Freight Club

User BEWARE! This company has shady billing practices and will bill you for additional fees afterwards that are not true the one they use all the time is limited access, which should be illegal to charge because we have 10 loading docs with trucks coming in and out daily and they have tried to charge this multiple time and when you try to dispute this with overages you get the runaround for months (yes months) which they are hoping you will give up but some of these charges are $100 -$300 which will add up and that I feel is their shady tactics, if you also get this please email it to your attorney general so hopfully enough of us can get this and stop them from this bad practice

UPDATE 1/9/24: I'm amending my review to 4 stars (up from 3) because my account manager reached out to (1) help me fix some settings in my account portal which should fix the issues of notifications no longer going out to customers, and (2) offer me 90 days to grow to meet their shipping minimums. While I can't give 5 stars because of some of the surprise bills and tracking/tech issues, overall, I'm happy with the service and would like to remain on it.

OG REVIEW: It was good, but we've had issues with them changing the rates after the shipment a couple of times. There's no recourse - they just charge your bill.

Now, it's not syncing with Shopify anymore so there's no shipping confirmation emails going out, despite it appearing to be set up properly and nothing changing.

The customer service person is helpful, and I really like her, but I'm going to be getting kicked off their platform in mid-January since we are just building our business and don't ship enough per month on LTL. So, now it's time to find another carrier I can work with directly.

1/5/2024 - Update: Following my 12/15/23, Manager, Chris Mammen reached out to get a better understanding of what was occurring with my account, Chris really listened to understand and help and not simply site, "business policies" and toss me away, he identified the root cause, kept open and frequent communication and stated he's working internally for future improvements, with the type of customer service being provided to us, Clients, and the processes that lead us here to begin with. My original rating was a 1 star, I have updated this to 3 stars, solely on Chris's efforts. Chris, as an individual, gets 5 stars, he's a good human being.

12/15/23 - Update: This company assigned Jason Wu to assist me, I spoke with him twice, his approach was simply to advice of Freight Clubs policies, why my disputes were not their fault, request that I take down my negative reviews because in his words “it’s not fair” offer a $200 “good faith” shipping credit. When I did not JUMP at the “good faith” offer, he threatened to remove it. Freight Club is this the Senior Management style you’ve trained your associates to have?

The integration with Shopify was easy enough, thereafter, I do not recommend. The customer service are not advocates for the seller, they side with the carrier on any/all issues. They are slow following up with carriers that have delays in shipment pickup and delivery. As a seller, you'll end up doing all of the leg work including follow-up to resolve issues and for the amount being charged by the shipments, their service needs a complete overhaul. Use a different LTL service. When disputing overage charges, they debit unauthorized charges while your cases are in dispute. This company is trash.

Installed the app and can't get a response from support for almost a week. Would only recommend this app if you like wasting your time.

DO NOT EVER USE THIS APP. Use Eniture with Worldwide Express, Goship, or any other app that allows for LTL shipping or UPS shipments, just not this one. Will be moving off this app soon (in the process now).

Absolutely horrible integration, here is a gigantic list of reasons why:

1. Multiple website breaking glitches which go on for weeks at a time undiagnosed. When brought up, tech team tells you it's your problem, not theirs. Or that they cannot identify the issue. Or it requires an enormous amount of legwork and follow-up on your part to get them to fix anything.

2. Sales leads/account leads do not read emails thoroughly or respond appropriately to them. You have to remind them of conversations from weeks or months ago because they do not respond or provide follow-up to conversation or issues that you brought up. Particularly bad if the issue drags out for weeks, seems they have selective amnesia. Again, you are responsible for follow-up not them.

3. Will not take responsibility for issues, on the tech side.

4. Will not take responsibility for issues on the carrier side.

5. Will side with the carrier. Are not advocates for you as the seller.

6. Are slow to follow up with carriers, and have to be reminded often about follow-ups with carriers.

7. Drag out the review process, take months to approve claims. Almost as slow as just getting a claim approved with the carrier directly.

8. Do not alert you when breaks occur on the tech side, claim that "you are the outlier" and that this is a "one-off" situation, not a global issue. Then cannot find a solution to the issues and do not properly test that the issues have been resolved.

9. Freightclub has partnered with carriers that take 2-3 MONTHS to deliver shipments, with carriers that schedule, then cancel, and reschedule with your customers multiple times, causing frustration, horrible communication, damage, and lost time on the customer end (carriers CEVA and Fragilepak are the particular offenders in this regard). Customers have to take multiple days off work, only to get their appointments cancelled by the carriers you booked through Freightclub. Carriers deny the claims that there is anything wrong or that they have rescheduled multiple times (see Fragilepak).

9. Have global, continuous, and reoccurring/unfixable tech issues which include:

- Products not importing
- Products importing incorrectly
- Updates to products erasing existing data upon import
- Dimensions continuously being erased, and having to re-input multiple times
- Additional packages being continuously erased, and having to re-input multiple times
- Rates not pulling correctly
- Providers showing up that should not be showing up as valid shippers for your product
- Landing page/home page broken
- Not able to book shipments at all
- Not able to book with certain carriers (not specified)
- After booking, shipment is not actually booked, and never gets booked, even though your card shows pending charges

I believe this company's customer service and tech team have taken a huge hit since the pandemic and it shows in the horrific experience we have continuously experienced using this platform. The issues have steadily gotten worse since we started using the app. We are in the process of desperately trying to move on from this company by any means necessary. We would not recommend Freightclub to anyone under any circumstances in any capacity whatsoever. STAY AWAY.