PayWhirl Subscriptions
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This App is truly terrible, I lost many regular customers as this app has a bug where it stores your customers cards and then empties their accounts. Avoid!
We're sorry to hear about your experience with PayWhirl. We help thousands of merchants process subscriptions and other types of recurring payments successfully on Shopify. Upon reviewing your account, it looks like the issue stemmed from a unique scenario whereby your account was paused due to nonpayment and then resumed after several months of inactivity. Because your subscriptions were still active, it caused some customers to be billed for the months while the app was inactive after you resumed service. However, this could have been avoided easily by pausing subscriptions during the months you weren't shipping or reviewing your account before continuing service. Our support team is always happy to assist or answer questions from merchants and is available via live chat, phone, or email if you want to circle back.
My site is comprised primarily of consumable items, so the ability to enhance customer experience with a subscription service was a key attribute in my vision for the business from the beginning. PayWhirl offers the features I need to enhance my customer's experience by allowing different discount percentages and timeframes, and the change, pause, or cancel items on any subscription adds confidence for consumer and merchant alike. Most importantly, Sergey from PayWhirl has been immediately available to answer any question, smooth integration wrinkles, and generally be helpful in optimizing PayWhirl.
PayWhirl is allowing us to effectively manage our memberships. The team continue to add new features to improve the functionality of the app and enable greater control of how we interact with our members in terms of their renewals.
Paywhirl is awesome and simple for subscriptions. I used the standalone site embedded in a previous website and recently made the swap to Shopify. The team made it really easy to transfer my data from the previous account and have been very responsive every step of the way! Can't recommend Paywhirl enough.
Chose PayWhirl after fully exploring all 3rd party subscription options, and am very pleased. Great app, easy setup & execution, and possibly most importantly, excellent support. Very responsive, really helpful with troubleshooting, theme help and suggestions. Highly recommended.
Paywhirl is a great subscription app, really easy to use and set up and the support is excellent. New features added regularly, and very quick response if any questions
I don't leave many reviews but the team at PayWhirl 100% deserve it. Ryan and Sergei always reply very quickly to support needs and questions. I've suggested multiple features e.g. retention analytics and they always engage. I was SO happy to see retention stats go live in the dashboard recently. They started off behind BOLD and ReCharge but are adding features at a breathtaking rate. And the value for money as a business owner is exceptional compared to how much people complain about competitors. I can't recommend PayWhirl enough. This is one of, if not THE single highest value-add app in our Shopify stack. If you're looking to implement subscriptions for any of your products, go with PayWhirl, you won't regret it.
I opened my first online store in 2005. Over the years I have opened several more; and now have a total of 6. Which is to say, I have an enormous amount of experience with online stores - and various platforms, tools, products, services, and apps. And so it is with some authority that I will share with you this opinion about PayWhirl: It is hands down the best subscription product available. Period. I've tried dozens of them, I currently use 3 of them. I will be converting all of them over to PayWhirl immediately. But there's more. (Shopify) App support is notoriously bad. PayWhirl's support is just remarkable. Send an email you get a reply. Ping them via chat (Intercom) in the app, they reply. Need special love? I needed plenty with my current project - and they hopped on a Zoom call with me 3 times! (Shopify, take note! Your support used to be great. Now? Not so much) Even more bonus points for this team for their companion products Upsell and Glow. The integration of the 3 (subs/tagging + sales funnel automations + customer loyalty program) is super tight. I would and could go on; but then someone would probably think that I am someone at PayWhirl's mother :) lol Try it and see for yourself. I'd give them 6 stars if I could.
Paywhirl has amazing customer service, and their development team is super active, keeping pushing out useful new features!
A great app! We have been using this for quite some time and have had no issues - customer support is also great.
We did get excellent help and support from Sergey at PayWhirl. We are blown away by the support and service!!! All Our best! COWASUN
We started Using PayWhirl to offer subscription orders to our customers. We noticed that there were some features that were not available and we raised them with customer support, who dealt with them very efficiently. We now have those features available and more features are to be added in the future. Can't fault the service keep up the good work. Dew Products
This app is fantastic! It is so easy to use! The best part is the CUSTOMER SERVICE! Chris was so helpful to us getting it all set up. It has definitely raised our sales!
