Gelato: Print on Demand

Refused to fulfill a order without explanation Hi, Thank you for your message. We’re very sorry to hear about your experience and understand how concerning this must have been. This is certainly not the level of service we strive to provide, and we take feedback like this seriously. We are currently reviewing this matter internally to better understand what may have happened and to ensure such situations are avoided in the future. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention and apologise for any inconvenience caused. We’ve reached out to you directly via email to look into this further and assist you. Kind regards, Michal Gelato Support Team

Sorry, ich weiß nicht warum alle so von Gelato schwärmen. Ich habe meine ersten Motive hochgeladen und mir ein Muster bestellt das auch nach knapp 8 Stunden in die Produktion ging. Soweit alles gut...... Nach 24 Stunden kam eine eMail, das meine Bestellung storniert wurde und auf Nachfrage wurde mir mitgeteilt das der Artikel überhaupt nicht vorrätig wäre. Schon mal nicht so toll, wenn das bei Kundenbestellungen passiert wird es ärgerlich. Das Beste ist aber, das ich nach weiteren 48 Stunden eine eMail bekomme habe das meine Bestellung versandt wurde. Ein Blick in´s Dashboard zeigte aber schnell das dies nicht stimmte. Die Bestellung ist und bleibt storniert, den gezahlten Betrag hab ich auch noch nicht zurück bekommen. Für mich ist das kein Geschäftspartner - andere haben vielleicht mehr Glück mit Gelato

Estoy super decepcionada con Gelato, al principio la impresión y el material era bueno, pero no sé que ha pasado que es horrible, la impresión viene con puntos y filetes, a veces la impresión es con DTG otras veces es un transfer, el envío cada vez es más lento, al principio tardaban muy poco en el envío ahora mismo es súper tedioso de 10 a 13 días. Los que tenemos tienda online bajo pedido no podemos esperar una buena calidad, es una loteria. Y por supuesto si los clientes se quejan adiós clientes, eres un pésimo profesional.

Customer service has been a major disappointment. Products for product shoots were posted but never arrived being told that the products were sent. Some products have arrived damage, stained or with the wrong colours printed. My store had its products disconnected due to a problem with Gelato and now I can no longer fulfill orders required. Now, I need to redesign more than 400 products because of this backend error by Gelato. It has almost crippled my business. Not happy at all - just disappointed all around.

Absolute garbage support, and as of the time of this writing Gelato has yet to return my call for help on a MAJOR ISSUE that is literally a LEGAL LANDMINE for their entire company. They INCREASED PRICES DRASTICALLY on a variety of items with ZERO COMMUNICATION. I only found this out by doing an internal audit and stumbling over it by accident. Many of my posters had shot up by more than 40% cost with NO email and NO announcement. Imagine how many countless were affected, and yet they go on with business as usual. This is a class action lawsuit waiting to happen, and if nothing gets resolved and no changes are made then that shows they have lost their desire to help anyone and have succumbed to total greed. It is shameful how absolutely sloppy with their business and clients who give them revenue they have become. Many of my products are also priced DIFFERENT PRICES even for the same thing, depending on when they were created, and the dashboard price actually is INCORRECT and shows a lower price than it actually is. A year ago (early 2025) you could talk to someone immediately in their chat. Now, consistently, you can NEVER get anyone and it's always "our team members are busy" and you have to chat with the chatbot, which even if it refers you to a real person -- that person never answers you back or takes weeks to respond. HORRIBLE and SHAME on you for such poor quality service!

Sample hoodies arrived late, not printed correctly and after 2 months DTG already fading off the product

After uninstalling this plugin, I had a bunch of manual cleanup to do, including delete 40+ shipping profiles one at a time. UGH!

Complicated, lots of pop-ups, cant select more than 1 mockup and when finally added it appears out of stock on my site.

Horrible

constant payment issues when i have a positive balance and auto replenish set up. Customer service takes over a week to respond. Printful isn't great but go back to it because Gelato is worse

WARNING! Gelato intentionally does not remove out of stock inventory, knowingly overselling products at the user's expense. This tactic is straightforward to maintain high sales, while the user must handle customers who cannot receive their orders. Additionally, they do not refund out-of-stock items, forcing the user to deal with customers and absorb the costs. This has been a known issue for years, and customer support claims they are working on it; however, they often avoid providing further details and attempt to close the chat. Horrible customer service. They respond more quickly to reviews here than they do in their customer service ecosystem. The chat function keeps you in a useless AI support loop, making it difficult to contact a live agent.

