Rustic Kitchen & Bath review for Pandectes GDPR Compliance

We spent a significant amount of time trying to get this app working properly with our Shopify store, GTM, GA4, and consent setup. We worked through script blocking, consent timing, custom pixels, network testing, and multiple troubleshooting steps to make sure tracking only fired after a user gave consent. After implementing Pandectes on our live theme, we saw a massive and completely abnormal spike in GA4 traffic. The traffic was overwhelmingly direct, came from highly suspicious automated-looking users, and did not match what Shopify was reporting. We eventually traced the issue back to behavior that only occurred while Pandectes was active. To confirm it, we disabled the app and watched GA4 in real time. The abnormal traffic nearly stopped immediately. When we reached out to Pandectes, they acknowledged that bot traffic can interact with the banner and pointed us to their bot-blocking feature. The problem is that this functionality is only available on their Enterprise plan. In other words, the app created or enabled a serious analytics issue for us, and the recommended solution was to upgrade to a much more expensive plan. At that point, we had already spent hours auditing scripts, testing consent states, troubleshooting GA4, and trying to make the setup work correctly. For us, this was not worth the risk or the amount of troubleshooting required. We ultimately decided to remove the app and move toward Shopify’s native consent tools with GTM instead. If accurate analytics and clean tracking are important to your business, I would be very cautious before installing this app. We wish we had built the consent setup ourselves from the beginning rather than spending this much time troubleshooting an issue we did not have before installing it.