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Adrian R.
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

We really enjoyed creating our own swag and using the entire experience online. We had control of every step of the way and visbility to all aspects from shipping to pricing. I also personally love the ability to ship swag to our team members which are all remotely and international. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

I can't find anything I dislike about the company or the experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our team is fully remote and international, which makes Swag distribution a nightmare. SwagUp allowed us to handle everything with simple experience. We can also rely on Swagup for other Swag distribution for new and existing customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SwagUp Overview

What is SwagUp?

SwagUp is the only End to End Swag Management Platform. We believe that swag is incredibly powerful, but also incredibly overcomplicated to use. Everything we do is centered around making the process of creating and shipping swag as simple as possible. Our platform gives you the power to manage product design, creation, purchasing, inventory management, streamlined distribution, and global logistics all in one spot. Our powerful capabilities such as Redeem (beautiful gifting experience) , Shops (build your own stunning stores right inside our platform), and integrations (trigger swag distribution based on events in your HRIS, CRM etc) give you everything you need to put swag management on auto-pilot. We have vertically operated the process by controlling our own tech and operations so that we can deliver an unmatched customer experience. Head to swagup.com to learn more!

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Product Description

An assortment of high quality branded items bundled together, Consist of various items, from notebooks to sweatshirts and beyond, Given out to clients or employees to build brand awareness & loyalty.


Seller Details
Seller
SwagUp
Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
Piscataway, New Jersey
Twitter
@SwagUp
2,696 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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110 employees on LinkedIn®

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1.0 out of 5
"Gone downhill"
The user interface is really nice in SwagUp - you can tell they've put some thought into how to quickly and easily navigate the app. There are stil...
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Kaitlyn L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great customer service for fast paced demance"
Hands on customer service experience is top notch. It is great to connect with people rather than just a robot chat. The team is also helpful thro...
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"Unprofessional practices, non-existent customer service, responsible for losing $$$ in product"
SwagUp has an attractive website with an easy-to-use portal for sourcing and ordering merchandise. That's the extent of the positive traits for Swa...
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SwagUp Media

SwagUp Demo - SwagUp Platform Dashboard View
SwagUp Platform dashboard view gives you an overview of your designs, orders, shipments, and notifications. You can even download some reports as needed.
SwagUp Demo - SwagUp Platform Inventory View
Easily manage your inventory to place reorders or create shipments. If you have swag being stored in your garage, send it over to us!
SwagUp Demo - SwagUp Orders View
Our powerful orders view allows you to control product designs and shipping or warehousing instructions in one place. Begin loading up shipments at any time while working on an upcoming order.
SwagUp Demo - SwagUp Platform Redeem View
Autoship your swag with Redeem by SwagUp! Easily collect your recipient information and automatically create shipments. As long as you have swag in your inventory and credits in your account, it will get sent without you needing to lift a finger.
SwagUp Demo - SwagUp Shipment Creation View
Create one-off shipments, or send to thousands via CSV upload or integration, all via one intuitive user experience
SwagUp Demo - SwagUp Shops
SwagUp Shops are shops made simple. They are a place for brands to build out custom storefronts to help distribute swag into the hands of their audience! A no code, no dev, no mess, self service shop product. Finally, a shop solution that makes sense.
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

The user interface is really nice in SwagUp - you can tell they've put some thought into how to quickly and easily navigate the app. There are still a slightly overwhelming amount of areas in the app that require you to click around until you find what you're looking for, but overall it's pretty easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

If you value a vendor that does a good job, then avoid SwagUp - it has been a disappointment. When we first started using it, the customer service and performance seemed to be very good. In more recent years though, that has all changed - so much so that we're now planning to switch to a competitor. Here's what I dislike about SwagUp:

- Unreliable. Seriously, they have one job which is to get the swag that you order to where you want it to go - and you'd better be ready to monitor your swag shipments because in the last 2-3 months we've had two instances where I submitted a swag shipment request, only to discover days/weeks later that SwagUp simply didn't ship the swag (it was sitting in a "pending" state). Reaching out to customer support means waiting the requisite "one business day" before anyone let's you know what is going on.

- Poor swag selection. When researching alternative options, pretty much everyone has a bigger selection than SwagUp does now-adays

- Poor customer service. I've had a couple instances where I chatted in to support, and could see that my message was read - and never received a response. One time I even had an inquiry (about international shipping) where I sent follow-up messages (eg. "Is anyone online?"), could see that it had all been read by someone, and still never got a response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sourcing and managing swag inventory. Streamlining shipment of swag to various locations without me needing to head into a UPS or Fedex to ship it myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kaitlyn L.
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Learning & Development Business Partner
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

Hands on customer service experience is top notch. It is great to connect with people rather than just a robot chat. The team is also helpful through changing needs and many questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

The production time is tough however we are excited to have expedited production options with our membership Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

New Hire Swag for our growing organization and recognition and gifting for across the organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

SwagUp has an attractive website with an easy-to-use portal for sourcing and ordering merchandise. That's the extent of the positive traits for SwagUp. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

Where to begin .. we used SwagUp for well over a year, and there has been nothing, but issues since we made the decision to not proceed with an Executive subscription and only use their services on an "as needed" basis.

