Nopalli review for Transcy: AI Language Translate

March 30, 2022

We have finished our trial with Transcy and we have decided not to continue with them. The app is good if you have a "simple" store, but if you take your store seriously and care about loading time, performance and dynamic translations this is not it. If you have a page that has other third apps, specially landing page apps like GemPages and more, then Transcy is not at all good. The app cannot translate anything that doesnt belong to the native shopify theme, for exemple, we have some products with specific profiles and modules, if we want to change the language with Transcy it behaves as intended (on the current page), but if you click another product (which is what a customer will do) then the next page is loaded on the primary language and then it takes between 2-5 seconds to translate the page, really disrupting our customer experience. We talked with technical support and they told us that it is because Transcy needs to wait for the whole page to load (images and text) and it doesnt support other apps besides native Shopify... When we first installed, we got a sync issue, when trying to translate it was taking us to a 404, they fixed this issue over and over again during our trial so we couldnt really test the app, and we were forced to contact customer support to be able to embed the switcher to our page. After contacting them for the first time without even having being able to be able to run the app on our page the "agent Jennifer" asked us to rate the app, we told them that we couldnt give a rate if we haven't even tested the app. On "her" next answer, 5 minutes later, "she" told us that "she" cannot see our 5 stars review and when are we going to do it, really?, after we told "her" that we will do it when we have tested the app then she told us to tell her when we have done it so she can check it, what??, it seems that "she" got upset and they fixed our issue in 1-3 hrs!. The customer support is not good at all, you always deal with "Jennifer" with the same profile picture, and when you tell them the issue, "she" always asks for a screenshot, how can I provide a screenshot for a dynamic loading issue? please tell me how, because you cannot upload movie files... "Jennifer" is just a name for all the team to talk to you, so no personal interaction, then the technical support is very rude and they never introduce themselves. But the deal breaker for us is that when you contact cutomer support it takes generally 1-3 hours for them to answer, and when you answer their answer then they take another hour. Just yesterday it took 2 hours for them to fix the same 404 issue and an extra 6 hours to answer our technical questions. On average, it will take you 3 hours to have your problem fixed and your questions answered, do our customers have this time?, i dont think so. So if you have a busy page, this app is not the answer, if you run into an issue that "kills" your page like our 404 issue, it will be fixed in hours (they "repaired" 4 times, and didnt told us what was the issue). If you are a proper business owner, ask yourself, how many customer I have lost during this time and how does the limited capacity of this app will impact my company's reputation. Think carefully and consider other options that supports third party apps like Weglot, Translation Lab, between others before chosing this faily simple app with an impersonal and slow customer service. Five starts reviews are mostly after have fixed a simple issue, the real reviews are 3 stars and below.