Smile: Loyalty Program Rewards

Nov. 8, 2018

So far, so good!! I love being able to reward customers without a ton of work on my end! Smile has done everything I need it to! I also love that I get to name my rewards points (or, in my shop, glitter bombs!!)!!

Nov. 7, 2018

We've been using Smile for several months now at PNW Journey and we love it! We're seeing decent engagement and getting good feedback on our program. Smile is easy to setup and allows for lots of customization. The people that we've interacted with at Smile have all been great to work with. We highly recommend this rewards platform.

Oct. 25, 2018

We love this program! It's very powerful and effective in actually getting people to sign up and use their rewards points. We've tried other reward programs, but are definitely happiest with Smile!

Oct. 25, 2018

Smile has been such an important app for us to enhance our customer experience and to increase our engagement with our customers. And far above any of the features is the support you get from the Smile team. Here is a case study we did with them >> https://blog.smile.io/how-run-gum-empowered-brand-advocates-with-referrals

Oct. 22, 2018

Hell Yeahhhh ... This rewards program is awesome .. Generating LOTS of customer interest and interactions .. Even with just using the full features of the free plan we have generated a handful of sales and its only been live on our site for 3 days .. Cant wait to tinker with this and can not see any reason not to go for the paid option soon to utalise even more great features ..

Oct. 21, 2018

We are running an online cake store and just started using Smile weeks ago. Our customers are happy about it and they are encouraged to follow our social media (facebook and instagram) on top of purchasing. They love the loyalty program.

Oct. 17, 2018

We created our loyalty program with Smile. Our customers love it and the design is very easy for them to understand and navigate. I was experiencing trouble “spending” points through the POS but Maggie found the issue and fixed it for me within minutes! Very helpful customer service, definitely recommend. Thanks again, Maggie!

Oct. 12, 2018

Writing this review based on the setup process. . . we are just implementing, and we'll see how it goes. Maggie was a great help in walking me through final setup tweaks via Chat. Great to have someone there live to check to make sure you're good to go live! So far so great!

Oct. 4, 2018

I spent 2-3 hours looking for and testing all other options for mainly a rewards app for our store. After testing all of them I found Smile.io to be the best. The UX and features available for the free plan were by far the best from all other options. We are very happy so far after using this app for close to a week now. Also, the added benefit of the referral program make this a game changer. I've been looking for something like this for a long time now and happy that smile.io has created this. Thank you!

Oct. 3, 2018

This is a great program. The interface is very intuitive and well designed. We have used a few different apps but this one stands out!

Oct. 2, 2018

I would enjoy this app more if there was a few additions. Balances should print on the receipt. Before a new transaction there should be a prompt to add the customer to the sale on shopify POS to prevent staff from forgetting.

