Recharge Subscriptions App

March 23, 2024

Big slog to suddenly charge customers $100 a month. Nor recommended

March 19, 2024

L'application est passée à 100€ par mois, du jour au lendemain, sans informer qui que ce soit. C'est une facturation abusive, tout simplement. L'application est très chère et son tarif n'est pas fait pour les petites entreprises.

March 10, 2024

We briefly installed this app 18 months ago when it was free, but never actually used it. We were therefore shocked to discover that Recharge had billed $99 to our Shopify account last month. We have contacted Recharge numerous times and they have promised to refund. However, we have still not received a refund to our Shopify account. We have been back and forth between Recharge and Shopify customer services. Shopify tell them to refund us. Recharge say they will refund but the refund never materialises. We are extremely surprised that an app on Shopify is allowed to operate like this.

Feb. 26, 2024

No reaction for support. I cancelled in 2023 the app due to a hefty price increase and they still charge. No answers to tickets. Fraud.

Feb. 19, 2024

Increased price with no warning! £79.60 a month. Absolute con! I think they are hoping most businesses won't notice or bother chasing refund.can only close account by requesting them to do it! Stay away!

Feb. 16, 2024

Charged me 100$ per month for my subscription without my approval. Extremely dishonest company to long time customers. DO NOT USE.

June 6, 2025

New issue with Recharge. Not possible to know how many months are left on customers' pre-paid subscription. This should indeed be a basic information, but no. I do need to figure this out manually myself.... Not happy again ! Oct 24 : Customer complains : they always were charged 6€ for shipping costs. September, they were charged 10€ (I do not know why!) and October, they were charged 3,49€ !!???? I emailed the support team. Let's see in how many emails this will be solved!!! So, poor system, poor technical support, very expensive, and not user friendly. NB: can anyone get me out of here ???? Sep 24 : Many issues with the app. And on top, a customer ordered a subscription for her and for her father on the same order. So, basically the same address whereas it should be sent to two different addresses. I suppose this is an exception. But yet... I had to exchange at least 8 emails with the support team, to confirm the situation stated at the very beginning over and over again, and with no solution in the end. Extremely frustrating and time consuming ! NOT HAPPY ! I have been using Recharge since 2019. Since Shopify theme 2.0, very poor service : - the app has not been robust (customers not going through the right checkout) - Support let me down on my bug for over a week with massive impact on my business - They made me move to shopify checkout and on the way increased by 99$/month my subscription (with no extra service quite poor support on the opposite) I'm feel being abused as my customers are subscribed and they know that moving elsewhere would imply to ask customers for their bank details again => churn. Really NOT HAPPY and thinking seriously about an exit.

Jan. 7, 2024

Awful app. Refuse to respond and refuse to cancel my account. they haven't replied to my support tickets in weeks and keep charging. Satay away from this scam app and go with something else!

Dec. 22, 2023

Be CAREFUL with this company. We have been using their free platform for a couple of years, it is very lacklustre and we were looking for an alternative. They upgraded us to their higher tier to try it out, and it wasn't much better - but instead of putting us back on the free tier, they started billing us $500 per month after the trial! We have been trying to get them to stop billing us since August and every month they charge us $500 USD or more for something we are not even using!!. It's infuriating! They just reply saying "the free tier doesn't exist anymore" and then they still charge us! You cannot remove your credit card, you cannot change your billing tier - you are at their mercy. We now have to just shut down our subscription service entirely since removing the app is (hopefully) the only way to get them to stop charging us!

Dec. 8, 2023

I do not leave reviews often, but I will be here STRONGLY to encourage you to find a different subscription provider. While we may have had complicated needs, Recharge severely over-promised and under-delivered several times while working with them, thus wasting our time and causing frustration for almost four months; this resulted in not having a reliable subscription program up and running by Black Friday after reaching out in July to get started. The lack of support is truly not worth the things they promise. In terms of pricing, I believe we were going to be paying $2000 per month for Recharge, and we are a small business with under 100K in sales per month at the moment. All that said, after several months of back and forth and no result, we decided to cancel our contract and move to another company that can achieve all that Recharge promised in two weeks' time and for a couple hundred dollars per month. The more I mention my negative experience with Recharge, the more I hear of others who have had similar experiences and frustrations. Recharge simply can't handle the number of clients they are taking on, and outside of our WONDERFUL sales rep, Sam, they don't seem to care much. There are better options out there (but NOT SKIO)!!

Nov. 27, 2023

Recharge is the only app I've given a 1 star review. For starters, when an update to our theme was made, Recharge simply stopped taking in any new customers. We were fooled because older subscriptions were coming in daily. We found out a couple months later, shame on us. We most likely lost 100 subscribers valued at $80/mo. To get Recharge to work again, they asked us to hire people who can write code to fix the bugs. No Thanks. We simply had Seal Subscriptions up in ten minutes, and now the issue is Recharge's customer service is so incredibly slow, we are unable to transfer the current subscriptions. Another "tack on the wall" was a year into our subscription, they wanted to double their customer's rate. If Recharge takes care of this ASAP, I'll update this review. Until then, I heavily regret using them. 11/14/23 Update - Recharge is nowhere to be found. We've been actively trying to move our subscriptions to Seal, but Recharge will not respond and won't give access to the correct CSV or API keys needed. 11/16/21 Update - Recharge responded, but gave me the same instructions found online which don't work. We don't have access to pull the correctly formatted CSV nor have the API keys. Still 1 star service. I'm guessing we'll play "email tag". At this point, we're worried we'll just lose the current subscribers. 11/27/23 Update... Still no luck. Tech support has not been helpful at all and so far, our only chance to get everyone off recharge is bribing my customers with a $5 OFF coupon to manually go in and re subscribe to a product. Even then, we'll likely lose at least half of the subscribers. Our Seal Subscriptions have a higher conversion rate and is a tad more visually appealing. The pricing is much more fair as well. Run from Recharge...

