TikTok

Shopify is great, very intuitive and relatively easy to navigate and connecting it to a TikTok shop is relatively easy. TikTok Shop is very frustrating at times. The process of accepting orders and printing shipping labels is straight foreword but TikTok as a platform seems to hold more bearing in their buyers than their sellers. Buyer initiated refunds and returns are accepted and processed automatically with what feels like little regard from the Seller. Customer Service leaves much to desire. Any explanation of violations you might encounter and why they were applied are non-existent and it seems appeals of violations fall on deaf ears. Its unfortunate that is it such an effective way to get your products in front of possible consumers, as long as you color within the vague lines TikTok has set. Good Luck.

I don't even know where to begin with the number of issues trying to connect my shopify store to tiktok.

This app is wonderful if you want to spend several weeks trying to get integrated only to come out of it with a permanent & automatic TikTok Shop closure due to "Shop Compliance Incorrect Registration Information - Shop Closure". Attaching your EIN paperwork from the IRS apparently is not enough and they offer no proactive support when this will happen to you.

I get that it must be this way due to them trying to avoid fraud cases maybe? but it is a rather complicated set up and I am sure I am not the only store that is simply missing some setting somewhere that would be an easy thing to fix with a little assistance.

I am sure I could fix this shop violation easily as I am in fact a valid business with the proper paperwork and not a fraudster, but honestly this onboarding experience has taught me that this is not a selling partnership I want to pursue and I will stick to just marketing on TikTok which is an actual good experience. I think its just the shop experience itself to be honest and I also can only imagine the type of issues they had early on where these types of hurdles needed to be put in place.

I love the idea of selling on TikTok. Unfortunately I had a terrible experience with this platform. I was using TikTok shipping which was the recommended method through TikTok. After finding out that all of my sales was shipping free through the TikTok method I created a template for shipping. Even after creating the template for shipping with flat rates, customers were still getting free shipping. There is no way to adjust pricing through the Shopify Platform to counter balance cost so basically all the sales I made, I actually had to owe money due to the free shipping on already discounted organic soaps and candles. I can't use this platform anymore until they fixed these issues.

TikTok attempts to persuade you to enroll in their marketing sales campaigns by guaranteeing you coupons and free shipping that you can use and will be credited for. However, this is a false claim. They do not provide any reimbursement for these offers, and they also keep your funds for a period of 2-3 weeks.
Not even worth the time and headache to sell on TikTok.

Not much quite yet, and very difficult to get settings right. A complete pain to get approved for brands you have approval from already.

It's extremely frustrating to have your products disapproved for information that's clearly inputted within the shopify platform. Reaching out to customer service is a joke. I reached out for assisted over a month ago and they seemed to just pass me off from one person to another - neither of which solved or even addressed my issues. I was very hopeful for this integration but nope.

Integration wasn't so swift. Ran into issues with syncing products, and had delays. Lots of accounts and settings to be configured manually just to try to get things to try to carry over; that some people need to install third-party apps for in order to integrate easier. Whatever these other apps are doing "SKUIQ, Silk Connector, etc" are doing seem to be integrating much easier than the default app and maybe TT Dev team can learn some of those features to try to make this app more streamlined.

sync does nork. most of the products are not approved to sell in the Shop because of reasons that do not apply. for instance states a product does not have country of origin listed in Shopify- but it definitely does. Each product disapproved has its own incorrect issues and in total there are a multitude of incorrect reasons for disapprovals AND CANNOT EDIT ISSUES IN THR SHOPIFY APP. there is not a clear path to fix items that do not sync in the TikTok Shop either. Of course, if I wanted to place a ADVERTISING though, in Marketplace all products are perfectly in sync, approved and there are not issues. Have spent way too much time on this already.

I'm extremely disappointed in the TikTok Shop app. I was excited when the app first came out. it's seem to be working for the first month or so, it's was great but it worked. Now, I'm uninstalling the app because it's not working and I can't get any support. I can't sync my products, inventories from Shopify to TikTok shop and I can't sync my order from TikTok shop to Shopify. It's has been a nightmare, so I will be going back to the previously app I was using. I have submitted over 10 support tickets and receive zero support. They closed the tickets and gave me the running around respond, like AI. Having zero customer support for an unstable app is the worst.

When setting up phone number was confusing. Need an example to follow. The pixel was the easiest I have ever installed and put in place. Good job. Easy to follow and integrate with my shopify store.