Recart: SMS & List Growth

Oct. 11, 2024

Terrible customer service. Soma, the CEO, has no better customer skills. If I could have left zero stars, I would have. UPDATE TO THE CEO'S RESPONSE: Yes, while I do agree that there were billing issues and appreciate the fact that Recart was working with us and we had entered an agreement with you. What can't be dismissed is the Alice Pai, your head of client success, is and was extremely rude and condesending to us from the very begining. So much so that we had to call her out on in some of the emails, which I will gladly share with anyone that wants to read them. What also can't be dismissed is that Recart had entered into an agreement with us to which they did not fullfill. Instead what Alice did was nothing. Because Alice couldn't do her job, what she did was run up our bill over $3000 dollars and then expected US to pay it off completely "or else". Then you Soma, the CEO, got involved. You again said we need to pay the full balance or you would suspend our account. Again, a balance your company ran up because YOU failed to honor the agreement. I offered a payment arrangement to which you declined and suspended my account before a weekend. I could not send text to my customers for the weekend which cost me sales. Then on the following Monday, you decided you would accept my payment arrangements. YOU suspended my account for the weekend to intentionally hurt my business. Then when you decided to re-activate my account, my number NEVER got verified. I couldn't send a text for an entire week! All this while I was trying to get away from your company. It took less than a day for the new company to get my number verified. My guess, the number was never submitted by your company to get verified. Another intentional act on your part to hurt my company. So did I get a little upset with your company and send some emails telling you how I felt about Alice....I sure did! Were some of those on the unprofessional side, yes. But YOUR actions, caused my reaction. Alice is far from professional and you SOMA, not taking responsibility for your company failures and trying to put it on my company and then intentionally hurting my company and family.....take a look in the mirror. This would have NEVER happened if you and your company had any integrity and did what they said they were gong to do. Anyone reading this, please feel free to reach out and ask for emails. I will gladly send them to you. This company has gone downhill drastically since we had signed on with them. If you don't do what they demand, they will hurt you. ALSO, you DO NOT HAVE IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO THE CONTACTS THEY COLLECT FOR YOU. You have to request your contact list and then they will get it to you, when they can. You pay for them to collect that data, you should immediate access to your property.

Sept. 20, 2023

This used to be a great app but my Facebook page disconnected (the success of this depends on it) I emailed days ago to 3 different support emails and 2 on the chat and not one reply. I am losing sales and will be searching for a better alternative. Beware. They take money but customer support has suddenly become non existent. Not happy.

April 12, 2022

Beware!!!!! This app is a complete waste of time and money. We added it to our store and did paid facebook ads to get new subscribers. Once we decided to send our subscribers a notification of our sale and a discount code we discovered you have to pay a huge amount via a new facebook ad just to notify your subscribers. PLUS, Facebook will not deliver Sponsored Messages unless you have minimum 1000-2000 subscribers. What a waste of money to have gained the subscribers and also be charged on the first day by Recart yet we couldn't even communicate with our "own" subscribers! Huge waste of money and also the time we spent on all our new messenger flows! Have just deleted app and lost all those subscribers. Do not recommend at all!

March 28, 2022

This app is super glitchy. It stops working each month and you lose sales because of this. Support takes hours - days to reply and still Can’t fix the issue. I recommend researching for a different app

Jan. 4, 2021

We were getting some inaccurate 'Extra Sales' claimed by Recart so we started to write down the 'Extra Sales' and our actual sales on Shopify since 22-Dec-2020, we compared the data each day, unfortunately, almost 80% of the 'Extra Sales' are not really matching our actual sales. Let's take the most recent data on 03-Jan-2021 as an example, Recart said we've got 2 orders as the 'Extra Sales', however, we got only one order on that day. This is just one of the many inaccurate data we are having. Not sure if other users are having the same issue like ours? We sent messages to the customer support team. At the beginning, they said we should use the unique promo code for Recart - And yes we did, but the Extra Sales didn't match. We provided the screenshot showing all the proofs. And then the last reply we got is as below: "I have looked into the Sponsored Message and it had a different discount code, that I think you have not sent over previously. I have removed this code from the Sponsored message now, because I believe the code was still active, and that is why Recart kept attributing sales from it. Regarding the difference of the Extra Sales what you see on the discount code in Shopify and in Recart, the explanation is the purchases when the user does not redeem the code, but comes back to the store from a Recart message. A sale is attributed to Recart if a customer opens or clicks a Messenger notification sent by Recart and makes the purchase in the next 72 hours. Therefore, the code does not have to be used for Recart to count the Extra Sales, it is enough to get the message and purchase in the following 72 hours. Please let me know if it makes sense." I think they are telling us no matter if the sales are with the unique Recart code, or without the code, they can be counted as the 'Extra Sales' from Recart, so we've got to pay the higher monthly rate. That's ridiculous! On 03-Jan-2021, we got one order, and you claimed we got two orders and all these two orders were from Recart. How we can verify? Anyone has the same concern? We are happy to pay higher if Recart is really generating the extra sales for our store. But their replies are irresponsible and they don't even provide a solution on how we can verify where are the sales really from! Will keep spreading this out, reporting to Shopify and other social media platforms until we get a CORRECT ANSWER!