The products are so expensive and the subscription is so expensive, I really don't think I can make money using it. It's not a sustainable model.

Wasted two days creating products and then they did not transfer to shopify... now they tell me that I have to import the products into shopify with a csv file... what a waste of time, if I got paid for the amount of time I have wasted on this shopify garbage apps, I wouldn't need a website because I would be rich already!

Problemas con la app. Hubo una actualización y desde entonces cada vez que realizo un cambio en un producto, desaparecen todas las variantes. Y a causa de esto perdí las ventas de Black Friday, Navidad, rebajas de enero, San Valentín... Creo que he tenido mucha paciencia y muchas pérdidas económicas y al principio llegaron a decirme que yo no era una prioridad, ni me respondían, tuvo que intervenir atención al cliente de Shopify porque dijeron que el problema era de Shopify, pero Shopify confirmó que el problema era de la app de Gelato, y así, lograron que me contestasen, pero cada vez era esperar a que contestaran unos días, iban dejando pasar el tiempo, por último cada vez me pedían más pruebas, grabaciones de pantalla y todo para nada. Nunca solucionaron el problema. Les pedí que trasladaran todas mis cosas (método de pago, wallet, mi tienda con mis artículos...) a una nueva cuenta, para ver si así funcionaba todo bien desde otra cuenta porque antes de la actualización iba todo perfecto, insistí varias veces en eso y nunca respondieron a mi petición. Y no podía estar creando el mismo producto una y otra vez tanto en Gelato como en Shopify, porque al cambiar un diseño, o añadir una talla o quitarla, añadir un color o quitarlo, etc. daba el error y se borraba todo. Así que al final tuve que cambiar de proveedor de POD. Con lo fácil que hubiera sido decir, bueno, vamos a cambiarte a una nueva cuenta, haz la cuenta, y te pasamos a la wallet lo que tienes, el resto tienes que hacerlo de nuevo. De todas formas estaba haciéndolo todo de nuevo una y otra vez, no me hubiera importado. Pero ya viendo todo el tiempo que ha pasado y no hay solución. Os digo adios. Ya no me valen las disculpas, ni que digáis que sabéis lo importante que es esto o aquello, y que aún estoy a tiempo de hablar de nuevo con soporte, etc. Lo que teníais que haber hecho, no lo hicisteis cuando debíais. Espero que al resto de clientes les vaya bien, porque a mí, me han tratado fatal. Todo con muy bonitas palabras, pero realmente ningún interés en solucionar el problema, por esto digo lo de tratarme fatal, y por decir que yo no era una prioridad.

A warning to my fellow sellers: Hidden Price Hikes and Broken Trust: Why I'm changing from Gelato I’ve been a loyal customer of Gelato for several years, but my frustrations with this company have steadily grown, and this latest issue is the final straw. While Gelato is quick to send emails announcing price reductions, they’ve hidden significant price increases from customers. Both products I sell have undergone significant price increases in a short period of time. Premium matte paper has increased by over 15% since I last checked in September, and premium frames with premium paper have risen by over 16%. For example, the price of a 70x100 premium frame with premium paper has increased by a staggering €25.43, now priced at €194.91 (in Ireland). Discovering these price hikes only through my own records feels dishonest and unprofessional. There are also shocking price differences between countries. For example, the exact same 70x100 frame costs €90.82 in Germany, while in the neighbouring Netherlands it is priced at €190.30—almost €100 more for the identical product. How can such extreme price discrepancies exist, let alone be justified? How are businesses expected to price their products consistently with such wild and unpredictable variations? This isn’t the only issue. Over the years, I’ve dealt with numerous problems: orders lost in the post, items arriving damaged, and prints of poor quality. As Gelato have grown as a company their service has become gradually worse. This Christmas just gone was a disaster for orders, especially in the US. I had some customers waiting into earlier January for orders they made in late Nov/early Dec. These ongoing issues combined with their lack of transparency have made it clear I can no longer trust them as a supplier. For anyone considering Gelato, I’d strongly advise looking elsewhere. I’ve reached the point where I can no longer justify working with a company that treats its customers this way and will be actively looking for a new supplier to take over my orders.

