Okendo: Reviews & Loyalty

I'm updating my review of Okendo after using it for about 7 months. I honestly don't recommend Okendo after the experience I had with their reviews app. I switched from Okendo about 2 months ago to a different reviews app and am able to make a proper review now. We found that Okendo didn't help us gain as many reviews as we hoped. And especially not many with images/videos. We were originally drawn to their ability to offer auto-generated coupon codes in exchange for review incentives. However a big limiting feature we found with Okendo was they only allow you to e-mail for a review request once. So if a customer never opens your review request email, or opens but doesn't take action. You cannot send another review request. You can only send reminder e-mails if you're in the $99/mth and up plans I believe. We've since switched to another reviews app that costs less and allows us to send up to 3 reminder emails with custom coupon codes. We've increased the rate of reviews we're gaining in the short period of two months time since switching away from Okendo. We also ran into an issue in December 2020 where our review request emails stopped sending for 2 weeks. We informed customer support at the beginning that it stopped working and they had no updates at all. It was only after we wrote a polite but negative review via e-mail did they then have someone work on fixing it right away. But this was 2 weeks later. If we hadn't continued to follow up and reaching out, it'd probably still be broken till today. I had the Essential $29/mth plan. I didn't receive any help with installing the app when the auto-installer didn't work. I had to spend about 2-3 days mucking about in the code of my theme to try to get it to work. When I asked for help, I was told that if I were to upgrade my plan to the $99/mth plan, then they could help me install their reviews app onto my store for me. I eventually figured it out myself, but this felt off from all the amazing reviews Okendo has in the app store. I'm guessing maybe other reviewers must have the higher priced plans? I felt like I was one of their less valued customers because I was paying for a $29/mth plan instead of $99/mth. The customer service also did not want to provide more information about best practices or advice for how to best utilize some of their features. For example such as what discounts or incentives would they advise we send out in exchange for asking for a review? They said they could only help give me more advice to this if I had a higher plan. The only positive aspect is that their customer service got a bit friendlier near the end and they uninstalled their code off of my theme when I was ready to leave. I wish Okendo all the best, and originally I believed in all the hype from all the 5-star reviews they had. Their onboarding sales call was really effective. They seem to really sell the idea you'll get lots of reviews and that they have an amazing incentive offering system and reviews setup which lets customers upload media. But we found all this didn't lead to that many more photo or video reviews. The biggest limiting factor is the inability to send any further emails following up with the customer to leave a review. Okendo is extremely strict that you are only allowed to send 1 email request per order in the Essential plan ($29/mth). In the end, I wished I had used a different reviews app. I think Okendo is pricy for the very limited features and support they offer. I also think that in late 2020 they switched over to having a VA answer most of the customer chat questions because the person answering the live chat would mostly take my messages and pass them on. They're polite but were unable to actually do anything to help or have much knowledge of the app. TLDR: There's other reviews apps out there that are better, have more features, and costs half the price of Okendo. I regret using Okendo when I think of how many potential email reviews I've lost out on during the time I was using Okendo.

Support is very reactive when it comes to customizing the looks of your reviews. Haven't used all of the features yet but for now I dont have any issue with the app

I have used this app for a long time with different customers and definitely is the best in the market.

Have had an incredible onboarding experience from start to finish, and received assistance in ways I did not anticipate. Had I known the amount of care that would of into this, I would have signed up even earlier!

Estefania has been, and is, incredible holding our hand all the way through. We were delighted with the integration assistance received for Klaviyo by Vanessa.

Could not be happier so far with the experience.

We've used other review providers... "name brand" guys... you know who I am talking about... they did not commit any extra resources to assistance... just the sale.

This is the opposite experience.

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Best Review App on Shopify! I have used the most expensive review app and free ones. Okendo is the best platform to use. You have all the features and more to have a properly functioning review system at a fraction of the cost of competition. I recommend Okendo to anyone with a shopify store.

This is [by far] the most impressive review software we've ever used, and we've evaluated quite a few different companies. Not only is the software and user experience -- both for us as business owners, and our customers superb -- but the customer service and detail to personalized attention we've received has been incredible. Okendo and the support team played a critical role in the rapid growth of our store and for that I'll be a customer for life.

Okendo is fantastic.

We've used a number of different service/product review apps, and Okendo is hands-down the best we've used. To top it off, the level of service we received from the team has always surpassed our expectations.

We were able to pull in our reviews from a number of previous sources and migrate them to Okendo. The enhanced information we are now able to glean from customers is great for us and for potential buyers. Being able to have slider ratings for values like 'value for money', 'fit, 'quality' is so useful, and all these can be customised by collection, so you can specify exactly what review information you want.

The widget is clean and can be customised. Review schema is inserted, so rich snippets pull through to the SERP. It integrates with Shopify Discounts, so offering discounts as an incentive for reviews is easy. They also provided us with an XML feed of our reviews, which was easy to integrate into our Google Merchant Account, and pull the reviews through to Google Shopping PLA's.

Okendo is enterprise ready, but priced super competitively. This platform will definitely disrupt the industry, and challenge Bazaar Voice, Reviews, Power Reviews, Yotpo etc etc.

We are delighted to be one of the early users of Okendo, and we are very excited about some soon to be released futures, particularly Q&A, which will be so helpful for our customers.

Deserves 10 Stars. Well done guys.

Great customer service. App works well, my customers leave great reviews and I love seeing their photos. Okendo has helped improved our online conversion rate!

I like the functionality of the app, and I feel like it would provide a great benefit for my customer. The reason why I'm giving it 3 stars rather than 5 stars is that support isn't available until after the Free Trial is over. Again, it's about providing my customer with a good experience so I'll stick with the app but receiving daily emails about problem areas with the app and being left alone to figure out how to address them stinks.

Amazing experience with Okendo so for, I love the app and features. I did not like that they offer only in the higher packages the google integrations, more email sequences that are quite vital in the small package for a small business.