Custom Pricing: Wholesale B2B

Oct. 7, 2017

I've been looking for a wholesale app for awhile. Made the mistakes of not turning off groups that created a nightmare so I had to uninstall the app and vix all variants it created. Well while looking for another app made the mistake of reinstalling this one again. Charged me $50 and didn't understand why till I realized it was the same app I tried the previous week. Cancelled it again. BEWARE if you are not careful this app will show all your wholesale pricing to everyone and it's not an easy fix. It creates extra variants and it is time consuming as all hell

June 7, 2017

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES INSTALL THIS APP. IT'S CHANGED ALL THE PRICING ON MY STORE SO EVERY PRODUCT YOU VIEW IS THE PRICE OF WHATEVER YOU LAST VIEWED!!!!!!!!!!!!! I PAID FOR THE $40 INSTALLATION FROM BOLD WHICH TOOK 4 DAYS AND NOW I CANT GET THEM TO REMOVE / FIX THE FLAWED CODE THAT'S NOW LITTERED THROUGH MY SITE ALSO, THEY SAY LEAVE THEIR CODE WHEN YOU DELETE THEIR APP. WHICH MEANS THEIR BROKEN CODE REMAINS ON EVERY LITTLE LIQUID PAGE THROUGHOUT YOUR STORE. I'VE DELETED THE APP AND IT STILL SHOWS WRONG PRICING. I'M WATCHING HEATMAPS OF MY CUSTOMERS EXITING. www.sunrayflyfish.com

July 20, 2017

Working with Bold was an absolutely nightmare. This app is not meant for real businesses. We are a manufacturer of science equipment with over 1,200 SKU's and this app actually lost us money. From double discounting tiered wholesale customers and double dipping monthly promos, discount codes... The app creates duplicate variants in order to track discounts (herein lies it's main issues of compatibility). We had probably 10 cases with Bold and the first rep we worked with was very helpful but the main issue isn't the customer service (although after our first point of contact they failed to really answer and help in the depth we needed after things were messed up) the main issue is the app itself. If you are a small start up or store then this app maybe useful. It has so many issues even things like not having the ability to select a collection to mass discount because we had 'too many' collections. If Bold was honest about saying the needs we had or the size of our store was too big then it could have avoided 90 days of disaster and this poor review.

March 20, 2017

With all Bold Apps you must really look close at possible issues. Bugs hurt your site and customer experience. You MUST get ALL code removed. They tell you you can just uninstall but issues remain. We have asked twice to have all liquid code removed and both times they said they did. In changing themes wholesale default pricing now shows up. It is crazy. Before registration button was gone with the loyalty app. Don't walk, run from this company. Bad software.

March 15, 2017

Developers forgot to disclose this on their Frontpage: --- THIS PRODUCT HAS BUGS --- --- BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK --- --- ALSO OUR SUPPORT SUCKS --- I have had this app for a few months now and been paying for the premium version. I also have multiple other bold apps. So I'm a good paying customer and they make good money from me every month. Unfortunately the support is always wishy washy. There is never a fix to a problem, always just work arounds that make everything more complicated. If you depend on proper inventory management then this app is simply a nightmare that will make you pull out your hair! Customers in my shop can purchase as "professionals" at discounted prices if they have been approved. However, every-time a professional buys on their account the stock changes completely arbitrarily. I would have 3 items left in stock and after the customer buys there would suddenly be -6. The numbers are always very random and always negative. This leads to many items being out of stock all the time, even though their is stock and it has lost me so much money. Customers see there is no stock, they leave the site and I lose the sale. With over 5000 items in my store it is impossible to check up on each item bought after every order to see if it hasn't gone from inventory of 2 to inventory of -11. My developer and I have opened dialogue with bold to fix this issue, but they were just talking around the point that the stock issue is noted in their READ ME docs and cannot be fixed. However, the issue is much more "buggy" than what they describe there. They have mentioned that there are innate limitations with the Shopify system and that’s what prevents the application from working correctly. However, it doesn’t seem that there is any effort on their part to work with the Shopify team to come to a satisfactory resolution, and I’m just expected to deal with this problem. So how can they charge any money (50 USD per month!) for an application they know will never work properly?!

