SC Product Options

To start out with we are using a suite of Bold apps. Customer Pricing, Product Options, Product Upsell, Loyalty Points, Product Discount and Bold Brain. All of the apps working together have allowed us to expand and manage multiple aspects of our business. Customer Pricing allows us to target specific customer groups for professional discount programs by industry. We use targeted marketing to promote registering for the special discount programs. The customers in these groups are tagged and see adjusted pricing as soon as they login to the store. The ease at which the discounting is handled has encouraged the users in these groups to purchasing more frequently.

The majority of our catalog is customized or personalized and requires a degree of complexity in presenting the various offerings. Product Options allows us to manage those complex products. Product Upsell allows us to present complementary products when specific products are purchased, Product Discount allows us to create BOGOs, Sales and special promotions all designed to increase revenue. Loyalty Points allows us to build interest and repeat business. All of these apps working together have helped to increase activity in the store. The fact that they are all Bold apps makes them easy to manage and gives us access to the excellent Bold support team. Paul a team member was extremely helpful.

I have had to seek support (on a number occasions) and I haven't found it very easy to get. At least half of the time I look, their online chat function is disabled (I thought it was a glitch but was told by an operator that they take it down when they get busy.....), I have called in and spoken with someone who said they would get back to me once they learn the answer (only they never called back), and I have written emails (mostly recently Wednesday of this week--it is now Saturday) and they take several days (they say 48 hours but in my experience its been longer) to respond.
Edited Nov 25, 2015 -- they have helped me resolve the issue -- took from Oct 19 to Nov 25, but it was resolved. A notice on their website said the Black Friday rush had them scrambling. Overall I like the product enough to keep using it as it does more than the Shopify variants can. I increased the stars from 2 to 3.
Edited Setp 27, 2019 -- its been buggy for a while. Finally with the integration of another feature it became untenable so reached out to Bold for a fix as the cart is not showing pricing and it isn't integrating with the new multi-currency option -- been waiting a week and still waiting for a reply (after multiple attempts to contact them). Been told someone will respond but they don't. I see there are several production option alternatives and at this point, figuring we may need to look there.

Simply put, without this app, I would not be in business.

I recently switched to Shopify from Oscommerce. Under oscommerce I was able to have as many variations as I wanted. However, oscommerce is lacking in many areas, so I needed to switch to a different web host. I chose Shopify, but only after switching realized that I would be limited in the amount of product options I could offer. That would not work, as my customers rely on me for custom made gear, and I can only offer that with lots of options for each listing.

I have one product that has almost 2 dozen options, giving you thousands of possible configurations.

Needless to say, I panicked. I was not ready for that, and thought I had made a huge mistake switching to Shopify.

Anyway, started searching for possible solutions and found your app.

To be honest, I was a little disappointed to see that it would cost a recurring monthly fee instead of just a one time purchase, but you have to remember I am coming from an open source shopping cart where everything was free.

But I bit the bullet and am glad I did. The way your app organizes all the options is much easier to use than Oscommerce. So, it saves me time in editing and creating new product options. Plus it integrates very nicely with my listings and looks very professional.

Without your app, I would have most likely have had to switch to another web host/shopping cart.

So, I definitely thank you for this app and my customers thank you. They have been very impressed with my new site and how it is laid out with all the custom options they can choose from.

These guys go the extra mile with regard to support. Above and beyond! Excellent!

ORIGINAL REVIEW

I inherited the old website when I joined the company and my greatest goal was to rebuild it as it was soooo dated. We are a sports clothing company and have always offered a personalisation service so that our customers can add a name, a number, initials or a club badge or logo. It's very popular and that functionality needed to remain on the site.

The legacy site had this functionality custom built on top of the Shopify platform and wasn't going to work if I changed the theme and structure of the site. Neither did I have the help of the programmer/s that had bespoke coded the options previously. So, I set out to find the best solution for the new site and found Bold Product Options which was by far the best app for the job. We have quite a few variations of personalisation and some fairly complicated sets of options.

I also wanted it to be a good user experience and using Bold Product Options and the conditional rules that come with the Premium version, I was able to not only streamline the way the personalisation worked and make it a good user experience for but it looked good on screen too.

I have had a very good experience with regard to support. I haven't needed too much help as I found Product Options very easy to setup and use 'out of the box'. Having said that any problems I have had have been promptly dealt with and the support staff are very friendly and quick to respond.

I had one problem which was actually specific to the 3rd party theme I am using but the Bold guys were straight on it, immediately made a minor edit and solved the problem.

I have used support on 5 or 6 occasions and can't fault it whatsoever. All Good!

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I have been working with them for around 3.5 to 3.75 years now. The support was very helpful until recently. We have been asking them for 4 weeks to fix two bugs that are occurring in our store and are caused by their app. They kept insisting that other apps were to blame for the bugs, claiming they affect their app's functionality. I repeatedly asked them if they were sure and tried to convince them that the other apps were not the reason for the bugs, which made me increasingly frustrated. After two weeks of constant back-and-forth, I was so angry that I even created another theme without using the apps just to demonstrate that the bugs were indeed caused by their app. This alone took me hours to show them the truth. After numerous email exchanges, they finally acknowledged that one of the two bugs was caused by their app and fixed it.

