Zapiet ‑ Pickup + Delivery
Zapiet - Local Pickup & Local Delivery for Shopify
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Nov. 17, 2020
I'm paying from 1 year 49 $ per month for this app, the app is very unstable and the customere care is very slowly ! From one month every day is a new problem, i opened many tickets and every answer it was an escalation with a "senior"...i'm so frustrated
Hi there, Thank you for your feedback. I am really sorry to hear that you had a bad experience. Over the past couple of weeks we have made some major upgrades to our infrastructure which will bring bring a vastly improved experience for you and your customers in the long term. We had to do this update before Black Friday/Cyber Monday so everyone could have a less stressful holiday period. Unfortunately, the updates had a few knock on issues that we’ve tried to fix as fast possible. We are just in the process of ironing out the last of these issues. Our support team also experienced an extremely busy week last week which did result in our response times rising above the norm, we have now cleared the backlog of tickets and the response times are returning to normal. A member of our support team will contact you immediately to help resolve any outstanding issues. Kind regards, Ronan
May 26, 2020
I understand that due to the current climate, support staff is overwhelmed. We have had nothing but issues since we installed the app and very little service to help fix the issues. We recently designed a new theme for our store and the integration with Zapiet was unsuccessful. These apps must offer phone support to resolve issues! An email exchange is far from helpful.
* POST COVID-LOCKDOWN UPDATE - SEPT 2020 * Hi Elegant Affairs Caterers, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in May. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up both technically and on the support front as we just wasn't prepared. We have since grown our team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
May 22, 2020
If I could give this app Zero I would. The app broker our store - check out button started to fail. We reached out to the Zapiet support which took a few days to respond to ask for collaborator access. They received the access within 10 minutes and after that we never heard from them again, we followed up with them for 5 days until we decided to delete the app and request a refund. I do not recommend this app or Zapiet service.
* POST COVID-LOCKDOWN UPDATE - SEPT 2020 * Hi Sælkerabúðin, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in May. Our average response time is now a matter of hours at most. We also now have live chat and telephone support available. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up both technically and on the support front as we just wasn't prepared. We have since grown our team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
May 22, 2020
App worked well when it did, I have tried on numerous occasions to get help from Zapiet and nobody has ever contacted me back. I am very embarrassed to run my business this way. A lot of unhappy customers, loss of sales and loss of money due to giving a large amount of refunds back to the customers. I like the app but just want it to work for me. I understand that these are tough times but we are all going through them as well. Shame on you Zapiet.
* POST COVID-LOCKDOWN UPDATE - SEPT 2020 * Hi New England Meat Company, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in May. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up both technically and on the support front as we just wasn't prepared. We have since grown our team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
May 7, 2020
Horrible customer service, I tried using this app for my online store to offer local deliveries and pickups and it has been a nightmare getting to get this team to respond to emails. Very confused customers with a feature that works half-way. Maybe they'll follow up with me after this review..
* POST COVID-LOCKDOWN UPDATE - SEPT 2020 * Hi Lushra, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in May. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up both technically and on the support front as we just wasn't prepared. We have since grown our team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
April 28, 2020
Could never get app to work support seems to be non existent with this company or person or what ever it or they are. But they need to hired someone or stop offer this app on this platform if they can’t handle it waste of time
* POST COVID-LOCKDOWN UPDATE - SEPT 2020 * Hi 4everKeepsakes, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in April. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up both technically and on the support front as we just wasn't prepared. We have since grown our team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
April 28, 2020
I would like to try this App because i think that it fits exactly to my needs. I asked for help to install and bring to work the App but nobody answered me.
* POST COVID-LOCKDOWN UPDATE - SEPT 2020 * Hi Borelli Lab, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in April. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up both technically and on the support front as we just wasn't prepared. We have since grown our team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
April 28, 2020
We have sent 2 emails and a support ticket but have received no response on an issue with inventory syncing. Very frustrating.
Hi Moon Juice Shops, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in April. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up on the support front as we just did not have enough man hours available to keep up. We have since grown our support team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
April 28, 2020
I tried installing and setting up the App. I didn't have any luck with getting it working. Submitted two support requests with no luck getting help.
