Recharge Subscriptions

Edit: NOTHING YOU SAY IS GOING TO JUSTIFY $25 to $100!!! STAY AWAY. THE WORST EXPERIENCE WITH AN APP ON SHOPIFY I HAVE EVER HAD. We are a small business that started using recharge last year. The charges were % based and worked ok for us. We spent around $5-25 monthly for the app. We were not aware and did not receive the emails regarding price change. We found out later on when viewing bills - that we are charged $100!!!! USD every month while we only have under 20 active subscriptions. This is a 500% increase in the fee. If this is not stealing - I don't know what else to call it. There was no reasonable explanation provided besides shoving their "terms" in my face. Horrible company with even more horrible people running it. BEWARE!!!

Great app, but terrible customer service. Once you’re using it it’s almost impossible to get any help or meaningful communication. Paying money for it but can’t get any help setting anything up.

I've used ReCharge for almost a decade, and when I compare it to new offerings on the market it legs behind. But what has caused us to finally leave is being abandoned by support multiple times in situations where their errors have caused over a grand in monthly losses. The support team does not offer timely or thorough product support once you are signed up. The lack of accessible easy analytics also creates a logitics nightmare for my shipping department. ReCharge is no longer the king-pin for subscription apps on Shopify, I urge new store owners to search elsewhere and try new apps willing to try harder to earn your money.

All of a sudden increased their price from less than 10 dollars to 100 dollars without notifying their customers, when contacted, they are not willing to provide a refund.

The communication and customer service experience were extremely disappointing. I received only one email notifying me of a steep price increase to $99 per month. When I contacted Customer Service about being overcharged, they showed little concern for my dissatisfaction, even though the initial notification email had ended up in my spam folder. It's surprising that Recharge wasn't more proactive in communicating such significant pricing changes. A banner pop-up or multiple communication channels would have been more effective in ensuring customers were aware of the new pricing. Overall, a disappointing experience.

Would not use again. Changed their billing cycles without informing customers. (They did say they sent emails but I had not received any).

Last month they had billed me (a month late) for the app after they went paid, but again, I did not know that they were changing their billing. Getting a refund was difficult. Once refunded I removed the app never to be used again.

You'll imagine my surprise when a month later I am billed again for the recharge app, that has been uninstalled for over a month now.

I'd highly recommend a different app just based on this experience.

Edit Update after response:

Based on their reply it is easy to understand that recharge has been a difficult company to work with. My review was not a complaint about the app graduating to a paid app. My review IS however a complaint of their lack of communication, not informing me I was getting moved to this plan in any way whatsoever, improper billing cycles, improper billing, and unwillingness to accept the facts as they have played out.

Please re read my review recharge, I have been working within your customer service parameters, and they have failed.

On the customer service side, the individual I have dealt with this time around has been great, but unfortunately she must be getting bad information, as she was told my requested refund was completed (it wasn't).

Massively increased their prices! I am only a small coffee roastery. Went from paying about $2 a month based on how much I was selling to over $100 per month!

I was given some warning to be fair, but it takes a while to update your web site.

Plenty of other subscription services that don't charge the little guys anywhere near this (most are free to a point), so will be switching over ASAP!

Customer support is extremely difficult and does not provide a valid solution or answer any follow-up questions regarding the issues we are facing. While the supports response time is good the issue is with the content as the issue is not resolved and is affecting the bottom line of the business. The email thread with the support is a mile long and we have still not been able to get a meaningful solution or any feedback of proposed time to resolution. Being a SaaS solution there is no escalation option in a traditional sense to a process business owner that would take our issue seriously.

no good, they put their prices up significantly without notice and direct debited the amounts, when I realised they only refunded a fraction.

We briefly installed this app 18 months ago when it was free, but never actually used it. We were therefore shocked to discover that Recharge had billed $99 to our Shopify account last month.

We have contacted Recharge numerous times and they have promised to refund. However, we have still not received a refund to our Shopify account.

We have been back and forth between Recharge and Shopify customer services. Shopify tell them to refund us. Recharge say they will refund but the refund never materialises.

We are extremely surprised that an app on Shopify is allowed to operate like this.