Referral Candy & Affiliate
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Merchants highly recommend this app for its user-friendly design and seamless integration with other platforms, enhancing marketing strategies through effective referral programs. They praise its responsive customer support and customization options, including HTML and CSS editing. The app supports multiple languages and is credited with boosting business growth and sales through efficient campaign management.
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Unable to toggle on/off! The app does what it says, however, if you wish to de-activate, there is no toggle on/off button. If you wish to cancel your free trial, there is no cancel membership in accounts/billing. There is a big Delete all information button, but it doesn't say if that cancels the membership. Please just add a few simple buttons to allow transparency for users to turn off program or de-activate account.
NB: This review is from 2020, about a previous version of ReferralCandy.
I appreciate your feedback. Because of this, we are working on a better, more intuitive experience for users to want to cancel their ReferralCandy account. Thanks for giving us a try!
Just getting started with the app. Reached out for support and Tippy was extremely helpful in getting my campaign to be customer presentable. He went beyond my immediate questions to give my campaign a better look. Was very patient and helpful.
The app is great because you can offer product gift to advocate and not only coupons and the customer service is great ! Thanks Cris for your help !
But I put only 3* because the app cannot work with SEAL subscription and Seal subscription is the only subscription's app working with stripe. (In France we don't have a lot of choice...) I really would love the referral program works with subscription's products... I hope it will change in the future ;-)
We appreciate your feedback! We understand that there are compatibility limitations in your region. Rest assured this has been raised with our product team. Should you want to try us again in the future, just let us know.
I just tried the app and have no idea how well it performs but the support guy, JC was a pro and was accessible immediately.
Thank you so much for your review! We take pride in our customer service, if there’s anything else we can do, please let us know. - JC
Excellet support. I was having a hard time figuring our how it all works and support was there to guide me.
We appreciate your review! Just hit us up whenever you need assistance - We are here to ensure you have an amazing experience with the app!
We are SO tired of Shopify apps that send emails to our customers without warning us or asking for permission. This is yet another one. And for that reason we won't be using it.
Only one day after signing up to try this app, it's already sent 324 welcome emails to our customers, and never notified us once or asked for our permission before doing so. It's flat out unacceptable. Uninstall.
NB: this review is from 2017, about a previous version of ReferralCandy
Thank you for the feedback. Sending emails to your customers with no warning or permission obtained is a bad experience. It is unacceptable and I apologize that our app enabled that to happen.
To make sure this doesn't happen again, we have ensured that ReferralCandy provides ample notification before emails are sent out when the account is activated. - Jaime R.
We couldn't even get through the setup, which should have been the easiest thing to do. The email templates don't work like any WYSIWYG system I've EVER seen, and you're obligated to find an outside developer to do very simple tasks like fix the mandatory social icon links that are in the default template. Their customer service leaves a lot to be desired, and since we couldn't get past step 1, I can't review the actual platform performance. With our poor experience, I would NOT recommend this to anyone. There are multiple other options out there, and we've been able to get an alternative all setup and running in less than 10% of the time spent fighting with the ReferralCandy platform.
Hi Abby, I'm sorry the set up experience wasn't to your expectations. I agree that our developer mode can be tricky, and your detailed review will help us make a better product. Although our support team did try to help, perhaps we could have jumped on a call (which we do regularly) to address your growing frustration over the setup process. I appreciate you leaving us a review and thanks as well for trying out ReferralCandy! - Jaime R.
JC was extremely helpful! Answered all my questions. The app is great I set the entire app up in under 30 minutes and tested it. All the questions I had were immediately answered via their live chat. I highly recommend + customer service is great. App is very clean and it seems like it is marketing-driven VS just an app that doesn't have much marketing drive. I think the developers of the app want you to have viral referral campaigns as it's a win-win compared to other affiliate apps which are not really prioritizing the success of the affiliate program. 5/5 stars
Thank you so much for this wonderful review. I'm really happy that you appreciated my assistance. Feel free to reach out anytime you need help. :)
- JC
Excellent customer service (Jelson), prompt responses with thorough solutions. Some improvements can be made with the automation of the program such as having an automated notification when the review period for a referral is about to end. This would make it less likely for us to miss any returns made.
Thank you for writing a review and for the feedback. I really appreciate it. :) - Jelson
I tested this app for a couple of weeks and I like the idea but it is just too expensive for what it is. Pretty much the only option you have is to get your customers to refer their friends and that is going to cost you $49 a month plus 5% of those referred sales. Sorry, but an app like this is only worth about $25 per month and zero commissions on the sales, with such limited features.
NB: this review is from 2018, about a previous version of ReferralCandy
Thank you for your feedback! We think our pricing structure is fair because it aligns our interest with your store: we grow with your store, and we succeed when your store makes more referral sales. Since your review, our team has been hard at work developing new features. Check out all the features ReferralCandy offers here: https://www.referralcandy.com/features. Hope you give us another try. -- Jaime R.