Richer Poorer review for TryNow: Try Before You Buy

Aug. 26, 2024

I had extensive experience with implementing this app as I went through the steps of enabling it on two Shopify storefronts. We ultimately postponed launching our Try Now program due to internal strategy reasons, so I'm sharing my thoughts only on the setup and onboarding: The concept and out-of-the-box solution is simple to implement and easy to customize on the TryNow portal - a basic array of options for including/excluding products and segmenting what part of your store should be (in)ineligible for TryNow, creating TryNow collections that can be plugged into your store navigation, PDP widgets that help both inform the customers about the program and easily differentiate between charged vs authorized payments, etc. On the flip side, if you have a custom store theme, the out-of-the-box solutions might not be compatible with your store layout. In this regard I found it challenging to constantly backtrack and troubleshoot what went wrong. The onboarding team was quick to reply to my inquiries and even offered their Web Dev services to implement a custom solution to make the app work. Still, I think that the customization and extra coding neccessary should've been part of the pre-analysis and onboarding package, not an afterthought.