Terrible unacceptable absolute no-go experiences with Gelato, continued!! ‍ Gelato platform / system is full of bugs, nothing works properly, constant hazzles, loss of effort+time! Processes not well thought out, misleading claims Dev team does NOT understand how to properly implement features, NO clue how to nail safe test before release CS (Customer Support) most of times NOT aware of all those bugs their platform has! CS AND Gelato itself committed to ABSOLUTE NO-GOs, lying & cheating, sadly => We switched to a competitor: Smooth, efficient + bug-free service Lying about Printing Locations = ABSOLUTE NO-GO!! Gelato claims to print everything in CH, but turned out only posters but NOT T-Shirts/Hoodie etc. CS even asked "how did you find out" !! Confirming that company obviously cheats, trying to hide what they're lying about "Product Expansion": Made to gain time, but requires learning curve, final products contain bugs, actually you loose time! Instead Gelatos ad claim "scale business", you ruin it with lost repeated efforts, time+money gone! API: Functional parts shown online unfinished, NOT WORKING, before CS told us to use it, we run into various bugs , 1st confirmed by 2 separate "junior consultants" Then "senior implementation manager" gets into the conversation , suddenly claims "No, there is no bug, we the merchant using their API must apparently NOT follow the API description correctly, NOT understanding the semantics of an API, the failure is on us" !!!! This let us literally freak out: Change in policy how to communicate with merchants? Blaming on the customer their own bugs/failures? Senior manager finally admitted ONLY IN CALL that this part of the API is actually not working !! ‍ But only in a call, not admitted in a mail knowing THIS COULD BE LEGALLY HOLDING. => Absolute NO-GO! Suddenly accusing the customer is doing wrong whereas Gelato confirmed the bug before is NOT AT ALL how to interact. You do NOT accuse your customers for doing wrong in order to avoid having to admit your own bug which has been admitted twice before by your colleagues !! => Finally we asked Gelato CS why lying online and not taking this part of the API doku down as it's highly misleading (aka cheating) that this shall work to other merchants as well = no reply !! "New Personalization Studio": "Seamless integration" incredibly slow, "DOES TAKE AGES TO LOAD", from 3 to 30 seconds Gelatos asks money for that!!! Appears to any end customer page is NOT Renders any product you place on your shop USELESS! DO NOT USE GELATO! Summary of hazzle and shame: NOT ANY TRUST ON GELATO AS A WHOLE COMPANY! Constant hazzles-lies-cheating-bugs, loss of effort+time+money! Gelato company has the guts to put parts of an API online CLAIMING A FUNCIONALITY while ACTUALLY CHEATING on that, willingly having to know API DOES NOT WORK!! ABSOLUTE NO-GO !! Gelato company has the guts TO ACCUSE ITS OWN CUSTOMERs that they may not understand the technique, whereas it has been confirmed before that the API HAS BUGS, API DOES NOT WORK!! THREATENING THE CUSTOMER TO AVOID ADMITTING OWN FAILURES is NOT how to behave as a company!! ABSOLUTE NO-GO !! We lost time again and get annoyed with the Gelato system = not intuitive, not straigt-forward, FULL OF BUGS !! IMPOSSIBLE TO TRUST GELATO in its total! Cause they work on fancy videos, fancy claims, fancy ads "scale your business" whereas upper management at CEO&CTO level should know HUGE PROBLEMS WITH SYSTEM, TONS OF PLATFORM BUGS, partially wrong NON-INTUITIVE manner of processes, ALL A HAZZLE. ‍ Just use any other POD provider than Gelato: Stay safe and healthy out there!

Gelato's prices and platform seem nice enough and they came highly recommended to me. Prices are fine but their customer service seems a miss and fulfillment/delivery times are way off and inconsistent (1 order took almost 4 weeks from order to delivery). I had them on my store, a long order fulfillment and poor customer service resulted in my removing them from my store. I cannot recommend them. I set up a number of design templates, placed a sample order, and added the products to my store. Initially the sample order was broken up into multiple fulfillment locations and charged for each location, from that their initial discount was messed up and they charged about 15% more. They were quick to correct this issue and refunded the difference. Then fulfilment location 1 got their items to me quickly, location 2 took almost 4 weeks to deliver to me (2 weeks to print and almost 2 weeks in shipping time); estimated delivery time was 5-18 days. There was also an order placed through my store, same 5-18 day delivery time estimate, and it took 16 days to be delivered. The customer service blew me off, refused to acknowledge the slow fulfillment time from their fulfillment company, and just kept telling me to message them back in a few days if it didn't arrive (each time pushing further and further back).

