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Merchants describe this as a strong all‑round solution for subscription businesses, from simple “subscribe and save” to clubs and wholesale. It’s praised as easy to set up, reliable long term, and flexible for many niches. Key features include customer self‑service, bulk price updates, and subscription group management. Many highlight fast, knowledgeable support for onboarding, migrations, customizations, and theme integrations, especially for small to medium businesses.
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I wanted to provide feedback regarding the recent migration of my subscription. Unfortunately, the experience has been less than satisfactory. Since the migration, the shipping method and store pickup options haven’t been functioning properly, and this has caused significant inconvenience.
I’ve always appreciated your service in the past, but this transition has been frustrating, and I cannot rate it positively in its current state. If there is anything that can be done to resolve these issues, I’d be happy to discuss further.
Bold subscriptions has been a nightmare since we installed it, in their first version (V1) they could never figure out why our taxes were being charged incorrectly after years of problems so we would have to manually fix this for each order.
Now with the new Bold subscription migration they did from V1 they have no idea what they're doing. First they told us groups could have 865 products and it didn't work so they said 650 products and now months later they tell us after the fact it has to be 250 products maximum. There is no way to be notified if you have a new subscription, cancelled subscription or paused subscription. The order notes from checkout aren't carried into the order so those notes do not come through properly. Right now the latest problem is that after subscribing to a product and adding to cart, it's not saying that it's a subscription item so we have no idea if it's working.
Overall terrible experience and the new app is useless, they don't know what they're doing.
I signed up for Bold to try their product. One of the features they advertised did not work as expected, so the next day I uninstalled their app and requested a refund. They REFUSED to provide a refund and told me I had to wait until the charge went through, paid for their app even though I'm not even using it, and then request a refund. This is crazy.
If you install the Bold app and it doesn't' work for you, be prepared to get ripped off or waste your time in a process designed to rip you off.
We have used BOLD for YEARS and they have always been amazing and offer the best support. We have over 1,000 subscribers and they keep coming out with new features. On occasion we have a few gateway issues with payment processing, but they are always super quick to respond. Not only that our customs love how easy it is to sign up, change and edit their subscriptions. I HIGHLY recommend this app to anyone who is looking for a good subscription app for their business.
LOVE to hear this!! Thank you so much, and just you wait... even MORE exciting features coming soon! We're on a mission to make Bold Subscriptions the Highest Converting, and Highest subscription optimizing app on Shopify period 💪
This plugin is good option if you want to have a product or donation subscription. It supports for many kinds of payment method with Shopify Payments. Also, the support team is available to answer any question or concern including migration V1 to V2.
Excellent!
Thank you!! That's actually a great use case, we see a lot of people using it to accept donations on a recurring basis. It's not something you normally think of, but that's a perfect way for it to be used!
If you are a small-medium merchant, DO NOT DO NOT switch to Bold!
My migration from V1 to V2 was horrendous.
On numerous occasions in the past year, entire batches of subscriptions were not processed overnight, for no apparent reason. First tier customer service is not helpful, it feels like they respond from a script. The tendency is always to blame Shopify and to divert inquiries to them. You can’t call a hotline, you can’t get transferred to a supervisor. You just get semi robotic replies in their online chat (that only works during day time business hours). If you are lucky enough to convince them to escalate your complaint to a higher level, you wait 24-48 hours for an email reply.
Most recently, BOLD significantly overcharged me for the 1% transaction fee. I brought this to their attention before it became announced that the issue affected other merchants. After two weeks of waiting for an update, I had to follow up again and was given their wonderful solution. In a nutshell: “We (Bold) made a mistake. You have been charged incorrectly. We are now going to charge you the correct amount. Shopify will refund you the incorrectly charged amount in a few days/weeks”. Unbelievable! No substantial apology, no compensation for the time and effort. I feel like it will now be up to me to chase after Shopify to get my money back for the mistake that BOLD made. For a fintech company, this is absolutely unacceptable.
Take my advice, read the reviews for other apps, and chose one of those. BOLD may go out of their way for the large enterprises, but small businesses get treated like crap. I am going to start working in migrating to an alternative platform asap.
Hey, never fun seeing reviews like this. I'm very familiar with what happened here and as frustrating as it was, the issue with billing was completely on Shopify and out of our control. We spent over a month working with them to get it rectified and happy to say that all issues have now been address. In a nutshell, there was no mechanism to handle the bulk refunds, but they've addressed this now :-)
Overly complicated. Don't support dev stores so you have to pay on a real store to play around, slow support and dont support new shopify accounts
DO NOT USE THIS APP.
If you are migrating from Bold v1 to this app because V1 is no longer supported - your experience will be terrible.
Really basic features are missing - the support team gives you attitude and treats you like you are stupid when you ask questions.
NO Build-a-box migration.
NO fixed-term contract options
NO Convertible options for migration.
It is NOT an embedded app, so if you want to change anything, they refer you to the theme code and ask you to change it yourself.
Really simple features are missing, along with all the main features above.
NEW users - STAY AWAY.
MiGRATING users - I wish you good luck.
There is a reason it is the lowest-rated subsciption app on Shopify. BOLD used to be a great company with great apps, but they have dropped the ball on this one.
I just installed the app and I'm sure this app will work fine BUT I have products that I DO NOT want to be shown to customers from within their login portal in the "add product to subscription" section. Unfortunately there is NO WAY to hide products here which is asinine because of course the app allows you to restrict what products are available for subscription to begin with but then they just show everything by default in the customer portal regardless of what I want made available? The support team called this a known bug but I would not call it that since the app as been out for several years now, it's way beyond bug status, this is just Bold being lazy. I was on Bold subscriptions 1.0 and finally ported over to this version only to find that it is far less customizable in many ways, this being the one I can't seem to work around.
Thank you for your feedback. We understand the frustration of not being able to hide certain products within the customer portal, and we're actively working on improving this feature for a better experience. Your feedback is valuable to us, and we appreciate your patience as we strive to improve. Our team has reached out to see how we can assist you in the meantime.
We've been using BOLD for a while and have just migrated from v1 to v2 and we've left recharge from our other store. Irfan with Bold support specifically is one of the reasons we're brining everything under Bold. Irfan and the team have always been ready to help us with any problems that we have (most of which are user errors).
Thank you for the kind review. We're so glad you're loving Bold Subscriptions! Don't hesitate to reach back out if theres anything else we can do to support your subscriptions journey.