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1. It charges you for every order--even POS orders which don't require shipping. 58% of my sales are in-store. Insanely unethical to automatically charge *shipping* offsets for *non-shipping* sales.
2. It seriously inflates your numbers. I made 640 sales in the last 30 days, and was charged for 907 orders. (again, about 370 of these orders didn't require shipping).
3. The history graph shows I had nearly 200 sales *in one day* a few weeks ago. I actually had 29...and only 6 of those required shipping...and only 5 of those had shipped at this point. So I paid nearly $0.15*200=$30 in carbon offsets for 5 shipments for that one day.
4. The app ambiguates "orders" and "deliveries". Per my Shopify reports, I only had 288 "deliveries" in the time it claimed I had 907.
Shopify, these infractions erode what little trust people have in environmental practices. I am happy to remove this review if you refund my inflated fees...including Planet fees for all POS orders.
My company has been carbon neutral for years, and will continue to be so for sometime thanks to the overages I've paid using Planet.
Thanks for reaching out. You definitely shouldn't be getting billed on POS orders and we will gladly refund you all of those charges. Our team has already reached out and we will get your bill and refund sorted asap.
Like all Shopify apps this one is a disaster. It's all marketing and no functionality. No way to turn it on/off in the cart and no way to talk to them.
NO way to contact def - shopify support denied knowing anything about it and started explaining Planet Labs to be instead, a satellite company owned by my friends. FFS.
No transparency about the payment tiers, the badge does NOT show up in my cart. Theres like so much info on Planet but nothing helpful and it doesn't work. What a waste of time.
Thanks for the feedback and sorry your experience with the app was so disappointing! We'd be happy to help you get the badge displayed in your cart, as well as show you where to find info about payment tiers, e.g., the companies and technologies you can support with different plans. If you're interested, please reach out to planet at shopify dot com. Thanks again.
Love the idea. Execution was challenging.
Had installed for a couple of months without the badge showing - when I went to put badge on and it showed blank on my Shopify 2.0 theme I contacted support. I was initially told it should work on my specific theme but then on checking support concluded it was a theme problem and I need to contact the theme developer. Lost confidence when cute marketing stats on emmissions that show to me as Admin can't be shared with my customer or shown on a page on my website, for example - even if coded in. Took my money on each order for a couple of months worked fine. Payment trail very thoroughly done.
Thanks for the feedback. It actually IS possible to display those stats! You can do that by activating "Marketing mode" with the online store editor. Please reach out to planet at shopify dot com if you'd like to schedule a quick call to walk through that. Thanks again for reaching out!
Making unapproved charges. We are paying as much as $82 per order which is insane. The monthly spending limit doesn't help much because they will withhold and charge the remaining to next month.
We're sorry you didn't have a good experience with Planet! Planet does not make any charges that aren't approved, so there is some sort of misunderstanding.
Looking at your store, I see some of the items are extremely heavy, e.g., a grill that weighs more than 70 pounds. Because carbon emissions are based in part of the weight of a package, then a 70-pound shipment will simply generate more emissions and therefore carry a larger price tag to offset.
You can always use the "billing cap" to ensure that you're never billed more than you expect.
Please reach out to planet at shopify dot com if you have questions or would like further details. Again, apologies that you did not have a good experience with Planet.
Always room for improvement.
We agree! Thanks so much for the review. We genuinely appreciate the feedback. When it comes to specific things to improve, feel free to reach out to planet at shopify dot com. We love hearing from users and take suggestions seriously. Thanks again!
It could be great to have different choices of badges.
Like a mini one (as you can see on this website for exemple )
https://voited.fr/products/ripstop-outdoor-blanket-ocean-navy-cameo-green
Thank you.
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Thank you for your reply, but i don't see any planet on shopify dot com...
and how to reach you ???
Let me know.
Best
Xavier
Thanks for the feedback! Good news – you can publish a Planet badge that looks virtually identical to the one on this page! Please reach out to planet at shopify dot com and we would be thrilled to get you set up. Thanks again!!
There was no charge with your permission and the charge was not authorized by you.
Thanks for the note. Planet users are never charged without permission. Planet users can also customize their "billing cap," which guarantees there will be no Planet charges above that customized threshold. Finally, Planet users can choose to enable customers to pay (instead of paying themselves). We'd be happy to unpack these options – reach out to planet at shopify dot com if you'd like to learn more.
Un peu tôt pour en parler
Merci pour votre commentaire ! N'hésitez pas à contacter notre équipe à planet [at] shopify [point] com si nous pouvons vous aider en quoi que ce soit.
Update: Bumping to 5 stars because of all the improvements they have made over the last 2 years. The badge is now highly customizable to closely match your branding and theme, with more placement options.
I also love the transparency they've introduced. You can see the exact projects being funded, the credits delivered, and the timeline for each. You can read about each company and they provide you with assets to use when you share the news with customers. Our customers are scientists so the transparency is important.
They recently introduced an option to allow customers to cover it if they so choose - that can reduce your costs as well.
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Love the concept but poor implementation into the storefront. The banner is locked to a specific size and style, sits weirdly close to the above section, and you're unable to add small badges in other places on your store. If you want more than just the store owner to feel good about enrolling, make better display/badge options available.
Hey Genius Lab Gear team, this is great feedback that is consistent with what some other merchants are saying. We're exploring solutions for future iterations, so your input here is very much welcomed. Thanks for installing Planet! - Brady, Sustainability at Shopify
Love the idea and transparency with HOW the shipment becomes carbon neutral! But I can't add it to my checkout because I have a custom website instead of a Shopify theme. :( I can still use it in cart as a workaround, but customers very rarely view their cart that way. Please update it to work on checkout for custom stores!
Thanks so much for using Planet and offering this feedback. We're actively exploring ways to enable Planet users to leverage checkout better. It's super helpful for us to know about limitations like this -- thanks again.