Yotpo Software

Pros

I liked how it automated reviews and made it very easy for someone to review the products.

Cons

I didn't like that when we had to uninstall it from Shopify, it didn't uninstall itself properly and left widgets and other code on our site.

Pros

Integration capabilities, customer service

Cons

Yet to see ROI, attributing reviews to conversion

We recently evaluated Yotpo for use on our Shopify site, but decided to go with a close competitor (Okendo) instead. We did this mainly because of cost and flexibility. Yotpo has a very opaque pricing strategy which is designed to extract the maximum possible commitment from each merchant. They don't publicly disclose pricing and actively work to obfuscate their rates.

Pricing is tiered based on review volume and feature set which means even small merchants will have to spend close to five figures yearly in order to unlock the full potential of the software. There was a time when Yotpos platform may have been able to justify this, but it is borderline extortionate in 2018/2019 .

Pros

Industry best feature set, close to industry best review-generation experience, advanced social media tools etc

Cons

Hugely expensive plans with mandatory contracts, deceptive and pressure-driven pricing and sales strategy, close competitors offering much better value per $

Our customer service experience has grown so much since installing Yotpo. Our customers now have a seamless and more pleasant shopping experience, even when things go wrong. We have also experienced great customer service care from the Yotpo team.

Pros

It is a pretty easy to navigate software, very helpful for product development research, and a source of communication for customers and our customer service team. Our team is able to learn how to improve and provide products that fit our consumers based on comments/ reviews. It has also become a streamline to communicate with customers who are dissatisfied or missing items and have not reached out.

Cons

Although it is an easy software to navigate, after calls with our rep there are so many undiscovered features. We definitely appreciate our check in calls to be able to learn more and more about Yotpo and all the things they offer!

For the most part, we've enjoyed using and plan to stay with YOTPO for reviews

Pros

Backed is easy to navigate, set up was relativly simple, public review site carouselmakes it easy and appealing for customer to see recent reviews

Cons

Limited back-end account ability-we really have 4 people who need separate account for moderation, commenting and maintenance. YOTPO claimed this would be fixed in the near future, that was 1 year ago

The customer support and on-boarding experience has been very good.

Pros

From a features standpoint, yotpo stood out from the other options we looked at. In practice, it seems that the service lives up to it's claims and we've only just scratched the service on all the things they offer.

Customer support has been prompt and accommodating and there have been no hidden fees or unexpected charges for "custom work", etc.

Setup is well documented and flexible enough for developers to sink their teeth in.

Integration with other services is good.

Cons

Product feeds and updates. The way Yotpo handles new products vs product updates via two seperate uploads is strange. In my mind, it would all be handled by the same upload. Why not adopt a standard feed system like what google and FB use?

Transferring our existing reviews was mostly smooth, but there were a couple hiccups for grouping child product reviews under a parent.

Also, our SKUs included a '-' character which had to be replaced with another character as this was not allowed by yotpo's system. A strange requirement.

We have devs in-house to tackle these little hurdles, but if you don't have anyone technical on hand YMMV.

We need to add reviews to our ecommerce customer's sites. Has to be easy to deploy through major ecommerce platforms like Magento, Shopify and BigCommerce. Has to show up in Google search results. Has to have the ability to easily reply to reviewers within the platform. Must have good customer support should anything go wrong. Yotpo has all of this and more.

Pros

Customer support is always outstanding and tools are easy to deploy and use.

Cons

Don't really have any issues with software.

Pros

Yotpo has been crucial for us. We knew that product reviews were a missing piece of the puzzle but we struggled to bring them in for years. With Yotpo we were able to gather nearly 1500 reviews in our first year!
This has resulted in a huge increase in customer confidence and in turn increased sales.

We also recently added the Visual Marketing component which is now helping us to solve another long standing issue, gathering user generated content.

Would highly suggest Yotpo's services as they may be one of the best values in the game.

Cons

Would make some slight changes to the way reviews can be shown on our website.

As soon as download this software to my website, it asked my past customers for reviews. I instantly got a few without much effort. I appreciate how they email notify you about the reviews you recieved and allow you to make a post about it. We all know reviews work! So let them work for your business!

Pros

Being able to leverage real customer reviews is perfect.

