Smile: Loyalty Program Rewards

We have used this app on our store for a good few years. It had previously integrated with our online store and shopify pos in our physical stores brilliantly. Unfortunately recently there has been an update and money off vouchers cannot be used on transactions where other offers or bundle discounts have been applied. This is a huge issue for us as we run so many promotions to drive sales. So please **BEWARE** if you want to use this on shopify pos to offer money off via loyalty points and also run other discounts and promotions in store it will not integrate properly. I have been speaking with 'Erin' in support about this to be kept being told 'we are looking into it' which is less than helpfull to be honest!

not great. it seems they hide the fact that nothing seem to be included in the $49 option so you have to upgrade to $199. I think being more up front with customisations and what you get ie no landing page, no links, nothing. The reason i wanted this ... which i thought was common sense... was so that the the app would sync to a landing page and work smoothly ie for better customer / shopper satisfaction. I hoping that the app may change my mind and we will stick with it . Smile have since got in contact and suggested options so I will test these and test the app.

This app is decent, but too many issues make it grossly overpriced for what it provides.

Customers are constantly being rewarded duplicate discounts for reaching tiered levels. I have had this issue several times now with support telling me it was fixed when it clearly has not been.

Also, if you refund orders, rewards then do not get credited back to the user, so it must be done manually. This will always be a headache if you cancel any orders.

Good for point tracking and rewards as long as you have everything set up exactly as needed before issuing any points or rewards. Many limitations with rewards that support did not have a solution for. Hard to make any adjustments or updates to rewards once they are in place and running.

Tout est parfait, tant au niveau des fonctionnalités que du service client. Sauf qu'au final je n'ai pas pu l'utiliser car certains éléments ne PEUVENT PAS être traduits (par exemple les boutons d'action). Cela m'a fait perdre beaucoup de temps et un peu d'argent car évidemment c'est le type de chose dont vous vous apercevez en finalisant l'app. Donc nickel tant que vous restez en anglais, sinon, passez votre chemin.

recently i suffer fm "your points redemption could not be completed, try again later", both customer and admin cannot redeem

We've been using this app for about 3 years. Overall I find the app to be missing features that I really want. My biggest sticking point is that the points are awarded right away after purchase. It would be much better from our standpoint if we could set a grace period where the points are awarded after the return policy period has ended. For example, a customer ordered several items from us and immediately redeemed her new points for a free necklace that we offer as one of the rewards. She then returned most of the order, but kept the necklace. She now has a negative points balance from her return and has not made an eligible purchase to get rid of that negative points balance. Smile does not offer a way for us to make sure the customer is keeping their purchase before they receive the points.

Another sticking point, the referral promo code link allows people to send coupons to themselves, even if they enter their own email and name that is used for their rewards. In some cases the system has caught it and "blocked" it, but only after the customer has received the promo code and used it!

Smile had a feature that excluded promo code purchases from earning points and we had been using that feature for years, until one day it was just gone. When I wrote them and asked them why they took away a feature without notice, they simply wrote back and said nobody was using it. I can assure you that's not true, because WE were using it every day. Now we have to deduct points manually for every ineligible purchase which is a real time waster for us. We also had a backlog of ineligible points that we had to go back and adjust because they did not inform us of the change. Very unprofessional. I've seen much better rewards programs than this elsewhere. We'll be phasing it out. It's more trouble than it's worth.

Very basic features for the price... Not worth the money in my opinion. The UI is easy to navigate for users but in terms of value as a merchant, the features are lacking. Point collection is simple for users but if you want to do anything to incentivize users to actually use their points, you'll need to upgrade to the $200/ month plan. With that being said, basically all of the useful features are on the $200/ month plan. If you have the budget, go for it, but to me, the value just isn't there with what you're getting compared to other apps in our tech stack. I wish we would have looked into alternative options before committing to Smile. Hard to switch at this point.

I have Smile.io set up to pay out rewards in levels $5, $10 & $25 but it will only pay $5 at a time and only one per purchase. Also, lately it won't connect to my POS so I end up giving the customer a $5 discount to keep them happy. Support isn't available before I go into work and I'm a small business owner with little availability during the day. There's no email address where I can send my concerns.

I have been using this app but seems the upgrade plan price is high , beyond the average rewards program. Even so, I could not send point reminder emails in the free plan thus by now it seems not doing much help for my flower business at the moment.