Hi Rockford Art Deli, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in April. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up on the support front as we just did not have enough man hours available to keep up. We have since grown our support team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
April 27, 2020
I purchased this app to be one of the foundation elements of my online business, with zip code verification and local delivery as my main focus of use. Unfortunately I will likely have to figure something else out as their customer support is awful/unresponsive and the app does not seem to work with my (paid) theme, even though they have a widget for it. Initially the CS was slow but eventually responsive with a smaller issue, though I had to answer questions in order to get moved on to a "specialist" that could help me. I was supposedly moved on to this "specialist" 5 days ago and have heard nothing back. 3 days ago I saw that despite the app having a specific widget for my theme, it is causing my ENTIRE CHECKOUT to stop working. Even after I removed the app, I STILL had to go in and delete code. Then when I re-installed it (and was re-charged $ for it, which also needs to get handled now) none of the installation happened, and it all had to be done manually. Throughout this entire process I have heard nothing from support. I called the phone number in the support email and all it says is that Zapiet is "closed." This is incredibly sketchy and understaffed at best, and is a complete rip off at worst. I'm disappointed in Shopify as well, as this was one of their recommended apps. Don't waste your time and money.
Hi Movie Box, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in April. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up on the support front as we just did not have enough man hours available to keep up. We have since grown our support team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
April 23, 2020
I dont know if it's the current times or excess use, and I have tried to be patient, but this app has failed us during critical lunch hour peaks now three times over the past 3 weeks. Customers are not able to select a day or time to check out for hours and sometimes It stops working for the rest of the day.
* POST-COVID LOCKDOWN UPDATE - Sept 2020 * Hi Tasty as fit, Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm truly sorry for the poor experience you had back in April. As i'm sure you can imagine demand for our app skyrocketed exponentially this year. We certainly struggled to keep up on the support front as we just did not have enough man hours available to keep up. We have since grown our support team and have implemented a huge number of process and technical improvements. As you will see from our recent reviews we have successfully scaled and are back on top form. I have documented the improvements we made at length in this blog article: https://www.zapiet.com/post/surviving-the-pickup-ocalypse. I'd be more than happy to personally hop on the phone with you anytime to help get you setup and clear up any questions you may have about the app or our business. I hope to hear from you soon :) All the best! Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
April 17, 2020
The app itself is actually very good. However, the company are clearly struggling to keep on top of the volume of new customers that they are getting, and rather than stopping selling to new customers, they are continuing to take them on. This means the app is regularly going offline for all customers and is costing stores a lot of money as the checkout completely breaks. In case it helps other people, the status page is here: https://status.zapiet.com/
Hi Robert, It's Andy here the Founder of Zapiet. You are 100% correct in that we have been struggling to keep on top of the sheer demand for our app. We did indeed take the decision to halt new installs until things were back under control. After some thorough investigation we have discovered that each of the three downtime periods you mentioned were caused by a single stores sheer volume of traffic. The merchant is a national supermarket chain with ties to Masterchef. When Masterchef airs each week, people start ordering on mass. That's why the downtime has been consistently the same day and time of the week. We have now migrated this particular merchant to their own server so not to effect other users of the app. Behind the scenes we have also rapidly been rewriting all key parts of the app to improve stability as well as performance. Tomorrow I will be sending an email to all existing merchants detailing the exact steps we have taken to mitigate these issues going forward. Once again i'm sincerely sorry for the issues you have faced recently and really hope that we can rapidly regain your trust. Kindest regards, Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet www.zapiet.com
April 7, 2020
I would give zero stars if I could. Worst customer experience ever. I have sent emails and left phone messages. I want you to remove ALL of the code that was entered. You finally responded after I requested that a Shopify agent contact you, "Confirmation that all our assets have been removed from your theme." But that's not true, you still have coding on my cart template page and I am not sure what all I have to remove. I cannot move forward with bringing our shop online until this is fixed. This is the fifth day that I've been working on this. Just got a canned response email from you that says, "The moment you uninstalled the app you should have received an automated email from me containing the exact steps required to remove our widget from your shopping cart page. It's as simple as removing {% include "storepickup" %} from your theme.liquid file." First of all, I never received this automated email after I uninstalled the app and secondly, this advice did nothing to help me remove your coding. Now I will have to hire a Shopify Expert to help me. Very poor customer service. I do not recommend this app.
