Wild Oak Boutique

Horrible customer support and predatory auto-renewal tactics Customer support for Searchspring has drastically degraded over the past year. We ran into a major issue that directly and severely impacted our store's conversion rate. We submitted an urgent ticket, and they never even bothered to respond to it. After waiting with zero support, we spent over a month developing our own custom solution internally to fix the issue ourselves. Because we were no longer using Searchspring's software, we requested to cancel our service. They refused, claiming we are contractually obligated to keep paying until April because our contract auto-renewed—conveniently, without sending any renewal reminders beforehand. Charging premium prices while providing non-existent support for critical issues and trapping long-time customers with stealth auto-renewals is completely unacceptable. Save yourself the headache and go with a provider that actually values its merchants.

Attentive’s platform itself is fine, but the contract structure and enforcement approach are extremely restrictive and disappointing. The agreement includes strict SMS exclusivity with long-term lock-in, limited flexibility, and significant financial penalties (more than reasonable costs) if you need to adapt your tech stack. Even more frustrating, the Attentive team has taken an overly aggressive interpretation of the contract—suggesting that even discussing or planning with other providers would be a breach, despite that not being clearly supported by the language. For a fast-growing e-commerce business, this makes it very difficult to evolve, evaluate alternatives, or integrate with tools Attentive doesn’t support. When integration gaps arise, the exclusivity still applies, leaving you stuck paying for services that no longer meet your needs. If you value flexibility, vendor interoperability, or the ability to plan ahead without pressure tactics, read the contract very carefully before signing.

We’ve been using Redo for nearly two years and absolutely love it. The products are reliable, easy to use, and continue to improve month after month. Their team is constantly releasing new features, and it’s quickly becoming an all-in-one solution for our returns and customer experience needs. Customer service has always been excellent as well—responsive, helpful, and genuinely invested in our success. Highly recommend to any business looking for a powerful and evolving returns platform!

While the app itself works fine, I want to warn anyone considering custom work with this company. We’ve spent over $2,000 on custom development that still doesn’t work after months of issues. Their team shows little urgency in resolving the issue and has not offered a refund, even though the work was never completed as promised. The only time we receive quick responses is when a potential sale is involved — once payment is made, communication slows to a crawl. Unfortunately, this experience has been extremely frustrating and costly. I’d highly recommend using the base app only and avoiding any paid customization unless their process changes dramatically.

We had a very frustrating experience with Rebuy. As a business, Wild Oak Boutique invested $1,500 for their developers to perform custom work on our smart cart, in addition to their $999 monthly subscription. However, the code they implemented caused a major issue on our website that was isolated to Safari browsers. The bug created a loading issue that made our website appear frozen to customers, resulting in an estimated $25,000 in revenue loss before a third-party developer finally identified and fixed the problem. Despite the obvious impact on our business, Rebuy refused to offer a refund for the custom work, citing the effort they put into it. For a service at this price point, we expected a much higher level of quality and accountability. Their unwillingness to take responsibility for the issue has left us feeling undervalued as a customer. They were only willing to offer a credit if we continued using them. If you're considering Rebuy, proceed with extreme caution, especially if you're relying on their paid development services. We wouldn’t recommend them.

Inventory Planner is not robust enough for our needs and has a lot of bugs. Customer support is lacking after the initial training period. Once the initial training period is over the people who were helping resolve the issues just refer you to the standard support option. This app requires a lot of manual work to see the accurate results, and you need to be using the platform for over one year for accurate information as they can't factor stockouts from Shopify or Shiphero. One example of manual work that is needed to see accurate results is reviewing data for seasonal products vs new fasting selling items. We are a clothing brand so our default method is seasonal, but the app doesn't have the ability to use a different method for products that haven't been in our catalog for a full season without a lot of manual overrides.

Overall, Loop Returns is a good returns software. The platform offers a lot of nice features and customizations. The integration with our WMS platform makes processing returns easy for our team. Our customers like the “instant exchange” feature as well as the Happy Returns option. The “workflows” allow you to configure return scenarios. However, the reason for three stars is because the platform is very buggy. The amount of return related questions has become a burden for our customer service team. Loop is unable and/or unwilling to find solutions for the issues listed below. In addition third party developers are unable to help. • Many customers experience issues using the “on-store” shop now feature. After selecting their items and clicking checkout to proceed to the return summary they are redirected back to select return or exchange again. Occurs most frequently on mobile devices. • The “on-store” shop now feature doesn’t work in our mobile app pop up browser. The product(s) the customer selects to exchange for do not populate on the return summary page. Therefore, we are unable to have links to the returns portal within our app. This is a major issue as roughly 20% of our customers use our mobile app. • The “shop now bonus” credit is hidden on the returns summary page. This causes customer confusion as they think they aren’t getting the bonus that was previously presented in the return process. To see the bonus the customer has to click the “details” drop-down and it is shown as a line item near the bottom. • Loop Returns doesn’t work well with Shopify Markets Pro making international returns challenging. The HS codes for products from Shopify Markets Pro orders do not always pass to Loop causing returns labels to not generate. There is no way to override this so we have to generate and process those returns outside of Loop. This is only roughly 5% of those international returns. • A portion of returns that expiree that have Happy Returns selected for the return method can no longer be returned/exchanged, even when added to the “allowlist”. For some reason when those returns expire it also shows the return was dropped off at a Happy Returns bar even though it wasn’t. Therefore, the system thinks the item(s) were returned already and can no longer be returned. We generate and process those returns outside of Loop. • You are unable process returns through Loop if the customer’s email address was edited. For example, if there was a typo in the email address and our customer service team corrects it, the customer can no longer initiate the return through the returns portal. It provides the error “unable to retrieve order”. We have to generate and process those returns outside of Loop.

We've been using Tapcart for over one year now on the enterprise plan and love it. Customers love the app and the Tapcart customer service is great. Very responsive and are quick to resolve any issues. Highly recommend if you are looking for a mobile app solution.

Growave offers a lot of great features to help you connect with your customers and grow as a business. We are extremely happy we made switch to their platform. Only drawback is the lack of ability to customize how their widgets look on your website as well as tailoring emails (rewards, reviews, etc) to fit your brand.

We are very happy with our transition to Shiphero from Shipstation. Our onboarding contact was very helpful and the go-live process is communicated with clear expectations. Shiphero has improved our warehouse speed and efficiency. BFCM went a lot more smoothly this year. Only downside so far is the lack of customer support after onboarding. We are on the "essential" that plan doesn't include an account specialist. Customer support isn't extremely helpful and the form to submit a ticket through our dashboard doesn't work.

This app didn't work for our store. Customer service was slow to respond to the issue, and responded by asking us to delete and re-install the app. We did that and it still didn't work. We again emailed customer support and never heard back. Will need to look for another solution.