March 8, 2017

Bad customer service, had to wait so long to get an answer that is not good answer and it's very complicated to know who you have to talk to. This app bugs with many things like Facebook shop if you have sizing variants. All prices are being visible by your Facebook followers !! It bugs also the filters app because it create for example ( small-retail, small-wholesale...) so you have many many filter unnecessary. It slow down the website, very much !! The hide tags is not clever, it would have been better to make a ( -show ) tag instead of -hide, and choosing not to be visible it's the native solution of Shopify, so the default visitor don't see anything and you avoid many tags for nothing. It double the inventory size because of the way it multiply the variants in order to the quantity of your type of pricing... It creates to much tags that is really not friendly user and not clean in the end if you want to have a simple preview of your tags. Well, I don't recommand that app if you us many apps like me.

Sept. 8, 2016

UPDATE: We are so sad that it has come to this! We needed to uninstall the the whole thing from our shop (removing the liquid code, undoing the changes to the theme's HTML is tedious work!). They weren't able to resolve our problems and we have tried our best to be patient with them. Bold's CSP just don't fit in to our preferences and their suggestions for a solution is defeating the purpose of why we even purchased the program in the first place. It's an incomplete program to integrate with our shop.

July 22, 2016

A real pain of an app. I'm afraid of breaking the store any time I add or duplicate or make any modifications to a product. "Pausing" the app takes forever (literally going on half hour+) and is essential whenever making product additions or edits. Not to mention you can't use shopify/facebook integration without it showing all of your price tiers. Plus, if you mess up on the backend, it's easy to accidentally show all of your customers all price tiers on the front end. OOPS! The backend is clunky to use and doesn't load properly most of the time when navigating deeper within pages. Also beware, if you have a lot of different tiers, it's a mess to deal with scrolling through the browser because of how many columns -- imagine a bloated GUI excel spreadsheet. You can't tell which product you're editing for which tier without scrolling like a madman. And then my favorite part ... you finally painstakingly input all of your prices and click save... and then ... wait for it ... refresh ... NONE OF THE PRICES SAVE! TADA! Most of the limitations and complaints may be due to Shopify constraints, but that's giving Bold the benefit of the doubt. Support is good, but this software is monstrous and scary. Most other third-party shopify integrations (stitch labs, etc...) are afraid to integrate with a store using Bold apps because they're afraid of things breaking too. Temperamental app. I can't wait to move all of our wholesale customers over to a new system. Save yourself the trouble and look for a different wholesale solution rather than any of these types of shopify apps -- especially this one. While it may *work*, it's way too messy. Not quite sure how this app has so many positive reviews. Suspicious of review shilling at this point, but who knows.

Feb. 2, 2021

UPDATE: More problems. You cannot add another product without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Waited 3 days for them to "Update" our theme, didn't fix the problem that all customers are seeing 2 pricing groups. Still not fixed. Customer service is terrible, they don't listen and rarely fix the problem on the first out reach. Excuse me while I get back in the queue and start over. YAY. Installation was pretty complicated for our Theme, so we had to pay. A lot of back and forth with the team, new people each response created confusion, and a lot of wasted time. Overall the app is pretty good, we have a bit of a unique situation, so we are trying to make it work for us. Launching our site in 2 days, so we'll see how well it works.

