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2023년 5월 15일

What a nightmare!!!! We installed this app, and noticed a MAJOR DROP in sales only to find out that it had broken our entire /cart page!!! No one was able to checkout until we caught the problem! Whether or not someone had purchased a subscription, they were not allowed to checkout - it would take them to the /cart page where a loading icon would just rotate for hours on end. As a quick fix, we had to put up a pop-up cart that would allow for checkouts. Not only was this the worst experience we've ever had with an app, but all their instructions on how to setup the subscription were wrong. Support would tell me to do things and test orders that didn't end up working the way we wanted them to. Those test orders also went towards our monthly limit!! Not only did we not have a cart page active, terrible support, and a major headache, we had to pay for it all!!

Thompson Ferrier
미국
앱 사용 기간 7일
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2023년 5월 15일

Dear Merchant,

I am the CTO of Appstle. I am sorry you had less than stellar experience with us. The cart widget doesn't work out of the box for all themes. That's why we have a note in the portal to reach out in case it doesn't work. All the other issues are already taken care of. There was a high surge of merchant chats at that point of time, hence it took us some time to reply.

2023년 8월 25일

don't recommend and customer service is pretty clueless. I installed the app and it wasn't working, the radio buttons were NOT showing up on the product page, so a user could not check what frequency they wanted, and couldn't add it to their cart. I messaged customer service, and the first person said that the shopify theme was overriding the radio buttons and would look into it. Two hours later, no thing, then i messaged again and a new person came on. They had the audacity to tell me it wasn't their app widget and they couldn't do anything about it. They don't even know what their own widget looks like. I showed them proof again it was definitely theirs (it was the only subscription app I had installed, was a new store). Again they said the same thing, it's not their app widget, and they couldn't help. Wow! pretty bad customer service.

Mr. Black
미국
앱 사용 기간 대략 5시간
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2023년 8월 26일

Dear Merchant,

We apologize for the inconvenience you faced with our app. As explained in the loom videos, the issue you encountered with the radio buttons was related to the widget that was being rendered from your own theme. I am glad we were able to align and get that sorted eventually. We are super glad to have you continue with us!

We should have been faster with the support, and I sincerely regret the experience you received from the first representative. We have put them back on training, to ensure we don’t have any gaps in our service and to meet the high bar we have set for ourselves.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions or concerns.

2023년 5월 26일

How the hell is this 4.9 stars? I tried testing this in my store. The subscription wouldn't show up until after I canceled the order. Of the two items I subscribed to, only one showed up. Maybe it's because they don't know how to process a pick-up order. They leave "null" in place when you don't enter a first name. Customer service is entirely offshored; I must assume the developers are as well.

If you want to lose orders and piss off your customers, I strongly recommend Appstle. Guess there's a reason other apps feel comfortable charging $99 for similar services.

GoldenJoe Juice Company
미국
앱 사용 기간 4일
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2023년 5월 27일

Hi, this is Ria, the co-founder of Appstle. I’m addressing your points one by one

Our dev and support teams are global and are based across continents and time zones. Hence, the 24x7x365 support!

Appstle Subscriptions is currently being actively used by 15,000 plus merchants, with solid widget integration across pages. However, some stores can have lingering code from other apps which can interfere with the widget. In most cases, our highly technical support team can fix it on the spot. However, sometimes the issue can be more complicated as Appstle works in an ecosystem of other Shopify apps and not in silo. Your ticket was one such, and hence under dev review and escalated. It needed further investigation. It was less than 12 hours since you first pinged us with the ticket. In my experience it’s a highly reasonable time to investigate and get back on an issue that is caused by other app code, as we want to ensure that our solution is sustainable.

2023년 6월 2일

It has some flaws that made it impossible for us to use it. First, it right away shows in the live version before you finished to set it up. But much worse, some things can not be translated to German and it keeps showing a page loading sign on the product page after the app was installed.

GONOSH
독일
앱 사용 기간 6일
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2023년 6월 2일

Dear Merchant,
We are sorry you had less than a stellar experience with our store. We do support publishing widget on non-published themes. However, it’s not the default setup option as most merchants find it hard to follow. We also support widget on products in draft or unpublished stage. This way, widget won’t be visible to others.

Also, could you let us know what label is not translatable? We have stores with various languages using our app. We also reached out to you 2 days back asking if you need any help. Please give us a try again. Our support team is available 24X7 and can be reached out via our chat widget.

2023년 5월 2일

The free version is completely USELESS. I don't know why they even bother offering it. Every single feature of any use is not included. Waste of time.

Zeno's pet supplies
미국
앱 사용 기간 3일
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2023년 5월 2일

This is a fake review, which us and a few other apps have been experiencing the past few days.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sweta-mohanty-9808a0a6_ecosystem-ecosystem-competition-ugcPost-7057060732160409601-L5z5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

The review left within a minute of installation, and the language is not only insulting Appstle but also hundreds of our merchants who have benefitted so much from our free and starter plans that are there to encourage and support new and small businesses. The review has been reported to LinkedIn.

