Klaviyo: Email Marketing & SMS

Update*

After our feedback, Klaviyo team reached out to us and solved our problem. Hope they solve this problem for everyone. Thank you Klaviyo team.

If giving this app 0 stars were possible, we would seriously consider it.

Seems like entire system built to rip you off.

We paused our use of Klaviyo for a while. When we returned, our paid plan had been deactivated, which was understandable. However, we then encountered a billing loop that made it impossible to clean up our account without first paying for profiles we do not intend to use.

Here is the issue:

1. Without an active plan, we cannot suppress profiles manually, in bulk, or through the API.
2. We also cannot reactivate the account on the free plan because the number of active profiles exceeds the free-tier limit.
3. The only option presented is to purchase a paid plan covering the entire existing profile count first, even though the purpose of reactivating the account is to suppress inactive profiles and reduce that count.
4. If we pay for the oversized plan, suppress the profiles, and then downgrade, the initial payment is not refunded or credited toward future invoices.
5. We also tested bulk suppression through the API. The API accepted the request and marked the job as complete, but all profiles were skipped:

* Total count: 100
* Completed count: 0
* Skipped count: 100

6. We found similar reports in Klaviyo’s community forums, but we could not find a practical self-service solution.
7. Access to customer support is also restricted without an active paid plan, which makes resolving the issue even more difficult.

This creates a frustrating circular problem: we cannot suppress profiles without reactivating the account, and we cannot reactivate the account without first paying for profiles we specifically want to suppress.

Requiring customers to pay for an oversized plan before allowing them to remove inactive profiles feels unfair and unnecessarily restrictive. Businesses should not have to pay a substantial fee simply to regain access to basic account-cleanup tools.

The platform functionality might be powerful, but the user experience is incredibly frustrating.

When encountering technical issues with dynamic variables in templates, there is absolutely no way to get basic support unless you upgrade to a paid plan. Worse, when trying to log into the Klaviyo Community to post a question, the website gets stuck in an infinite login redirect loop due to cross-domain cookie issues.

As an e-commerce merchant, spending hours fighting broken authentication logic and paywalled support instead of resolving a simple issue is completely unacceptable. Highly disappointed with the customer experience.

We've been using Klaviyo for a long time and have continued to stay with the platform because of its rich feature set, ease of use, and flexibility. More importantly, it consistently delivers a strong return on investment, making it a valuable part of our marketing strategy.