Searchanise Search & Filter
Advanced Search and Filters by Searchanise
Rating
4.7
feedback
1,686
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Oct. 7, 2024
The app distorts all product images on mobile. Their team won't help me. We pay hundreds of dollars a month for what?
Hello, It's very sad to hear you faced this mobile image issue! As we informed you via email, it was caused by the theme code and our developers fixed it for you. Please let us know if you still need our assistance. As for the fact that we didn't help, we are very sorry for not fixing it faster! At the moment, we're experiencing a high load of tickets due to an increased number of installations. Plus, as far as we analyzed, many of our new clients replaced our competitors' search apps with our app and it also contributed to an increase in installations. We definitely understand that we have a problem with response speed. That's why we're hiring more staff at the moment. So, the problem with slow responses should be fixed by the end of the month. In the meantime, we are ready to compensate one month of our subscription if we haven't responded for more than 3 days. For more details, please email us at [email protected] Best wishes, Searchanise team
Oct. 7, 2024
Very poor support - I am a paying customer and literally just ignoring my emails.
Hello, We are truly sorry we disappointed you with our slow response time! It's caused by the fact that we're experiencing a high load of tickets due to an increased number of installations. Plus, as far as we analyzed, many of our new clients replaced our competitors' search apps with our app and it also contributed to an increase in installations. We definitely understand that we have a problem with response speed. That's why we're hiring more staff at the moment. So, the problem with slow responses should be fixed by the end of the month. In the meantime, we are ready to compensate one month of our subscription if we haven't responded for more than 3 days. For more details, please email us at [email protected] Best wishes, Searchanise team
Oct. 4, 2024
DO NOT INSTALL! this app has so many bugs and the customer support is useless scammers this app is should be taken off the Shopify store!
Hello, We are sorry we made such a negative impression on you and we are devastated to see you consider our company to be scammers. Even though we indeed catch some bugs in our product, our development team is always ready to fix them as quickly as possible. It's also sad to see you consider our support team useless. We are facing a high load of tickets right now, indeed. However, we are working on improving our response time by hiring more people. Therefore, our response time should increase soon. If you ever decide to give us another chance, please email us at [email protected]. We will be glad to change your opinion about us. Best wishes, Searchanise team
Oct. 4, 2024
This app has many bugs The Customer service never lets you know whenever they have big issues the customer service is also very bad and answers once every 3 or 4 days please DO NOT install this app have many other apps on the market better than them DO NOT INSTALL THIS APP!!
Hello, We are truly sorry your experience with Searchanise was so frustrating! Unfortunately, our system does have bugs sometimes, yet we are always ready to look into the issues and provide a solution. When it comes to global problems, our infrastructure team is constantly working on improving our service. We appreciate your idea of notifications in such cases. We will look into it with our team to see what we can do here. As for slow response speed, we are facing a high load of tickets these days. We are sorry you had to wait! Our support team is working on addressing all our clients' questions and issues right now so we can improve the situation with the long response time. We are also hiring more people to make sure such problems don't happen further. Best wishes, Searchanise team
Sept. 8, 2024
Terrible support, terrible app. Firstly the app never picked up any of our branding colours, so had to spend over an hour of my time manually adding them in multiple places and then testing on the front end. The results returned were poor and inaccurate. The results page showed some weird narrow block of two product columns on desktop with no setting to say three columns. The filters with metafields simply did nothing on the front end despite all my products having metafields. Absolute waste of my time and having sent 5 emails to your so called support team and only one answered, I decided to uninstall and look elsewhere. Don't bother replying with the standard "Please contact our support team" because I certainly will not and would be another complete waste of time since you rudely ignore emails anyway!
Hello, After checking your ticket and all the emails we received from you, we can say that we sent you replies with an average speed of 53 minutes. We were never ignoring you, we needed some time to look into your problems to find a solution. Sadly, it wasn't fast enough for you and you continued our communication using inappropriate language (profanity) and insulted our support agents. In the end, we saw you uninstalled our app so we didn't get a chance to help you, unfortunately. We are always here for our clients and we're eager to help with all the issues they might face with our service. We are sorry this whole situation ended up this way. Best regards, Searchanise team
Sept. 3, 2024
The tool may be really powerful but when you are trying to set up your store and get it as quickly as possible and not having to go through a a full web developers course and getting 2 masters in order to do a task it will be much better. If you know how to code and develop this may be a tool for you if not do not even try I read so much and not success at all.
