Bold Subscriptions App

Today, I reached out for assistance with updating prices for Subscribers. We had already done a bulk update, but it was ineffective. Daniel took the time to first begin updates for me and then to walk me through how to do updates, and even verified that it was done correctly. At the end, he made sure I felt confident to continue this process myself. Daniel was super helpful and patient. I truly appreciated all the help, and am happy that all our prices are the same across the board now.

The app itself offers all the features we need to provide our customers with the best subscription offer. Besides the quality of the app, I am very satisfied with the customer service and all the support i received. I am not the most technical but was able to set up bold and the offers by myself and where needed the bold team was there for me. Highly recommend if you are looking for an improved subscription experience for your customers.

Bold subscription service is so ideal for my wholesale coffee roasting business that provide drop shipping directly to online customers.

I love that I could do the "subscribe and save" option for any item, giving my customers the freedom to subscribe to get any product they want with a little of the top.

The app is very easy to manage, both from the admin and customer vantages. We've been using it for 4+ years for our deodorants with no issues and almost immediate in app support for any issues you come across or questions you have. I recently had a question about an active subscription I have for a product that has no variants that I wanted to add a variant to but was worried it might disrupt the active subscriptions. Chintak was able to test different ways of solving the issues on a test store and I went from realizing a potential problem to having a solution in under 10 minutes on the help chat.

Please GOD can someone help me?!?! Can anyone suggest an alternative app that I can retain these last remaining customers???? I'm DYING to find an alternative to this nightmare of an app. We used Bold v1 for years and everything was fine. Since they forced us to "upgrade" (ha hilarious to call it an upgrade), it has been a NIGHTMARE. I've spent hundreds of hours trying to get the "upgraded" app to work. The "seamless" migration was a fail that I had to fix every single existing subscription manually with custom discount codes & notes. Since then I have had every subscription group duplicate the frequency list over and over... to the point that you would need to scroll for 3 feet to find the end of the frequency list. Thousands of dollars lost, endless customer complaints. Went from 400+ subscribers to now only 68. Most of the orders placed for subscription don't actually create subscriptions. And no way for me to know that we just lost what should have been a recurring customer. Product pages look ridiculous with all the duplicate subscription frequency options. No customer could navigate these. Front end support staff always says they have to escalate to developers, but no way to talk to developers directly. Around 2 weeks after contact I get an email saying everything is "fixed" and what that usually means is I have to start over trying to fix every item from A-Z manually. Can't remove the subscription widget no matter what I do. I've even deleted every subscription group and the damn widget still remains (sometimes duplicated five times over). After getting 3 months free three times over for "frustration"... I have been working on this for over a year... I gave up on even contacting them for credit. My DREAM is to dump them, contact my credit card company to dispute remaining charges (including their "oops.. we may have charged you too much for processing fees for months"... no shit, my processing fees tripled) by explaining their fraud, BUT I have these 68 subscriptions remaining. Can anyone suggest an alternative that I can retain these last remaining customers???? Shopify should have more control over this. This app should not even be an offer on their app market. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE. THIS APP IS A SCAM. Please, if you have an alternative that I can migrate over to please let me know. This experience has brought me to the point of considering ending the online side of my business just to end this nightmare.

I have enjoyed this app. The first version was a bit complex to set up, but now that they've updated everything, it seems to be working smoothly. There have been some hiccups, but every time I've reached out, the staff are always quick to respond and resolve issues. Thank you Chintak! You were a great help!

TL;DR This app charges WAY more for WAY less functionality

We have been using the BOLD Subscription app for over 9 years and I have been incredibly disappointed in the transition from v1 to this version of the app.

The new version of the app is missing several key features that were included in v1:
*No customer activity notification: in v1 we would get an email if a customer changed or canceled their subscription order, keeping our customer service team in the loop.
*No confirmation to the customer if they change or cancel their order. There are email confirmations when a subscriber starts a new subscription or there is a payment issue, so I don't know why they didn't include options for editing or canceling a subscription.
*In v1 customers could define their own subscription interval. Creating multiple variations to match the intervals that our customers are looking would create a very cumbersome list for the customer to have to sort through.
*Flat Rate Shipping only for subscription order. We have subscription customers who use our local pick-up option, guess we won't be getting orders from them anymore!
*Doesn't work with other BOLD apps. One of the main selling points for us almost a decade ago was that we could use the BOLD Subscriptions app with Custom Pricing and Upsells, but according to the BOLD Help Center the apps are no longer compatible.

To add insult to injury our cost for BOLD Subscriptions is projected to 100x (yes, that is a one-hundred times increase!) over the cost we were paying for v1. I thought shrinkflation at the grocery store was bad, but this is ridiculous. We are currently looking at upgrading to Shopify Plus to manage our custom pricing and switching to the Shopify subscription app.

I will say the front-line service team that I have interacted with has always been perfectly pleasant and are probably the best employees in the entire company.

Do not use this app! I have never left a bad review for any app or product in my life, but I feel compelled to save anyone from having to deal with all that we have dealt with in this app. Not only does it continue to have problems, but they have the WORST customer service that I have ever experienced. They do not have any access to a live agents, ever. They have very limited business hours so if you have a major issue, which we have multiple times, you can not get any assistance if it is outside of their M-F central time office hours. Being an app in the eccommerce space, they should realize that these business are 24-7 and should at least attempt to have expanded hours since issues arise over the weekend too. They have shown us multiple times that they do not care that their platform glitches cause a disturbance in your business. That it could cost you customers. They simply don't seem to care. They show no concern about how long it takes them to even answer the support ticket in a timely manner, let alone actually fix the issue in a timely manner. I am always patient when it comes to tech because I realize that stuff happens and errors occur and all of that, but I am telling you. I have had more awful experiences with this app, its service, and its lack of customer service than I have ever experienced and I am so very frustrated. I have resisted changing to a new subscription app because I was worried about migrating to something new, but I should have a long time ago because this app continues to be a nightmare. Please keep looking and save yourself the trouble of dealing with this app. I am certainly moving on!

This app is a huge enabler for the e-commerce side of our business, and the updates over v1 make it significantly easier for customers to manage their own subscription changes. When we have had questions or integration items to address, the BOLD team has been responsive and thorough. Special shout out to Brysen on the customer support team--thank you for going the extra mile to thoroughly address our questions.

Good customer service however wish they had a phone number. Too much back and forth with emails and things can be resolved quicker if you can speak with an agent on the phone.
But the service we received via email was helpful just time consuming.