Omnisend Email Marketing & SMS

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and perspective. We're truly sorry to hear that these AI recommendation banners have been a source of frustration and disrupted your experience with the platform.

First, we want to address what happened: the banners appearing on your embedded forms was a bug. These AI recommendations should only appear on popup forms that support A/B testing, not on embedded forms. This issue has since been resolved, and the banners should no longer appear on embedded forms.

During our beta rollout, our focus was on building functionality that could help you and other customers collect more subscribers through data-driven recommendations. We understand that the way these banners appeared felt intrusive, and your feedback about wanting more control over what shows up in your workspace is clear.

Based on your request, we have removed all AI recommendations from your interface. If at any point you'd like to give them a try, we'll be more than happy to re-enable them for you.

Your feedback has been shared with our product team, and your experience matters to us. We appreciate your patience, and we'll continue working to ensure our product meets your expectations.

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and for flagging your concerns. We understand how frustrating it can feel when pricing doesn’t match your expectations, especially if it seems unclear at the start.

We want to clarify that Omnisend does not charge a flat mandatory $500 monthly fee just to keep an account active. Our pricing is based on the selected plan tier and usage, including contact count and optional add-ons such as SMS. From what we can see, you were using a plan subscription alongside additional SMS credits purchased separately. While this setup is available, it is not always the most cost-effective option, and we understand how this could lead to higher-than-expected charges if not optimized.

After reviewing your account, we found that your charges have remained consistent throughout your billing cycle, with no unexpected increases. That said, we genuinely want to help clarify any confusion and make sure your plan works for your business. Our support team has reached out to you directly to review your billing in detail and explore options to optimize your pricing setup based on your actual usage.

Thank you for sharing your experience. We understand why seeing different prices on Shopify and our website would feel frustrating, and we’re sorry the pricing structure did not come across clearly.

The Shopify App Store shows our base starting price of $16 for the Standard plan, which applies to accounts with up to 500 contacts. Pricing scales based on the total number of contacts in your account, which is why you saw a different amount when viewing plans for your specific account audience size.

Our billing is based on billable contacts, which includes both subscribers and non-subscribers. Non-subscribers are contacts who can still receive valuable automated emails like abandoned cart reminders, order confirmations, and post-purchase follow-ups through our platform. We understand this model can feel unexpected, especially if you were anticipating billing based solely on subscribers, and we appreciate you sharing that feedback with us.

We're aware that the way pricing is displayed on Shopify has caused confusion, and our team is actively working on making this clearer. Your feedback is valuable to us, and we're grateful our support team had the opportunity to work with you directly to find a pricing solution that better fits your needs and business goals.

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We understand how disappointing it can be when the pricing you expected doesn’t align with what you see when reviewing available plan options.

To clarify, the $16 plan shown on the Shopify App Store is a starting price and applies to stores with up to 500 contacts, including 6,000 email sends to that audience. As the size of an account’s contact list increases, pricing adjusts automatically to the corresponding tier to support that audience size. (https://www.omnisend.com/pricing)

Omnisend pricing is based on the number of contacts rather than only the number of emails sent. Even if email volume is low, supporting a large audience still involves deliverability, compliance, and infrastructure costs, which is why we do not currently offer a purely pay-per-email model, though this feedback has been shared internally.

We recognize that this pricing structure can feel misleading when the audience-size limits are not immediately clear, and we appreciate you calling this out. Our team is actively reviewing how this information is presented to make expectations clearer upfront.

If you decide to review your options or need support at any point, our team is here for you.

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We’re sorry to hear how frustrating the setup process felt and appreciate the opportunity to clarify the points you raised.

Regarding domain validation, we can see that your domain was successfully validated. When multiple tools attempt to use the same DNS records, conflicts can occur, but once the records are aligned, validation completes as expected.

Regarding pricing, Omnisend plans are based on the total number of contacts in the account, not just the number of emails sent. This is outlined on our pricing page and helps support deliverability, automation features, and overall platform usage, though we understand it may feel different compared to other tools.

