Goose the Market

UPDATE OCTOBER 15, 2024: IT'S BEEN OVER THREE WEEKS AND ZAPIET IS STILL BROKEN AND ONLY GETTING WORSE -- DROPPING DELIVERY/PICKUP INFO FROM ORDERS SO CUSTOMERS GET INCORRECT CONFIRMATION EMAILS AND CUSTOMERS ORDERING DELIVERY BUT NOT GETTING CHARGED DELIVERY FEE. We've reached out multiple times to "support" whose responses take days and sound like nobody is reading what we write. The issues have gone from bad to worse, and Zapiet's only "workaround" was to edit our confirmation email template without our permission and to send multiple incorrect emails to our real, live customers about their real, live orders (also without our permission). Zapiet staff seem to work in a vacuum and have no idea what it's like doing business in the real world because they think it's okay that using their app means we're getting live orders during the busiest season of the year with dropped fulfillment attributes, and sending incorrect confirmation emails to live customers, and making changes to our confirmation emails without our permission. UPDATE January 8, 2024: DOES NOT WORK WITH ANY MOBILE APP SERVICE -- DON'T USE ZAPIET IF YOU WANT YOUR SHOPIFY STORE TO BE A MOBILE APP. We spend over five weeks getting the runaround from MageNative and Shop2App because Zapiet told us both worked with Zapiet...but never got a correctly functioning app and had to follow up multiple times with Zapiet before they admitted Zapiet actually DOES NOT WORK WITH ANY MOBILE APP PROVIDER AT ALL, including the ones they had been advertising compatability with (MageNative and Shop2App). Zapiet Support staff repeatedly gave us conflicting answers, deletied their previous replies, and we left with very little evidence that anyone at Zapiet actually knew what was going on, or even took to heart all the time and money we wasted having taken Zapiet's advice. Eventually, Zapiet did finally remove MageNative and Shop2App from their list of compatible apps only after we asked them again and again and again--hoping other potential customers don't waist the money and time we did bringing on Zapiet, let alone taking their advice. (Side note about the mobile app provide Zapiet said their app worked with when it never actually did: Our experience working with MageNative was horrible--they led us on w/misleading replies, consistently missed deadlines, wouldn't reply until we'd reached out repeatedly, and morel At times we had trouble understanding their replies at all (not sentences, using terms incorrectly). Besides checkout never ever working correctly w/ Zapiet settings on our app developed by MageNative, there were lots of other issues on our app by MageNative (like not being able to select quantity of item before adding to cart and more). Zapiet and MageNative each blamed one another for why our mobile app never worked correctly and neither actually did anything we witnessed that helped identify or solve issues. After we repeatedly outlined all these issues to both Zapiet and MageNative, finally a MageNative rep who seemed to have some level of authority offered to try building our app w/Zapiet settings again, but given our experience over 5+ weeks trying to work with MageNative and Zapiet, we definitely did not want to tie our business to these horrible services. All this to say, even without Zapiet, we would not recommend working with MageNative. ) Original Review Jan 23, 2023: Does not work with Shopify Basic Plan (even if billed annually). Their website was misleading about this, which we shared with their Support Staff and they've updated the text now, but they also still have on their site as of right now: "If you are on Shopify Starter or Basic plan, you can still use our app without the Rates feature." This doesn't make any sense because, just as one example, in order for only the pickup rate to show when a customer selects pickup during checkout, you cannot be on a Shopify Starter or Basic plan. It's like saying, you can download our app on any shopify store...but then leaving us to discover on our own that it will only work correctly if they have a Shopify plan other than Starter or Basic. As of right now, upgrading beyond the Basic Shopify plan would cost us $540...and we haven't even paid for the Zapiet app yet! What's more, we see lots of other customers on the support pages complaining about code left on their sites after uninstalling Zapiet...and this leftover code impacting the performance of other apps, too. Sounds like we have even more frustrating surprises from Zapiet in our future even though we've ended the trial and uninstalled the app. Definitely looking elsewhere for another app that provides these services before investing $540 + the app's monthly fee to even see whether or not it's a good fit for our site. Overall feel misled by the bait-and-switch of Zapiet.

Expect lots of bugs and zero help from shopify support as shopify requires transition to this "new" Order Printer. This "new" Order Printer does not work correctly with any customizations/templates from the "legacy" Order Printer, and Shopify's support staff are zero help. Shopify's support page on transitioning from the "legacy" Order Printer to this "new" Order Printer is woefully inadequate, too. With this new Order Printer, Shopify changed all their liquid formats plus simple template code that worked perfectly on the "legacy" Order Printer no longer works on the "new" Order Printer...and nobody at Shopify can say why...or offer real solutions. What's more, if you use any 3rd party providers on your shopify store to help manage inventory, pickup/delivery, locations, bundles, discounts, tipping, just about anything...expect additional issues using this "new" Order Printer...and Shopify support is again zero help because they use 3rd party providers as a scapegoat. Don't get us wrong -- the "legacy" Order Printer was far far far from great...it required a TON of template customization to be even remotely useful. This is still the same for this "new" Order Printer...except that Shopify has thrown in the "bonus" of mysterious liquid and code changes (seemingly in secret, leaving both customers and support staff to stumble upon them as bad surprises). With this "new" Order Printer, Shopify shows yet again how out of touch they are with us customers doing business in the real world. Difficult to see this "new" Order Printer as more than a thinly veiled attempt to squeeze more money out of customers by providing substandard products and service that leave customers in the lurch unless they pony up $$ for a yet another 3rd party app to band-aid Shopify's poor product and service. Do better, Shopify. If we don't say something, they never will.

Does not work unless Shopify's 3rd party carrier rate API is enabled...despite the misleading info this App writes in the pop up during set up after installing the app. 3rd party carrier rate API is only available if you're on a shopify plan that costs minimum $320/month. Really disappointed this app misled us about this requirement and wasted our time setting up and testing an app that was never gonna work as advertised. We contacted "support" about this but they said some folks don't need 3rd party API access because they just use the date picker portion of this app...be warned! Doing this would allow customers to choose a *delivery* date on the cart page and then the $0 free (pickup) option at checkout...it's not a real world solution and this app needs to be more upfront about the expensive shopify requirements it needs to function correctly.

Does not work with Shopify's Order Printer and can only use their Email Confirmation Template (no customizations). Also had repeated issues with service outages -- delivery option would disappear and reappear randomly. Also had order that were completed without any date selection at all (which is supposedly required to move past cart page to checkout) and their support couldn't explain this or offer any solution and just told us to wait for it to happen again...which it did. Also experienced the date and month switching assignments (so customers who chose January 4 at checkout would get email confirmation reading April 1...ditto Order Printer printouts). We "band-aid-ed" these ongoing issues for months...sometimes contacting their support and sometimes fixing it ourselves with custom code in Email Confirmation template and Order Printer template. We also shared screenshots and snippets of code with Customer Support to demonstrate these issues and prove they were isolated to this app, but Customer Support's responses were of no help. After months of issues, this app's Customer Support finally admitted that their app does not work with Order Printer and that Email Confirmation must exclusively be their template without any changes or customization. If they had admitted this from the start, it would have saved us lots of time and months of subscription fees. This--along with replies from customer service that were not complete sentences and very difficult to understand in English--plus the service outages we experienced and inconsistencies of submitted orders led us uninstall the app.