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Bold Subscription alternative?

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Get inspired by success stories of brands migrating from Bold to Loop
Reviews after migrating from Bold
"We needed to switch from BOLD. The loop team was EXTREMELY quick at replying, they made the entire process a breeze, & they helped us brainstorm ideas for making the most successful subscription service."
"More professional and quick than Bold customer service and I am excited to see how easy our lives become with our subscriptions due to this app!"
"We switched from Bold Recurring to Loop
and it is a 100000% better"
"The transition was a little bit difficult as we had a lot of weird pricing mixed in with our old Bold subscription but the Loop team did everything they could to make it seamless"

Advantages of Loop over Bold Commerce when it comes to subscription management

Last updated: 5 November, 2023
Customer Portal
Easily show a rewards banner inside customer portal. Fully customizable.
1-click login for customer portal is enabled with multi-pass authentication.
Bundles
Build your buy more save more bundles in less than a day.
Select from Range or Fixed bundle type.
Sell bundle as one SKU and unbundle using Loop Flows.
Subscription Gamification
Show rewards inside upcoming order email.
Set up rules to Gift Product A to Subscribers of Product B after x orders
Automatically rewards subscribers on special days- BF/CM & 4th of July
Cancellation Flow
Engage customers with Video or GIF which helps in reducing churn.
Setup multiple alternative actions for different cancellation reason
Offer condition based discounts. Only available for 1-time use. Discounts can be customized for each cancellation reason
Analytics & Reports
Inbuilt trends of customer cancellations & performance of different alternative actions
No support for downloadable reports
Subscription Operations
Auto-update price logic- If the product price changes inside Shopify, then it also changes inside Loop. No double work required
Share customer portal links directly with customers from the Admin.
Create multiple Bulk Actions with conditions. Some popular use-cases during BF/CM: Tag customers, swap SKUs, add higher discounts to a particular product
Quick Action URLs
With BF/CM campaigns on reactivation or engagement, create a smooth experience from email/SMS to customer portal.Authentication is built-in into our Quick Action URL (no login is required)
In-built Dunning
Setup dynamic retries (more than 2). Charge the customer in 2 billing cycles
Take action on the subscription order when the payment doesn't go through- Skip, Delay or Incentivise with rewards
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How Loop is better?
Monthly pricing
$499 (Monhtly)
$399 (monthly)
Transaction fee
1% + 20¢
0.75%
No. of Shopify App Store reviews
119
170
White-glove onboarding
White Label customer portal
Dedicated Launch Engineering team
Dedicated Customer Experience team
Skio
Loop
1-click checkout with Shop Pay
Password-less login
Magic Link login
If customer has logged in to the portal then if they just go to login page then they are automatically logged-in (we save session locally)
Conditional cancel flows
Loop is better. More about it in Loop Features
Conditional cancel flow that doesn't require externally hosted app + url
Merge subscription permanently
Split a subscription
Loop provide functionality to enable customers to remove products from subscription for onetime if they dont want them in their next upcoming order. This way, the customer doesnt have to split the subscription and can manage their next order items in the same subscription.
NO
Create subscriptions manually
Multipass support
Gift on skip
NO
Half skip
In-portal banners
Password login
Family plans
NO
Native SMS subscription management
Loop currently replies on Klaviyo, Attentive, PostScript, Recart for SMS integration.
NO
1-time upsells
Quick actions
Loop is better - check quick actions on Loop Features
Prepaid subscriptions
Minimum / maximum number of subscription renewals
Audit logs
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Many out of stock policies
Loop has more options to handle OOS.
Out of stock notifications
Supports Klaviyo trigger so you can let customers know if a product is out of stock
Billing windows
Fine-tune day/hour range for billing customers
No-code copy editing
Change any of the text in the subscription portal without calling in a developer
Multi-currency support
Retry failed charges
Set retry intervals, maximum retries, and cancel after # of retries
Custom dunning flows
Send customizable emails/SMS after failed payments with an option to reset payment method
Skio
Loop
Build-a-box
Increase AOV and reduce churn with build-a-box, invite-only while we cover more cases
Volume discounts
Out of the box, pairs well with build-a-box
Sample packs/trials
SKU swapping, native checkout
Surprise and delight
(e.g. free product on order 2)
Skio
Loop
Webhooks
GraphQL APIs
Skio
Loop
Klaviyo integration
Gorgias app
Attentive integration
Postscript integration
Source Medium integration
Peel integration
Show rewards banner inside portal
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Payment Processors Supported
FAQs on Loop as a Bold Subscriptions Alternative
Q:
Do you migrate subscriptions from both Bold Subscriptions V1 & Subscriptions for Shopify Checkout? 
A:

Yes! We have done migrations both from Bold Subscriptions V1 (external checkout hosted on recurringcheckout.com) & Bold Subscriptions for Shopify checkout.

Q:
I have a large subscriber base on Bold Subscriptions. How much time will migration take?
A:

Usually most of the migrations happen within 2-3 weeks. The answer to this question depends on any complexities during the migration. Since we have migrated more than 350+ brands, we have already dealt with various situations and scenarios.

Q:
What are all payment providers that you integrate with?
A:

We support the following payment providers: Shopify Pay, Stripe, Authorize.net, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Paypal Express.
In case your payment provider is not listed here, please feel free to get in touch with us and we can further evaluate if we can support them.

Q:
Do you support customizations within your app?
A:

Yes! Depending on your use case, we can customise our app to solve complex subscription models. Email us at contact@loopwork.co if you have a custom integration that you'd like to talk to us about.

Q:
If you have a custom integration that you'd like to talk to us about.
A:

We integrate with 35+ marketing, loyalty and referral tools- Klaviyo, Gorgias, Attentive, Recart, Smile, Stamped, Peel Insights and more. We also support customer integrations.
Email us at contact@loopwork.co if you have a custom integration that you'd like to talk to us about.

Q:
Do you also migrate bundle subscriptions on BOLD commerce?
A:

Yes! We have migrated bundle subscriptions from BOLD commerce (using Bold Bundles) to Loop subscriptions in the past.

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