We are truly sorry the setup process turned out to be so challenging! We appreciate your feedback here. We would be happy to receive more details from you on the app areas we can improve. It's always welcome! By the way, we are eager to help you with all your questions. Our support team is always here for you and we also communicate with our developers daily when assistance requires more technical input. So, if you are ready to give us another shot, please contact us at [email protected] Best wishes, Searchanise team
July 4, 2024
I like the app but the support is horrible. I am getting no response since almost two weeks now and the setup is not even finished. Time to look for an alternative I guess.
We're devastated to see your experience with our support team was so disappointing! After looking into it, we found both of your tickets and noticed that we sent replies on the same days when you reached out to us, yet they weren't delivered due to the following error: "Email dropped as the email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please verify the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces". We're sorry to see this issue prevented you from getting our replies! Please contact us again from a different email this time. We will be happy to help you and finally provide a solution. Thank you! Best wishes, Searchanise team
July 3, 2024
thought this was a pretty decent app, until i realized that the search is leaving out half my products. when i search frying pan, and it doesnt show fry pan, that is rough
We’re very sorry to hear about the issues you’re experiencing with the search functionality. Ensuring accurate search results is important to us. Please reach out to our support team so we can investigate and resolve this for you as quickly as possible. Best regards, Searchanise team
March 27, 2024
AVOID! Unsatisfactory experience. The quality of this app has significantly declined. Over the last four months, it has experienced downtime on four separate occasions, totaling approximately 24 hours. During these periods, access to collection pages is impossible, effectively halting any sales. Regrettably, there has been no communication from the service team in the form of updates or apologies during these downtimes. I would advise against relying on this app for your site, as its inconsistent performance and lack of support could lead to considerable financial losses. It's best to steer clear. Estimated losses just this year 30k + from this app. Don't answer phone number Doesn't reply to emails Turns chat off when down
We are sincerely sorry to see your experience with our app was so disappointing! The downtime is a serious issue and we understand why it makes you so frustrated. Right after the issue was fixed, our developers started the investigation process to figure out what exactly went wrong and how we could avoid it in the future. See, in such situations, our system automatically switches to the default Shopify search and collections display to ensure your store remains operational. As we understand, you also experienced complete unavailability of search results and collections, just like some of our other clients. This is unexpected behavior and we are currently running the test to see why it happened. As for communication with support, we have checked your ticket and see that you have received an initial answer in 13 minutes. The chat functionality in your admin panel appears to be working and as far as we know, it wasn't turned off during the technical downtime. As for the phone support, we indeed see that we didn't reply and we apologize for that! We will work on it so we don't miss any calls or so we call you back in the shortest time. We also left you a reply via email to discuss the potential resolution to the issue with financial losses. We look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Searchanise team
Feb. 28, 2024
Said "free trial" but once I installed it, my account was suspended and said I wasn't eligible. Won't be recommending or using this based on this immediate negative experience.
Thank you for letting us know you faced an issue with our app. We are sorry to see you didn't get the chance to properly test Searchanise! As we stated in the email we sent recently, our app was installed in your store back in 2020 and as the 14-day trial was used up, you didn't have it now. It's okay because we are always eager to allow you to test our app again. We will surely add more trial days to your store so you can have a fresh understanding of what Searchanise offers. If you are ready to give us another chance, please reply to our email. Please also remember that our support team is always here to help with trials or anything related to our app. Our email address is [email protected]. Best wishes, Searchanise team
Dec. 10, 2023
Lost out on a large amount of customers this weekend because the app disabled itself instead of telling me the free trial had ended. No notification about it. Other apps resort to the cheapest option, or they continue it until you've picked one etc. Really frustrating because it's a good app but considering you can't find any products without the search function, this has lost my trust in the app
We sincerely regret the inconvenience you experienced. We typically send a trial expiration reminder two days before, and we're sorry if you didn't receive it. We've checked, and the email have been sent successfully from our end. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we appreciate your feedback. We'll discuss this internally with our team to ensure we improve our processes. Despite the challenges mentioned you faced, we're genuinely pleased that you continue to use our app. If there's anything else we can do to improve your experience or assist you further, please feel free to reach out. Best regards, Searchanise team
Sept. 6, 2023
The interface is just terrible and needs a lot of custom CSS work done to make it look OK. The way they have setup the customization means we end up with a lot of CSS code loading on each page. The style sheet structure is not done professionally. There is almost half a page of code loaded for each product in the search result. For example if you change the color for the price in the search result, it will add a style="color:black;" to EVERY product in the search result. No way to change the font size other than overwriting the CSS which has zero documentations available at the moment. This is just goes to show they have not done this correctly when it comes to user interface. Creating filters is also cumbersome and not intuitive compared with other apps. We couldn't find a way to enable the app only on a single theme for testing and setting up. It enables itself on all themes making it impossible to implement it on a live busy site.
