Shopify Collabs

We have been utilizing Shopify Collabs for the past 10 months and it has really helped to significantly enhance our influencer and affiliate partner strategies. This platform is incredibly intuitive, simplifying the creation of affiliate links, tracking sales, and managing product gifting. One of the standout features of Collabs is its strategic flexibility. We can seamlessly optimize our creators and their links around critical sales or promotions and new product launches. For example, Collabs makes it quite easy to adjust our strategies by moving creators between different tiers, allowing us to increase their codes and links during key time periods.

Additionally, with seamless automations through integrations like Klaviyo/Flow, communication with our influencers is efficient and scalable. We've explored other affiliate platforms, but Collabs, while not entirely perfect, definitely leads the market in user experience and capabilities for both merchants and creators.

In today's evolving influencer landscape, where it often feels "pay-to-play," it's challenging to justify additional tech or platform fees on top of influencer payments. The inclusion of Collabs in our existing Shopify subscription allows us to reallocate those savings directly towards influencer partnerships, maximizing our investment.

We do see room for improvement with the onboarding features for new creators, particularly for those with whom we don't yet have established relationships. It would be a game-changer if new creators could accept gifts more seamlessly without needing to set up an account. Currently, we approach these partnerships incrementally by sending gifts manually to build genuine relationships, eventually setting them up with an affiliate code through Collabs. While this method is effective, a more streamlined process would be even better.

Overall, Shopify Collabs is an essential asset for our business and we plan for this to become a key sales channel for us as we scale the brand.

I had high hopes for this app, it runs smoothly and was very easy to set up BUT we have lost so much product/income to Influencers that take their gifts and never post and then don't answer messages. There doesn't appear to be any deterrents for Influencers to stop them stealing either as we cannot leave reviews or let the app know to stop this happening ( If there is a way to do this please inform me). We are now not accepting any further applications due to the amount of product we have lost this year. There are some fantastic influencers out there but sadly there are a lot of people who just want free things as well.

AWFUL APP, opens up the opportunity for scammers to use existing codes and basically steal from you without realizing so. We had a "creator" receive payments for multiple months, with zero notifications throughout. I only realized by luck once I looked at the Shopify bill in detail.

Shopify showed zero accountability despite many stores experiencing the same issue. Avoid at ALL COSTS, and do not count on Shopify to be able to dispute those payments.

Total SCAM!!! Please do not use!

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