Rock Paper Shears review for Recharge Subscriptions App

May 9, 2025

We are in the process of switching from Bold Commerce to Recharge Pro, and most of this review reflects our experience regarding our implementation, which we feel will still be in progress until later this summer when all of our subscribers are transacting on Recharge instead of Bold. Our Recharge Implementation Manager insists our implementation project was complete before we even had our first transaction on Recharge. The platform seems robust, but we haven't had time to fully explore it because we're working through the rest of our four-month implementation on our own without support from our Recharge Implementation Manager. Once we immerse ourself with the platform, we reserve the right to modify our rating, but so far, not a good start. Specifically, our experience included the following: • We consistently ran out of time on nearly every scheduled call with our Implementation Manager and he repeatedly pushed back against our requests to extend the length of calls to correct for this. • Our Implementation Manager resisted repeated requests to have more than one 45 minute call per week. • Our Implementation Manager seemed more interested in marking tasks complete vs. accuracy. He grew impatient during conversations to quality check tasks that were thought to be complete, but not verified. • Our Implementation Manager claimed he doesn’t have a phone number. When asked why, he indicated it was for quality purposes. That was either absurd or a lie, but possibly both. • Our Implementation Manager, and later, his Manager, narrowly defined the terms “migration” and “implementation” and insisted our implementation was complete a full week before we actually transacted our first batch of transactions on the Recharge platform, and over four months prior to when the remainder of our subscribers begin to be billed on Recharge. o Our Implementation Manager informed us that we would not have any access to him or telephone support while finishing the incomplete implementation phase, and instead, we’d only have email support to complete the implementation that he insisted was complete. o We received no migration support for integrating Recharge’s highly-touted automation capabilities into our workflows. We were sold on these capabilities and expected to receive help implementing them as part of our implementation project. Because of this, we do not feel like we're receiving the full value of the Recharge platform. • Our Implementation Manager was a no-show on a scheduled call and later justified his absence by claiming we “have already launched for new subs”. He did not cancel the call, and a future scheduled call was also not cancelled.