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Terrible Customer Support – 30+ Days, No Resolution

We have spent over a month trying to resolve a basic WhatsApp‑integration error on Tidio. Despite countless emails, chatbot conversations, and a “Level 2” escalation, our phone number still shows as "pending" and messages never send.

- 30+ days, still broken. Every reply repeats the same “disconnect and reconnect” script—nothing changes.
- No live technician. All contact is through an automated bot or delayed email; no real person ever jumps on a call or screenshare.
- Business impact ignored. Our store relies on WhatsApp to serve customers; Tidio’s inaction has cost us sales and credibility.
- Empty promises. Each “we’ll get back to you shortly” stretches into days of silence.

If you want a platform whose "only" support is a bot that recycles canned responses, Tidio is perfect. If you value rapid, human‑centered help for mission‑critical features, look elsewhere—I’m canceling and moving back to Meta’s own (free) tools.

I've been using Tidio for my customers for a while now. The AI chatbot works but the company's model is really disapointing. Our website gets thousands of viewers with questions but the model is limited conversations per month. Once the limitation is reached, these questions go into a Live Conversation, which is not met if you don't have the team set up for this. So instead of unanswered questions defaulting to your email for example, you get a waterfall of Live Chat questions in Tidio. *Hopefully* your notifications are turned on for this. Mine were not. So I had a lot of unmet customer questions. What a mess. Of course I am happy to set up unlimited conversations... except there is only a tier of limited conversations set up at a price *starting* at $749 USD/month. This is simply unworkable. What a messy model. I'm moving onto an app that supports growth.

I honestly don’t even know how to describe what happened.

I paid for a plan because I wanted the chat page. I then received an email from Raquel, who stated that there are significant abuses of the chat page and I therefore have to prove my reasons for wanting it. I message back that this doesn’t sound like an upstanding company.

Hours later I receive another response from Chris, who states he’s with the legal team, but oddly has a Customer Experience title. Within the thread that Chris forwarded to me is an email from Joel, who explicitly states that he’s not replying to me so that I don’t think something went wrong on their side.

Too late. I definitely think there’s something wrong on their side.

I cannot uninstall this app fast enough, and have asked for a refund. I don’t know what you, the reader, may want to do with this information, but I can’t suggest that you use them. There are plenty of other live chats out there with fewer red flags when talking to clients.

Update: As you can see they replied here, they also emailed me asking me to edit my review because...and here let me quote Jack, "But I also want to be honest—while the mistake was bad, it wasn’t as sketchy as it might have seemed."

Because nothing says sketchy like a company having to say "we're not sketchy".

I have deleted an app and it STILL LEFT CODE. No one cares from Tidio, they do not reply how to delete that code!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tidio sucks. They send constant emails saying that your "services have stopped working" in order to get you to upgrade. We fell for it, upgraded, and ended up paying $77/month only to receive additional messages that other services stopped working. They imply that your chat has stopped, but they're just secondary services - but we ended up cancelling because of the pushy, misleading messages. A sleazy way to do business. 0/10 WOULD NOT RECOMMEND.

UPDATE : We reached out previously about why we were getting the scare-tactic "services stopped working" emails and were not told then that we could optimize our "subscription so you can focus solely on chat." Nope. We just kept receiving them. This is too little, too late. Your scare-tactic upselling is is the reason that we cancelled and NO WAY are we going back, this is much too little much too late. Beware of this from the start if you use this app.

I have been using since 2019. Worked well no complains. They kept increasing prices. I have to say i will stop using the app.

Bad and incredibly expensive. It promotes itself by placing its rights, and if you want to remove them, you have to pay a lot. It is not suitable for everyone with an average or lower budget. I advise using cheaper alternatives.

It's a really poor design and user experience. They really just want to upsell you to pay for the premium rate, which is so expensive. It's basically impossible to use without that. I tried, paid, and canceled.

Too expensive now, they increased the prices a lot!

Requests are getting lost - I have them coming from the help email to open a ticket, but once the email gets forwarded, it gets lost where it cannot be found.
Do not have expectations that support will help you - it is very slow to get a response, and the responses are not helpful, nor are they live.
Do yourself a favor and do not use this