2023년 4월 9일

App is ok but support is not, Mann in particular. I used every resource available but still was unable to resolve issues. When I asked for help I was just given a simple answer and the support chat was ended without me having an opportunity to follow up and Mann never asked if I needed anything else or if my issue was resolved. I have felt with many different types of support through Shopify and this has by far been the worst

myheatups
미국
앱 사용 기간 1일
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2023년 4월 27일

Dear Merchant,

We are sorry to hear you had a less-than-stellar experience with us. Our intention is never to make our merchants feel that we are unreachable.

Our team has curated a short loom video specifically going over the subscription model that you are looking for, explaining limitations and workarounds along with it through the email along with short tutorial videos attached for our Appstle Menu feature as a workaround for your model.

If you need any help with the setup or if you would like to schedule a call with our support specialists, feel free to reach out to us anytime.

Thank you for your valuable feedback.

2023년 4월 25일

Terrible experience and I only installed it, nothing else. I quickly realised it was far too complicated for my needs, so uninstalled and removed the code snippets (yes, uninstalling still leaves code behind). I still have code which Appistle are blaming on Shopify, Shopify put a request into PayPal when I installed the app, asking for recurrent payments to be approved (they weren't by the way), so now I have a permanent message from PayPal about this on my Shopify dashboard. I just want this code removed and the absolute mess sorting out. Shopify are currently trying to sort the mess out for me, which absolutely is not their job when it comes to apps. Unless you 100% want to use the app, and are not just trying it out with their 10 day trial, I would not even entertain it. I know I'm going to get replies from them 'reaching out' and wanting to chat, but the numerous emails back and forth haven't sorted anything so far.

HowCurious? Ltd
영국
앱 사용 기간 25분
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2023년 4월 25일

Dear Merchant,

I am the CTO of Appstle. I am sorry you had less than stellar experience with us. I have personally gone over your issues. Let me go over it one by one.

1) Paypal Messaging: Anytime you would install a subscription app, and if your Paypal payment processor isn't configured correctly for Subscription, Shopify would show you this message. It's for your convenience. It's Shopify's way of letting you know that Payment processor isn't ready for Subscription purchase.

2) Shipping - General Profile: Again, if you have a subscription app installed, Shopify lets you know what Shipping profile was used for the order. The reason being, for subscription orders, you can use a different shipping profile if you want to. Hence, it's for your convenience. It's not a bug or anything like that.

3) Left over snippet: We use Shopify recommended App Embed block approach. This gives the merchant the ability to add/remove our code by enabling/disabling app extension in the theme. There are a few things I can see with the code you pointed out. It's commented. That means, it's disabled and it can't do any harm. If you are using any caching app/tool, it may be trying to add our snippet even though the extension is disabled. However, since the extension is disabled, Shopify is complaining about the fact that it can't find our extension. Again, it won't cause any issue. But more importantly, we are not adding that code. You can check with Shopify. The snippet is added by Shopify.

Thanks,

Hemant

2023년 12월 10일에 편집됨

Dec 10, 2023 UPDATE: STAY THE HELL AWAY. THEY JUST DOUBLE AND TRIPLE BILLED HUNDREDS OF OUR SUBSCRIPTIONS. WE HAD TO MANUALY FIND, CANCEL AND REFUND OVER 300 ORDERS AND LOST OVER A DOZEN SUBS. YES THEY OFFERED A 20% DISCOUNT AFTER APOLOGIZING. JUST A LOT OF HEADACHES. TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A MIGRATION STRATEGY...
January 9, 2023 UPDATE: Like I said before, they will pacify you, blame Shopify, tell you they opened a ticked with Shopify, and you will never hear from them again. Still have not heard from them - supposedly they opened a ticket with Shopify - but they were very quick to reply to my review update / change on Dec 5 when I dropped them to 1 star.
December 5, 2022 UPDATE: After approximately 16 months of using the app, I am changing my rating just because of lack of support. Support has really gone so downhill over the last 6-9 months, it is sad!!! Changing my 5-star review to 1 star because response time has become unacceptable. I was probably one of their first 100 customers. I have over 4000 subscriptions and have been very patient but really their support has become an issue. It's not just "growing pains" anymore - they will pacify you and/or blame Shopify until you're blue in the face - to the point where you just give up and try to find a workaround.

Bones and Me LLC
미국
앱 사용 기간 2년 초과
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2021년 7월 15일

Dear Merchant,

As we shared the error, it's coming while invoking Shopify API. We are filing a partner ticket but until then, we can't do anything about it. We are not seeing that issue with any other store, hence we will need to consult with Shopify on it.