Immediately, all customer service ceased. The only way we could contact any one at SwagUp was through their portal chat bot.

We also started having issues with international shipping services. Multiple times, shipments were flagged or held at customs (for several countries) due to improper invoice filing that was created on SwagUp's end. Each time these issues occurred, SwagUp never notified us. Typically, our recipients would alert us to the delays. When we would inform SwagUp via chat bot, they'd claim to investigate the issue, take days to respond (if at all) and would never actually resolve anything. If it was resolved, it was due to our company or the recipient's persistance with providing any documentation or information needed to progress the shipment.

This occurred another time with a shipment to China. Unfortunately, SwagUp went so long without notifying us or the customer about the delay that the items were destroyed due to failure to collect. This cost us hundreds in merchandise, not to mention shipping. When I reported this issue, I was informed that SwagUp would not refund us for any of the losses. What was most alarming is that the logged record of the shipment was removed from our dashboard in SwagUp, immediately after I expressed my frustration with SwagUp's lack of accountability and the support member offered to connect me with their Customer Care Department, which never happened. Our account also now seems to be blocked from connecting to the chat bot. We can send messages, we can see that the support team is active, but they never respond to us.

I reported this issue on May 21, it's been a month and I still haven't gotten a response from any actual human at SwagUp. This company will leave you high and dry. Buyers beware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

Originally, SwagUp was a great way for us to create personalized promotional gifts and kits for our recipients. However, it's progressively become a service we regret paying for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Micah C.
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

The ease of use and transparency into what is going on for our merchandising. Most companies in this space are old school with no tech platform. This is far beyond what I've seen out there and it makes this process so much easier to manage for internal SWAG and external client gifts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

Not much at all. They continue to do product development so some areas of their platform are slightly limited but they are very open to feedback and putting things on the roadmap for development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better transpency into what we want to buy, the designs, and to build larger overall packages for our team and our clients. Other vendors are more old school with just a ton of back and forth emailing. SwagUp allows us to manage it all through a login, build our own products, store them easily, then ship them out when we need to. It is much easier to manage and allows us to operate at a higher level than what we were doing previously. It took 6 months of back and forth emails with a typical provider to do what we were able to do with SwagUp in one afternoon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SwagUp?

Swagup has a great selection of items and integrates with Shopify. I like that there is a quick turn around time for mockups and I am able to easily provide quick feedback about any changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

I have expereinced some issues with products not syncing properly with Shopify. When these problems arrise I am able to quickly get in contact with customer service but once I am in contact with them they have not been quick to provide a solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to send swag to new hires as well as customers all over the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jesse K.
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

Ability to have items held in a central warehouse, and shipped as needed direct to employees. Easy ordering and good support in purchasing. Also love the integration with our HR system Rippling where I can automatically ship new employees swag on their start date. One less thing I have to think about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

Just that some product pricing is a bit higher than other places but it is due to the extra costs to store products on our behlaf. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

Proving swag to employees, investors and others. Also in the distribution of swag to the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicki L.
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

Best thing about SwagUp? Without a doubt, the fixed shipping rates, even internationally. As a low-volume supplier, I hate that shipping has typically cost way more than the value of the items I'm sending. I also used to hate that shipping was an unknown. SwagUp has this covered. Clear, simple shipping pricing - and I can buy credits in advance. Easy. Add to that polite, helpful & responsive customer support, a good choice of products and an easy online dashboard to use - my swag life is super simple and that makes me happy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

Downside, currently no integration with Assembly (which would be awesome) - but I know that they are working on it. (Thanks to the Founder reaching out for direct feedback - which I was happy to provide.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can get branded gifts, packaged well, sent to my network of contractors and suppliers, simply, easily, and cost effectively. They arrive looking good. Everyone's happy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul R.
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

When things were working, it was a pretty low friction way to send swag to our users. We were generally happy with the product quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

An attractive feature for us was the ability to send our users redeem links, so we wouldn't need their address. This took way longer to set up than we expected. Then one day they randomly deactivated our redeem system, while leaving the pages live for users to enter their data into. It took an inventory review on our side to determine there was more in stock than there should be to get them to look into the issue.

Oh, and they're happy to announce pricing changes with one days notice.

Would not recommend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

Swagup saves having a warehouse full of stuff, collecting addresses, and mailing things out.

Of course they might break their own software and stop mailing things out, or change their pricing with your inventory in their warehouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fraser S.
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Managing General Partner
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

I love how easy it is to work with SwagUp. They have the highest quality products I've ever come across in this space and their team is fantastic!!! I also like how easy it is to have my orders delivered to the furthest and most remote places in the world! They're awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

Nothing; they're better than every single corporate merch company I've ever come across and I've used a lot! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

They make ordering branded merch so easy and they're the most user friendly company in the space and have the best quality!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about SwagUp?

SwagUp was very easy to use and any issues that I ran into were promtply taken care of by my account rep, Meg Schippe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SwagUp?

The smaller items, like the stickers, pens, keychain, etc., were down at the bottom of the box mixed in with the shredded paper, so I am having to open all the boxes and reshuffle things around prior to handing them out. We are taking the smaller items and putting them in the big tumbler we ordered to secure them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SwagUp solving and how is that benefiting you?

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