Oct. 31, 2018

Love the concept of the app, but fairly frustrated with the customer support and troubleshooting thus far. Pros: The Concept & Easy to set up. Cons: Zero troubleshooting, no customer support over the weekend We have had 2 major hurdles with our app since starting it earlier this week. We reached out on Thursday evening for help with an issue and had moderate help throughout the day via chat on Friday, but the issue was not solved, and we were told we had to wait until Monday for this issue to be fixed when another rep would be back who could better assist me. Not a major issue, but still frustrating. The second issue seems to be a glitch in the app or something wrong with how we set it up for our VIP Tiers, not sure. This is causing our customers to not show up higher than the lowest tier, regardless of qualifiers achieved. We reached out on Friday for help, but their customer service was gone for the weekend, including the email listed for urgent requests. I handle a lot of apps, from a lot of developers and usually can find the solution to problems like this fairly quickly. However, the smile backend has zero troubleshooting help that I can find for this issue. It has very clear and defined info on how to set something up, but zero guides on how to troubleshoot any problems that arise. I understand people don't want to work weekends, but for an app of this size, and this importance, I feel this is inexcusable. The internet never closes and having an app that literally requires direct customer engagement and involvement like this needs a support team that can help every day of the week. Regardless of the lack of support over the weekend, there is still a huge problem with no troubleshooting help, and it confuses me an app of this size can care so little for helping their customers through problems. Give us the power to solve problems ourselves if you aren't going to have a weekend shift. We announced our rewards & VIP program, then immediately got hit with customer service questions from our customers who are angry, confused or frustrated that their VIP tiers are not showing up correctly. So our customers who were most excited to take advantage of this program, are getting an introduction to our rewards program in a negative way. This simple error here has lead to a pileup of work for us, frustrated customers and a steady 5+ hours of work on my end within the app trying to fix it alone. I imagine my problem here is not that complicated to fix, but I am at a standstill. Not a great start to an app we were excited about. Lesson learned though, we should never launch a new app like this prior to the weekend if they don't have 7 days a week customer support. Update: Raised review to 3 stars after being reached out to about this issue on Monday. Update2: Back down to 2 stars. It does the basics, and we will continue to use it due to not having the time to set up a new plan on another platform until after the holidays. I have 3 new issues to share here. Issue 1: VIP Program. We downgraded to the free plan because the VIP program did not go as intended. From the beginning, it simply was not clearly defined and caused a lot of confusion. As a result, I was having trouble getting people set up in the appropriate VIP tiers for past purchases, and I followed some advice from their CS team to temporarily change from a dollars VIP program to a points VIP program. I was not informed, nor smart enough to notice, that in doing so there are no safeguards in place to stop you from rewarding hundreds of customers with thousands of dollars in free merchandise. As suggested, we changed to a point system temporarily to see if that would help get people to the proper tier, and due to the ratio of dollars to points being way off (1000 points is wayyyy easier to get then $1000 spent) hundreds of customers automatically qualified for our top tier VIP program without actually spending the money to do so. We made a huge mistake and had to cancel the program altogether - in addition we then had to honor many free gifts for our customers due to the mistake, and offer alternative prizes to those who qualified for a tier we simply couldn't afford to do (multiple people who $100+ value in products). This was largely my mistake, not theirs, but a simple warning somewhere along the way mentioning that the dollars to points ratio does not change automatically when you change the VIP qualifiers would have saved a major headache. Such a situation should have a warning in place prior to rewarding hundreds of people. Issue 2: Referrals. We have free stickers on our website as a great first touch for new customers. However, the referrals program will still work for people who are referred to our website, but end up just purchasing free stickers, and nothing of value. Despite the "this coupon only works if the customer spends $X or more" the referrer still gets the referral bonus regardless of amount spent. Not an issue for companies that don't have free products on their site, but a major issue for us. We do have a note on our FAQ page that notes a referral where the customer spends under $10 will be automatically removed and then we manually remove any of these referrals on the back end. Seems like this would be an easy fix, but when confronted about it Smile was unable to help us. Issue 3: Integration at the free level. The lack of any integration with the free plan is frustrating, especially when we want to simply integrate it with our customer service platform. As a result, any customer service related issues in regard to this app (a daily thing) have to be manually adjusted in the app itself, instead of the customer service app ticket. I do not want to upgrade to the $100+ a month just to integrate this app into our customer service app. Alrighty, I am done rambling. Hope this helps.

Sept. 14, 2018

This app could be great with a few modifications. 1. The launcher icon is obtrusive and is on every screen of every page. There needs to be an option to choose what pages it displays on and for how long or have the "X" icon that will let customers dismiss it so its no longer on the screen. 2. There needs top be a way to disable the launcher button, but still allow customers to sign up and view/redeem rewards using a link or web address instead. It needs a link that can be set to a landing page instead of the launcher widget. 3. If the widget is set to the right side of the screen, my customers can't checkout because the launcher widget stays on top blocking the checkout button.

Sept. 11, 2018

SCAM...Just observed lot of spurious sign ups, just checked the paid app, it is based on the sign-ups..Biggest SCAM in shopify apps...Reporting this app, right away and uninstalling.

Sept. 10, 2018

We started this app to hone in on some repeat customer business and really give back to the customers that have been with us from the start... Could not be happier...seriously...The ability to reward has enhanced our customer relationships like nothing else. Maggie helped us out with our migration from Big Commerce and settling into Shopify. She also got us right where we need to be with our plan. Thank YOu Maggie

Sept. 12, 2024

Fantastic app - good customer service and it currently does everything we need to keep our customers coming back to us! Angie has been a massive help to use when we needed support.

Sept. 7, 2018

This is the first app that I have not encountered any problems, extremely quick with set up, easy to customise. 5 star rating. Well deserved.

Sept. 6, 2018

Super helpful team. Always available to answer questions and Maggie was wonderful at helping with setup.

Aug. 25, 2018

I enjoy the features of this app. As a family business, it is helpful to have a free option for a loyalty program as our business grows.

Aug. 25, 2018

awesome app, one of our favorites.