Bold Subscriptions App

A merge was required for an updated subscription version, was never informed that old version needed to be uninstalled, therefore was double charged for nearly 3 yrs before I noticed the charges. Offered 6 month refund, which is better than nothing. Merge was stressful and confusing with very little communication. Just I needed to merge accounts or my subscription accounts would be deactivated. Yet, they still charged me for nearly 3yrs even though the app was irrelevant! Infuriating!

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Dreadful customer support. A week with an issue and no response to multiple emails and no action via online support

This app took down my shop for 48 hours before I was able to diagnose that it was their update that took down my store. When I worked with them to fix it, they refused to offer me a refund for even a single month of their service unless I was willing to give them full access to my store to diagnose the problem. I explained to them that their negligence operating at a base level made it impossible for me to trust them with full access to their store and I asked them to cancel and give me a refund. They held my store and subscriptions hostage for weeks before I was able to migrate away from them, uninstall the app, report them to Shopify, and file chargebacks (that I won because I had it in writing from them that they refused any refunds while holding my site hostage). They are friendly until a problem arises. Beware.

Support none existant no one ever gets back to you.

First, I’d like to express our deep disappointment in the quality of service and product we’ve received after being loyal members for seven years. The customer support has been unhelpful and consistently does the bare minimum to assist. The app still lacks multilingual support, and the widget offers very limited customization options. To make matters worse, we recently discovered that our subscription widget has not been properly loading on desktop for weeks. When clicked, it does nothing and doesn’t allow customers to select a frequency. We were also double charged during the transition between our old subscription and the new Bold migration that took place in October. The migration process itself was unprofessional and resulted in several customers being charged twice or inconsistently. Despite our attempts to work toward a solution, we received no meaningful support. Unfortunately, this left us with no choice but to move away from Bold.

Bold has the worst support. They do not care for your issue. No one contacts you and support tickets go in AI loop forever. If you have a chance use another app

Not useful and difficult to cancel. Can't effectively manage subscriptions. So their entire business model is based around customers forgetting about their app and leaving auto pay on.

Please GOD can someone help me?!?! Can anyone suggest an alternative app that I can retain these last remaining customers???? I'm DYING to find an alternative to this nightmare of an app. We used Bold v1 for years and everything was fine. Since they forced us to "upgrade" (ha hilarious to call it an upgrade), it has been a NIGHTMARE. I've spent hundreds of hours trying to get the "upgraded" app to work. The "seamless" migration was a fail that I had to fix every single existing subscription manually with custom discount codes & notes. Since then I have had every subscription group duplicate the frequency list over and over... to the point that you would need to scroll for 3 feet to find the end of the frequency list. Thousands of dollars lost, endless customer complaints. Went from 400+ subscribers to now only 68. Most of the orders placed for subscription don't actually create subscriptions. And no way for me to know that we just lost what should have been a recurring customer. Product pages look ridiculous with all the duplicate subscription frequency options. No customer could navigate these. Front end support staff always says they have to escalate to developers, but no way to talk to developers directly. Around 2 weeks after contact I get an email saying everything is "fixed" and what that usually means is I have to start over trying to fix every item from A-Z manually. Can't remove the subscription widget no matter what I do. I've even deleted every subscription group and the damn widget still remains (sometimes duplicated five times over). After getting 3 months free three times over for "frustration"... I have been working on this for over a year... I gave up on even contacting them for credit. My DREAM is to dump them, contact my credit card company to dispute remaining charges (including their "oops.. we may have charged you too much for processing fees for months"... no shit, my processing fees tripled) by explaining their fraud, BUT I have these 68 subscriptions remaining. Can anyone suggest an alternative that I can retain these last remaining customers???? Shopify should have more control over this. This app should not even be an offer on their app market. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE. THIS APP IS A SCAM. Please, if you have an alternative that I can migrate over to please let me know. This experience has brought me to the point of considering ending the online side of my business just to end this nightmare.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS APP!!!

TL;DR This app charges WAY more for WAY less functionality We have been using the BOLD Subscription app for over 9 years and I have been incredibly disappointed in the transition from v1 to this version of the app. The new version of the app is missing several key features that were included in v1: *No customer activity notification: in v1 we would get an email if a customer changed or canceled their subscription order, keeping our customer service team in the loop. *No confirmation to the customer if they change or cancel their order. There are email confirmations when a subscriber starts a new subscription or there is a payment issue, so I don't know why they didn't include options for editing or canceling a subscription. *In v1 customers could define their own subscription interval. Creating multiple variations to match the intervals that our customers are looking would create a very cumbersome list for the customer to have to sort through. *Flat Rate Shipping only for subscription order. We have subscription customers who use our local pick-up option, guess we won't be getting orders from them anymore! *Doesn't work with other BOLD apps. One of the main selling points for us almost a decade ago was that we could use the BOLD Subscriptions app with Custom Pricing and Upsells, but according to the BOLD Help Center the apps are no longer compatible. To add insult to injury our cost for BOLD Subscriptions is projected to 100x (yes, that is a one-hundred times increase!) over the cost we were paying for v1. I thought shrinkflation at the grocery store was bad, but this is ridiculous. We are currently looking at upgrading to Shopify Plus to manage our custom pricing and switching to the Shopify subscription app. I will say the front-line service team that I have interacted with has always been perfectly pleasant and are probably the best employees in the entire company.