Cons

I have not encountered any negative aspects

It has been great! We've been using it for 3 years and have no plans on leaving soon (unless the price goes way up)

Pros

The impact you get on your website VS the cost for the platform is fantastic. It integrates with Google and Facebook easily, is very user friendly for the user and company, works for multiple websites under one YotPo admin, and support is good.

Cons

Sometimes the admin loads the wrong page or will take a while to load.

Overall good experience. Good value for the product offered. Way more affordable and just as robust as some of the larger review platforms.

Pros

Easy to use
Affordable
Easy & fast to implement

Cons

They need to add multi user login. Currently we are sharing a user login which allows all users access to everything

Pros

Very easy to set up. Great responsive customer service. Can submit reviews easily from mobile.

Cons

Analytics could improve. Recommended products widget does not distinguish between pages and shows the same products on every page.

Pros

Increasing the amount of customer reviews was a major part of our strategy this past year. Yotpo allowed us to do this in an easy way and, best of all, allowed us to present these reviews in a way that gave potential customers the confidence that the reviews from Yotpo were 100% authentic.

Cons

It's not inexpensive, but we have seen the software pay for itself through the sales that it has brought into our business. If you have the ability to test the system out and then track the performance, I would do it.

I certainly think we have been able to convert more of our visitors with the increase volume and breadth of product reviews we have on our site. The service and support has been very responsive to our inquiries.

Pros

The software is very helpful at increasing the amount of feed back we get from our customers. It has also helped us gather reviews on products that we typically would not get reviews on. Being a small to medium size business that software is priced appropriately and I feel that we are getting a good ROI on our partnership with Yotpo.

Cons

We lack the ability to truly customize the customer facing aspect of the product. There are many things we would like to change but the platform does not allow it. I also have some small concerns on the technology side and the weight it adds to page load but I do believe the benefits of the product outweigh the negatives.

We have had a great experience with Yotpo, and even switched our rewards program to Swell when we heard of the acquisition. The reviews Yotpo facilitates drives our sales on-site, and through facebook ads that we're able to generate directly from the platform. Yotpo is a social proofing win!

Pros

Yotpo integrates as a plug and play app on the Shopify app store, making installations a breeze. We utilize Yotpo on multiple stores, and I'm able to move between each store with ease.

Cons

I'm not sure why they display user's profile pics on the reviews, because I have not seen this feature used on any site.

We've had great feedback since using Yotpo! It's nice to hear honest reviews of or products, site, and services. Even the not-so-good reviews help us figure out how we can up our game. And it's easy to use - just set your parameters and you're on auto-pilot. And make the necessary tweaks as needed.

Pros

Easy to use. Just set up your after purchase email text and select when the email gets triggered and Yotpo does all the rest.

Cons

I wish there was a way for the store owner to comment on customers' answers to questions. Sometimes there are more relevant issues that can be addressed by the store owner, but you can only comment on the original question asked.

great software but some issues when moving to new template

Pros

asks for reviews and ability to post or not

Cons

logo posted on software, only removed with paid subscription

Overall, Yotpo is a great reviews platform that is easy to use and manage, even across multiple brands and products, all under one account.

Pros

In terms of functionality, Yotpo is easy to implement and use, from both a front-end and back-end perspective. It easily hosts your product's (or company's) reviews and displays them on the website is a visually aesthetic way, with customizable features.

Cons

It would be great to implement a feature that allows the user on the customer's end to have more filter options for the reviews. There are other review platforms that have more fields to answer, therefor offering more information for the customer to browse when looking at reviews. Since referrals and reviews are one of the first things customers look at before purchasing, giving more information options (beyond name, product, and product rating) along with making filter features easy to accessible allows the customer to access more detailed information, but helps to make the conversion quicker.

Overall Yotpo is a great addition to a Shopify store. Reviews are an essential part of online retail success and Yotpo greatly streamlines the process of getting and managing them.

Pros

Yotpo is so easy to install and use. We had it up and running in minutes. Managing the settings was intuitive and logical.

Cons

The review display options could be more robust in reagards to styling.

Once we got in the flow of using it we have really grown in our knowledge of customer responses.

Pros

It makes hearing directly from customers and applying it to our site simple.

Cons

A little tricky to learn the ins and outs in the beginning.