Recharge Subscriptions App

I am really upset and want to share our experience as a Recharge customer. We are a small annual subscription business that migrated to Recharge from another payment provider in September 2025, expecting the platform to handle our recurring billing reliably. Instead, we have experienced what we believe is the most damaging vendor relationship in our company's history. Within weeks of our migration, our renewal success rate collapsed dramatically. In our experience, customer cards that had previously been processing without issue began failing at significant rates, with new decline codes appearing that we had never seen before in our years of using a different platform. We escalated the issue through Recharge's support channels in December 2025 and spent over four months working through their team trying to get answers. During that time, the failures continued and our business absorbed real financial losses. We engaged our payment processor's support team directly to investigate, and in our experience the technical findings they ultimately provided pointed to integration-layer issues that we believe Recharge had the operational ability to address far sooner than they did. In our experience, the situation has gotten worse rather than better. We think the most concerning part is what we observed about how Recharge responded once they understood the scope. They paused our payment processing while we worked through escalation, but we are not aware of any communication from Recharge to their broader merchant base about the underlying issue. To our knowledge, they have continued to operate the same integration for other merchants and have publicly announced new enterprise customer migrations onto the same infrastructure. They have failed to make it right for us by acknowledging the harm, by providing meaningful remediation, or by communicating transparently with their broader customer base about an issue that we believe affects more than just us. We share this because we think other merchants evaluating Recharge or already on the platform deserve to hear an honest customer experience. If you have had similar experiences as a Recharge customer, we would be interested to know.

Worng billing

Started using this app many years ago when they had fair pricing. Now we are locked into them since we cannot easily move subscribers, and they have massively raised prices while doing nothing. Their fees amount to over 10% of our recurring revenue, and that is on top of the merchant fees we pay because Recharge, even though they bill like a merchant account, you still need a separate merchant account that will bill you more. Do not make the mistake of using a company like ReCharge that will just keep raising prices on legacy customers once they know they have you trapped.

Terrible customer support. Interface is deceptively designed and isn't user friendly. We are looking to move to Loop.

Really disappointing, almost laughable support team. I keep losing money and time responding to customer experience defects in the Recharge experience for gift redemption. Support team is generally lazy, lacking ownership, slow, and unresponsive. Can't tell if they don't know how to fix or perhaps care to fix the issue. My customers are rightly upset they can't redeem their gift subscription (some valued at $300+) and Recharge's response was essentially "it works some of the time but not all the time, and we can't replicate it, so we can't fix it." If you want to be left alone to deal with the wake left behind by a bad product, use Recharge.

I wish I could've accessed better support for this app. We opted to pay for the pro subscription vs the much cheaper $99 one on that basis, so we could get help with installation. 12 months in and a lot of wasted time and money later, we're cancelling the app $6k in the hole having not been able to get it working whatsoever.

Avoid like the plague. Comes default with zero support options. Widget never updates when you update it - documentation tells you to contact support which you can't do unless you are on an expensive plan. Wasted hours of setup but at least I can now remember why ecomm brands avoid this product.

I would not use this app. They push updates and create really critical bugs that create extremely negative experiences and then don't take accountability for it. I've had this app for 3 years and have had a number of issues. Most recently they pushed an updated and grabbed the wrong shipping profile information, accidentally charging almost 800 customers shipping on a free shipping product. Then told me it wasn't them and they weren't responsible for it/took no accountability. I had to figure out a solution to manually credit every single order and there is still not a fix. We cannot wait to change companies to one that is more reliable.

Title: Extremely Complex Setup, Poor Experience, and Not Worth the Cost Review: We had very high expectations for ReCharge when we installed it back in May. Unfortunately, the onboarding process was extremely long and unnecessarily complicated. The setup required multiple adjustments, and despite their assurance that it would be easy to implement, it turned out to be one of the most difficult and time-consuming integrations we’ve ever done on Shopify. We ended up paying for several months without being able to use it properly — only one or two months of partial use — which represented not only a significant financial cost but also a large investment of our internal team’s time and effort. In the end, the platform felt overly complex for the limited benefits it offered. We later switched to another subscription app (Loop), which was implemented in half the time, at a lower cost, and offered even more functionality and better support. We are extremely disappointed with this experience and feel that the value received does not justify the cost. We strongly believe a refund should be considered given the time, effort, and resources invested without any meaningful outcome.

Unreliable software. Recharge used to work well for our store without issue, but recently we've had nothing but software bugs and hassles where our customers are charged shipping when it should be free. You should look for a more reliable subscription management option.

So-called chat support "gathers context" and deflects to email support whenever they can, which is very inefficient and feels like false advertising of "live" chat support. Some features are half-baked such as their gifting feature, which is probably the least thought out and poorly delivered user experience I've ever come across in all my years using software. Gifted subscriptions sales are DOUBLE recorded (when gift is purchased by the buyer and then also redeemed by the recipient). They also take zero accountability for integrating well with Shopify, mostly deflecting to their documentation, again not helping solve the problems. Considering how much we pay them with their 1% charge on every dollar on top of Shopify's processing fees, it's completely not worth using Recharge. We look forward to choosing another subscriptions platform or building out our own replacement for Recharge in our tech stack as soon as possible. Recharge's cost is just not economical at any scale.