Do not use this app! I have never left a bad review for any app or product in my life, but I feel compelled to save anyone from having to deal with all that we have dealt with in this app. Not only does it continue to have problems, but they have the WORST customer service that I have ever experienced. They do not have any access to a live agents, ever. They have very limited business hours so if you have a major issue, which we have multiple times, you can not get any assistance if it is outside of their M-F central time office hours. Being an app in the eccommerce space, they should realize that these business are 24-7 and should at least attempt to have expanded hours since issues arise over the weekend too. They have shown us multiple times that they do not care that their platform glitches cause a disturbance in your business. That it could cost you customers. They simply don't seem to care. They show no concern about how long it takes them to even answer the support ticket in a timely manner, let alone actually fix the issue in a timely manner. I am always patient when it comes to tech because I realize that stuff happens and errors occur and all of that, but I am telling you. I have had more awful experiences with this app, its service, and its lack of customer service than I have ever experienced and I am so very frustrated. I have resisted changing to a new subscription app because I was worried about migrating to something new, but I should have a long time ago because this app continues to be a nightmare. Please keep looking and save yourself the trouble of dealing with this app. I am certainly moving on!

If I could give them a 0 I would. Things have worked fine for the last 4 years that I had been using V1. But the migration to V2 has been a disaster. Today is October 22 and since October 8, when their Tier 2 team got everything 'fixed', customers have been unable to order non-subscription products from my site. Today's rep told me " the action that needs to be taken must be done by our app developers and they are currently addressing critical and high-priority issues that have emerged in some of our other projects." I'd steer clear!

I wanted to provide feedback regarding the recent migration of my subscription. Unfortunately, the experience has been less than satisfactory. Since the migration, the shipping method and store pickup options haven’t been functioning properly, and this has caused significant inconvenience. I’ve always appreciated your service in the past, but this transition has been frustrating, and I cannot rate it positively in its current state. If there is anything that can be done to resolve these issues, I’d be happy to discuss further.

Bold subscriptions has been a nightmare since we installed it, in their first version (V1) they could never figure out why our taxes were being charged incorrectly after years of problems so we would have to manually fix this for each order. Now with the new Bold subscription migration they did from V1 they have no idea what they're doing. First they told us groups could have 865 products and it didn't work so they said 650 products and now months later they tell us after the fact it has to be 250 products maximum. There is no way to be notified if you have a new subscription, cancelled subscription or paused subscription. The order notes from checkout aren't carried into the order so those notes do not come through properly. Right now the latest problem is that after subscribing to a product and adding to cart, it's not saying that it's a subscription item so we have no idea if it's working. Overall terrible experience and the new app is useless, they don't know what they're doing.

I signed up for Bold to try their product. One of the features they advertised did not work as expected, so the next day I uninstalled their app and requested a refund. They REFUSED to provide a refund and told me I had to wait until the charge went through, paid for their app even though I'm not even using it, and then request a refund. This is crazy. If you install the Bold app and it doesn't' work for you, be prepared to get ripped off or waste your time in a process designed to rip you off.

If you are a small-medium merchant, DO NOT DO NOT switch to Bold! My migration from V1 to V2 was horrendous. On numerous occasions in the past year, entire batches of subscriptions were not processed overnight, for no apparent reason. First tier customer service is not helpful, it feels like they respond from a script. The tendency is always to blame Shopify and to divert inquiries to them. You can’t call a hotline, you can’t get transferred to a supervisor. You just get semi robotic replies in their online chat (that only works during day time business hours). If you are lucky enough to convince them to escalate your complaint to a higher level, you wait 24-48 hours for an email reply. Most recently, BOLD significantly overcharged me for the 1% transaction fee. I brought this to their attention before it became announced that the issue affected other merchants. After two weeks of waiting for an update, I had to follow up again and was given their wonderful solution. In a nutshell: “We (Bold) made a mistake. You have been charged incorrectly. We are now going to charge you the correct amount. Shopify will refund you the incorrectly charged amount in a few days/weeks”. Unbelievable! No substantial apology, no compensation for the time and effort. I feel like it will now be up to me to chase after Shopify to get my money back for the mistake that BOLD made. For a fintech company, this is absolutely unacceptable. Take my advice, read the reviews for other apps, and chose one of those. BOLD may go out of their way for the large enterprises, but small businesses get treated like crap. I am going to start working in migrating to an alternative platform asap.

