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very easy to use this app, great experience
The App is easy to use with a lot of products sent within many regions around the world, although limited based on your account tier. You are also assigned an account manager which you can contact anytime. The monthly price is quite high especially for those starting off and i wish the API was free for all tiers.. This would help automate product price as it seems to fluctuate randomly; I'm now being told, you need to set alerts for these prices. Sort of defeats the purpose of the feature "Order Syncing" or any automation. It isn't automated unless you pay more for a higher tier... APIs should be free for all tiers as it's not your team developing and integrating this to my store...
Hello Modern Day | Furniture,
My name is Whitney Hopkins and I am the Head of the Customer Relations Department at Doba. I am so glad to hear such great feedback from you about Doba, and I am also more than happy to help address the concerns listed as well.
I do understand that the monthly cost may be high, and I do apologize for that. Unfortunately we don't have a work around for the pricing, other than purchasing a quarterly or yearly plan, we discount those for you since you are purchasing up front and planning to be a long time customer with us.
The API that we offer does come with a cost because we do have a team that helps our customers and their developers trouble shoot any problems that happen, and that can sometimes be a very lengthy process.
The reason we only offer it to our Enterprise plan, is because a lot of our customers only use API if they are using a developer who can successfully utilize the API calls that we offer, as most customers especially those starting off, do not know coding and cannot utilize our API without a developer.
We do however partner with Inventory Source who will provide all of the automation for you, we have an Inventory Source plan that is a little cheaper than our Business plan, if you are interested in using Inventory Source to sync your items and orders from Doba to Shopify and vice versa, please feel free to contact my customer support team. They can help get your plan changed!
Order syncing is separate from pricing alerts. Order syncing syncs your orders from Shopfiy to Doba. The reason that you need to turn on the alerts for your items, is because Doba cannot sync the price changes that the supplier on Doba updates. The reason for this is that when listing to Shopify, more often than not you will mark up the price on the item you are selling, that way you can make money on your sales. Setting custom pricing makes it hard for us to sync the price updates, I do hope you understand the reasoning for this now.
One popular option to receive a daily update on pricing changes is our FTP which is free of charge, you just need to submit a request to support and we can get that created for you.
If you would like more education on our website and how to best use your Doba account and Shopify account together, feel free to contact my support team. You can contact us by email: help@doba.com or by phone: 801.682.4666
We also have a calendar link that you can use to schedule 1 on 1 training calls with a Doba support agent.
We look forward to hearing from you!
- Whitney
I get a 4 dollar free from doba and shopify i dont think its far that i already get a small percentage from this and you just take it away. Thats a ridiculous fee charge.
Hello PetsUnited's Petshop,
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We understand your concern regarding the $4 fee. Our goal is to provide value to our users, and we apologize if this charge was unexpected. Please contact us at help@doba.com so we can review your account and address any issues you have. We appreciate your input and are committed to improving your experience with Doba.
Doba Team
This app is AWESOME!! For me anyways. No regrets at all. Love this!
I've been with Doba for at least 2 years. The wholesale prices are mostly too high to make a good margin. Also, most suppliers they have on the platform are not fully vetted, it seems.
I have placed many orders, for them to be canceled due to the supplier not having the inventory, even if they say its in stock. When that happens, shopify takes out the fees such as processing and credit card fees, etc. When an order is canceled due to DOBA not having sufficient inventory information, I LOSE money. Lets say a customer bought something and their total is $355. If you can't fulfill the order, then you have to cancel (all due to DOBA) and refund the customer. After all is said and done, I lost $45 just because they canceled an order and I won't see the difference. You will literally have to pay out of pocket for DOBA's mistakes such as this.
To me, the annual payments are NOT worth it. SAVE YOUR MONEY.
They do not hold their suppliers accountable, they do not care what you have to say, they will not making it better and will just say they will. It's just exhausting. Not to mention, most of the furniture the suppliers supply on the platform, have gotten terrible reviews and are cheaply made.
Do not waste your time and hard earned money on this joke of a platform.