Nov. 2, 2023

I have been a customer of Recharge since 2018 and since the recent changes we have lost over 30 subscription members and no new memberships can be created due to an issue with the new updates they recently did. they advised me to change my theme which i did and still nothing. this has been such a headache and waiting days for someone to respond. customer service is 0.

Oct. 4, 2023

Terrible customer service, terrible software. They do not provide you with a phone number, and you are at the mercy of their staff to reply. Which is, on average, 10-24 hours or more. I have been working with them for their Shopify cart conversion (that all Recharge customers are being forced into), and it has been an absolute nightmare. After finishing the conversion yesterday, now my website will not even add a subscription product to cart. I have been losing potential subscribers for nearly a month due to an error with their checkout that they *cannot identify*. It took long enough to get them to begin the cart conversion. Now that it is finished and it DOES NOT WORK, there is NO urgency on their behalf to help fix this. They typically reply with more questions, and ask you to confirm something multiple times before proceeding with a solution. I hardly ever write reviews, but am compelled to do so because I am shocked at how inefficient they are. For the record, this is the second time this year that I have had to correspond with them for assistance. Two separate issues, two awful experiences. Choose another recurring payment app.

July 16, 2024

There's absolutely no support. NOTHING! The "Get Help" link in their app is inactive. There's no online chat and there's no ticket system. How does Shopify let them have apps? P.S On October 16, 2023, they replied to my review and I never heard from them. I finally managed to get to a new app and uninstall this app. Supper expensive with no support.

Feb. 15, 2024

Updated Review: Buyer beware!!! I was very happy with recharge until they significantly increased the monthly cost of the app without any notification whatsoever. We went from paying around $8/month to paying $118/month, and if I did not keep a close watch on the company's finances then this would have gone unnoticed, greatly affecting our bottom line. I understand that costs increase, but to not send out any sort of notification and to try to sneak it by is extremely upsetting. Do not download this app unless you are willing to risk a 100% cost increase without any notice. Old review: I love recharge! It works great with my store and the customer service is awesome. Definitely recommend to anyone considering!

Sept. 18, 2023

Very long term user here but opening up about the experience so you guys can see the glaring problems as business owners. When the app works, it’s not too shabby and allows customization of shipments(eg. 30 days, 60 days, 90 days etc) which helps a lot. However, the big elephant in the room is the poor software itself and this app is now very dated while the company has become very complacent about what they have to offer. Read below: The Recharge app is a hassle whenever you want to update your website. It breaks and suffers from compatibility issues. When we updated our website in 2021, the widget broke and since then we haven’t been able to have it integrated or work with our website. They also store all customer data on their side(which is why we were shy on pulling the plug on the app and had hoped that they would eventually have it working on our website) which means that you’re locked in with them unless you manually ask them for an export of the customers that are subscribed to your website through their widget. Additionally, the recharge app continues to charge your card even when the app is in a broken state which is what continued to happen during 2023 when they had to move to Shopify Checkout integration. Lastly, when it was brought up to their team that they were charging through this time and despite no services being rendered and failed integrations on out website, the team offered no refunds for this entire period of time. The contact from the company was more interested in nit picking what I had to say rather than trying to understand what I was saying, looking at the big picture, and helping constructively solve the problem. We are all in business and understand that customers shouldn’t be charged for something that is broken and not functional for the consumer or end user. There are much better apps with easier integration that I’d recommend. This one’s a convoluted mess and as business owners, we want to focus on sales and marketing rather than never-ending app integration issues. Suffice to say, at this point, Recharge isn’t a good app that we’d recommend to incorporate in your store.

Sept. 8, 2023

If I could give you all a zero I would. they are purposely screwing over small and medium business. I just had a meeting with them and they told me that they do not want to work with small businesses and they are doing that by charging prices for their membership that they know business owners can't afford. They told me that they would rather have our small business work with yotpo instead. What business in their right mind would purposely send customers to other businesses? They are shady and a greedy company. I do not see them being able to survive if they keep screwing over small business owners.

July 20, 2023

VERY DISSAPOINTED - After seeing the greedy change to pricing! We have been using Recharge for nearly 2 years, and thought the prices were ok... though already not cheap. To now hear that the prices are being changed from "0 per/m with a 1% + 10¢ per transaction" to "$99 per/m with 1.25% + 19¢ per transaction fee" is mind-blowing. Obviously, these guys don't care for their current customer base, especially the smaller businesses.

July 18, 2023

I had been using this app for almost two years for a monthly art pin subscription club. Unfortunately the price hike makes this unusable for very small businesses. I can handle a % fee increase because it is scaled to the size of my business, but the new $99 per month flat fee kills this for small businesses and those just starting out. This new monthly fee represents a price hike of over 900% per month for me. This might work for larger customers who can easily absorb a flat fee, but for little guys like myself and several others I have spoken to, this just doesn't work. At least I have the rest of 2023 to migrate to another solution for my club.

July 12, 2023

Loved it until they sent the notice out that standard pricing is going from $0 1%+10 cents and increasing to $99/Month on 1/1/2024. That is quite a jump! Changing promptly to a different app. Why wait until January when it will make the transition more complex with more customers?