Appstle℠ Subscriptions App

I’m on the highest-tier plan and use the app’s API, but a basic feature like sending 20+ requests isn’t working. They’ve been trying to fix it for nearly a week, halting my automation and business processes. I wouldn’t recommend this for anyone needing more than basic subscription features.

I have held off writing this review as long as possible but have not been able to get a resolution from Appstle support.

During migration our customer data was mixed up, attaching the personal details of one subscriber to another in a visible manner. Instead of looking into this and providing solutions, the Apstle team started updating customer details without consultation, erratically and incorrectly, causing even more damage. At this stage we are not sure of the subscriber loss but it will be significant.

I don't feel that the Appstle team has treated our data or our business with any level of integrity through this process. I'm honestly shocked they are permitted to operate in this way.

Wasn't able to get the app to work. Wasted all week with customer support, Support were trying to assist but they were just constantly confused and there was constant communication issues. After trying for a week, we've decided we've wasted enough time.. Time to use another app

They make changes in production without notifying customers, resulting in customer portal downtimes of more than 12 hours. Or they upload new features without testing them properly with the result that “things” appear that don't work or don't fit the aesthetics of the portal.
Most of their support tickets take between 24-48 hours to resolve because their agents have limited knowledge and have to pass the issues to their developers.
Some of these issues result in financial and reputational losses for those of us who use Appstle.
They do not calculate shipping rates correctly, so many times orders are shipped without shipping costs and this means losses.
And much more.

j'étais contente mais après les modifications faites, mes produits ont disparus et il y avait deux fois le même point sur mon site. J'ai demandé d'arranger les erreurs et la personne a dit qu'elle n'a rien fait et m'a envoyé une video. Apres avoir insister en lui disant que je ne sais pas comment faire car je n'ai pas touche a changer des produits et que mon site a ete cree par un professionnel, il a finalement modifier ses erreurs. donc en resume en general ca se passe bien mais vraiment aujourd'hui c'etait pas top du tout donc je mets une etoile pour aujourd'hui.

It says its free until $500 but then to be able to use it they tell you that you need to pay this and that.

Then you’re jus loosing you’re time setting up this app to find out after about prices that were not advertised before.

THIS IS NOT OK !!!

- Installation took a entire week of me staying up to midnight asking them whether the installation had completed
- They only work PCT time zone which meant i wouldnt get a response until after 6.30pm
- Today after 5 days of correct orders they charged 116 wrong subscriptions to customers, taking hundreds of pounds from them without their consent. My customers are furious, I have to refund all of them manually one by one, some have cancelled their custom with me.
They have ruined my website, caused me to lose 90% of my customers. I do not recommend this app and I strongly recommend you avoid them if you value your business and your customers.

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.

"Critical Inventory Management Issue - Urgent Support Needed"

We are extremely disappointed with the ongoing issue in this app. Orders are being displayed as processed from the wrong location A, while inventory is deducted from another location B.

This error has caused significant inventory mismatches, and we are now forced to spend considerable time backtracking to identify and resolve the discrepancies. This problem has severely disrupted our business operations.

Despite contacting support, we have not received a satisfactory or timely resolution. This is unacceptable for a service we rely on to manage our business.

We urge you to address this issue immediately and provide a fix without further delay. Please treat this as a top priority.

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.