Reviews (557)

Overall rating
4.3
Counts per rating level
  • 76% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 3% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 2% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 5% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 15% of ratings are 1 stars
What merchants think

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Merchants appreciate the high-quality products, including durable prints and apparel, and fast fulfillment, often shipping the same day. The customer service is responsive, aiding with any issues promptly. The user-friendly interface eases integration and product addition to stores. Merchants also value the wide product selection, competitive pricing, and personalization features, which contribute to business growth and profitability. Additional support includes video tutorials and an active Facebook group.

Edited December 20, 2020

Quality control and support doenst exist at all. They are repeatedly shipping misprinted/wrong orders and even after 10 days i havent recevied any response from them. It would be better if they just SHUT DOWN!

TheCozyApparel2
United States
About 2 years using the app
October 30, 2018

Great App. The CustomCat team is very knowledgeable and helped me out a lot getting started with my business. My orders get shipped within 1-2 days. Keep it up.

Noeliashop.com
United States
About 2 months using the app
April 15, 2021

Really good app to help get your biz ideas going and flowing and GREAT team at CustomCat to work with you along the way. Get in the game with CustomCat and Go Detroit!

MurphTees
United States
About 2 months using the app
February 1, 2022

This is my second store using CustomCat. Great pricing, great quality, and if there's ever an issue, their support team works hard at getting things right (for you and your customers!) Give them a try - you won't regret it!

Inspire Fantasy
United States
About 2 months using the app
Edited March 19, 2018

I am a newbie to custom cat and I enjoy using it but when there was a cliche I reached out for help and was lucky to have josh turkin I received a quick response to my emails and solving the issue was even faster thankyou josh turkin for making this newbie feel at home with the custom cat family!

Deetee Designs
United States
About 2 months using the app
December 23, 2019

This company doesn't care, I'm a long term seller and most of my orders are not made in a time frame that they promise, also they use UPS for shipping which takes a lot more time and lost packages. They don't answer on my mails and pleads to send out already, a few orders were over 14 days and still not done, I don't get my money back, if the customers wants to return the product it goes to charity, it's a let down! Products get bad reviews and I wouldn't recommend it long-term to nobody. This is my one and only bad review ever, I've recieved many bad ones because of this company. Stay away is my advice. Other honorable mentions, some mugs are blurry, some crooked and poor prints go through quality check like it's perfect, app has it's own problems with not working or unable to upload new designs etc...i could write a novel, the biggest problem and dissapointment is customer support and no priority when they screw up the product and has to be remade, it takes weeks.

FunnyGuyStore
Slovenia
Almost 2 years using the app
October 6, 2017

The customer service is terrible. I don't how else to explain. Quality of the products are OKAY. Not steller. But just hope you don't have any issues. Customer service is 1 star with this company. In response time and help.

Je Graphics
United States
Almost 2 years using the app
June 4, 2021

I have not started selling but CustomCat has already earned all my sympathy. Great products, great mockups and the best support team I have seen for a long long time. I just miss the possibility of keeping products ready to upload or edit, and an easier shipping setup. Still, I have checked many POD apps and this is the best by far for me. Just go for it.

Shapes of Wisdom
Spain
About 2 months using the app
Edited March 4, 2019

We started using this app for their wide selection, but after literally every single order having issues (I never knew how many new issues could be present with each order), we have pulled all but a small handful of their items from our store. The items we have left do not seem to have as many issues as others.

Overall, you're wasting time, stress, and money over an inferior product. Just use Printful, they have not messed up a single order.

EDIT BASED OFF OF RESPONSE: It was not fair of me to say that every order was wrong. I will note though, not every order with an issue was reported. However, what we quickly learned about CustomCat, was when a customer ordered an item from this vendor, we were crossing our fingers that their order would not have issues. On the flip side, Printful has a 100% success rate. We have not returned 1 Printful item.

Additionally, several of the "replaced" items had NEW issues. So some orders were replaced twice. Why on earth would we trust this vendor at that point? We want our customers to know that they will receive a quality product from a quality brand... and we were not that brand with CustomCat as a vendor.

I'm not leaving this review to be a jerk, just want a better product. I'll also say we have since removed every single CustomCat item from our online store in the past month or 2.

Haberle Congress Brewing Company
United States
Almost 2 years using the app
Bespoke Technologies replied March 4, 2019

Hi! I am sorry you had a poor experience using our app...After lookin at your account, I can see there were a few orders with issues, not all of your orders. The ones that did have issues were replaced on our behalf. We are great, but not perfect. We operate at 1% replacement rate this 1% contains any possible screw up. Also, over 95% of our orders leave our facility in 2-3 business days. Only in unique circumstances would something take longer than that.

March 8, 2023

We wish the customer service would answer questions that were asked. Here were the three questions that we asked the last time:

1) read somewhere that says that shipping rates to Canada have changed. Correct?

2) In one of your tutorial videos, it says you [MUST] have a US return address. How is that going to work for non-US-based companies like ours (we are in Canada)?

3) We also find that the "Design Library" within Customcat is rather limiting. Same as mockup options. Can one make the designs from say "Placeit" and have the designs imported into Customcat directly?

The following is the triggered long-winded corporate sermon received, providing an answer to a question that wasn't asked. When we told them we were disappointed that they didn't answer any of the questions asked. We received no further response. Unfortunately, this wasn't the first time an answer was provided to a question that wasn't asked.

"We don't return items for fail deliveries outside of the USA.

"If you are operating your business outside the United States of America or do not wish to receive any returns to your address, please enter our address in your app settings:

"1300 Rosa Parks Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48216

"If a package is returned to CustomCat, for whatever reason including being undeliverable, it will be donated upon receipt. We will not be contacting you if your customer returns a package for any reason. No package should ever be returned, by your customer, to our fulfillment center.

"Our receiving department is here to get the blank product on the floor for decoration. We are not the intermediary between the customer and the seller so be sure to update your FAQs, return policies, etc. Your customers should never ship their decorated orders back to Detroit for any reason. It is very important that you reform your store's Return Policy. Any arrangements for returns, or exchanges, consistent to your posted policies on your websites, need to be handled between the buyer and the seller.

"We understand the importance of having a variety of options available for designing products and creating mockups, and we appreciate your feedback.

"To address your concern, many merchants use third-party applications such as Placeit.net and Smartmockups.com to create product mockups. After creating the products, you can update them at any time within your ecommerce back end in the products section."

Science & Nature Co.
Canada
Almost 2 years using the app