April 19, 2016

First I'd like to say I am deleting this app from my shopify store right after I leave this heartfelt review of this company and product. I could list more than just these reasons why I will never use a bold app again, however I will only list a couple in hopes that it will help at least one person steer clear of this company. 1. Horrible support. They are never available. They take days to respond sometimes. I was recently left hanging while missing out on income from wholesale customers that could have been coming in had this app been working properly. On top of this, Jay comes across as a very arrogant person when handling a customer concern. He is very short and condescending. 2. Their "install" price is gouged. If you do not know how to update and install code in to your theme, they charge you $40 for 15 minutes of work. How do I know it takes 15 mins? Because after their install team wrecked my wholesale purchasing I figured out how to work with code. I systematically checked and re- installed every single piece of coding myself. Guess what? If you change themes on shopify, you have to re-install this app and completely re- enter all of the coding. If you do not know how to do it, they will have the audacity to ask you to pay them another $40 install fee to install the app for you again. After you already paid them once to install it! What a nickel and dime kind of company you are bold. 3. Their app price is HIGHLY gouged. $50 a month for an app that requires a ton of user end work and data entry. 4. Major lack of attention to detail. Their support staff apparently knows less about code installation than someone who takes 1 day to study and learn it. When I argued with them about having to pay a second install fee to have the app on my store, they hesitantly agreed and had a support staff "re-install" the coding. This is where it all messed up and my wholesale customers were no longer to even see the variants designated for them. AT ALL! So my conclusion, along with the conclusion of a shopify support guru, is that their "install team" accidentally deleted some shopify coding and created a mess they chose to disregard. On top of this, I was a 'Premium" package user (because every nickel and dime company like bold wants you to pay that extra amount to get features that should be available anyways) and their "install team" installed the basic package. That is complete lack of attention to detail and it seems I was brushed aside because of my unhappiness with their product's function. This app is clunky. It seems very slung together and way too complex (even though I know how to fully operate it). If you need a good app that will let you designate specific pricing for all types of customers, while hiding it from others' view, I HIGHLY recommend the "Locksmith" app. I am not at all affiliated with the creators of that app. Just a very disappointed customer who found a new solution when bold apps failed me. What took me more than 30hrs of data entry to accomplish with this app, took me 30 minutes with the locksmith app. Goodbye Bold, you lost a customer and I will tell everyone to avoid you from here on out.

Oct. 12, 2015

I think this app had great potential, and I would love to revise my review if I could get some straight answers from support, but support is lacking. 1st, we could not get the app to display proper pricing right from the start, VIP was charging members 10% more in addtion VIP lower pricing was being displayed in section page results for non VIP members. After paying Bold $150 to assist with the install, the same issues were still happening less the 10% more factor. Could not get an answer from support for almost a week. Finally got this resolved when I cancelled another Bold app that was not working in conjuction with this app, and Bold email asking why we left? Bold finally responded after my email frustrations with their support and challenges we faced. Within a day, the issue was resolved. So the new issues are that in order to change a price, add an item or change a variant, you need to disable the program which takes about 1 hr per 1000 variants (which means your VIP is down during that time) and then same amount of time to turn back on. If you have 6K variants, that's 12 hours of downtime. I think this app is made for companies with a few variants, but for a larger company there has to be a better way. I also do not trust the App for properly tagging customers VIP after purchase, Bold said it takes about 15 minutes to tag after VIP membership was purchased, but we are seeing alot more time and have to manually tag customers ourselves. For now, we have too many that signed up right away and have to keep this for a little longer until we test another app that will work for us.

