Black Sands
United States
Reviews (2)
Scam company. Charges a flat fee but then ghost charges for "usage" that is no different from every month. Randomly they will take 200 dollars out of your account with no explanation. Complete scam. Avoid at all cost. We apologize for any frustration or confusion. Your brand chose to remain on a legacy pricing plan, and the charges made were accurate based on the requirements for that plan. We have reached out privately to address this with you and have taken action to make things right. UpOrder has been in business for many years, and over the years, our pricing plans have changed. Each time the pricing has changed, we have made significant efforts to communicate those changes with our users. As a courtesy, we have also allowed users to continue to use our services while on legacy pricing plans, as some brands find it more financially beneficial based on their order volume.
I have 800 affiliates and the only affiliate orders I ever get are the actual affiliate ordering for themselves. Additionally, they are double dipping on the orders. I removed this app because it is a scammers heaven and slows down my funnel by giving options to shady people.
Developer reply ·
Hi Black Sands, first of all we're sorry for your unhappy experience. On reviewing our database, we can see you have over 800 affiliates in total: 756 of them were generated by the Convert customer feature (most created automatically because they signed up on your shop), and the other 55 are not customers. When the Convert customer feature is enabled, the goal is to turn your customers into affiliates and keep them as loyal buyers. Allowing an affiliate to purchase through their own link helps retain them as your customer, but if you feel that's unfair, we'll add a setting so you can choose whether affiliates can buy through their own link. Looking at the data, in just 15 days you gained a sizeable number of organic affiliates who did generate referral orders for your store — so in our view your setup is running smoothly and has strong long-term potential. As an app developer, we always want to help merchants use the app in the most effective way. In your case, if you use the Convert customer feature, we'd recommend combining a few features for the best results: (1) create a separate program for converted customers with a lower commission rate; (2) set Store credit as the payment method so customers receive store coupons and keep buying on your shop rather than direct cash; (3) disable the Convert sign-up customer feature if you find it unhelpful. On our side, we'll continue launching features to support you and other merchants better, including: a setting to allow/forbid affiliates buying from their own link, and a setting to configure the payment method per program (so converted customers can be paid only in Store credit). Since you've been on our paid plan from 6/1/2020, your trial has ended and you'd be charged next month — but we're happy to refund this month and offer you another month free so you can explore the app further and see how it works for you. With these suggestions and this offer, we sincerely hope you'll give the app another chance.