Regards,
Ria

2023년 3월 15일

It's been extremely frustrating working with Appstle as our subscription management app. We've been trying to fix all issues and talk to the developers, but things don't improve, they don't really take their time to understand what we are asking, and what is not asking and work towards answering or fixing them.

Sometimes they answer by saying they don't have a certain feature and in fact, they do, their customer service just doesn't know it. The only reason we haven't left Appstle is that every time we change a subscription app it affects OUR customers' experience and we don't want to cause another friction with them until we find a better app/solution.

I would NOT recommend purchasing/adding this app to your Shopify store, and if you have one to recommend to us, please do, we'd really appreciate it.

Ortaliza Urban Farms
캐나다
앱 사용 기간 1년 초과
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2023년 3월 15일

Dear Merchant,

This is the co-founder and CTO of Appstle. I sincerely apologize for failing to meet your expectations. I have sent you a detailed email. Hopefully, we can address all your requirements by end of the week.

Looking forward to connecting.

2022년 9월 21일

This app is like a constantly ticking time bomb. All their app changes are done in real time, so your customers will have a front-row seat to some real messy changes until the developers finally get it right. Which they rarely do, because aside from a very reckless, sluggish team of developers, they have no marketer or designer to explain to them what a good customer journey is. So it falls upon us to try to explain to them things such as why not having quantity selectors in a build-a-box and forcing the customers to go in and out of every individual item just to add them to a pseudo-cart only to then proceed to a real one is a terrible customer journey. The app’s architecture and design are a total mess. You have the regular subscription plan, normally you can choose a build-a-box option, but here, you have to stack that option on top of an existing plan, and for some reason you can enter a discount in both places. And here where it gets even messier: if you enter the discount in the subscription plan, it's built into the price, but you can't have a compare price, and if you enter it in the build-a-box extension, it's entered at the checkout as a discount code. And to make matters even worse, any product added into the build-a-box will forcefully have its own subscription widget, and the only way around it is to disable ALL widgets everywhere. As for their recklessness, here are a few examples: - overriding basic Shopify css elements (your visa, mastercard and other payment logos suddenly line up vertically)
- when I tell them about that, they go ahead and ADD more messy code to override the code that’s overriding Shopify’s default
- whenever they add a new element, there’s no translation field for it, so if your shop runs in another language, expect English words to always pop up randomly.
- subscription widgets aren’t automatically enabled for collections, and there’s no install repository where you can get the code and do it yourself immediately, you have to wait for their team to send you that snippet. (and the response time and/or useful feedback drops dramatically once your trial period ends.)
- and when I did get the code it was in broken HTML, so I am thankful I told them to send that to me and not have them run that on our store somewhere. - as mentioned above, all the live changes done without informing us and us having a ‘code red’ every single time. - irresponsible, misinformed feedback: even questions such as “do your subscription + loyalty discounts stack up or are they multiplied by one another?” don’t get a correct answer and you literally have to run the math for them to show their answer didn’t make sense. I could go on and on… In short: unintuitive, unreliable and extremely time-consuming.

Pumpkin Organics
독일
앱 사용 기간 9개월
답글 Appstle Inc.개 2022년 9월 21일

Hi,

My name is Logan and I'm the Director of Product here at Appstle. Your team has obviously had an bad experience with us and I want to see how I can help. First I want to address some of the points in your review.
Our team is working very hard to build out all of the functionality merchants need from us. In the past sometimes we have done this too fast and released features a bit early. Clearly this has created a negative experience for your team. While we do want to continue releasing new features and support our merchants needs, we have made some changes to the way we release features.

1. Our team now announces new updates to all merchants from our dashboard. Features that will change existing experiences will not be enabled by default, and will be fully merchant controled.

2. To improve user experience I have joined the Appstle team, coming from leading ecommerce at a North American Shopify Plus brand. We have made several recent user experience hires as well to address the exact points you made above. Expect to see some massive user experience improvements coming to the app shortly :)

3. We have reviewed the bugs mentioned in this review. Most have been resolved or are in the process of being resolved as a top priority. I'd love to make sure we can address all of your concerns in detail however.

We're building fast and learning along the way. One thing is for certain though, our merchants expect best in class user experience and stability. We are absolutely determined to deliver that. If you'd like we can get on a call together and discuss how we can create the perfect experience for you. I'd like to offer that I will handle your requests personally.

We are releasing an updated, significantly improved version of our build-a-box in the coming days. We need merchants like yourself to provide feedback so that we are absolutely certain we are providing the best experience possible. If you'd like to get on a call and discuss how we can implement a much improved build-a-box experience, and implement your suggestions, I'd be happy to do so. Send me an email at logan@appstle.com and I'll be happy to help.

On behalf on the entire team (they have all read your review) we apologize for the experience you've had with us so far. We'd be over the moon to turn it around for you.

Best,

Logan