Worst support. I had the rep Matt A. who was definitely the most inefficient and lousiest rep who either had no training at all or was just completely clueless and irredeemably stupid. I've had many stores where I had the legacy widget integrated easily within 1 day. Of course, Matt made me lose many days of the free trial on a new store I installed this app on, and failed to deliver a simple thing I needed done. I uninstalled the app. Due to Matt A.'s inefficiency, I switched over to Loop. It's much better and their support is top tier. I don't see recharge competing with them in the months to come. Long Loop.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR WHICH YOU PAY EXTRA AREN'T ACTUALLY WORTH THE MONEY! The Recharge sales team focuses much of their effort on upselling you to additional, so called "advanced" features that are not included with your regular plan. After having used these tools for a number of weeks we've identified that they are absolutely not worth the money that you're paying. Failed Payment Recovery - sounds great on paper! But when you look into the analytics you'll notice that there is quite an extensive list of "charge errors" for which this feature doesn't actually work. When we contacted support to ask why the Failed Payment Recovery flow didn't trigger after a customer's payment failed - their reply was: "this specific type of charge error is not covered by the Failed Payment Recovery feature, please contact the customer manually by sending them an email and ask them to update their payment method". It's good to know that you are paying for automation to take place only to be told you have to send an email and contact customers yourself.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS APP IF YOU ARE OK WITH NOT RECEIVING ANY SUPPORT AND LIKE BEING IGNORED. We've complaint multiple times about the shocking performance of the customer portal that Recharge offers. One customer service representative replied to confirm it's all expected behaviour and when we contacted the sales rep, the person that locked us into a 12 month contract for this app, he's just decided to go completely quiet. Not a single response after 3x emails that we've sent. As said before, if you like being ignored and have zero expectations in regards to getting help with fixing issues that are extremely crucial to running your day-to-day business - go ahead, this one is for you!

I’m extremely disappointed with the level of support provided by this company. For the second time, a visual element related to their widget has appeared unexpectedly and randomly on our website, severely disrupting the layout and directly affecting our user experience and sales performance. What’s even more frustrating is the lack of urgency on their side. This issue has now been live for nearly 48 hours, and we are still without a proper fix. Despite repeatedly flagging the problem and stressing how critical it is to our business, we’ve received no meaningful updates today, not even a basic acknowledgment or timeline. I’ve had to chase them multiple times, and each time I get the same vague response, with no real sign of progress. For a company offering tools that integrate directly into customer-facing websites, this level of support is unacceptable. Issues like this demand immediate attention, not delays stretching over several days with no communication. I’m honestly shocked by how unprofessional and unresponsive their support has been. If your website performance and reliability matter to you, I would strongly caution against relying on them.

If you’re considering using Recharge, I highly recommend thinking twice. At first, I was excited to get started. Recharge promised to be the solution for managing subscriptions on Shopify. But what I got was a clunky experience, minimal support, and a lot of wasted time and money. Let’s start with the so-called "Account Manager" they assign you. Honestly, they were just as clueless as I was. Every time I had a question or needed guidance, I was redirected to a generic help article. The onboarding support was practically non-existent. I was left to figure out most of the setup and troubleshooting on my own. And again, for what they charge, you’d think they’d actually walk you through the process or at the very least offer solutions that didn’t require hours of guesswork. When I expressed my frustration and asked to cancel, I was met with a hard no and a boilerplate explanation about policy. No attempt at real resolution, no willingness to acknowledge that the platform was not meeting my needs. They tried to “make up for it” by offering an audit, as if that would undo the weeks of inefficiency and stress. It felt like a hollow gesture, not an actual solution. At that point, I had to notify my bank to block future charges and uninstall the app myself just to put an end to the mess. The platform didn’t improve my business, it drained my time and energy. If you’re a growing brand looking for real support, transparency, and results, I would strongly suggest looking elsewhere. Recharge might work for some, but in my experience, it was all promise and no delivery. Do better.

RUN FAR FROM THIS AND FIND A SOLUTION THAT WILL ACTUALLY PROVIDE YOU SERVICE. Of all the apps we've worked with, this one is BY FAR the worst experience we had. We had to lock into an annual agreement that ended up costing a lot of money and there's no way out of it. If you by chance have a bad more or bad year, they will collect and sting you no matter what. When you try to get service or a rep, it was nonexistent unless it had something to do with renewing your annual agreement. Do yourself a favor and at least try other ones first. I won't mention other names on their page but there are others out there and it will save you so much headache and money using one that will provide you service.

El closer de ventas me mintió me dijo que se puede hacer todo con recharge. Resultado... no se puede hacer justo lo que le expliqué en la videollamada y ahora me obligan a pagar 500$ al mes durante un año. Una estafa, no se preocupan nada por el cliente, no puedo usar la aplicación porque no hace lo que necesito y no son capaces de anular el pago. Que clase de términos y condiciones tienen vuestros contratos? El cliente debería ser el primero siempre. Una vergüenza.

I signed a contract with Recharge and came to find out just a couple days later during our first implementation call that the app would unfortunately not work with my store's existing membership/discount system. I immediately reached back out to my sales rep to see if there was a way to make it work, and when there wasn't, I asked them to cancel the contract. They have refused and are charging me $500 per month for a year for something that was never even implemented in our store. This is so unethical, I cannot believe they would enforce this when nothing was even setup and no costs were incurred on their end. I explained that the app's features won't allow it to work with our existing membership system and they have refused to let me out of the contract. It's not like I took a bunch of their engineering time and set up the whole system and changed my mind or jumped ship to another app. The app is literally not even installed in my store and was never setup to be operational to begin with. Be very careful signing contracts with unethical app developers. I got burned here and never imagined someone would treat me this way! There are many other subscription apps who told me they would never treat a customer this way given what happened here.

The Analytics Have not been working since end of day Jan 25th(today is Jan 29th) , and not a single email from them explaining what's going on. Full 24 hours after they stopped working they uploaded a small banner on the analytics page saying they're working on fixing it. Didn't respond to any tickets. HORRIBLE at communicating issues. Also WTF? How can analytics be down for 3 full days? And 2 of them are work work days too. I have never seen a software fuck up this bad.