GreenSmoothieGirl

I discovered the app was not working. For the past year, we've never used more than 500 impressions which is what you get with the free plan, even though we've been paying for the 10,000 impressions per month. there was no communication about this by email or within shopify. I discovered the problem doing a routine review of app usage and expenses. The pushowl chat agent did provide the usage stats, but only after first saying they usage history was not available. Chat was responsive, but was primarily focused on upselling services, even though they did provide information when asked. Two stars because the app does what it is designed to do, but didn't bother to notify us when it needed attention to continue working.

Love it. Thanks for making it.

4/16/25 The new owner was very responsive and solved our problem with a few emails, replying within a few hours. They clearly have a high commitment to support. We learned that the app was recently transitioning ownership which was causing an issue with the app and app support. We weren’t able to contact support for a few weeks. Once we made contact with the new owner, the support has been excellent. Thank you! My original 1-star review follows to put this review in context and for transparency. ---- 4/9/25 We’ve been waiting 5 days for any response from support for a pressing issue. The support widget says “respond within a few hours”. We’re a paying customer since 2022. We submitted other support requests 15 and 13 days ago that also have no response. I’m actually writing this review as yet another attempt to get support to reply to our problem. After not receiving a response using the support widget from the app in Shopify after 3 days, I looked for other ways to reach support. In addition to direct email, I found several places where the app had support widgets or forms. [list of URLS removed] I will gladly update my review if support resumes. In January 2024, I received support responses within 8-36 hours, which is acceptable. The app has been working too. I hope you're doing well! I just saw your 1-star review and wanted to personally reach out and say how truly sorry I am for the frustration you've experienced. That’s definitely not the experience we want anyone to have. A quick heads-up, this app was recently acquired by our company, Avocados Labs, on March 28th. We’re still in the process of migrating everything over, including support channels, which means your original message likely went to the previous owner. We expect everything to be fully transitioned by April 13th. That said, I’d love to help you out right away! Just let me know what you need, and I’ll do my best to sort it out for you as quickly as possible. Thanks so much for your patience and again, I’m really sorry for the trouble. I've already reached out to you through email (avocadoslab@gmail.com) so please respond at your earliest convenience.

The app functions great and the chat support is excellent. The settings let you control how much you spend each month. The app configuration options are well thought out. I would like a more definite way of knowing which interactions motivated sales, such as random A/B testing. While the app can accommodate third-party A/B testing, it doesn't include the feature. Overall a high-quality app.

Customer support has been amazing. They promise a fast response time for paid users, and they deliver on that promise, even during the trial period which is an important time to determine if one app is a better option than another to build a facet of your business around. In addition, they've put a lot of time into providing a collection of documentation that was useful to setup the app. This app is complex. And while that makes it capable of meeting a range of needs, it had a significant learning-curve and setup-time for me. Unless you have a simple product to offer bookings for, don't expect to get this setup in a day. Plan more like 1-2 weeks for setup and testing. You need to setup the app, team members and schedules, notifications and reminders, optional virtual meeting platforms (Zoom or Meet), optional team portal (backend appointment calendar), and the corresponding products in Shopify. If you want the app to sync with your appointment team's individual Google calendars, plan another 2 hours per team member to setup and test that. And you may need to train your customer support and appointment teams on the software. This is not a list of gripes, it's just a necessary aspect of providing such a rich appointment-booking app. They've thought of a lot of aspects that make it flexible and useful for users. I would give the app itself 4.5 stars because it's not as intuitive or efficient as I would like, has a few limitations, and I ran into issues that either stumped me or seemed to require support to resolve. A limitation example is that the notification emails can only be written using HTML and the email subject line can't be personalized to contain a name, date, or location. I've used Shopify apps and booking apps that are super intuitive and seem to just work effortlessly. But that's also why the chat support is definitely 5 stars. The only real issue for me is that we have customers, shop admins, and members of our appointment team in every US time zone. The app doesn't currently send email notifications and reminders in the recipient's time zone. Rather, it sends the notification to the customer, showing the appointment time in the customer's time zone. But it sends an identical copy of that email notification to the team member and the shop admin, which means the team member and shop admin can easily be confused about what time zone the appointment is in when talking to a customer or each other. I can't recall if there's a way to show the time zone abbreviation in the email notification, but regardless, the app really needs to send notifications to each recipient in their own time zone. There's too much room for error and missed appointments without that feature. The app already lets you set each team member's time zone, and it knows the shop's time zone, so it's just a matter of working out a separate notification for the team member, admin, and the customer, instead of sending a CC of the same email to everyone. One more positive note is that the developers have a feedback and feature-request area which they are active with. I love being able to contribute and see what's on the horizon.