Whoever designed this user experience, needs to go back to thier last job, feeding Monkeys. Everytime I log into this PIG of a system, it takes an hour to find how to get my products. How the hell to people put up with this junk is beyond me.

Nice idea. But support has been abysmal. I really hope they can fix things. If not, we're out. Just don't expect good support.

Giving this App a one-star rating. Why? The app appeared in my Shopify Embed Apps. When I did a test product, the left gallery on the product page had an ugly window pane scroll. I switched off the Gelato App and the ugly scroll disappeared. I contacted support (Emilia) 2 weeks ago and she couldn't explain what was wrong but said the problem would be escalated to tech. 2 weeks later no contact from any support so I wrote another email to support. Nothing. Today (28th June I went online to try to contact support again. Said under 2 minutes. I was still hanging on after 15. Maybe this Shopify feedback page for Gelato is monitored more. So forced to come here and complain. Support rating -5.

**ACHTUNG ACHTUNG!!!** Gelato hat gravierende Probleme beim Tracking und blockiert den AddToCart-Event in unseren Shops. Seit sieben Tagen haben wir plötzlich fast kein Tracking mehr vom AddToCart-Event. Nach vielen Kontakten mit Shopify und unseren Entwicklern wurde das Problem identifiziert: Gelato blockiert einfach unseren AddToCart-Event. Unglaublich! Wir haben völlig falsche Daten erhalten, und unsere Werbeanzeigen sind total abgestürzt. Dies hat uns echten Schaden zugefügt, da unsere Werbeperformance stark eingebrochen ist. Zudem mussten wir viel Geld für unsere Entwickler ausgeben, die jedes Skript einzeln deaktivieren mussten, um die Ursache des Problems zu finden. Wir werden auf keinen Fall wieder mit Gelato zusammenarbeiten, wenn sie nicht in der Lage sind, das Tracking richtig einzustellen. Das Tracking ist eine der wichtigsten Komponenten im E-Commerce, und Gelato blockiert es einfach. Unglaublich!

WORST APP & TERRIBLE SUPPORT! Dissatisfied with this gelato app due to several recurring issues that have severely impacted our operations and tarnished our customer relationships. Notably, a critical system error prevented customers from adding items to their cart, which significantly affected our sales. The support team incorrectly blamed our theme when the fault was clearly on their end. Additionally, unresolved saving errors continue to hinder our business operations. We also faced a shipping and printing error, resulting in unnecessary charges due to stock unavailability. The lack of accountability and resolution from the support team is unacceptable.

Die App hat uns auf ganzer Linie enttäuscht. Sie führte dazu, dass unser Buy Button nicht mehr funktioniert hat, was unseren Shop mehrere Tage lahm gelegt hat. Leider keine Option.

I removed the app a year ago and just realized you were charging me for an entire year $14.99/mo. I checked the account and it showed I didn't have a subscription because I canceled it a year ago. SO SHADY.

Everything worked well for a while, but once we hit December, Gelato started missing ship/delivery dates. We have orders placed a month ago that still haven't shipped. Their customer support apologized and told us to check each order's updated estimated delivery date. Of course, that's meaningless because Gelato simply kept updating the delivery date later and later. Use this app if you'd like hundreds of angry customers wondering where their orders are weeks later.

