Do not get sold by their demos and promises.
Socialapps.tech is a 3rd party plugin developer for socialengine. And I made the mistake of diving right into the project and bought the full suite of plugins from them. Their demo sites and website looks good, looks like something that can work out of the box like that. BUT
- many many bugs on the plugins. It just doesn't work as advertised and raising a ticket takes days to be answered and resolved. Like the other comments, reasons like covid, staff falling sick etc are what they say
- They will reply on the ticket that the item is resolved. But it is not, and it is the same problem that you have to raise a ticket again. VERY frustrating.
- You'd think their plugins should be updated to support the latest version of socialengine. But no, they can tell me that the plugins are not updated for this version, and those that are, again are very buggy
- The whole interface is inconsistent, the UI is wonky in many areas. Mobile view is another set of problems that I have to troubleshoot and again it takes forever to fix the problem. Seemingly small issues like Emoticons displaying as garbage after you post it CANNOT be fixed after months. They fix something, they will break something else.
I have given up on socialengine and socialapps.tech. I have tried for a year plus to plow through it, having invested over $3000 into the website, plugins, support, channelize, custom work, and still getting problems.
The initial premise is very promising. Their sales staff will promise you the skies and after you purchase, their tech team will screw it up.
Their glowing reviews come from the customers immediately after the website is setup. Before I get a chance to work thru the problems and experience their "expertise" and slow response and bugs, they will ask for a review to "encourage the team to do better for me". I gave such a review and deeply regret it.
18 April 2022
Unprompted review