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Merchants highlight the AI agent as a major upgrade that syncs with store data to give accurate, brand‑aligned answers and reduce repetitive support. Many report faster responses, better customer experience, and higher conversions, especially with strong FAQs. They value deep store integration, email follow‑up, and mobile access, plus flexible settings for availability and lead capture. Several note reliable performance, improved notifications, and responsive development.
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as a 17 year Shopify owner the app works great and does help our customers find what they are looking for. I am still programming it as we learn but all good news. We would like to add product photos to customers looking for a styles look.
Thank you, Cristofer
This app has the potential to be a useful tool but as forewarned, it can make mistakes, and it does. I have had to disable it due to repeated mistakes that have negatively impacted my bottom line.
Every store must have the shopify inbox app. it eliminates 80% of time spent answering customer questions, improves search and discovery, eliminates 80% of the time spent searching for things, and it should become the central point for interaction for everything as intelligence increases. I am improving it everyday as much as I can because it can handle queries beautifully. It used to be really bad, that's why i preffered to have it turned off for 2 years. Before, you would receive notification for a new chat long after the customer left the chat but now, they are instant.
Thank you for the wonderful review. We continue to work to bring improvements to Inbox.
Still early days in the use and development process. Be great to have this connected up to our customer service email and a way for a conversation to convert into an email in our customer service email for further AI CRM training
This app has immense untapped potential, I just wish Shopify had reached out to Store Owners for understanding more about customer support.
AI agent is great but without a way to handover the conversation to a human agent, I dont think there is a way I can use it 24x7. In fact, I have made the hard decision of turning it off completely.
There is a report named Storefront agent conversations and feedback, even if there are negative feedbacks in the report - there is no way to pin point the conversation where customers have left the feedback, this is shocking. Whats the point of the report if we cant action on the insights.
Please fix these things, open up the Inbox API, let store owners read through the conversations and make informed decisions based on insights derived from this support avenue. If not, whats the point of all this?
Hi thanks for the review. The AI agent always shows buyers an option to connect to staff after every message so buyers can click it whenever they'd like. Additionally the AI agent proactively offers to connect to staff when it cannot handle requests. Also within the Inbox app you will see where the buyer had a thumbs up/down/add to cart etc. We keep adding more features and are finding the AI agent particularly helpful for merchants to improve conversion when the merchant is otherwise offline. While the choice is yours and there are many options for apps you can use, we hope you will give it another chance.
Have been using Shopify Inbox for years with no issues. The latest update is completely unusable. No way to customise the look of it properly, no back buttons for customers to return to, the design makes no sense and there is too much information to fill in, in order to start the chat. Customer contact has dropped close to zero after this update defeating the whole point of having the website chat. Please provide an option to revert back to the old version.
Thank you for using Shopify Inbox for years, and we’re sorry this update disrupted customer contact.
You can reduce the information required to start a chat under Sales channels > Inbox > Chat settings > Collect customer details. Select Require name and email for an experience closer to the previous Inbox, or Allow anonymous chats.
To customize the chat’s size, colors, font, and other styling, click the pencil icon on the same page to open the Theme editor.
We also appreciate your feedback about the missing back buttons and confusing navigation. We’re working to improve this experience.
Shopify Inbox should be connected to the major sales channels of Email, SMS, WhatsApp.
This app isn't designed correctly because it should be integrated with the channels that Shopify Messaging is using.
Ideally when you send a promotion, you can just allow customers to message you back and convert them directly in chat.
The PMs here should look at how ManyChat works and build a more streamlined integration between Shopify Messaging and Inbox.
This should also integrate with other sales channels like FB Messenger or IG DMs.
There should be automation features where you can send leads to the cart directly from a DM.
If the customer sent a message without leaving an email or a phone number, we cannot follow up with the customer once he/she went offline. For this reason alone, I stopped using inbox.
The problem above is solved on 26 Aug 2026. We are back on shopify inbox again.
Just one thing, when the customer went offline, and received an email to view the converstaion, if the customer is using another device and click on view the converstation, he/she will not be able to see any previous messages. Not a big issue.
On sign-in: a new setting now lets customers start a chat by sharing just their name and email instead of signing in, like the previous Inbox. It is available now under Sales channels > Inbox > Chat settings > Collect customer details. Choose Require name and email there (the other options are Require customers to sign-in and Allow anonymous chats). One note: this applies to chats with your team. The AI agent still answers anonymous visitors instantly, by design, so customers get help in seconds even while you are offline. We default to sign-in because it confirms the customer owns the email they leave, so your replies reach a real person, but the choice is yours.
Overall, Shopify Inbox works pretty well and I’m happy with it. The main issue is the z-index/layering of the chat activation button.
The chat button often overlaps or covers other important elements on the storefront, such as the cart drawer, Quick Add buttons, and email pop-up windows. It would be great if Shopify could provide better control over the chat button’s z-index or update its default layering behavior so it doesn’t interfere with other storefront elements.
Everything else is pretty good — this is just a small but quite annoying UI issue that I hope can be improved in a future update.
The new AI version of this app is not as good as the previous version. Despite creating several custom FAQ answers detailing the store location and having it select the correct answer in the test feature, I can not get the AI to give the store address when asking from the customer side of the app.