About the delivery rate, our logs show that the majority of failed deliveries were hard bounces caused by recipient mailboxes that were unavailable, non existing, or full. This points to list quality rather than a sending issue on our side. Omnisend attempts delivery to the addresses provided, and we surface bounce data transparently so customers can address underlying list problems. In automated workflows, this is often linked to invalid signups or bot activity, which is why our team recommended adding additional protections like CAPTCHA or more advanced bot prevention.

Our team provided concrete steps designed to improve deliverability, and the recommendation to review Shopify was simply part of eliminating any external factors that may affect data being sent to email tools. While this process can be frustrating, it’s intended to quickly narrow down the true source of the issue.

We’re always happy to continue the investigation or review your setup again, and our support team remains available to support your business and help you achieve better results.

Thank you for sharing your experience and for being open about how frustrating this felt. We’re sorry to hear that the onboarding process didn’t meet your expectations, especially after being referred to us.

We want to clarify what happened with the SMS setup. Promotional SMS messages to UAE numbers require a registered Sender ID, which is a government requirement. This registration process is handled by the local SMS provider and requires very specific documentation. In your case, the initial submission was missing required details, which led to follow-up requests and unavoidable back and forth before the provider could proceed with verification.

We understand how this can feel like unnecessary delays, particularly when timing and revenue are critical. While we guided the process and kept you informed, the approval timeline and requirements are ultimately controlled by the SMS provider and local regulations, not by our platform.

That said, your feedback about the onboarding and support experience is important to us, and we’ll be using it to improve how we set expectations and guide customers through regulated SMS setups like this. If you’re open to continuing the onboarding, our team is here to help and happy to support you further.

Thank you for your feedback - we appreciate you sharing it.
We'd like to clarify how our pricing works for anyone reading this. Omnisend charges based on billable contacts, not the number of emails or campaigns sent. Billable contacts include:
• Subscribers - contacts who opted in to receive marketing
• Non-subscribers - contacts who placed an order, abandoned a cart, or created an account without opting in to marketing

Our pricing is publicly available, so there are no surprises - and we're always happy to help find the plan that best fits your sending volumes and contact list size. Feel free to reach out to our support team via the in-app chat or at support@omnisend.com and we'll be glad to help.

Thank you for sharing this feedback. We understand how discouraging it is to put significant time into setting up automations and forms and then run into issues with them not appearing on your site. We’re sorry to hear that the support experience didn’t meet your expectations.

When forms or popups don’t display, it’s typically related to how the required storefront script is loading on the live site, or how and where the embed is placed within the theme. Depending on a theme’s structure or customizations, code that looks correctly added in the editor may not render on the published storefront in the same way. This is a common Shopify behavior and doesn’t indicate misuse or error, but it does impact whether forms can load and display.

Because of Shopify’s permissions, our support can’t directly access or modify a merchant’s theme files. When the necessary snippet or embed placement can’t be detected from the live storefront, the only path forward is to guide placement at the theme level so it loads site-wide, then continue validating from there. We understand how this can feel like slow progress when you’re actively trying to move quickly and launch.

We want to reassure you that our goal is to help move things forward, not deflect responsibility. A senior specialist is currently involved and continuing the troubleshooting with you to reach a clear resolution. If you’re open to continuing, we’re here to support you every step of the way.

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We’re sorry to hear that your initial setup felt frustrating and that the experience did not meet your expectations.

We understand how discouraging it can be when testing does not behave as expected, especially during early setup. In some cases, issues can arise from how certain Shopify features or third party apps interact with automations, which can make things feel buggy even though the core platform is working as intended. Our team aims to identify these edge cases and guide customers toward a stable setup.

We appreciate you raising concerns about the support experience as well. Providing clear and knowledgeable guidance is important to us, and your feedback helps us improve how we support customers during more complex setups.

While this setup may not have been the right fit for your specific use case, we’re grateful that you gave Omnisend a try and shared your perspective. If you ever revisit us in the future or need clarification on anything discussed, we’re one message away.