Reviews (5,709)

Overall rating
4.7
Counts per rating level
  • 78% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 14% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 3% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 1% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 3% of ratings are 1 stars
What merchants think

Feedback submitted

Merchants highly value this app for its real-time communication features that enhance customer service efficiency and sales. They appreciate its seamless integration with Shopify, user-friendly interface, and mobile accessibility, which allow for managing customer interactions on-the-go. Key features like quick replies, automated responses, and customization options, along with spam detection, are noted for saving time and maintaining a clean communication environment. Additionally, it's recognized as a cost-effective solution with substantial functionality at no extra cost.

September 13, 2022

I wish there were more customization features, being able to control the size of the box, and font. The chat box takes a big chunk of the website. There is also no control over the auto pop-up.

Sofia Al Asfoor
Bahrain
About 1 year using the app
Shopify replied October 7, 2022

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with our team. We appreciate your request for more control with styling of the app, and we will be sure to share this back with our development team. -Olivia, Shopify Support

September 18, 2022

easy to use and used often by customers. easy to use and used often by customers. easy to use and used often by customers.

Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Resources
United States
7 months using the app
Edited December 1, 2020

Have never used it before so I have no opinion as of this moment. Don't need 100 characters to make my point however.

Heartland Soapworks
United States
Over 1 year using the app
Shopify replied December 1, 2020

Hello Heartland Soapworks, thanks for your review and feedback!

If you want to add more feedback at a later time to this review, feel free to update it!

You can also reach our team if you have any questions or issues. We can be reached at ping@shopify.com

All the best to your success!

Best regards,
Veronica N.
Senior Support Specialist - Ping

February 11, 2022

The interface is unnecessarily complicated. Too many screens have to be navigated to accomplish knowing if there are messages or even replying. However, it is useful and we will continue using it. Recommendation - make the dashboard the place linked to messages and be able to respond much more easily.

SCARS Company Store
United States
About 1 year using the app
Shopify replied February 16, 2022

Hey, there. Thanks so much for taking the time to write a review and provide us with this feedback. I'll be sure to pass these points on to our development team to be considered for any future updates. Thank you! - Brie, Shopify Support

March 30, 2022

So handy for a small business with employees who take on multiple roles! Love that I can easily respond straight away on my phone as I go about my other work responsibilities, and that it syncs with Facebook, etc. Can't wait for the Instagram integration!

Kiwi Made Toys
New Zealand
15 days using the app
November 4, 2022

Email notifications for every damn message sent! What a pain in the rear. HOW DO I SHUT THIS CRAP OFF?

Built eBikes
United States
About 1 year using the app
Shopify replied December 28, 2022

Hey, there. Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review for Shopify Inbox. We appreciate you letting us know that the amount of notifications you're receiving are annoying. I'm happy to let you know that you can control your notification settings within your Shopify Inbox App. Check out these steps: 1.) Login to your Shopify Admin. 2.) Access the 'Shopify Inbox' app from your admin. 3.) On the left hand menu, click the 'notification' menu item that appears underneath 'Inbox.' 5.) Scroll down to the 'Notification Triggers' section and un-check the email notification boxes. This should lead to a reduction in those annoying email notifications for you. -Imogen, Shopify Support

Edited August 2, 2022

Shopify Inbox is finally getting enough functionality to begin being useful for many merchants. Here's how to get to five stars, Shopify: -Customers need to be able to attach images in chat
-Team members should be able to have internal discussions about a chat that the customer can't see. Our current workaround is to communicate outside of Inbox to discuss issues in Inbox
-Add the ability to turn off 'add to cart' and 'buy now' when inserting Products in chat. We want people to see our subscription options and 'add to cart' and 'buy now' allows the customer to bypass the product view and miss those options
-I dream of Shopify offering a customer Knowledge Base feature for merchants with a nice standardized theme. In addition to having this knowledge base available from store menus, customers can search this knowledge base within the chat client, saving support agents a lot of time. Intercom does this really well
-Chat conversations can be synced to CRM software like Hubspot
-Customers can see the agent's name (or handle) in chats as opposed to the chat always being from "Company Name"
-Agents can upload a profile photo
-Collision avoidance so multiple agents don't accidentally respond to the same chat at the same time. This could be as simple as allowing agents to see when other agents are typing on a chat
-Agents can set their availability to away which will pause audible notifications
-Browser notifications should not show each message from a customer and another agent to all agents. With multiple ongoing conversations, this gets very loud and when an agent is helping a customer, the other agents do not need to see every message sent in those chats
-Just because someone enters their email address on Chat, it doesn't make them a Customer. We define a customer as someone who has made a purchase, so it would be nice to have a separate bucket for these contacts instead of adding them all to the customers list in Shopify. Alternatively, if Customers in Shopify were renamed Contacts, this may make more sense

Atla Water
United States
About 1 year using the app
Shopify replied August 10, 2022

Thank you so much for taking the time to write your review and to lay out all of your suggestions here. It's greatly appreciated and I can see why all of the recommendations you have made would help make Shopify Inbox an even more useful tool for you and your business.

Merchant feedback plays a big part in how our development team decides how to improve our platform, and this is especially true of our apps and Shopify Inbox in particular. I will be sure to pass all of your suggestions onto our team for their consideration. Thanks again for getting in touch. -Victor, Shopify Support

November 7, 2023

This app has great potential. Based on where it's development is at the moment, I gave it 4 stars since it's still fairly basic. For what it does, it does it really well, otherwise it would have been an easy 5-star rating. The fact that it's free, and works right out of the box is tremendously helpful for starting-off business who can't afford 3rd party solutions that cost an arm-and-a-leg. Eventually as INBOX continues to grow and develop, it's usefulness will continue to grow as well.

E3Tuning
United States
7 months using the app
April 19, 2022

お客様とのやり取りに使用していますが、時々メッセージが来ていることに気が付きません、改善方法はありませんか。
また、海外からの問い合わせが多いので、翻訳機能があるととても助かります。今はメッセージをコピーして、googlの翻訳機能を使用しています。

bb sports
Japan
7 months using the app
January 5, 2023

It's a great app when you're using the desktop version within the store, but 1 star gets knocked off for the mobile version. Mobile is sloooow and buggy and long conversations with a customer make the app almost unusable.

Fatty Pancake
United States
7 months using the app