Hey E’s Florals, I’m Andy the Founder of Zapiet. I want to sincerely apologise for the issues you have experienced. We have been inundated recently with support requests as merchants around the globe quickly switch to pickup/delivery first commerce in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We are rapidly scaling our support team to keep up with demand resulting in us being able to respond to all of your queries within a handful of hours, far faster than expected of any Shopify developer at this time. The code that you mentioned in your review has zero impact on your store and you unfortunately removed our access to the store to be able to assist you. We would never insist that you hire a Shopify Export to solve issues on your store created by our app. If you are wondering why we can not automate the removal of our code, it’s because of technical restriction with Shopify. The method of providing an automated uninstall has a strange knock on effect of allowing customers to checkout without selecting a delivery/pickup date or time. When Shopify roll out "App Sections" later this year we will be able to automate this. I would love to help get you up and running, as i'm sure once your store is configured correctly with our app you will find it of great value. I'm looking forward to speaking with soon :) Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
April 5, 2020
I had high hopes for this app. I installed it but after working with it for I came to the conclusion that it wasn't for me. I uninstalled it but the change to my checkout page is still there but not active. Dead link. I have communicated wth Zapiet and Shopify. I have responded to the necessary "collaborate" permissions. I have had absolutely no direct response from Zapiet. I cannot install any other app until their residual code is removed. How hard can that be? How hard is it to send an update? This is my first ever negative review. Hate to have to do it. Can't recommend this app
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Hi Phillip/Kent, I'm Andy the Founder of Zapiet. I want to sincerely apologise for the issues you have experienced and the slow response from my support team. We have been inundated recently with support requests as merchants around the globe quickly switch to pickup/delivery first commerce in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We are rapidly scaling our support team to keep up with demand. The moment you uninstalled the app you should have received an automated email from me containing the exact steps required to remove our widget from your shopping cart page. It's as simple as removing {% include "storepickup" %} from your theme.liquid file. We also have a fantastic help center at support.zapiet.com that contains the uninstall instructions. As well as asking you to bookmark a link to the uninstall guide when selecting which theme you want to add our app to. If you are wondering why we can not automate this process, it's because of technical restriction with Shopify. The method of providing an automated uninstall has a strange knock on effect of allowing customers to checkout without selecting a delivery/pickup date or time. If you would like further details on this please let me know. I would love to help get you up and running as i'm confident once you are you will love the app! I hope to hear from you soon :) Andy Cargill Founder of Zapiet
Nov. 22, 2019
Could be a good app, was very excited. The app looks clean and seems to do what I want, but there is no support from the app developers. I installed the trial version, it was working okay the first night 2 days ago from this review post. I did have some questions and tried to contact the developer via Chat Feature (they have yet to respond to any of those questions now ~30 hours later.) The first morning I had app installed, I had my first customer attempt to make a local pickup purchase and schedule it for about 10 days out. The app kept trying to charge him the shipping, it would not remove it. Started trying to get into contact with the developers again, right after that via the Chat function again. They failed to respond to numerous messages so I went to email, which they responded to in a somewhat reasonable time frame, asking for access to my store. I gave access to them in a matter of minutes after receiving their request and also emailed them back right away saying I granted them the access. Now here we are almost 24 hours later and nothing has been corrected, there has been no further communication from them. I don't even think they have logged into the site to investigate the issue. Very hard to run a business when there is an error with an app making it unusable and the developers do not seem to care. Seems like others have the same issue after reading other 1 star review, and it seems their issues are over a much longer time period than mine. Not very reassuring. Bottom Line: The app is unusable for me. It gives the option for local pickup, but still charges the customer the shipping. Find another app where the developers are actually responsive.
Hi there! Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. I have just taken a look at our support logs and can see that my team replied within a matter of hours to each of your emails (even on the weekend). This far surpasses the average response time for a Shopify app developer. Although I agree we can do better, which is why we are actively recruiting for additional support staff with the aim of offering live 24/7 support ASAP. With regards to your rates issue. We are currently the only app on the App Store that has the ability to control exactly which rates are displayed and when. Your shipping rate should not have been appearing when a customer selected to pickup and vice versa. In your particular case your issue was caused due to not adding a valid Entuire API key within our rates settings page. As soon as you have a valid key in hand please let me know and we can finalise your setup :) Kindest regards, Andy
Nov. 7, 2019
Really wish I could love the experience so far. Unfortuntaely I have not been able to get assistance or even a response ... I love the concept of it but I really am frustrated
July 18, 2019
