Yotpo Email Marketing & SMS

I used the app not as marketing tool to contact customers, but to notify staff/admin via SMS of new orders. No intent at all to contact customers. To activate the app, they need to manually verify your site to see if the GDPR notes have been added on your site. That’s quite good- if you were going to contact customers in the first place.

I couldn’t activate it because support (Angelica) said the app is mainly used to contact customers, and therefore I needed to make changes to my site for GDPR compliance (eg, opt-in, privacy, etc). I tried to explain that I do not plan to use it at all to contact customers. Further, I specifically do not want to add those language on my site because I don’t want to mislead my customers into thinking that I would actually contact them for marketing purposes.

The support person kept going in circles about the app being mainly used for marketing, and I kept trying to explain that I would only use the notification for admin alert to process orders. They do have that functionality to alert the admin only, so why are they asking me to also use it to contact the customers when I don’t want to use it in that way?? It was so weird how they basically force you how to use the app, and that you cant use the app for internal SMS notifications only. Even if they have that functionality.

Until now I’m still baffled.

My campaign wouldn't send. This was after I had to deposit money to send them. My account balance showed I was charged, couldn't find analytics or metrics on the campaign anywhere. Finally reached out to support and was told it didn't send.

Now I have to wait and hope my deposit is refunded.

I am not someone who leaves reviews very often, especially negative however this companies "support" is the worst I have come across from a software business.

I have it setup so customers receive a discount code upon signing up with an email, the customer has never received any email / discount. On the 3rd attempt of contacting support I was told to follow some steps, I did them.
On the 4th time I was told it was not working because ' servers are busy, the email will arrive to your customer later'.
On the 5th time I am told my email has to be verified in the system - why did the previous 4 support agents not tell me this?
To date I have had an "escalated" support ticket open for about 12 days.
After 7 days of the support ticket being open and me already verifying my email a few days prior, I am once again asked to verify the email.
5 days since the last reply, still no response and the software still isn't working.

Customer service is absolutely unresponsive. They put a banner ad up that prevents the ability to log in and, after at least 5 times attempting to contact them over a 2 week span, they never once responded. I have been using SMSBUMP for 5 years so the app is ok when it works. But, if the app breaks, good luck getting hold of someone to help you out.

These guys are scamming people. Their old plan is no longer there in the current list and has almost same features as the new 19$ plan but they keep on charging 35$ for it. The important thing to keep a note of: When you try to load credit into the app for the first time, they would try trick you to upgrade to pay 34.99$ for a plan (when it doesn't even exist). I was trying loading 20$ and assumed I was agreeing to pay 20$. But 11 months later I was paying 35$ all these months. This difference is small compared to their bigger monthly bills that include sms charges, so it went unnoticed. When asked about why would they ask for 34.99$ plan even now (I tried their app on another store recently and it happened again but luckily I caught it), they had no answer. This guy Chris was like plain unacknowledging of the fact that there was anything wrong at all and couldn't answer. BEWARE !

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FORMING AGAINST THIS APP!!! DO NOT INSTALL WARNING!!!!! THIS APP SENT SPAM MESSAGES TO ALL OF MY CUSTOMERS... I spoke with the developer and all he offered us was not not charge us for the spam messages sent. YOU WILL LOSE CUSTOMERS, very unprofessional... DO NOT INSTALL.. DO NOT DO IT... IM FORMING A LAWSUIT IF THIS HAS HAPPENED TO YOU PLEASE CONTACT CSDONNELLY@GMAIL.COM

This app fraudulently charged my account. I have not used it at all and I've been charged 4 $10 charges all on the same day even though I clearly have no activity shown. I will remove this once they have reversed the charges. Very unhappy.

I am going to be so furious if the message I just spent 2 hours on after I figured how to do it, has just vanished! I pressed test to have it sent and it is gone. I think it is just playing with me.. we save drafts for everything... I'm not even a tekki and I know that, and I know this was not created without a save for newbies to just loose everything. With a deadline in the morning. It is late and I have to redo this now... Nah. Not good.

Horrible, messages don't send. Customer support literally ignores you when you have a problem. There are better SMS apps there, like PostScript, for example. Imagine having an issue and no one cares to help you solve it, while you're paying them.

I have been locked out of my accounts of MONTHS and it is still not resolved. I have escalated this to Shopify support after not hearing back from SMSBump for weeks. Now that Shopify Support is involved, they have replied to my messages. Yet, I am still locked out of my account. They reply so they aren't in danger of being kicked off of the platform due to Shopify's TOS but they don't fix the issue. I am going to continue reporting them to Shopify everyday until they fix this issue. This is freaking ridiculous. I wrote them in September and they didn't get back to me until nearly October. I hate this app, I'll be uninstalling and finding a different one. They replied to my emails weeks later saying "sorry we took so long, this slipped through the cracks". Absolutely infuriating and unprofessional.