However, the second bug remains unresolved to this day, and we have been in contact for over a month now. I sent them multiple orders where the bugs occurred, but I feel like they still don't fully understand the second issue. They now ask me to check a theme where they claim to have fixed the second bug, but this theme has been active for a week, and today they finally realized that the bug is still happening, despite me telling them about it for a whole week and sending them around five emails. I provided them with many examples where the bugs still persist.

To be more specific about the second bug, pricing is incorrect, leading customers to pay less than they should. This situation is causing significant losses for us, close to four figures in €, considering the time and effort we've invested. Moreover, we've experienced cancellations because customers were not willing to pay the additional amount later. It's also unprofessional to ask customers for more money after they have already placed their order.

Despite previously positive experiences with the app, I can only give them two stars. I have given them many chances and have been patient for four weeks, sending them a total of 26 emails. I am not one to leave bad reviews, but this entire experience has been truly horrifying.

Update: Feb 15, all of my stores options disappeared but thankfully someone was able to log into my store to fix the code within 20 min.

Last night Feb 2, 2024 The app again stopped adding options to products. I tried the same trick of changing the cache's last two digits in the code as they instruct on their website and that didn't work. And I can't use their Refresh App with Shopify button within the app because it will WIPE out all product options for my entire store and they don't warn people about this before hand. I gave them permissions and the options are still "waiting to refresh" 24 hours later. Speaking to customer service will get you frustrated because it seems like no one is actually listening to the issue and they keep recommending the same tricks that I've already explained that I tried or can't because of a bug within the app. I may need to move on and try the competing app offered in the Shopify store. I've used this app since 2016 when it was under BOLD Apps before ShopCircle took it over and I've had nothing but issues since then.

Jan 17th 2023 For the first time in 3 years the app within Shopify went down tonight and will NOT load. All of my product options for my products are not showing and this needs to be fixed. I now get within Shopify Admin a grey page that says: options.shopapps.site refused to connect.

I've checked a few stores that also have product options running and it's not affecting all shops, only some of us which makes me think I'm not on a good server.
They stated they had server issues and that it's fixed but now product changes are taking over 45 minutes to refresh. Still waiting for answers but just getting canned cut and paste responses.

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After speaking with Alina from Shop Circle, she was able to get the required changes made and make it look a bit more seamless than it was on the initial install. I'm happy with the changes made and look forward to another 3 years of use.

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After having this app for 3 years under Bold and it working perfectly, the app was sold off to a company named Shop Circle. At this point I'm not that impressed and I'm concerned that the service isn't the same as the previous company. I've been left hanging with an open request to install the app on a new Shopify 2.0 theme and it's the only thing holding me back from being able to publish my store. They'll also just log in, makes changes and disappear without a word still leaving the app not functional nor addressing my initial concerns for what needed to be integrated.

When Sandy Steven Engravers (www.SandyStevenEngravers.com) was building it's e-commerce store on the Shopify platform, it's sales funnel needed to add numerous engraving and customization options to the jewelry, accessories and gifts sold online. We had several requirements for a product page, which included numerous text fields, ability to upload images, text field limits, size variations, variants that add on additional charges etc. Another important requirement was not to visually overwhelm a prospective customer with numerous fields on a product page and to maintain a minimalist and clean page layout. These conflicting and complex requirements at first glance suggested having to hire a developer. However, we did not really want to do that, because that traps you from a business point of view, especially when you need to be nimble on the web. Shopify options alone, did not provide the functionality we required so we looked to the App-Store ... We inspected and looked at example sites for each and every product option app available. We did note that most people wanted simple to use, that is understandable, mainly because their customization requirements are comparatively less complex. However none met up to the functionality and customization features offered by the Product Options app from Bold Commerce. We noted several comments from other user reviews complaining about difficulty and confusion when trying to integrate this app, which again, is understandable. This app takes a bit of careful thinking, pre-visualization of process, and understanding, especially if you want to handle complex options for a single SKU. However, once you set up a few, it becomes pretty easy. We did have a few issues at the beginning - actually, they were more like growing pains, and like those who have complained in other reviews got a little frustrated, but customer support was rock-solid from Bold Commerce. They want to keep you as a customer, and we had several of their agents look into whatever issues we had in setting up ... and we did it all via email. You can't ask for more from customer service than solving your problem. Sandy Steven Engravers has utilized the Product Options app for over a year since launching our website, and it has been an invaluable add-on for our website and has made customizing engravable fine jewelry and gifts simple to do online by customers. We give this app our highest recommendation. Update - July 15, 2021: In 2021 we needed to upgrade to V.02 of Bold Product Options, following a theme upgrade to our Shopify store. We were facing multiple technical issues which were there on one day and when you check back the next it's not - you guys know what I mean right? Well despite all these confusion and frustrating technical glitches Bold was again "Superb". Grant was our "main man" - not only did he begin by looking into the existing problems, identified the issues, and sorted them all out before beginning the upgrade. He went out of his way to explain, differences that our store would experience and provided guidance to ensure that our existing options were structured correctly so that they would upgrade to V02 without any issues. And it worked! The most notable experience was that we had reassuring hands-on technical assistance every step of the way, and the Grant took time to provide in-depth answers to our many questions during the process. This is a rare service to find in the industry, especially if you have limited coding knowledge. Our sincere thanks to Grant and our highest recommendation once again (now 5 years running) to the Bold Product Options App.

Nothing but problems. Without a developer you'll be out of luck.

The Support on this app is crazy good. Recommend 11/10...............................................

customer service is zero. They had me on hold for 20 minutes then forwarded to voicemail amazing customer care.