The best thing about this app is the customer service. They are super quick but also they are willing to help you with everything you need.
We were looking for a simple, yet robust subscription app for our fast growing magazine and membership site! PayWhirl made it so easy to get setup. I was hung up on a couple settings, but with a ton of patience and clear direction - Sergey helped me in a jiffy. I really wish we had switched over to PayWhirl sooner, our subscriptions, and auto-renewals are so streamlined now. We're even able to migrate our current subscribers from our old Wordpress site so everyone is now in one place. 5 stars for PayWhirl. You won't regret this app, and the customer service is responsive and there to help you get the app going so you can concentrate on your growing your subscription business!
A cost effective app that enables you to offer subscriptions to your customers. They have been gradually releasing new features and consistently improving the app. If you have a question (like I did) they will respond quickly and do their best to help resolve your issue.
Customer service are great, really helpful and always manage to find a solution. Only issue is that its not 24/7 so when I have a problem in the UK, I need to wait until your office is open. Like that I can change when customers are charged but would prefer if this was automatic instead of me doing it manually.
Lacking in features vs other subscription apps and has bugs. - Barely any reporting or analytics are available - no support for customers to swap products - You have to force customers to create an account before checkout (reduces checkout rate) so they can manage their subscription. No post-checkout account creation prompts. - Subscriptions renew at a different time from when the customer signed up. Sometimes this can tick over to the next day (your customers will enquire about this) - I've had subscriptions not being cancelled multiple times - leading to the customer being charged again. - No upsell or cross-selling features or one-time purchase discounts with subscriptions their shopify app is severely lacking compared to their external software which is unfortunate. The only positive that this app has is its integration with shopify checkout as opposed to redirecting.
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and share your feedback with us. We genuinely appreciate your honest insights, as they help us continually strive to improve our product. We’re sorry to hear that your experience with PayWhirl wasn’t up to our standard when you wrote this review, and we acknowledge the frustration that some of the features and issues you pointed out may have caused. Since 2021, we have been working diligently to enhance our Shopify app and we’re excited to share some significant updates that directly address the concerns you’ve listed: Enhanced Reporting & Analytics: We have greatly expanded our reporting and analytics features to give you more actionable insights into your subscriptions. Product Swap Support: Customers can now easily swap products within their subscriptions, providing a more flexible experience. Post-Checkout Account Creation: We've introduced options to streamline the checkout process, including post-checkout account creation prompts. Subscription Renewal Timing: We’ve refined our system to ensure subscription renewals align closely with the customer’s original sign-up time. Cancellation Improvements: We have bolstered our cancellation process to prevent unintended renewals and charges. We've also launched support for setting up cancellation prevention workflows to encourage customers to stay subscribed. Upselling, Cross-Selling & Discounts: We have introduced features to help merchants offer one-time purchase discounts and effectively upsell or cross-sell products. We understand that our integration with Shopify checkout is valued, and we are committed to bringing our Shopify app experience in line with the high standards of our external software. We would be thrilled to have you revisit PayWhirl and explore these new features. Our customer support team is also on standby to assist with any questions or to guide you through the updates. We aim to offer an app that is robust and feature-rich and meets the specific needs of Shopify merchants like you. Thank you again for your review, and we hope we can turn your experience around with these improvements. Warmest regards, PayWhirl Team
Excellent customer support, and a great feature-rich app that's easy to use. Definitely recommended!
Cant lie i was anxious to allow access to my stores coding, but none the less im SOO happy i did. This little coding task was a tremendous curve for me & so i reached out to Paywirl for help. The team was very transparent, speedy, communicated the process from start - finish (took them 2 minutes) then i closed there admin account on my store. ALL IS SAFE, NOW i have the coding working!! Any anxious small business owners worry no-more, reach out to this team. OH they also did it for free, my subscription is on the "free plan" so they provided a coder, the service FREE! So Happy!
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