The Lift Box
United States
Reviews (7)
We moved from the ReChrge to Stay over a year ago and it was absolutely the right move. We even had much more complex shipping/fulfillment windows because we're a subscription box and the team was still able to get it figured out. The added benefit of the Retention Engine tool alone to help reduce churn is worth migrating from any other subscription app.
We've been using LoudCrowd for years (before it was an even an official app in the app store) and have nothing but great things to say about it! Our primary use is tracking all of our UGC across social media channels and it's worked so well for us and has also been eye opening (we're over 1 million impressions per month). We track hundreds of posts and influencers every single month with ease and have captured some of the best UGC we might have missed without the tool. The entire team at LoudCrowd from onboarding, to account managers, to general customer service are all awesome to work with and it's one of the few apps in our tech stack I would recommend to anyone running an ecommerce brand. I don't typically leave a lot of reviews, but this one is well deserved. -Dan, Co-Owner of The Lift Box
Postscript has turned into one of our best selling channels. Easy to use and great customer service. Porshai was super helpful when I reached out via chat!
The dashboard on this app has been almost useless for us. It will only show you 7 day views and nothing is able to be exported. We were expecting a much better UX and feature set based on having several calls with the Route team that unfortunately was not there. Now we're already removing the app (which all our customers have now seen) from our store just a month after launching. Was not worth the hassle it's created.
Developer reply ·
Hi there, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are sorry Route's dashboard wasn't able to hit your standards. We can definitely understand how frustrating that can be. I do see you have been in contact with your CSM about your concerns and she has been able to pass along this feedback. If you come across any other questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out at https://routeapphelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us. Thanks and have a great rest of your day! Best, Bianca, customer service
UPDATE 25OCT20 - WARNING! DO NOT USE RECHARGE THEME ENGINE! (we're over a $500k store) This is NOT a turnkey solution to a custom checkout portal. We attempted to use it because on the surface it looks great. That's where it ends. It completely disconnects ALL your third party integrations, even the ones that work with recharge. Gorgias, one of the biggest customer service integrations, has all links broken when you update. Customer portal cancel and reactivation buttons do not work...so your customers can't cancel their account. Imagine how bad this makes a brand look. Here's their response: "Hi Dan, Tarek here from the Customer Success team at ReCharge, thanks for reaching out. I understand your frustration here, these issues that pop up here and there definitely cause for a less than ideal experience. Our developers are consistently working hard to upgrade the app and the merchant/customer experience. This year might seem especially troublesome because of the number of updates we're pushing through on our app to improve it - we've been constantly releasing new features and monitoring them for feedback. Our Novum theme is still in its Beta phase and we're still constantly upgrading it and implementing workarounds and fixes. The links from Gorgias breaking is a known issue that our developers are working on integrating correctly. Novum, by design, uses tokens every time a customer navigates and logs into their portal for better security. These tokens are not translated into links in Gorgias, which does not account for customer tokens in the URL and doesn't append the portal URL with tokens. As such, our current integration with Gorgias does not work with our Beta version of Novum. The cancelation and reactivation buttons should not be erroring out, they should be working. I can jump in and troubleshoot this for you but I will need you to send me the name of a test customer I can try to activate/cancel subscriptions on to replicate the error. Given the Gorgias links do not work with Novum yet, you might not wish to activate it even if these buttons work. I understand that you've been frustrated with your ReCharge experience recently - any feedback you can offer us here would be helpful and appreciated, and I can send your comments up to our leadership team as well. Kindly, Tarek A. ReCharge Customer Success" Absolutely ridiculous. Shopify will be coming out with its own subscription option soon and it couldn't come soon enough. UPDATE 7SEP20 - NEW ALMOST DAILY ISSUES - Don't bother creating discount codes for email campaigns because Recharge won't track them. When we emailed support they said it was a glitch and they were working on it...that was beginning of July. Be sure to check the "apply discount" in your current subscribers