Reviews for Route Protection and Tracking

Great app! Easy to work with and customers love it. They have been personable with any issue experienced

Satisfied after 6 months. We've kept a sharp eye on claims, turn around time, and customer satisfaction using route. We've filed ~ 12 claims in the past 6 months and have not had any customer complaints. Turn around time is OK ~ 2 business days. Recommended based on our current experience.

This app really gives my customers peace of mind when they make a purchase with my company. We love it and recommend it! I feel that without it people are more hesitant to purchase my products because they can be damaged in the mail so easily.

I needed a back up plan to protect my customers against the ever growing lost and damaged USPS packages. This was an easy integration, and hassle free on my end for customers to file claims. I am very happy with this app!

The Lace Cactus

2020-06-23

United States

Route has saved us SO much time in customer service and provided our customers more security when shopping on our site. Route is an absolute MUST-HAVE and I wish we had learned about this service sooner! 5 stars!

HockeyStickMan

2020-06-23

Canada

We have been using Route for a few months now and have found it very useful. Almost no hassle on our end, and solves some headaches when packages go missing/are broken. In most cases the claims are approved without ever needing any action from our end other than referring the customer to the claims link.

Route has been pretty quick to resolve any customer claims that are filed, usually having the order re-ordered within 24 hours time frame. Customer is happy they're covered in case of lost or stolen parcels, we're happy that it's an extra revenue stream for all lost/stolen shipments.

Our AOV is $250 so considering - happy to not have to deal with lost shipments anymore because they can be expensive.

They take money from the customers only to provide excuses when it comes time to fulfill a claim. Route has done nothing other than steal from my customers, and me. I highly recommend avoiding this company!!!

My customers and I love this option! the app was VERY easy to install and to work. It gives my customers and I peace of mind at a very affordable cost! Thank you!

Game changer!! Gives my customers peace of mind with all the USPS issues here lately and is a very affordable option for everyone!

Freestyle USA

2020-06-23

United States

Route has been super helpful for us. Has cut down our customer service time and helped our customer experience. Always improving to make better!

The Route App has been a great asset for my company! We used to spend hours managing shipping claims. We have been able to save money and time now! I encourage every e-commerce business owner to use the Route App!

Very easy to install, great customer service and implementation team, and glad to be able to offer it to our customers for peace of mind when ordering from us.

Great App. I just try to calm down my customers in this pandemic period and ask them to claim after 7 days so my customer is still ok with it and Route still not lose their profit.

Easy to use and easy for clients to opt out of. Super cheap piece of mind for clients and hassle free for the business owner because it costs you no money! Highly recommend.

If I could, I would rate 0 stars, as the only thing this app did is to charge my customers extra and not provide any help or refund, as claimed. I have yet to receive any reply from them on any of the emails I have sent. My customers have only received generic replies that only frustrated them further. Was very hyped about it, but was proven to be a horrible experience.

Jordan and the team have been most helpful of the past month with our claims - highly recommend. It can be stressful for our clients when ordered items have been delivered broken or simply do not arrive. Thanks Jordan for the extra efforts over the COVID period much appreciated..cheers Mat

Update: Changing our review from two stars to four. Route reached out with an apology and assured us that they have hired more customer service reps to help process the high number of claims they are receiving due to the pandemic. The errors from our previous claims have been corrected and new claims have been processed in a timely manner. It seems they have addressed their issues and are back to functioning normally. -------------------------------------------------- Before Covid this insurance was a dream come true for us, they took care of customer claims quickly and efficiently, saving us both time and lost revenue. However, since Covid customer claims are being processed incorrectly resulting in us having to cover the losses ourselves. We are disabling the app for now and hope Route is able to fix their issues and get back to running smoothly again!

LOVE ROUTE! During all that is happening in the world lots of packages are getting lost or stolen and they have been so great to help my customers! HIGHLY recommend they have helped my customers feel taken care of!

During the Pandemic Route has decided to not protect the shipments over 30 days of order. I understand this is their business practice but during this Pandemic where shipping times have gone up to and over 45 days they have decided to not protect these against loss or damage. I was a long time user but this practice is down right not consistence with any values of a insurance company and a false protection for customers of having their shipments protected when they are not being protected. Route should be ashamed of themselves.

