Navidium Shipping Protection

As app founders, no one likes negative reviews. In fact, most of us app teams will often bend over backwards to try and prevent a negative review, or at the very least do everything we can to try and get the review removed. That is the honest-to-god truth, because frankly, 1-2 star reviews kill app rankings. In this case, while we absolutely would love to help, and are always committed to ensuring every merchant has a perfectly positive experience, I want this review to stay. The simple reality is that just days before Christmas, the merchant installed and requested a set of features that, out of the box, we didn't entirely support. Anyone who knows me knows I never like to say no, and we pulled devs out of vacation to try and make these changes happen. Of course, these "customizations" were free, as we simply want merchants to make the most of our platform, our apps, and to ultimately enjoy the products we spent years building. Those "small changes" take time, especially when 90% of your staff is out for Christmas break, or working "shorter" shifts, because after all, everyone deserves a life and a chance to spend time with family and loved ones. On Dec 24, the merchant replied with a list of issues (some were totally legit) and some were simply what you'd call "user error" or just needed a bit of explaining... Within an hour or so, the app was uninstalled, and the review was left. We had no chance to respond, no chance to try and fix it on "Christmas Eve," and the replies we sent went unanswered. Bottom line, as a message to merchants, when you read this, understand that app devs take negative reviews extremely personally, but sometimes, no matter how hard we try to please, we might end up letting you down. To the team at Canopy Plant Co, I am sorry we couldn't deliver in time, and that you didn't feel comfortable with our app. Truly. It is a shame we couldn't resolve things for you. I'm always available directly at marc at navidiumapp.com to help. Best, Marc H Founder Navidium App ps. That applies to anyone who needs support Navidium or otherwise :)

First off, I’d like to apologize for the annoyance of not having the app work out of the gate for you. The reality of most shipping protection apps like this is that it is nearly impossible for a one size fits all approach to work right out of the gate. Since various themes behave differently and have thousands of other apps that could interfere, most of our merchants opt for our white glove onboarding where we onboard the merchant in a duplicate theme first and review and make sure everything works perfectly before going live. Self install works well for many themes, but often it just requires a professional to go in and set it up. I wish it wasn’t this way, it would certainly reduce our need for a full team of engineers…. But hey, it’s Shopify…. I do want to mention that our records show we got a support request chat from you after hours and our team responded about 30 minutes after it was received. As someone who has been an ecommerce merchant myself for almost 2 decades, it is rare for any provider to offer support 24-7, and even more rare to do so even for free plans. I would love the chance to make it right, and our team is committed to help you set it up if you decide to give it a shot. But I do feel like it is unfair to say we don’t have support when our team responded 30 minutes later on a Friday evening. Best, Marc H Co-founder Navidium App

Hi there, My name is Marc, and I am one of the co-founders of Navidium. First off, I want to apologize for any misunderstandings, frustrations, and of course disruptions the onboarding caused. It is never a good thing to see merchants struggle, and our team is ready and happy to make any issue right as fast as possible. I'd like to address the concerns in the review to help shed light on it as best as I can. Why we create a product with variants: Shopify is a closed system, and in order to add a "surcharge" for the VIP protection service you are left with essentially adding a line item to the cart. There is rumors that shopify will soon be adding a "additional fee" API, but that rumor has been around for nearly a decade so best I can say is fingers crossed, when it arrives we will be the first to jump on it. But right now, every app of this type, from insurance, warranty, additional product options, etc all are stuck using "product line items" which does sadly pose a few downsides with reporting, feeds, etc. We do generally do a good job hiding it, and have some videos in our app backend to show you how to hide it from some channels. This particular case (marketplaces) hasn't come up before, but now that I've seen this review, I'll make sure a video is added so that your experience can be a lesson learned for others. Fortunately, it is often as easy as unchecking the sales channels, and excluding it from feeds, so just a tiny bit of work over-all and this issue essentially goes away. But, I recognize that we can do a better job communicating this going forward, and will do so! 2) Why do we have so many variants? The short answer is dynamic pricing. Most merchants want to be able to charge a different amount depending on the order value. We use a % based system, and the variants allow for that to happen. It is by default set to a max of 1 product with 100 variants. However, our team has tools in place on our end to adjust those, add more or less, and can essentially resolve this when we are made aware of it. The thinking is that a customer ordering $50 of items vs, $300 should not be paying the same amount for protection. Our dynamic settings allows for this to happen, and finds the closest available variant to use. Again, this is something most similar apps employ in one form or another. I will look into finding ways to make this clearer, and our merchants who take demo's before installing are always shown this. The app listing on shopify is not very large, so it certainly poses a little challenge on how in-depth on the technical level we can get. Why is all sales channels default on? We sadly have to do this. We've tried it a few different ways in the past, and it turns out Shopify's API for creating products does not allow for selected sales channels to be enabled when you create a product. Since we MUST have the sales online channel enabled, it is either all or nothing. We tested having it all defaulted off, but it ended up causing a ton of trouble for merchants and reverted back to enable all. But as mentioned earlier, communication is key, and so this will certainly be something we improve on. My team and I are here to help resolve any issues. I've reached out personally to you, but you are welcome to email me directly any time at marc at ecompropeller.com and I'll ensure our team gets you up and running personally, as smoothly as possible. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback, it means the world, and gives us a chance to look at ways we can improve our product and service! - Marc H Co Founder | Navidium App