Amplify | Bundles & Upsell

I actually really liked this app at first. However I noticed in my orders that they were being tagged with "Pickystory" even though the bundle wasn't being purchased. So basically, if someone adds to their cart with the bundle, then removes everything in the cart except 1 or 2 items, Pickystory counts that as their revenue, and I just don't see that as fair. Super happy to pay them when the actual bundle is bought, but this method just sucks because it's charging you without the sale of the bundle. I'll be looking for another option.

Further attempts to reach a fair solution to this company's greedy and irrational billing practices have proven impossible. This company has no sense of integrity or customer service. They will milk you for every dollar they can for as long as you can. When you stop using it, make sure you remove it completely as an app from your store because they'll keep billing you even if you're not using it at all! 0 stars. Avoid this company!

Nous avons créé un configurateur de produits sur cette application, elle est vraiment très pratique, nous la recommandons vivement !

Been using pickystory for a month now and it has been a big help. We used to make bundles manually through shopify and tracking inventory and skus for all of the bundles was a hassle. Pickystory makes it much better. The best part is the quick customer service. Anytime we run into any type of issue they are always available. They are very helpful and responsive. I also like that they take my suggestions and put them in the queue for future updates.

Very practical application for my use. I highly recommend but above all: a great team very available to help us in the implementation and support at the top! Thank you PickyStory!
Application très pratique pour mon utilisation. Je recommande vivement mais surtout : une super équipe très disponible pour nous aider dans la mise en place et un accompagnement au top ! Merci PickyStory !

tldr: An app that kinda works, but with major flaws in the bundling setup. Developers also have no interest in resolving bugs with customer service that just puts you on hold for months. Not recommended.
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1. Our Use Case:
- We are a bedding store that sells almost everything through bundles from bedding sets.
- We tested many apps and Pickystory does help to circumvent the 100 variant limits with a decent bundle setup (Product as a bundle with variants).
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2. Our subscription:
- We moved to a Flexible plan priced at $189/mth + a % fee on revenue generated by the app.
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3. Functionality Flaws
- The app does help to provide the product as a bundle feature with inventory sync to allow customization and selling multiple products as one. It helps to bypass the 100-variant limit faced by other apps when you bundle multiple products with huge variants.
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- However, it comes with flaws that will affect your CONVERSION:
a) If your bundle has 3 products A+B+C with a total price range of $300-$650, it will always show up as $650 as the compare-at-price, discounted with a code to the current A+B+C price, minus the bundle discount.
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Example: A1+B2+C2 (Variants) = $400 - 25% Bundle discount makes it $300.
In cart/checkout, it will show up as: $650 with a total of 46.15% discount to make it $300. This becomes confusing for your customers.
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An ideal setup should show it as a $400 compare-at-price, with a 25% bundle discounted to $300.
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Understandably, the above can't be changed because it's how the app works.
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b) When a bundle is added to cart, they are unable to display the individual items of the bundle in the cart-drawer. Customers have to go /cart page or /checkout page to get an idea of what individual products & variants they selected in their bundle. (Assuming your cart page shows item-properties).
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This was tested with Pickystory's Cart Drawer and even after 2 months of request that they were looking into it, there was no update. I had to switch to an external cart who were able to integrate the item-properties in.
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It's amusing that the cart drawer provided by the bundle app does not build in a functionality to help make bundle purchases clear.
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c) Bugs
- There were certain bugs that were not store-breaking but affects conversions. For example, our products in a bundle contains up to 8 colours. When using their color swatches, once you exceed the first row of swatches, it creates a bug where by the order of the color swatches gets messed up.
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The issue was raised around June, til to date after countless emails, they are still 'working on it' because the developers are busy releasing 'new' features.
Among this, there were other bugs as well that we had to try to resolve in house since we couldn't rely on them.
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4. Customer Service
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As above on the 'bugs' issue. With the price we pay, we expect at least some sort of resolution on bugs we faced. However within a 2-3 months timeline. nothing was resolved.
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They are good at providing 'Calls' or fast-responses but essentially just contains the follow message: "I have checked with the team and they’re still working on the inquiries. We understand the urgency and our team is doing everything we can."
^ We've seen this message multiple times over a 2months period.
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In most other apps that we pay much less, we experienced way better dev support. Some devs even offered to workaround their apps to improve compatibility with flaws of Pickystory.
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4. Final Thoughts
NOT RECOMMENDED for stores that relies on bundling as it is pricey for the value they provide - especially when customer support is non-existent for actual solutions. Go for custom development especially if you have at least medium sized store since it provides better cost savings within a year. You will experience less issues in the long run.
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If you however just require basic bundling function and can accept flaws above, they do have a suite of 'conversion-based' features you can use - which is why i rated this a 2-star instead of 1.

Después de un mal inicio, el servicio de atención al cliente fue totalmente profesional y consiguió darle la vuelta a la tortilla, hoy en día estamos encantados con la solución y seguiremos utilizándola en el tiempo

Julia helped me to better understand what PickyStory could do and couldn't do.
Knowing all that, I can better strategize what to bundle.

I haven't been using the app for very long but so far the experience has been really great. There are a ton of different offers that you implement and the offers look great on your site. The customer service is also super rad. Every time I've opened a chat I've gotten a response in just a few minutes. I'll edit this review if things change. So far.. A1!!

I left a 5 stars reviews in the past, because their customer service is excellent and the app is very easy to use. When it comes to charges, though, they are not so excellent. I would be happy to pay whatever the charge if they bring me business, but as a matter of facts thay have charged me for something has nothing to do with their business. For example, I set with them a Minimum spend amount of £50 to get free shipping. I have a product (one single product, not a bundle) that costs £52, so they have charged me because they consider every amount over £50, even though that sale doesn't depend at all from their work but it's the price of my product. And also, it happened that one customer bought one single product (clearly it's not a bundle, nor an upsell nor a cross sell) and when I asked explanation they told me that the customer bought it from their cart. Well, I deactivated the app.

PickyStory has bundling features that we couldn't find in any other app, and they have been dedicated to helping their features work in our store. They've made customizations, responded to our needs, and listened/implemented our feature requests. EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE. Can't say enough good things about them!