This has seriously been a game changer when it comes to providing the best experience for our businesses. It's free for us to have it on our site and the tracking app is incredible for our customers (also free). We manage several sites and we have had dozens of customers specifically mention how great it was working with Route, so I'm not sure where these other reviews are coming from. I was reading some of the reviews - Route has been delayed slightly the past few weeks due to COVID-19 (so have we) but they messaged me proactively letting me know at the start of the month. Just got a notification from them that they're back to usual resolve times this week. If you're on the fence, try it. You won't be disappointed.

5/12/2020 Update: I am updating our review to 4 stars based on Routes follow-up on the issues in our first review. Part of our issue is that we didn't spend enough time getting to understand the claims process. Customers can file their own claim using the link in the Route confirmation email. Our customer encountered an error in this process. The screen on his mobile device froze and he could not process the claim. We were unaware that we can also process a claim on their behalf using the Route dashboard in Shopify Apps. As is the case with most unhappy customer experiences our anxiety about getting them taken care of quickly created a tense situation. If we had been more aware of our ability to assist in filing the claim we may not have been as frustrated with Routes initial slow response to the issue. Route did respond within a couple business days which I felt was unacceptable and is one of two things they need to fix. The second being the customer experience with filing a claim on their mobile device. I did ask to be made aware of what created this issue and that it has been resolved. I have not heard back. Overall the Route App is solid. I don't agree with other reviews about the difficulty installing the code. It was easy for us and Route helped to get it completed in a timely basis. The service itself is very popular. We sell high ticket goods and nearly all customers opt in to Route. Route quickly paid the claim and initiated an order through Shopify on the customers behalf. They used a credit card on the system so FGI and the customer were made whole. I would also like to know more about what is required in making a claim. And what Route does with the carrier in return. What happens to the damaged goods? Who pays to ship them back? How does a carrier receive feedback about damaged shipments so they can improve their ship service? But these are not high priority questions. If Route continues to improve and the service continues to be popular we'll be along term happy customer. Kevin Sullivan CEO Forever Green Indoors 5/2/2020 UPDATE: After escalating the claim to a number of people I received communication from a Route Executive and another individual who were both helpful and apologetic about the delayed responses to our customer. He offered the customer an option for a refund, or a replacement. The customer elected for a replacement and Route purchased the product on his behalf to settle the claim. This was our first experience with a claim, and although not ideal, it seems to have satisfied our customer so we are satisfied as well at this time. I moved the review up to 3 stars. And I will move it up again if we continue to experience positive improvement with the Route team. I now recommend Route again, with the caveat that it would be a good idea to discuss expectations of claim communication. I'm unsure if the issue our customer faced with the mobile app for making claims has been fixed. We'll do what we can to look in to that. It would have likely avoided much of this review. ### 5/1/2020 Very disappointed with Route. I had high hopes with the service. Our customers were nearly unanimously selecting to pay for the extra coverage. Our first claim involved an unhappy customer who received a badly damaged product shipped by UPS. The customer was unable to file a claim with route. Repeated attempts to contact sales failed. Unsure if the people who sold us this are even working there now. Had some success with technical support connecting us with a product support person who sent a curt email that Route was experiencing "high volumes of claims due to Covid 19". I am really disappointed in Route and we've disabled it in our cart. If the matter is resolved I'll change this review. At this point I'd give it fewer than one star for the money they collected versus the service they have provided. Avoid this app.

2nd UPDATE: Route was working fine on my website for a few months then randomly stopped. The toggle wouldn't turn on and my customers could not add it to their purchases. I tried contacting Route via 3 different methods. It has been over a week and no response. UPDATE: After seeing my review, a Route rep contacted me. It seems they were not receiving my support requests. He was very helpful and got the app installed correctly on my website. It is working properly, no complaints. PREVIOUS REVIEW: There's no support whatsoever. Wrote them several times and received no response. Couldn't get the app installed properly. I worry that if my customers actually need to file a claim, it'll end up getting ignored like my support requests.

If you care about your customers' experience like we do, you would stay away from this service. They are great in sales but they don't offer any technical support or customer service. Many customers have been adding the insurance to their purchase which was ok, however claims which have been made by our customers have been left unanswered (almost a week now) with no sign of them getting answered. Only following up with the sales rep made them ask us for which claims are open. Thanks but not thanks.