portal. We've had Recharge toggle it off 4 times in the last two weeks...Their response "clear your cache." Their responses are laughable at this point. We've cleared our cache and the issue continues. Extremely unethical business practices by Recharge. Luckily Shopify is coming out with its own subscription option. As much as I want to always champion businesses, I can't with recharge and I hope Shopify leads Recharge to be phased out. It's been nothing but issues over the past three years. UPDATE 25JUN20 - ISSUE'S STILL UNRESOLVED / RECHARGE PRO The issues below have yet to be resolved. Recharge Pro, $300 + $.20 PER TRANSACTION. The basic plan is $39.99 and $.5 per transaction. This is obnoxious per transaction fee. They will tell you it's due to all the advanced features but come on now. The support is subpar and the bugs throughout recharge don't justify you taking 19 cents of EVERY DOLLAR EARNED. Please do your research prior to onboarding recharge. It's fine for small stores but for large volume stores like ours, it's a mess. UPDATE 22JUN20 - NEW ISSUES Well, Recharge is still a mess. If it's not one thing it's another. They're more apt to blame Shopify and you as the store owner attempt to reach out to Shopify for info they can get as a developer. Unfortunately, there aren't many other options and Recharge knows this. So they honestly are in no rush to fix their app that's full of bugs and issues. 1. Discount codes still don't always work. Here are two examples. First, we sent out a code via our email list and it showed 0 uses, although there were over 50. This still hasn't updated and that was almost two months ago. Second, if a potential subscriber adds a free shipping discount code in the "apply code" section on the address page it will show $0.00, instead of the discounted shipping. This leads potential subscribers to believe the code doesn't work. The code will show up AFTER a potential subscriber clicks continue to the next page to enter their payment info. We are a high volume story, 6 figures, so we get several emails a day asking us why the code isn't working. Rather than find a solution, Recharge just says it needs Shopify to calculate rates. I can understand this but why have a code say $0? It's your app Recharge so maybe it's time to take a little accountability. Recharge has to be one of the worst apps on Shopify. Don't be fooled by the number of reviews and stores that use them. There are CONSTANT errors with their systems. Example 1: they have a "beta" test for snapshot reports. This is where you see how many subscribers you have, sales, etc. They can't get that right so the info is always incorrect and they tell you to download a spreadsheet. I shouldn't have to do that to see basic insights. Example 2: I'm not able to access the recharge app on my iPhone X. Are you kidding me? One of the most popular phones in the world and it's not compatible. This was reported to recharge on Sept 13, 2019. Here was their response (this issue has yet to be resolved nor have I received any further emails about an ETA: "I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I heard back from our development team, and the issue lies in the way the app is opened by Shopify - we've observed that the issue relates to the fact that the app is open in an iFrame, so our development team has been investigating ways of turning the iFrame off. While this is on their backlog, I'm afraid we don't have an ETA for a definitive fix yet." Example 3, discount codes will randomly not work (yes they've been set up and tested correctly). We have to find out from potential subscribers through IG or email that they aren't working. Good luck getting a timely response from Recharge. Example 4, you can get expedited customer service...FOR ALMOST $200 EXTRA A MONTH. So you want me to pay more to get in contact with you when your app is a disaster? Example 5: Your subscribers will be randomly charged (and sometimes not at all without prompting the recharge staff) throughout the day you choose rather than all at once. Why they don't do batch charging like other companies is beyond me. I have no idea why Shopify doesn't create its own app. We'll be 100% looking for another provider after recharge failing us for the last 3 years. (I'll continue to update this review as the problems continue to stack up).
Unfortunately, I'm not able to use One-Click due to my subscription app not integrating with One-Click. The tech support is top-notch and extremely responsive. Every question I had received a thorough response and resolution. I HIGHLY recommend this app for anyone needing a direct to cart app. Thanks again for the phenomenal support!
Developer reply ·
Thanks for the review! We're glad to hear our support specialists were able to provide you with the amazing service that we're proud of. Feel free to contact us if you need any help :)
Extremely easy to use and set up. I had it out on LIVE on our site within 5 minutes. For a live look checkout our site, www.theliftbx.com. I couldn't be happier and will recommend to everyone looking for a loyalty program.