June 11, 2015

Ugh, I don't like writing negative reviews, and this is my first one in the shopify app store. But there are major issues that customers need to know before installing this app. I really tried hard to work with Bold Apps to understand why they have not made this information available on the app description page, and was left astounded by their responses and disgusted by their lack of concern for how their app will have negative and destructive effects on their customers e-shops. What you need to know: This app is NOT compatible with ANY or ALL inventory management apps and ANY or ALL apps that have inventory management functionality, including shipping and fulfillment apps. Below I have posted the email dialogue that shows that Bold Apps is very much aware of this problem, and is aware of the destructive, time-consuming, and costly impact that this app will have when used with other apps many other apps. And you will also see that despite knowing this issue, they have no interest in letting YOU know about it. Their support team seems to have deemed it your own fault for installing it with out questioning the implications first. Unbelievable. I hope others can learn from this experience and avoid it. *** My email to Customer Support: After reading through several of the articles in the support pages, I found one that states that the Customer Pricing App is... "not compatible with any and all inventory management apps, these types of apps break the connections between our apps and the products causing errors that can become visible on the page, as well pricing errors. We do not suggest using inventory management apps under any circumstances while using our apps, as the damage done is very difficult and time consuming to clean up." My shop uses a fulfillment service, Whiplash, and is connected to our shopify account via the Whiplash App. This is not categorized as an "inventory management app". It is labeled a "shipping app". But when they ship our product and fulfill an order, our shops inventory, as well as the specific customers order status are both updated and matched with Whiplash's system. Recently I have been noticing that sometimes the inventory or order status are not updated in our shopify account. It doesn't happen on all orders, just some of them. I actually emailed Whiplash yesterday to find out what could be causing that glitch. But now I'm wondering if it's because of the Customer Pricing App. Is the Customer Pricing App causing these glitches? If my fulfillment companies app manages our inventory by updating it when orders are fulfilled, does that mean Whiplash's shipping app is considered an "inventory management app"? If so, just to be clear, is Customer Pricing App incompatible with Whiplash? Hopefully my suspicions are wrong, because Bold Apps has made no attempt to make this information available for their customers to consider prior to installing and paying for the app and liquid installation. Not to mention the amount of time spent trying to troubleshoot. If this is the case, and Customer Pricing is not compatible with our fulfillment service, I will be uninstalling Customer Pricing and hoping Bold Apps will, at the very least, refund my money that I was charged for the monthly service and for the liquid installation. If these two apps are incompatible, Bold Apps needs to inform people about this. It is Bold Apps responsibility to alert customers of these kinds of problems PRIOR to installing and paying for it. It is absolutely negligent and bad business to not make this clear. Simply posting a single article buried in the support pages on your site is not sufficient. Especially because it doesn't even mention the considerations for shipping apps that might also have some functionality that the Customer Pricing App conflicts with. I will hope for a response from Bold Apps to arrive soon. This is a big deal and a big concern. Please take this seriously. Chris *** Response received from the "support" team: Hey Chris, I'd be happy to help you with this :) I'm not aware of any compatibility issues between customer pricing and whiplash, but its possible that there is. There's hundreds of apps on the shopify app store with their own unique functionality, with new ones coming out all the time that its difficult to tell exactly what would be incompatible with what. I would imagine that if there's a problem it would be with the way that customer pricing handles its inventory tracking. When a user checks out with a customer pricing variant the customer pricing app will cause the regular version of the variant to adjust its inventory while the custom pricing variant essentially has unlimited inventory. With inventory management apps they may try to adjust the quantity of the customer pricing variant which can remove the metafields on those variants that the app uses to control those variants. Also because the inventory app doesn't "know" to adjust the regular version of the variant (since the customer pricing variant is in of the order instead), it can result in inventory inconsistencies. That being said, I don't know how that would cause issues with a shipping app such as whiplash since I don't know how the app is programmed or the processes it uses. Maybe they would be able to use that information to determine if the customer pricing inventory tracking or variants is somehow not compatible with the way that their app operates. -Michael "Support Wizard" *** My reply back to the "support" team: Michael, i must say i am disappointed with your reply. You said you'd he happy to help and then you tell me to have whiplash check to see if their app is compatible with yours. I think that's rather dismissive of Bold Apps responsibility in this situation. Bold Apps is aware of a major conflict between Customer Pricing and inventory management apps. Yet it doesn't mention that AT ALL on the apps page in the shopify market place. Whiplash doesnt have incompatibility issues. As it does what it is supposed to. Your app then prevents it from doing so. Bold Apps should be a little more concerned about this and since your app is the one that causes conflicts, it makes no sense for me to contact whiplash and have them look at your code. Also, their app is free, yours is not. There is nothing stoping you from looking into this yourself. I'm trying hard to find a resolution from you in order to avoid posting a negative review on this app. Please help me. Chris *** The response I received from their "support" team: Hey Chris, Ron with Bold here. Hopefully I'll be able to shed some light on this. Shopify's framework doesn't have the ability to change the pricing 'on-the-fly'. You can't sell a product with one price for a retail customer, and a different price for a wholesale customer. For our app to work within Shopify's ecosystem is that it creates variants of the product for each customer group. You still have the base variant at the regular price, and another variant at a wholesale price point, or variants at a gold/silver/bronze price point, for example. Everything else on the variants would stay the same, same sku, same item weight, etc. Again, it's the same product just at a different price point depending on who the customer is. The challenge here is that inventory and shipping apps are built that each variant is their own unique product. A red shirt inventory wouldn't be reduced because a blue shirt is purchased. That wouldn't make sense. :-) Red shirt is purchased, it's the red shirt that is fulfilled down the line. Likewise, if a wholesale variant is purchased, that's the one that flows through... I'm in agreement with you that there is a conflict between our Customer Pricing app and just about every inventory or shipping app for Shopify. We'd love for each app to work together, and our intention was never to create the unnecessary competition, forcing store owners to choose one or the other. Last fall we reached out to about 10 or 12 of the top app developers, offering our assistance in helping them integrate their apps with ours. Most ignored our emails. Of the 3 or 4 that responded, 1 said that they would look at integrating sometime in the future, but it wasn't a priority. The remainder stated that they were unwilling to make changes. We are left to create our own solution, that our development team has on the roadmap which should address these issues, allowing stores to continue using our apps and any existing shipping/inventory apps. It is a huge task, so there is no definitive time frame as to when this will be available. We are hopeful for later this year, or early 2016. If you have any other questions or need help with anything else don't hesitate to ask. I'm always happy to help! Cheers! Ron [...]

