enough to have contracts you wouldn't use this anyway. Shopify must force creators to do their job or we should be able to impose the ones by leaving a feedback about them and other sellers should be able to see the reviews of that creator.

BST
Türkiye
Over 2 years using the app
October 8, 2024

If you want to lose business, hurt the relationship you have with possible influencers and allow Shopify to charge you up to $10,000 while holding the funds and not paying influencers for over 6 weeks - then download this trash of an app. It has been the worse decision my business ever made. Please please please do not make the mistake of EVER using this.

ShapeWaist
United States
About 2 years using the app
September 2, 2024

2.9 star average rating tells you everything you need to know. It's exactly what others are saying. This app is knowingly hosting scams. Shopify isn't filtering the "creators" at all so you just get people that are coupon harvesting. Money gets paid out and Shopify does nothing to protect the stores that pay its bills. We've lots thousands because we foolishly put our trust in this app because it was built by Shopify.

Boona
United States
About 1 year using the app

Support

Shopify can answer any questions you have about Shopify Collabs.

Developer

Shopify

151 O’Connor St, Ottawa, ON, ON, CA

Launched

April 2, 2021

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