Reviews (164)

Overall rating
4.4
Counts per rating level
  • 83% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 1% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 3% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 9% of ratings are 1 stars
What merchants think

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Merchants highly recommend this app for securely delivering digital content through Shopify stores, highlighting its ease of setup and seamless integration. The automation of digital deliveries has notably reduced customer service inquiries, and features like product bundling have enhanced sales. The customer support is praised for its responsiveness and effectiveness, even outside typical business hours. The app supports various delivery formats, offers PDF stamping, and allows easy management of product updates and access post-refund. Merchants find the pricing reasonable and appreciate the app's reliability in transactions and email deliverability, making it a cost-effective solution for handling digital products.

May 1, 2020

DO NOT USE THIS APP if you have recurring orders/subscriptions!

I have sought support on this aspect twice and been met with astonishment and limited understanding.

I wish to throw SHOPIFY under the bus here as well, as they truly do not care about how their 3rd parties interact with the shopfront.

Imagine if hundreds of your customers were to each receive hundreds of automated emails over a 30 minute period. I've been crippled with shame and embarrassment.

SendOwl, you're welcome to reach out to me for details of this horrific experience.

Shopify, I suggest you look in the mirror as well.

RacingRant
Australia
Over 2 years using the app
September 22, 2017

Choosing a digital download app was the thing putting me off launching my store for the longest time. Am glad I chose SendOwl. So easy to set up and has worked without a hitch. Great, friendly service as well......

Peach Patterns
Australia
About 2 months using the app
October 9, 2021

Literally the worst app ever. But even worse than the app is the customer service. They often have massive outages, do not communicate the outages and then will not return word on customer service issues. Find another digital file delivery application. The only thing they know how to do properly is take payment

Thoughtfull.co
Canada
Over 2 years using the app
SendOwl replied October 13, 2021

Thank you for your review, I can understand your frustration. However, as we noted in the support ticket exchange, the issue is not with SendOwl but with your external script. In other words, your own script is failing to generate the orders and the issue is not with SendOwl.

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UPDATE: The merchant did respond to the ticket and confirmed it was their script that caused the issue and not an outage with SendOwl.

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We do appreciate your business and hope we can help. And, for true [rare] outages, we do have real-time reporting and support.

June 21, 2016

Been using sendowl for a couple of months! It's reliable, customisable and easy to use! No problems to report. Would recommend

Yhwplans
United Kingdom
About 1 month using the app
June 19, 2015

We looked at everyone Supplying digital downloads and then tested their systems during development . Sendowl is without doubt the most elegant solution to anyone selling digital files with Shopify. It is quite simply a perfect and seamless system - Add to that MOSS capability and brilliant support and it's the biggest no-brainer in the app store - Try them and LOVE them !

F9 Audio
United Kingdom
About 1 month using the app
Edited December 26, 2020

They are fine for the basic case, but start to fail pretty badly if you do anything complicated. So far we have had problems with: Editing Orders, if you have an app that edit orders on shopify after the fact like a Post Purchase Promotion app send owl will fail to pick it up and not send it out to your customers Partial Refunds: if you give a partial refund to your user send owl sees that as a refund on the whole order and cancels the digital order. Their support is ok and getting back but in the end not very helpful. If you are bootstrapping something simple this is the app for you, but I would suggest against this app if you are dealing with 1000+ customers. Updating after reaching out and trying to work with support: I complained about orders being incorrectly cancelled. They assured me that unselecting a checkbox in their app would make it so they didn't get cancelled. That was wrong and after mass partial refunding orders I now have hundreds of orders to fix. I would strongly suggest against using this app and find one that works and has good support that understands their own product.

Toybox Labs
United States
About 2 years using the app
March 22, 2016

Without SendOwl I don't know how we would be able to open our online store. The automation allows us to continue creating products instead of pushing the send all day. We love SendOwl!

Crafting Chicks Shoppe
United States
About 1 month using the app
July 22, 2014

SendOwl has been a godsend for me. I sell PDF ebooks and the only practical way to protect them is with PDF stamping. SendOwl quickly and easily stamps these ebooks (some as large as 70 MB) with the customer's name and order info for easy tracking. SendOwl also allows me to provide download of my audiobooks and videos to my customers, too.

Working with George Palmer is an absolute delight, too. He quickly and clearly answered all the questions I had about setup and execution and I couldn't be happier.

Sincerely,
Rod Machado

Rod Machado's Aviation Learning Center
United States
About 1 month using the app
October 16, 2018

Works as described. I use it to automate stamping PDFs and sending them to customers. Works well within shopify.

Yale Management Media
United States
About 1 month using the app
June 17, 2021

We have had 0 issues with this app. It was really easy to install and link to items in our store. We have been able to expand our reach to global customers through our eBook sales.

CMM Press
United States
About 1 month using the app
SendOwl replied June 17, 2021

Wow, that's great to hear how we've helped you and your business! Thanks for sharing your experience and feel free to reach out at any time. Cheers, SendOwl.