Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing

App won't open on Shopify and it is not synching new products nor recently re-activated products. This is the second time it has happened, the first incident was on July 4th.

ottimo supporto, preciso e puntuale! Abbiamo risolto un problema complesso di sincronizzazione dei dati. Grazie Lori!

In the prices listed on Shopify, it says that the price for the essential plan is $13 per month for up to 50,000 contacts. Once the app is installed, however, they ask for €345. Also, the app is very slow and the chatbot on their support site doesn't work... with what face do they ask for all this money?

Application et services très intuitifs, très facile d'utilisation.
Pas toujours facile cependant de maîtriser son design et la mise en page des newsletters.

Mais ensuite ça se gâte. Je rencontre de nombreux problèmes de synchronisation avec shopify et d'intégration dans shopify.

Par exemple je ne retrouve pas le même nombre d'abonnés côté shopify et côté mailchimp, il n'y a pas la possibilité de segmenter correctement par rapport à des chiffres d'affaire générés ou autre (contrairement à ce qui est régulièrement annoncé et mis en avant). Lorsque vous essayer d'avoir des explications avec le support. C'est lunaire.

C'est le point très négatif: l'équipe support est un fake.

D'où ma note.

J'ai 3 problèmes en cours qui trainent depuis plusieurs semaines. Les réponses sont évasives, différentes selon interlocuteur, elle reporte l'investigation, et la résolution du problème sur l'utilisateur.

Dernier exemple en date : le pop up pour l'inscription à la newsletter qui s'affiche sur mon site alors que je l'ai désactivé, puis supprimé depuis mailchimp (car ça ne fonctionnait pas). Il continuait à s'afficher malgré tout sur mon site. Le support m'a invité à faire appel à un développeur freelance !

Ce n'est pas l'aide que l'on attend d'un support.

Malgré les nombreuses qualités de Mailchimp (mais que l'on trouve ailleurs) l'incompétence et la mauvaise fois de l'équipe support m'amènent à mettre cette note. À contre coeur.

*** A Terrible Experience with Mailchimp – Unfair Billing Practices ***

My experience with Mailchimp has been highly disappointing, and I cannot in good conscience recommend their service.

I initially chose Mailchimp as a backup system for my emails, using the Essentials plan at $11.00 per month. However, at some point, they shifted to a business model that, in my opinion, is unfair. Their two-tier billing system charges inflated prices for a Contact Block with 250 contacts, even though they could simply switch customers to an Adjusted Plan—which costs half the price.

Billing Issues & Lack of Customer Support
On January 26, 2024, we contacted Mailchimp to pause our billing after our system was spammed with thousands of fake sign-ups, which inflated not only our Mailchimp charges but also affected other integrated systems.

Our message was clear:

"We have a problem with our list, which has grown beyond expectations due to spam. Can you set our billing on hold while we try to find a solution? As you can see, we are not sending out any campaigns from our account."

Despite this explicit request, Mailchimp continued billing us every month, totaling $3,990.25.

When I followed up again on January 26, 2025, their response was a generic, unhelpful email:

"Hey there,
Thanks for being patient with your Mailchimp support request. We apologize for our slower response times as we are experiencing extremely high volume. If the above information does not help, please ensure you are writing from the account's owner/admin email address and reply to this email. We will prioritize your reply and reach out as soon as we can. We appreciate your patience!"

Meanwhile, they continue charging my card $516.75 per month.

Unfair Practices & Difficult Cancellation Process
To make matters worse, Mailchimp has made it unnecessarily difficult to disconnect from Shopify. When attempting to remove the integration, they display an alarming message:

"Are you sure you want to disconnect? Disconnecting your Mailchimp account will cause any Shopify data that's been synced to be deleted from Mailchimp. That can't be undone!"

Final Verdict: Think Twice Before Using Mailchimp
Mailchimp's billing practices and lack of customer support make them an unreliable and frustrating choice for email marketing. If you're considering Mailchimp for Shopify or any other platform, I strongly advise you to think twice before committing.

We've been using Mailchimp for 5 years. The platform is incredibly user-friendly and has been a reliable tool for our business.

This week, we encountered an issue and reached out to support. Rafael was amazing—he resolved the problem within minutes!

Integration stopped working in around mid October. Most of the subscribers result as non-subscribers even if they opted-in.

They charge you by how many people add stuff in the cart but don't have anything to detect bots so we are having crazy fees about this and they can't do nothing about it. We where not able to add the recapcha to any of our creating form and when we uninstall the app we are now able to add the recapcha. Now we don't have the app and we still receive a huge fees again on our credit card. Plus we don't have the bot problem anymore. I would not recommand this app.

Working great ! Great service, special thanks to support specialist David!

Jean helped me with logging in, was a very simple task but she took her time to help me and was very kind and patience! So great customer service!