Dec. 17, 2020

We were really pleased with the guidance and support in getting set up I honestly can not fault them as a company with regards to attention to their customers, Anca was dedicated in looking after us and our business. Sadly shortly after installation facebook changed the way in which messages can be delivered which meant that we could not collect subscribers which was 80% of the point of installing the app, to offer a discount on a new messaging channel in return for future direct marketing opportunities. After FB's changes to all EU stores this was no longer possible. We flows which we set up to engage the customers who abandoned carts were also effected by this, without buttons they would no longer be able to return to cart to checkout from the message. We would also not be able to message anyone we had spoke to before on messenger.. along with many other limitation including no images in the messages also which was a shame. Its not the fault of RECART, I don't blame them as the changes facebook made due to GDPR were out of their control, however billing us for a product that did not work at all was more than a bit harsh. I think we should have been given an apology for all hours we invested into setting up the flows within the app, and refunded in full or had the option to be refunded in full. To be honest I think legally because the product was absolutely no longer as advertised they must refund us... but I would rather state my disappointment here and go our separate ways than chase a company for a wasted $300.

July 16, 2020

I'm a 1-year user. DO NOT RECOMMEND $$$$ Far too expensive, trust me! And if you want to cancel you need to contact their team which is very annoying. Got charged for 6 months and didn't get a sale, to be fair I wasn't advertising for traffic but they aren't fair to their pricing. Expect to pay a premium each month. Would only recommend to people who have a large budget, its not that great and a 'competitors have FREE options' that can do everything this tool does.

June 23, 2020

You guys literally charged my credit card without my approval, so I would like my money back.

Nov. 23, 2019

From the first day I installed this app, the app did not connect with my facebook page. Got Customer Service help - replied after a few hrs - and page got connected. I played around with the app a little bit. Made some abandoned cart messages. The next day, the app disconnected from my facebook page again. Got help, fixed it. But no abandoned carts showed up in the app, despite having a list on Shopify. Then, the app disconnected a THIRD time - And it got fixed again. The CS was suggesting a bunch of possible reasons, like changes to my facebook security settings, antivirus, etc. None of which are applicable in my situation. So my abandoned cart messaging system still does not work and the customer service seems to be calling me Stephanie now (who is this?) and did not fully answer my questions. To top it off, I got daily marketing emails asking how I'm connecting with customers etc - well, I'm not, because your app is not working and none of your technicians and customer support is able to identify why. I wonder how you get so many good reviews if you're not able to fix these fundamental issues I'm experiencing with your app?

Oct. 28, 2019

All the reviews on this app have been great so we gave it a shot. We found it to be virtually useless over 2 weeks. Wouldn't recommend.

June 19, 2019

Totally suck!!! The messenger widget is blank and I asked for help. I've waited more than 10 hrs to have a reply. After that...no update but kept sending me marketing emails. Please remember most of us are just a user not a developer, but CS asked me to find out the solution but without support. Definitely won't recommend to others. CS is too slow to reply.

June 15, 2019

I tried using this app and the Abandoned Cart Recovery app from the same developer. Neither worked in my store. With this one in particular, the "Sticky Coupon" or whatever wouldn't go away - it was blocking another app I have installed for social proof. I tried turning it off, I tried editing what it said - all to no avail. I would not recommend using this app, as it is way to buggy for me.

May 20, 2019

your system sucks ! i cant even connect to your system, cant login even ive already sign up, do something about this .

April 20, 2019

je suis extrêmement déçu du service client ! ils sont bon qu'a envoyé des pages et ne résolve pas les problèmes, pourtant il y' a réellement un beug, aucun de mes amis n'a réussi a s'inscrire ! Et meme pire j'ai perdu de l'argent avec cette APP , a chaque fois que je l'active cela perturbe les clients qui ne reçoivent pas leur code promo ....

March 7, 2019

This thing has been a real piece of $#@% so far. Tried to uninstall and reinstall a few times (I keep getting emails that I'm getting charged again even though I follow the way their support articles tell me to do it). Nothing is rendering properly. Customer support hasn't responded via live chat. Feeling like a scam.

March 6, 2019

Installed this and tested it for about 5m and had all sorts of issues. On my iPhone X the button to send to messenger wouldn't work so right after I add to cart I get a pop-up that doesn't work. I had another person try it and it's not a one-click solution, you click, then it opens another page and then asks you to authenticate again. Most of our users are mobile and taking someone that just added something to their cart to a whole new page and through several clicks just isn't going to work for us. The chat also made me authenticate on my phone, so it was not seamless either. In all of the marketing material it shows a simple click to opt-in, but doesn't mention opening a new screen on mobile and then having them authenticate again through facebook. I don't want to take anyone out of a purchase flow to another page. Great idea, but still needs some work.

Jan. 20, 2019

When i add to cart i get an empty cart just because the recart app was activated. Bullshit app. lost a lot of sales

Jan. 14, 2019

these guys have double charged me twice, then after I uninstalled their app after months of not benefiting from it, they charged me again. Might be a good app for you, but a BIG THUMBS DOWN on their billing department/system!!!!!

Dec. 28, 2018

Doesn't work at all and difficult to find how to unsubscribe. I'm not satisfy. I paid 3 months for nothing

Dec. 27, 2018

Misleading app. Doesn't work as described. Very disappointed in the service or Recart Messenger Marketing.