I really wanted to like DOBA and gave them MANY chances, but losing money one transaction after another is unacceptable. DO BETTER
Hello Dakoda Goods & Co,
Thank you so much for taking time to post your review. My name is Whitney and I am the Head of Operations and Business Development here at Doba.
While not every product has a large profit margin due to the suppliers listing the items on our site at their own prices, there are many products on Doba that you can make money off of. We have many retailers that make their sole income from selling Doba items on sites like eBay and Amazon.
We have a team that does create curated lists of high profit items along with monthly, quarterly, and yearly sales where our suppliers offer 5%-10% off the original pricing. And if you go to our site there is a tab titled High Profit that offers products with 20% margins.
Additionally, I am sorry to hear that you have dealt with so many cancellations. I would like to say that we do hold our supplier’s accountable for cancellations, as one of the most important metrics we measure when deciding to keep or remove a supplier is their cancellation percentage. I would like to hear more about these cancellations that have happened to you, as i am one of the decision makers on suppliers being removed, and am over the team that contacts the suppliers with warnings regarding issues our customers face with them.
I would like to offer my personal help in figuring this situation out with you, and I will do everything in my power to make this right for you. Customer satisfaction has been and always will be my number one goal. Please feel free to contact me! Just chat, call, or email my customer service team and ask for Whitney. If you leave a name and number or email I will contact you as soon as possible.
I look forward to hearing from you, and hope to help you.
BEWARE!! YOU CANT MAKE MONEY! Almost every item on here is priced at or ABOVE retail price. I even found suppliers listing their prices on Doba higher than they sell it to consumers for. The only way you can make money is if your customers do not do any sort of product research before buying... Research shows, "90% of consumers research products before buying them online. The report also found that while 79% of customers consider price to be the most important factor to research before purchasing an item online".
Thank you for your review! My name is Whitney and I am the Head of the Customer relations department at Doba.
While not every product has a large profit margin due to the suppliers listing the items on our site at their own prices, there are many products on Doba that you can make money off of. We have many retailers that make their sole income from selling Doba items on sites like eBay and Amazon.
We have a team that does create curated lists of high profit items along with monthly, quarterly, and yearly sales where our suppliers offer 5%-10% off the original pricing. And if you go to our site there is a tab titled High Profit that offers products with 20% margins.
Finding items that sell the best are different for every person, and can sometimes take time to find the items to profit off of. I do see that you just signed up for our site yesterday. We encourage all users who sign up for our 30 day free trial to explore our extensive catalog of 300,000 products. Many users spend the duration of their free trial carefully researching and selecting products to find profitable products to list on their selling sites.
My support team's main goal is to help our free trial users connect their store, find products to sell, listing those items and getting at least one sale before the 30 day free trial ends. We are happy to help you learn how to sell our Doba items. Feel free to contact us via email: help@doba.com
Awesome!
I love the way that you have everything categorized. It makes it much easier to discern the products that I wish to sell.
This was my first time placing and order an I didn't have things set up correctly. The video tutorials were very helpful and I was able to place my order easily. I'm very happy with the Doba app so far.
Hello Home Kitchen Deals ,
Thank you so much for your review! We are so happy to hear that you are enjoying Doba. Please feel free to reach out to our customer service team if you ever need any help!
There is no option to put in an FPO address, with no FPO option there is no way for me to use the platform. Called Customer Services and was on the phone for 2 hours to try to fix the issue and was not able to add the address. I kept getting told that they would call me back in 24 hours with an answer. I had to ask for an hour to talk to a manager, then the manager told me that she would talk to the billing department and was going to call me in 24 hours. I told them that I have not been able to use the platform because of this and requested a refund and was told that the manager could not do it and had to ask the billing department to do it and was not sure if it was possible.
Hello Howell Family Tactical,
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience you have faced with the FPO address issue. We understand how frustrating this must have been and regret that our customer service did not meet your expectations. Please reach out to us at help@doba.com so we can address your concerns directly and work towards a resolution, including discussing your refund request. Your feedback is crucial for us to improve our services, and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention.
Doba Team