Vesta Precision review for Shopify Marketplace Connect

Sept. 7, 2023

I encountered several issues that have been languishing that all users of this app need to know about. Let's start with the complete falsehood in this August 2023 video announcing this app - https://youtu.be/Cb7z3jGUUZY. This app is not 'real-time' as mentioned in the video. It has an internal scheduled push/pull data mechanism, which can leave your FBM fulfilled orders as 'late shipped' due to data not being sent back to Amazon on time. Reported and unresolved issues with the Amazon connection 1 - Using MCF fulfillment requires you to import all orders (FBA and FBM). This is an issue as the FBA orders imported into Shopify are unnecessary, but the feature is mutually exclusive. If you enable the Only FBM orders are imported option, the MCF is disabled. 2 - MCF orders require manually requesting fulfillment. You have been forewarned that there is no automation for this process within the app (but you may be able to automate it with an additional app, that I do not know.) 3 - MCF orders fail to pass to Amazon for fulfillment and products assigned to MCF inventory fail to show in the MCF enrolment page. Perhaps these two issues are linked, but I have not heard back from Shopify support yet. Reported issues with the Walmart connection 1 - Upon migrating from the Walmart Connection that is slated for removal on 10/1/2023, you encounter duplicate orders pulled from Walmart, even though they are completed and shipped. I was able to catch these in time to stop a second fulfillment, but it was a hassle. You have been forewarned. 2 - All Walmart orders are loaded without the customer-selected shipping option, only 'DELIVERY' is in the shipping option. So, if you offer Expedited shipping options on Walmart, you may want to map 'DELIVERY' to an expedited shipping level (which means all standard shipping goes out 'Expedited'). Again, I have reported this to Support, but no solution yet. I was a user of the Amazon by Codisto app previously and these issues did not exist in that app, which was a surprise to me when I encountered these regressions in functionality and failure of support to effect resolutions. I suggest you use this app at your own risk. If Akshay Patil at Shopify wants to connect, email me and I can provide additional details for him to assist his team in resolving these issues and make this app all he claims it is in the video linked above.