Thank you for sharing your honest opinion on your experience with our app. Undoubtedly, we are very sad to see it was so unpleasant! We understand that the initial interface can be mismatched with your desired design and we're sorry to know that the customizing options we offer weren't enough. You have a good point here and we will gladly hear more ideas from you on this matter if you choose to share them. As for CSS code being too heavy, we looked into this issue and couldn't detect it from our end: when we changed the color of prices first with our admin panel settings and then with custom CSS, it didn't end up adding the same code to every product. We would happily look into this problem for you, by the way, because we really do not want you to deal with any problems of this kind. When it comes to filters, we are sorry to see the process wasn't easy! Again, your ideas would be highly valuable for us because you might notice some things that our eye doesn't catch. It's all up to you, yet if you consider giving us another chance, we promise to help you as much as can during the whole setup process. One of our agents already reached out to you and shared our guides on CSS and disabling our app in specific themes. We are ready to answer any other questions you have and look into any problems. Our goal is to be there for our clients so please get back to us via email at [email protected] and we will do all we can to help you. Best wishes, Searchanise team
Sept. 6, 2023
Update Sept 6: They have now offered to help me with video support when I initially asked several times and was always denied. It took a very negative review for them to offer a normal level of support. I will look for another app that is easier to setup. __________ I think their search and filters would work well if I could set them up correctly. I spent months of emailing back and forth with support over things that should have been easy and even some technical bugs that they don't seem to understand and cannot fix. I begged them to get on a video call to help me finish the setup, but they claimed they could not provide that kind of support. If that's the case, then they should make setup easy. It was such a nightmare. I have built entire websites on Shopify before and nothing has been as difficult as setting up this app. I am so frustrated. Finally, I've given up and will uninstall the app now. Just beware. My developer was even having trouble. I do not recommend this app. I am off to find another.
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We're very sorry to see your experience with our app was far from pleasant! It's the last thing we'd like our clients to go through so please accept our sincere apologies. We looked through your email history with us and we understand why you feel this way. It's indeed very frustrating when the setup process takes so long. We sent you an email about our idea of dealing with this situation. See, we still want to make it right for you and leave you with the best results possible. Please let us know via email if our offer sounds good. We'd be more than happy to continue our journey and show you that we can make it up for you. As for a video call, we'd like to clarify that initially, we didn't offer it because your plan didn't include such a service. However, we discussed the situation further with our team, and considering the fact that the situation was indeed quite complex, we decided to make an exception. We're sorry to see it was too late! Still, if you ever think of giving our app another shot, please contact us again and we will be glad to help as much as we can. Best wishes, Searchanise team
April 29, 2023
The app has so many bugs. Customer support has no idea how to fix issues which generic response. They charge a premium for an app that is not premium. The app has completely stopped working on my website and I have no idea why. They're say they are sorry in response to this review, a generic response rather than fixing important issues.
