JCS Wildlife review for Shopify Planet
April 8, 2025
This program is terrible. I was looking for something that would help us showcase our work. They expect you to pay $300.00 a month to be carbon-neutral. Response: Their response is misleading. I never said the $300 was a set price. It is based on how much you ship and ours works out to $300-600 per month. That amount is ridiculous. They do not take into account the things we actually do ourselves to reduce our carbon footprint, and there is nowhere for us to notate that information (we do a lot). There is no reason we should HAVE to pay someone else to offset our carbon neutrality. There is an option to have the customer pay 50 cents, but if you choose that option, then you don't get the badge - and it looks to the customer as though you are putting it all on them and not sharing in the program. It's a great idea, but the execution of the program is poor.
This isn't accurate. The "Community" subscription enables customers to fund carbon-neutral shipping instead of merchants, which means 100% of funding comes from buyers. If merchants want to assign a sliver of their revenue to carbon-neutral shipping, then charges are based on factors like order volume, package weight, etc. There is definitely no flat charge of $300. Please feel free to reach out to planet at shopify dot com if we can help you get configured. Thanks for reviewing the app.