Overly complicated. Don't support dev stores so you have to pay on a real store to play around, slow support and dont support new shopify accounts

DO NOT USE THIS APP. If you are migrating from Bold v1 to this app because V1 is no longer supported - your experience will be terrible. Really basic features are missing - the support team gives you attitude and treats you like you are stupid when you ask questions. NO Build-a-box migration. NO fixed-term contract options NO Convertible options for migration. It is NOT an embedded app, so if you want to change anything, they refer you to the theme code and ask you to change it yourself. Really simple features are missing, along with all the main features above. NEW users - STAY AWAY. MiGRATING users - I wish you good luck. There is a reason it is the lowest-rated subsciption app on Shopify. BOLD used to be a great company with great apps, but they have dropped the ball on this one.

I used to love Bold, I have been a customer since 2016. But both Apps and the Customer service has declined and is horrible! I had to uninstall all Bold apps to include this one.

I just installed the app and I'm sure this app will work fine BUT I have products that I DO NOT want to be shown to customers from within their login portal in the "add product to subscription" section. Unfortunately there is NO WAY to hide products here which is asinine because of course the app allows you to restrict what products are available for subscription to begin with but then they just show everything by default in the customer portal regardless of what I want made available? The support team called this a known bug but I would not call it that since the app as been out for several years now, it's way beyond bug status, this is just Bold being lazy. I was on Bold subscriptions 1.0 and finally ported over to this version only to find that it is far less customizable in many ways, this being the one I can't seem to work around.

Do not - DO NOT - get this app for subscription management. I used them for years and things used to be great, including the customer service. It is now a dumpster fire (customer service refused to help us with a minor integration issue and as a result our subscriptions were down for over 2 months...it was an actual nightmare to get it resolved. The craziest thing was we had had this issue before and they had fixed it no problem; the support team has narrowed their scope tremendously). I repeatedly tried to book a call with them during those 2 months so that we could solve this issue faster; they refused. Email responses would take a week to hear back from them. Only once I threatened to leave Bold was the ability to book a call suddenly made available. Just skip the headache and get Recharge.

We were excited to test Bold Subscription. However, this app only offers basic frequency subscription build. You can't even create a prepaid subscription. For basic functionality it should not be priced at $49.99 + 1% transaction fee. Better apps out there.

The app is not ready for regular use -- at least for my business. After working with them for over a month on the transition -- we learned through testing (not even directly from them) that prepaids were not yet working. My business almost exclusively uses the prepaid feature Now I am being charged for two apps -- with the new one not even feasible for my business.

We hate the new Bold app - we signed up originally with the old one. The new Bold has less flexibility to update our customers information and is more difficult to generate reports. The customer service is inconsistent and emails appear to be answered by bots rather than humans. Overall - if I had the time to find a different app for renewing subscriptions, I would use it. I just don't have time right now.

DELETEDNTHE APP A YEAR AGO THEYN BEEN CHARGING ME FEES EVERY MONTH1!!!!! avoid!!!! scam!!!! EVERY MONTH!!! U OWE ME 450 DOLLARS!!!!!!

The javascript file for this app is way too massive, destroyed our search ranking just by installing. I didn't even get the app set up, and it's going to take our site months to recover from.

Would give 0 stars if I could. Terrible app, terrible support, they have made a mess of my store and cost me so much $. Their "developers" are clowns and their customer support is a joke they will only tell you pre-scripted answers. DO NOT USE ANY APP FROM BOLD. The apps will never work and when they don't they will just blame it on your theme, other apps, the weather, or any other random stupid excuse they can think of

I migrated from v1 to v2 thinking it would be better. It was horrible. It is worse than v1. Run away from this subscription app, it will only cause you headache as you scale your business.

We switched from Bold V1 to V2 1.5 years ago. Never the promised upgrades, never the transfer of V1 customers to V2. Now this app starts sending customers 3 products and charging for 1. Bold has lost our company a lot of money and has poor support. We have moved on. We moved on to another solution.

AVOID Bold Subscriptions. If you're planning on building your subscription members on Shopify - BOLD is NOT the way to do it. Bold Subscription's Version 2 doesn't even deliver the basic functions it purports to provide. We've had a year of issues with constant promises to fix and correct - Bold has done nothing. I have HUNDREDS of emails from everyone from JAY MEYERS to the front-line technical staff - all excuses, zero action. It is beyond frustrating. Integrating subscription management software into your website is essentially creating a RELATIONSHIP (Bold is the WORST partner we've ever had). You're literally trusting your software provider with your brand's reputation. Customers don't see Bold... they see your brand - so when there is an issue (and there's ALWAYS, NEVER ENDING, CONSTANT issues with Bold) customers blame you. No exaggeration - Customers can't change a credit card, pause a subscription, or modify an address on their own. These BASIC features rarely work. Adding insult to injury - Bold's Subscriptions technical and customer support has taken as long as 8 weeks to follow up issues. AVOID AVOID AVOID Bold Subscriptions. They mislead us to get us on board (promises of seamless integration, functionality, and responsive customer service - NONE OF WHICH HAPPENED OR WAS TRUE), and then left us hanging.