June 1, 2015

They got the code in quick with an issue then fixed it a few days later. But it's been weeks I've been reaching out without anything. they just keep emailing me every 5 days saying their closing the ticket. I can't get anyone on the phone. We opted for the more expensive so we could bulk price import but it just say 'service unavailable' every time. Its been almost a month and customers still can't use price levels. SERIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED with the customer service. I was hoping a company with 5 stars would be WAY more responsive. Still waiting for a response and a solution.

Jan. 8, 2015

After using this app for several months, I've found it not to be all it's cracked up to be. It doesn't integrate with other apps well. Customer service is not great either. I had an issue that went round robin with emails to these folks, who have too many Indians and not enough Chiefs on the other end. In the email string, it went on for over three weeks with the issue never being resolved and then they ended up saying it was my fault. I requested a credit for the month that I couldn't use the app while they were not doing anything to solve it and they simply ignored my request. Not good customer service in my opinion. Customer retention is far more important than a $29.99 credit in my opinion. Not to these folks. They just simply ignore you! If you are a small business, dependent on support of an app for your Shopify store and need fast response and solutions, I would recommend shopping around for another app for your Wholesale needs. I have another issue with the app now and because of the circular email ride I took with them last time, I can't get my problem solved lest I hop on that crazy train again just to get left at the station anyway.

Nov. 4, 2013

Disapointing. Not up to their promises and poor support. We installed this app about a week ago and sent 5 mails to the supports team. We have not got any replies unless to tell us that they are busy with an other developpment. It does not fullfill their promises: • Offer Customer Specific Pricing (only fixed price which is obvisoulsy useless or percentage). Good maybe for a customer price level as Gold sivler etc... but not other use. No specific price handled per items sold. No variant handled when you are using variants in your products with different price. It set up everything at the same price. • Use this app to offer multiple levels of WHOLESALE Pricing and use your same store for Wholesale and Retail. VERY DISAPOINTING, unless you handle your buinsess just with percentages which is not our case and I trust not the case of many other business. YOU CERTAINLY CANNOT USE THIS APP TO RUN YOUR RETAIL AND WHOLESALES PRICING with one store. We were expecting a specific price edition per items sold handled within the app and we just got percentage or fixed price. Very dispointing as per the reviews we though of using their apps more and more, but for the first one used it is a total ZERO. We hope to get a respond from their support team within the 14 days trial otherwises we will have no other choice to uninstall it and find an other solution elsewhere. We will study the other app available on the shopify store called WHOLESALER see if it does the work better. We will consider twice now from using other app from the BOLD team. Disapointing when you see all reviews telling so much good stuf about it. Also poor support after installing it. We had to ask for help to external developpers to install the app as the installation guidelines are not clear at all.

Sept. 13, 2013

I ´ve been trying to install this app on my site and I am still trying. I hope this situation will change asap as it have passed two weeks since I installed the app and is still not working properly.

April 13, 2018

Had the App for several years and was generally satisfied but they have recently "updated it" and it is now terrible as they have removed the ability to manage the individual products? Tried to submit a ticket but you only get a run around within their system. Very frustrating!

Nov. 22, 2021

Our store has multiple Bold apps installed and I continue to be unhappy with both the apps and the service that I have received when looking for support with Bold apps. The apps are not intuitive and I constantly receive bad advice on how to do what should be simple tasks. During a recent chat with the support center, I tried to communicate my frustration with Bold to the staff member I was speaking with and felt that my concerns were blown off and I was being spoken to in a condescending manner. I am incredibly disappointed in the program and the service that I have received.