Gift and BOGO apps clone existing products as duplicates
Free gift and BOGO apps create duplicate copies of existing products, inflating product counts and breaking catalogue data for merchants across several apps
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 23 October 2023 · last reported 3 July 2025
What's going wrong
Merchants using several free gift and buy-X-get-Y apps report that promotions create new copies of products already in the shop instead of reusing the originals.
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 5 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.