I don't normally write reviews, but in this case I think it is very important that I share my experience. People say you get what you pay for and that is true with Gelato. I placed an order of fifteen 11oz mugs for a boutique according to Gelato's schedule to arrive before Black Friday. No biggie for a company of this size. Their printing partner split the order of 15 mugs into 3 packages. AND DID NOT SHIP THEM ALL TOGETHER. They waited 6 & 7 days between shipments. I received 2 boxes of 3 mugs today, (6 total), on Black Friday. I have no idea when I am getting the other 9. When I opened the boxes, Wow! The print quality is terrible. The colors are off and way to light. I did double-check the print quality using Gelato's 3D and regular mockups with customer service before I placed my order to make sure there was enough saturation to get a good print. The customer service assured me there was, and my mugs would print with the regular mockup quality, not the 3D which was terrible.. They did not. Not only that, but this partial order of 6 mugs contains SOME that are 11oz and SOME that are 15oz. THEY SENT TWO DIFFERENT SIZES!!! This order of 15, 11oz mugs are not uniform in size or quality of color print. Also, the packaging is terrible and not uniform. Some of the mugs are in brown boxes with bubble wrapped. Two of the mugs came squeezed into boxes that are too small and held together with packing tape. I gave them 1 star because their customer service responds quickly. However, Gelato seems to have no communication, control or oversight of their printing partner. I installed this app and was also going to use this company for cell phone cases, but as an independent artist who works with bold colors, I cannot put my name onto anything from this company. They have no concern for the quality of the items they sell only the quantity. This company has embarrassed me with a client and put me into a bind, because I cannot possibly display/sell mismatched colors/sizes of mugs, and I have missed my deadline. They have cost me countless hours of aggravation, phone calls, follow-ups, sales and now time as I have to redo all of my cell phone templates. If you are a small business owner, independent artist like myself or startup, I would really think twice before relying on this company. We really get one chance to make a first impression and they have cost me dearly. I cannot recommend this app or this company. UPDATE 11/27/2023 I finally received the rest of my order from Gelato. Not only was it a mismatch of mug sizes, the order was missing three items. RECAP: I ordered fifteen (15) 11oz mugs. From that order I was actually sent eight (8) 15oz mugs & three (3) 11oz mugs. Total of 12 mugs . MISSING 3 ITEMS. I don't carry 15oz mugs so this is an issue as is the poor print quality on all of the items I have received. It is quite apparent that Gelato takes your money and washes its hands of the final outcome. It would appear as if their printing partner never read or checked my order before shipment and just threw whatever they had available in these shipment boxes. Gelato did refund my money with very little fuss, which leads me to believe this kind of disfunction is normal for them. On a final note, while customer service is available, on three different occasions they did say they would "investigate" and get back to me. They never did. I now need to reorder everything with less than 4 weeks before the holiday season. If you are an artisan, artist or small business owner who depends on your production partners to be reliable with quality merchandise, I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH to go elsewhere. There are better companies out there. I usually use a different POD company and will be running back to them. Do your homework. Less expensive isn't always better. Sometimes it is just cheaper, but will cost you a bunch.

CAUTION - Gelato automatically imports all current products from your store and syncs also all orders from different suppliers "as a feature". You have to deselect the option manually to import orders and you currently cannot deselect the import of all products. I cirrently have 2 gelato products and 80+ products from other suppliers, which are not the business of gelato. In times of data protection, this must be an opt-in feature to be selected with full awareness - at least an option which can be deselected... btw, the onboarding is also quite complicated and orders will NOT be fulfilled automatically from the scratch. So, I lost a big opportunity :-(

I ordered a metal print of one of my paintings as a test. I was shocked at the incredibly low quality. Colors were very dull. My greatest fear is that someone would order this product. Fortunately I’m just getting started and no one has placed an order. I have to assume all the other product of similar quality. Unfortunately I had to removed the app.

Hello, I accidently transfered one of my product on your app and I can't find it anymore on my shopify store. What is going on? Could you be nice enough to contact me and tell me why I can't get it back in my stock?

Endless problems with print quality and damaged prints. I used gelato for hundreds of photo, aluminium, and acrylic prints. I'm having to move my services to other providers after endless problems with items arriving damaged in post, and poor print quality. "Museum Quality" prints are often scuffed and scratched. They do not appear to be high quality. Packaging is typically in a corrugated cardboard envelope that bends easily and damages the print. Gelato will offer reprints on damaged items for free, but often these reprints arrive with the same problems. Wooden frames are extremely cheap, wood colour does not match that on the website. "Aluminium Dibond" prints in New Zealand and Australia are not printed on 3mm dibond as advertised, but directly onto 1mm aluminium sheet. Again this often arrives bent. Packaging often has no corner protection. Occasionally the mounting bracket is attached upside down. The app is intuitive and responsive. Customer service is excellent. But these don't help if the end products have such quality control issues.

AVOID THEM AT ANY COST! Gelato is a big time scammer and they have no control over their printing partners. All they do is COVID COVID COVID. They are advertising fake Dec 10 deadlines for Christmas orders and now the orders placed on Dec 3 shows estimated delivery of 29th (this is fake too and keeps on extending). They will take your money and forget about orders. 11 days and they couldn't even ship a print. And don't even try to reach out to me again. I am done with you SCAMMERS! You guys have ruined my business and they will ruin yours.