Clunky app and even worse support. I have dealt with numerous app developers and Zapiet wins the prize at being the least competent/communicative. I don't suggest anyone use Store Pickup + Delivery and stay away from Zapiet apps entirely if it's avoidable. There are some really great app companies that will work hard for you, Zapiet isn't one of them. They completely misled me about the capabilities of this app. Let me save you some time: If you are expecting an app that is quick and easy to setup, look elsewhere. If you are expecting any kind of timely support from their staff, look elsewhere. If you have an expectation that the app will be able to manage shipping rates as advertised, look elsewhere. Zapiet support staff weren't able to get me set up with the basic features (I needed no custom work at all) after two weeks, and would make excuses about how small their staff was, and they were trying to get people trained, etc. Meanwhile I was paying them for a non-integrated app. It became apparent that they are misleading customers at what the app is capable of doing and the app itself is hamstrung by a huge design issue they don't bother to mention until you are well down the rabbit hole, namely their app currently supports rates for exactly one carrier at a time. One. Meaning if you currently use or were planning to use USPS, UPS, and FEDEX - which is reasonable - ....you get to pick one. That's it. One, no more. Of course they don't volunteer this information and are not up front about it at all. I was well into the integration process when I was informed via a phone call about this limitation that should be clearly advertised on their app page, being that it would be a dealbreaker for many people. The core problem is this: Zapiet designed an app that has to manage your shipping rates to function fully, but the app is terrible at integrating and managing shippping rates....makes zero sense. Put it back in the oven, this one isn't fully baked yet. I told support early on I use stamps.com via Shipstation and was told would be easy peasy to get things going. This turned out to be completely false, and they didn't even have stamps.com integration. I was told to wait (again) as Andy, their sole programmer, wrote up some code for stamps.com integration to work. Ok, but you already told me you had integration in place. Misleading. Turns out that didn't work either. Integration never happened. Stamps.com was apparently a non-starter for them. As far as I know they still can't integrate with stamps.com even though they said they would get it going. Even further on, they changed what they were saying entirely (after wasting a week of my time) and wanted me do go set up an account to use the USPS.COM API directly, forgoing my current rates via stamps.com. None of this was mentioned ahead of time. They say one thing and then pull a bait and switch. They tell you they can do things they can't. Completely unethical. 15 days later and the app still is not completely set up and fully functional. If you use stamps.com and/or shipstation, there are better solutions for you. I spent weeks getting handed off from support person to support person, and the app has never worked as it is advertised. I can't call it an out and out scam, because if you just want your customers to select In-store pick up, it does that one thing. But having it interface with your rates is a nightmare, and their advertising and support staff is highly misleading about it. At the end it felt like I was paying them to beta test, and I probably was. Despite what they were telling me, it was anything but easy for them to get their app to do the basic advertised functions. Save yourself a bunch of time and look elsewhere. Even if the app did what it said it does (which it doesn't), you have to deal with an apparently over-worked support staff that won't get to you for days on end. When they do, they give you a tidbit to fix/adjust, that you'll have done in 5 minutes, then be waiting another 24+ hours for the next step. With how many options there are for apps and app companies in the marketplace, this is an easy headache to avoid, and I suggest doing just that.
May 16, 2019
We tried this app and it wasn't for us (it's just way too expensive for what it is). After deleting it, it has left its code ALL over our Shopify account...the integration is not actually deleted. (References to this app appear on orders, on check-out pages, and in all sorts of other areas of our account.) We're having to now work with Shopify directly. Definitely not thrilled by how sloppy this integration is (and how impossible it is to remove it).
Hi Pine Street Clinic, Thanks for your valuable feedback. Seconds after uninstalling the app you should have received an email from us which contained step by step instructions on how to remove our widget from your shopping cart page, as well as information on how to get in touch with our customer support team via live chat, email or phone. Removing our widget required the deletion of a single line of code from your theme. We purposely designed the app this way to ensure the removal process was as seamless as possible. We wish you the best of luck with your venture and with finding an alternative app that better fits your budget. Kindest regards, Andy
Oct. 29, 2018
I really really wanted this app to work as described. Looks great on paper. We used this app for about 5 months. Unfortunately, Its buggy and an unreliable and I do not recommend it. Moreover, it has a large limitation which Zapiet do not mention up front. Because of the way it works, it does not easily allow the user to switch shipping methods after they proceeded to checkout. Shopify caches the method and the user is stuck with that shipping method until the cache resets. We were extremely patient with the Zapiet team to fix and address these issues but they just gave us an endless runaround. Very disappointed.
Hi guys, Thanks so much for your review. It's been over a year since we last spoke and I wanted to let you know that our Rates features are now more powerful and stable than ever. As well as the huge improvements we've made at Zapiet, Shopify has also done a huge amount of work their end to reduce the rate caching period. I'd love you to give us another go so you can see the improvements we've made. I have reset your 14-day free trial in preparation :) Thanks, Andy
Feb. 22, 2018
The worst support ever, the product did not work, first they say it‘s due to other plug-ins, and later they say because my theme is not good (it's a five stars theme from theme forest，hundreds of people purchased ), few month now still not working.
Hi there, Thank you so much for your feedback. We have worked super hard over the past couple of years to make our app ever more compatible with the likes of Bold Subscriptions, Cashier and Tipslite to name a few. Our app is compatible with all themes from the Shopify Theme Store. This is because they are all built to follow the strict guidelines set by Shopify, and so allow for a much easier setup. ThemeForest can be like the wild west, and so it's always worth checking with our support team first to ensure our app is compatible. Based on our customer support logs only two themes from ThemeForest have been deemed as incompatible out of the 100s available. It's unfortunate that yours was one of those, although i'd love to give it another try and see if we can find a way to make it work for you. I have reset your free trial if you'd like to re-install :) Thanks, Andy