Shopify Email , 1,287 reviews

Overall rating
4.3
Counts per rating level
  • 65% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 18% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 7% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 7% of ratings are 1 stars
What merchants think

Feedback submitted

Merchants appreciate this free, user-friendly app for its seamless integration with Shopify stores and valuable analytics. They value the ability to customize email templates and insert products into emails, reporting increased conversion rates. However, some have faced issues with email delivery and glitches when sending to large lists. The app lacks advanced customization and doesn't support segmentation over 1,000. Merchants suggest improvements like more font options, in-app photo editing, and social media integration.

September 14, 2020

Shopify is easy to use and maintain. Very beginner friendly.
I would recommend to any new or current business owners.

RSVP with Lori
United States
25 days using the app
Edited February 1, 2023

The email builder can feel a bit wonky. For example it often gets no result when searching for a collection to add to a link and when you try to add a section using the "+" button next to a section it always gets added at the bottom of the page so you then need to reposition it. There's also a glitch that kicks you out of the editor and back to the main app page which happens pretty often. There's been no new updates since I original posted a review in May 2022 and the issues are still there. I'm reducing the star rating because it looks like Shopify won't be updating regularly. Would also be good to be able to have a "Show email in browser" button in emails.

Frames Footwear
New Zealand
Over 1 year using the app
Shopify replied June 13, 2022

Thank you for taking the time to write your review and I'm glad to hear that you've made use of Shopify Email to connect with your customers. We appreciate the feedback that you've shared with us here and I will be sure to communicate your comments to our development team. -Victor, Shopify Support

Edited January 6, 2021

Cons:
You cannot do custom segmentations inside the app.
Templates are limited.
Deliverability takes too much time.
No automations.
Pros:
It is cheap

Japanese Taste
Japan
About 1 year using the app
Shopify replied January 22, 2021

Hey there,

Claire here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us on the Shopify email. Our team are consistently working to improve the app and add functionality to suit our Merchants needs. I'm going to follow up with you with an email to open up the lines of communication here so I can provide your feedback to my team.

Claire l Shopify

October 7, 2020

Good help but... you can't edit and use again an already sent out campaign. Sometimes a campaign has great results and you can't replicate it (you have to design from 0). It could use some more templates.

La Tienda Cervecera
United States
Over 1 year using the app
Shopify replied October 13, 2020

Hey there,

Claire here from Shopify. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. Our team are consistently working to improve the app and add functionality to suit our Merchants needs. I'm going to follow up with you with an email to open up the lines of communication here so I can provide your feedback to my team.

Claire l Shopify

October 12, 2020

i love the templates. they are very easy to use. I just wish that they made it possible to put two images on the same page instead of one gian product image per page. Also, please introduce the feature to re-email those who haven't opened the newsletter.

Jjudd.xx Boutique
Canada
8 months using the app
January 31, 2023

Pretty basic email app. Does the job 80% of the time. Noticed that if you send an email to an app that supports dark mode on IOS your style is completely broken.

Mox Motors
United States
Over 1 year using the app
Shopify replied February 27, 2023

Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing this feedback with us. We will pass your feedback on optimizing for dark mode to the development team. - David, Shopify Email

Edited March 16, 2021

It's super easy to build out an email. I usually have an issue with what to feature, but Shopify helps with the built in stats. I'm still poking around in here to learn about all of the capabilities!

Fractured Fox
United States
24 days using the app
November 23, 2021

This app is cheap and so are the delivery of my emails. I sent out a email blast for Blackfriday and the app decided to stop after 50% and tells me that it stopped because there where some peoples that did unsubscribed. Also it's reporting feature is extremely cheap only sending info and clicks but no results like add to carts or sales. As I said cheap yes but this does more damage to our brand than help.

Gypsy Diamonds
Canada
About 1 year using the app
Shopify replied November 24, 2021

Hi, there. Thank you for taking the time to leave this review and provide us with this feedback. We do cancel some campaigns that receive high signals that the subscribers do not like the emails they are receiving. That said, I would recommend reviewing our Best practices for Shopify Email (https://bit.ly/3cNEACe) to ensure you do not run into this issue in the future. Thanks again for your review! -Marty, Shopify Support.

November 22, 2020

There are not as many features as Mailchimp or others, but how can you beat the price! The app is easy to use and reliable. For future improvements - I would really like to have the ability to ad a divider line.

Stina's Quilt and Sewing Supplies
United States
7 months using the app
November 10, 2021

Really bad experience. Basically at some point of time no email started going through. Shopify would send out 5% and stop sending. I wrote to support. They've recommended sending to the "most engaged" latest customers. This did not work. Open rate was next to thing. They've send learning me videos. Nothing worked. The reason turned out to be lack of basic functionality, which would lead to your email list getting slowly poisoned. Shopify does not allow you removing bounced emails or the ones that mark you as spam. At some point of time your email database becomes filled with old emails that cannot get delivered. This leads to lower delivery rates as email systems start to think you are spamming. Then Shopify will see that your open rates are low as you get into spam folders, etc nad Shopify stops sending out emails. The solution has been to install a One Email marketing app. Segment my list into 1k segments. Constantly talk to One support as my sending would get blocked due to high complaint/bouncedback rated ....it took me just a month to clean my emails out. I've tested sending emails after this on Shopify and omg - 30% open rate and it's all delivering. To sum up: poor customer service, 100% lack of knowledge, no solution to the issue - basically "figure it out yourself". What can Shopify do about it? Allow clients to unsubscribe bounced emails and whoever has marked your messages as spam. This will leave email list clean and healthy. Simple.

Photodobe (Photo-presets)
United Kingdom
About 1 year using the app
Shopify replied November 16, 2021

Hi there. Thank you so much for your review and for providing us with this feedback. We are sorry to hear you have been experiencing these issues, but I am delighted to share that our development teams are currently working on this. Although I cannot share a definitive time frame for this, I would be happy to provide this further feedback to our team to let them know this is still something to look into further.

In the meantime, for some further context, Shopify email automatically removes bounced emails from a subscriber list so we don’t try sending them out again. Also when a subscriber unsubscribes, we also won’t be sending them the email again.

I hope this provides you with some further context to how the app currently functions, thanks again for taking the time to leave this feedback! Marty, Shopify Support