Promo apps leak hidden duplicate products onto storefront
Promotion apps create hidden helper product copies that leak into the live storefront, cluttering catalogs or letting shoppers buy them at zero dollars.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 19 July 2020 · last reported 22 May 2024
What's going wrong
Merchants using different discount and bundle apps report the same failure: the app creates duplicate copies of a product, such as a bundle or a free gift, and those copies go live on the storefront.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.