Recharge Subscriptions App

Really disappointing, almost laughable support team. I keep losing money and time responding to customer experience defects in the Recharge experience for gift redemption. Support team is generally lazy, lacking ownership, slow, and unresponsive. Can't tell if they don't know how to fix or perhaps care to fix the issue. My customers are rightly upset they can't redeem their gift subscription (some valued at $300+) and Recharge's response was essentially "it works some of the time but not all the time, and we can't replicate it, so we can't fix it."

If you want to be left alone to deal with the wake left behind by a bad product, use Recharge.

I wish I could've accessed better support for this app. We opted to pay for the pro subscription vs the much cheaper $99 one on that basis, so we could get help with installation. 12 months in and a lot of wasted time and money later, we're cancelling the app $6k in the hole having not been able to get it working whatsoever.

I would not use this app. They push updates and create really critical bugs that create extremely negative experiences and then don't take accountability for it. I've had this app for 3 years and have had a number of issues. Most recently they pushed an updated and grabbed the wrong shipping profile information, accidentally charging almost 800 customers shipping on a free shipping product. Then told me it wasn't them and they weren't responsible for it/took no accountability. I had to figure out a solution to manually credit every single order and there is still not a fix. We cannot wait to change companies to one that is more reliable.

Unreliable software.

Recharge used to work well for our store without issue, but recently we've had nothing but software bugs and hassles where our customers are charged shipping when it should be free.

You should look for a more reliable subscription management option.

Terrible customer support. Interface is deceptively designed and isn't user friendly. We are looking to move to Loop.

Title: Extremely Complex Setup, Poor Experience, and Not Worth the Cost

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We had very high expectations for ReCharge when we installed it back in May. Unfortunately, the onboarding process was extremely long and unnecessarily complicated. The setup required multiple adjustments, and despite their assurance that it would be easy to implement, it turned out to be one of the most difficult and time-consuming integrations we’ve ever done on Shopify.

We ended up paying for several months without being able to use it properly — only one or two months of partial use — which represented not only a significant financial cost but also a large investment of our internal team’s time and effort.

In the end, the platform felt overly complex for the limited benefits it offered. We later switched to another subscription app (Loop), which was implemented in half the time, at a lower cost, and offered even more functionality and better support.

We are extremely disappointed with this experience and feel that the value received does not justify the cost. We strongly believe a refund should be considered given the time, effort, and resources invested without any meaningful outcome.

Avoid like the plague. Comes default with zero support options. Widget never updates when you update it - documentation tells you to contact support which you can't do unless you are on an expensive plan. Wasted hours of setup but at least I can now remember why ecomm brands avoid this product.

Terrible experience trying to sunset this app. Multiple steps with little to no help or resolution.

So-called chat support "gathers context" and deflects to email support whenever they can, which is very inefficient and feels like false advertising of "live" chat support. Some features are half-baked such as their gifting feature, which is probably the least thought out and poorly delivered user experience I've ever come across in all my years using software. Gifted subscriptions sales are DOUBLE recorded (when gift is purchased by the buyer and then also redeemed by the recipient). They also take zero accountability for integrating well with Shopify, mostly deflecting to their documentation, again not helping solve the problems. Considering how much we pay them with their 1% charge on every dollar on top of Shopify's processing fees, it's completely not worth using Recharge. We look forward to choosing another subscriptions platform or building out our own replacement for Recharge in our tech stack as soon as possible. Recharge's cost is just not economical at any scale.

My customers haven’t been able to subscribe since the update and recharge price went up but I’m not seeing the benefit , also I did the upgrade multiple times and the day the switch happened I was notified I had not successfully done the switch. Not impressed