Thank you for your review. We are extremely sad to see you had such a disappointing experience with our app! We indeed currently have a bug related to Draft products in our system which affects your store and we can assure you our team is currently working on it. The last thing we want is for our responses to leave an impression of generic ones. We are truly sorry we made you feel like we do not look into your case individually. We promise to do better! As for the app not working in your store for a period of time, as we see we addressed this problem via email too and we hope the solution we implemented helps you! Thank you again for your honest feedback and for staying with us! We sincerely appreciate it and will fix the bug as soon as we can. Best wishes, Searchanise team
Jan. 31, 2023
After several attempts (during 2 months) to give Searchanise the chance to improve on our website they failed. Here are some reasons why: - One big problem is that the most searched items on our shop are not what they really are. Their own statistics in the backend shows totally different top queries then present in the search widget. - Given search results to the vistors are bad although visitors query is in the product title! Try at my website Gartencenter.de: 1 When you type "wurzel" it shows all our indoor plants first for no reason and no products with "wurzel" in the product name on the first page. The product visitors are looking for are the 23rd and 24th result! 2 We have a lot of products which called "bambus". When a customer types like "bamsbus" (typo) Searchanese says "no results", but since the query corresponds for 85% with "bambus" it should at least give the same result as "bambus". Their answer: make synoniems! That's really not how a search engine should work. - Suggestions only support English and Latin Their service is friendly but after 5 of the same email in which they thanks us again for our patience I'm done.
Hello, Thank you for your detailed feedback! We are sorry to see you are disappointed with your experience with our product! We totally agree that there are some imperfections in the way our suggestion feature works as well as our Auto spell correction feature when it comes to any language other than English. The whole search system should work better once we make the global changes that are currently in progress and hopefully there will be no need to use synonyms as a fix. We would also like to thank you for bringing our attention to the issues with suggestions. Our development team looked into your case and they confirmed there was indeed room for improvement. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know about it and we hope we can improve it further. Additionally, we contacted you by email regarding the "wurzel" search results because there's a chance we can find a solution for now. We await your reply! Best wishes, Searchanise team
Jan. 8, 2023
Be careful to subscribe to this app yearly cause their policy is nonrefundable. We recently upgrade to the new theme and have to change a new app base on our needs, however, they refuse to refund my yearly subscription ( I am not requesting a full refund, just a portion). This app will change your collection page, and redirect to its layout, if the page didn't load completely and visitors click the link, still will go to your theme's design, that is the reason we consider to change it. Additionally, If I don't make any mistake here, they said $19 per month is up to 1500 Products but our store only has around 250, but in the dashboard, they ask us to upgrade cause we sold over $50000. Thirdly, if you want to customize the collection or search result, it towards java, not really easy to use. This app does not work for niche stores. Finally, they did some kind of upgrade of the app and kill of all my pre-set button colors, and just send me an email with sorry. Our member has to spend another 2 hours to adjust it back. We using this app for over 1 year and really hate to write a bad review for developers cause everybody is not easy here. However, it is time to speak something.
Hello, Thank you for your feedback, sorry to hear that our app didn't quite suit your store. As to your points, our annual subscriptions are indeed non-refundable. Yet, we value you as a customer and will do our best to come up with something in this case. One of our agents has already contacted you regarding this via email, we hope to hear from you. About how our app works, it is true that it creates a new page that is used as a search results page, which uses a layout that is most probably different from the one on search results page that is used by the theme. This is, quite an obvious drawback, however, the design and layout that our app uses can be changed with the help of settings and a bit of custom code. We have articles about this on our help portal: https://docs.searchanise.io/modify-widgets-appearance/, https://docs.searchanise.io/customize-content-search-results-widget/, and some others. JavaScript modifications (and I must mention that Java is not used by our app, it is a very different language) might be required, but they are not, usually. Besides, our support team is always glad to help if you face difficulties with making our app suit your store. Apart from consultation, this includes developing the necessary code too, if possible. The redirect to the default search results page shouldn't occur when our app is active, but if it does, it can be fixed very easily in 99.9% of cases. If you decide to give us another chance, we will do our best to fix it for you. We have also described a solution for this situation in the following article: https://docs.searchanise.io/widget-doesnt-appear-on-page-load-shopify/, it is publicly available. The described solution works pretty much always and doesn't require any coding/special knowledge, and takes minutes to implement, if needed. Regarding the subscription pricing, we don't quite understand what you mean yet, unfortunately. You had an annual subscription that costs $151.2 a year and supports up to 5,000 products. The very same subscription is currently available to you, at least as far as we can see when we check it from our end. Subscription price also doesn't depend on how much you sell, only on how many products (their variants are not counted) there are in the store and what features you need to be available to you. Looks like there was some misunderstanding, we would be more than happy to clarify this part with you. With all that said, it looks like the issues you've described might be fixed rather quickly. Our whole team will be glad to assist with it if you decide to try Searchanise one more time and contact our support about this ([email protected]). Thank you again for the feedback and for the detailed review! We will do our best to take it into account and improve our service in the future. Best regards, Searchanise team
Nov. 18, 2022
VERY BAD SERVICE, Dont use this app, They are not replying to our emails for many days, we asked for some changes to the filters in our store, They Messed up our website, we are asking them to fix the issues and no respond. NEVER NEVER INSTALL THIS APP.
