Vela Bulk Edit, AI & more

I feel confused I came here to find people having the same difficulties. I haven't been able to get changes to sync correctly for 2 months. I have kept trying but right now I needed this app to work. I have it on Etsy too and no it is broken there too. I took a break on Shopify hoping it was fixed and it isn't..

The interface and the functions of this app are great. I unfortunately managed to mess my entire store up by miss-using one of the functions. This was my own bad as I should have watched the videos better.

It was a struggle to get my products back in to their original state and overall I just want to warn people to pay very good attention if you use this app. The guy in support answered very fast but we didn't manage to find a solution.

I really enjoyed using the app but the price changes were far too expensive for me. When the only tools I need are to sync listings from Etsy to Shopify, 50USD a month is staggering. Especially considering I only add around 30 listings each month...

I wish there was an option for limited features. I don't need AI generation or social share, I simply need to copy listings from one platform to another. I don't need to sync inventories between the two platforms. Again, I simply needed to copy one listing from one platform to another.

I'll be back if the pricing structure ever changes.

Original Review: 4 Stars

Vela is great for quickly uploading new products. We do weekly drops and this has made life way easier. Really happy we made the switch.

Knocked off one star because one feature was missing that is crucial to our workflow: the ability to schedule product launches. At the time, this added an extra multi-step process to every drop. Support said scheduling was coming soon, and once added, I planned to update my review to 5 stars.

Updated Review: 2 Stars
After using the new scheduling feature for three weeks, we experienced enough issues with support to lower this to 2 stars. Vela still helps speed up product creation, and when it works, the time savings are real. But the scheduling and profile systems caused real problems for our team. Support consistently pointed to user error, even when the workflows were unclear or lacked basic safeguards.

Week 1: Products posted at $0.00
We scheduled a product launch using the new feature. Items did not go live on time, and when they finally did, the prices were set to $0.00. We accidentally sold over 40 items for free before catching the issue. Support said this happened because our shop had not been refreshed recently. During the drop, they then auto-refreshed the shop, which temporarily locked us out of the system while customers were live on our site.

Week 2: Quantities zeroed out
Even with the shop fully synced, the next drop still had problems. Items went live a few minutes late, and this time the inventory for each product was set to zero. Everything appeared sold out until we manually re-added the correct quantities while the drop was active.

Week 3 – Listings deleted after canceling schedule
After the first two weeks, we had decided to avoid using scheduling altogether. However, one of our employees accidentally scheduled 20 new items. I followed the chatbot’s instructions to cancel the scheduled listings, assuming they would return to draft status.

Instead, 18 out of 20 listings were deleted entirely with no warning or fallback. When I reached out to support, they explained:

“Since I assume these were newly created listings there was no status to save them in after canceling the publication. So when it goes direct from new listing -> scheduled there is no fallback to draft.”

They also told me:

“You scheduled multiple different operations to take place at the exact same time or within a couple minutes of each other, which as I've explained is NOT allowed.”

Apparently, the correct method is to use one bulk publish operation, rather than scheduling items individually. That may be technically correct, but none of this was clear in the UI. There was no warning, no explanation at the time, and no way to recover the work once the mistake was made.

Rather than acknowledging that the system might need a confirmation prompt or better guidance, support placed the blame entirely on how we were using it.

Prior issue: Profiles overwriting live listings
A few months earlier, we had another issue that also impacted our rating. I made some small formatting edits to a product profile, expecting those changes to apply only to future listings.

Instead, those changes were immediately applied to over 80 existing live products. Product descriptions were replaced, photos were removed, and unique listing details were wiped out with no warning.

Because we only use Vela for creating new product listings, not for editing existing live ones, this came as a complete surprise. There was no clear indication that editing a profile would push changes to live products, and no option to preview or undo.

When we brought it up, support explained:

“When you apply a profile, whatever attributes are included in that profile are applied to the listings connected to the profile as expected.”

They added:

“You should only include attributes in the profile that you want to unify and have applied across all the connected listings.”

“This is working as intended.”

That may be true from a technical standpoint, but in practice it led to serious problems. Our use case was basically dismissed, and the damage to our listings took hours to fix. A confirmation screen or clearer labeling would have prevented the issue entirely.

Summary:
Vela is a helpful tool in a lot of ways. It has sped up our workflow when creating new products, and the base functionality is solid. But both the scheduling system and profile editor are easy to misuse, and the consequences can be irreversible.

Support may be technically correct in how the platform is designed, but that does not mean it is intuitive or safe to use without deeper training. Whether these problems were user error or not, the product did not do enough to prevent them.

We hope to see improvements and would be happy to update this review if changes are made.

Updating inventory to a specific warehouse location doesn't work. For example, I have a warehouse in US and Egypt. If I update the stock quantity in Egypt in Vela, it ends up updating the stock quantity for US in Shopify. Haven't heard anything back from support over 7 days.