Awful Customer Service. This app has gone downhill. We've requested installation help several times only to be ignored.

They dont seem to be actively working on this app, it has limitations in that customers cant add products to their subsciption. And if I do it manually I cannot add it at the subsciption discount price. They do not seem to care about improving this app. I would look elsewhere if I were you.I've been using it for 8 months and nothing has improved.

On the website, it says Worldpay is supported, But after installation, I was told by their customer service that they don't support Worldpay. Also NO refund. MAKE IT WORK, OR GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK

The migration from Bold v1 to Bold v2 has been terrible. We've had customers with duplicate orders and now customers are being sent notification from v1 despite the fact they're on V2. We've lost subscribers and wasted customers time and had to take on a lot of extra customer service. YOU'VE STILL NOT RESPONDED

I downloaded this app because I wanted to have a look at its functionalities and how it works. I did not intend to integrate in onto my store immediately. Unfortunately, the app adjusted my theme code which I cannot remove again without causing multiple website bugs plus this app immediately told paypal to qualify me for reoccuring payments. I never wanted to do these things! Since I tried this app my payment gateway has a major bug and automatic discounts do not work anymore when customers want to pay with paypal. The amount that is displayed on the cart is lower than the amount which customers are supposed to pay (the discounts is added to the amount that customers are supposed to pay again which is a major issue for me). I never had these issues until I wanted to have a look at this app. I do not recommend downloading this app and I will complain at shopify about this funny application that manipulates all kinds of things on your website for the bad.

We are facing issues with customers being billed twice and it is an issue that Bold are aware of. The advice was to manually prevent this which simply isn't viable on scale and involves constantly providing refunds for customers who are not happy when it happens once never mind again and again. This is a major issue and it seems v2 is full of issues. No gifts cards too, not great. I'm not sure why v2 has been released when it seems to be full of bugs compared to v1. We have logged various cases with Bold and the answer is always the same, we are aware of the issues. My customers don't want to hear this, they want the issues fixed. Come on guys you could do much better on this.

I am having a horrible experience with V2... After 6 months of using it, I still cannot believe how poor this product is. I have had issues with every single part of it : customers unable to change their shipping addresses, their variants, their payement information... Nothing really works consistently with it and my customer AND myself have completely lost trust that we can rely on it. Some simple tickets have been open for over 5 months.... ridiculous. Every time I contact the support team, they answer quickly and are all kind and full of Sorries and apologies but it only makes me feel like im stuck in an abusive relationship... no improvements, no adjustments and no real action to change the situation are being done! All this to say that I am migrating away right now... I would NOT advice to go with this V2 version, not now anyways... only troubles in the horizon. I am super disappointed. On a positive note, they happily reimbursed me twice for the service (I imagine that they are well aware that their product is really bad right now...)

This is the worst "update" I have ever seen on a app. They had a great working program and they went and ruined it by making a program update that doesn't do anything- DO NOT USE THIS APP !!!

signed up 132 subscribers week 1. week 2 as they are all to be billed the 2nd time, only 2 get a bill. the other 130 are gone. no record of them at Bold at all. total joke. customer service say 3-5 days to get back. there is no phone number to call. finally get someone on chat, who tells me the developers dont have time to talk to the customers and someone will work on it sometime soon. total joke. been working on this for 7 hours and still no answers as to why all of my subscribers disappeared at midnight on their app.. bigger joke is that Shopify's response is that it's not their problem, contact the app im using. oh, you mean the one im using based on your recommendation? found on your website? it's time for internet companies to be accountable!

Really disappointed that BOLD created a new version of their app but just left us in the dust... they said months ago that migration was coming soon but they have done nothing and say its still not available for us. So for us to switch to the new version we would have to install the new version and manually migrate all of our customers and subscriptions ourselves. I don't think BOLD values their customers.

This app is incredibly frustrating with all it's glitches. We have multiple tickets open for close to a month now and the slow response time in rectifying these issues is very unprofessional. It's very disheartening having OUR customers upset at us for YOUR issues, glitches, lack of features and big oversights. PLEASE listen to your customers (me) and fix your app!

After installing manually the app and spending a lot of time on it, they told me I have to pay to translate the app in French. Shame on you Bold Subscription.

We have had a bad experience with this app. A glitch in their system resulted in their subscription service promising our customers $0 orders. Use this service at your own risk if you want to be out thousands of dollars.