Hello, Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that we made such an impression on you and it's breaking our hearts to see you disappointed with our support. It seems that there was some misunderstanding. We have only made the same changes that were made in the unpublished theme for the live one, as per your request. We also notified you about it both via email and in the chat, and provided an instruction for reverting the changes. As for now, all the changes have been reverted and the collection pages are powered by the theme again. Please let us know if you still have any difficulties and we will do our best to fix everything. It would also be great if you could let us know the ID numbers of the tickets you already have in your email, so we could check why we missed them and avoid this issue in the future. Best regards, Searchanise team
Dec. 14, 2022
We added this app to our store at the beginning of November, and although this app displays a help chat time of just 7 minutes for example - you regularly have to wait 6 hours to get a response. Extremely frustrating service - when nothing can be answered quickly. Also the app does not allow you to make bulk changes easily - so making changes to a large catalogue is very time consuming. If you have a large store with multiple variants - the 'in stock' filter does not work alongside the 'size' filter - which defeats its purpose surely??
Hello! Thank you for sharing your feedback. We are truly sorry you had such a disappointing experience with our chats! We understand how frustrating it is to wait for hours in chat which is totally not what we aim to do. The chat system we're using was quite new to us. We apologize for your bad experience. However, we took into account your opinion and we worked hard on improving the response time of our support team both in chats and in the emails. We hope you can give our chats another shot because we will not let such delays happen again. Regarding the bulk changes, we see your point. Clients with large catalogs indeed should have an easier way to adjust the settings and we're sorry we do not offer such functionality now. Nevertheless, it's totally on our radar and we have plans for adding this option to our admin panel. Even though we cannot say its ETA for now, yet when the feature is released, we will inform all our clients about it so please stay tuned. If you need our help, feel free to contact us either via email at [email protected] or in chat. Best wishes, Searchanise team
Oct. 25, 2022
They did something to my store and haven't fixed it yet. Product pics don't come up properly on collection pages and there is still weird lines in between products which I told them to fix but no update. They keep sending automated messages and close the ticket. It's not acceptable.
Hello, Thanks a lot for your feedback. We are sorry that the issue with the borders has influenced your store. It happened because of the latest update that added a new setting for changing the product tile borders color. We know what was the cause and will not let it happen again. Also, as far as we can see, one of our support agents has already helped you to fix the issue and the borders are not displayed in your store anymore. As for the ticket itself, it was closed automatically in 4 days after one of our agents responded, as we didn't receive any further replies from you in that ticket. We apologize for these inconveniences. Please also note that you can re-open any of your tickets by replying to them at any time. If there is anything else we can do, please message us at [email protected], we are always here to help you. Best regards, Searchanise team
Sept. 26, 2022
We used this app for about 1-2 years, its pretty good and full of options. They've changed their pricing about 3 times, doubling ths cost most of the time. Way too costly for what it is, we are done with it. We triied to reach customer support and they have no control on it, cant help.
Hello, Thank you very much for your feedback. Glad to hear that you have been using our app for so long and enjoyed its functionality! Regarding the situation with pricing that you are describing, we had started using a new pricing model recently, and prices for some plans indeed have been raised. We kept the pricing the same for over 9 years, but our app has changed quite a lot after all these years, so we had to make changes to the subscription plans eventually. I also must say that we have changed our prices only once, it has never happened before. As far as I understand, you are also referring to the situation when your discount had expired, about which you reached out to us about 5 months ago. In the email with the offer of this discount it was stated that this discount only lasts for 1 year, which it did. We have sent you a message about the pricing for your store at [email protected] a few days ago. If you don't see it in the inbox, please check the spam folder or message us at [email protected]. We will be more than happy to find a solution for you and answer any questions if they arise. Have a nice day!