business logo of Shutterfly

ShutterflyReviews 984

1.6
How would you rate Shutterfly?
grey star
grey star
grey star
grey star
grey star

Shutterfly Reviews Summary

Shutterfly's reputation reflects a mix of strong product quality and significant customer service challenges. Many users appreciate the quality of photo books and personalized items, often highlighting the durability of products. However, recurring complaints about service delays, order inaccuracies, and inadequate customer support overshadow these positives. Customers frequently report issues with refunds, communication breakdowns, and technical difficulties on the platform. This blend of satisfaction with product quality and frustration over service reliability suggests a need for Shutterfly to enhance its customer service approach to improve overall customer experience and retention.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
295
value
277
shipping
284
returns
169
quality
246
This company does not typically respond to reviews
Ohio
13 reviews
40 helpful votes
Follow Dawn A.
Unfollow Dawn A.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Terrible
June 1, 2018

They advertise as image storage, but once you upload - you can not get your images back easily. One at a time or they offer a complicated email delivery option of batch 500 at a time. I have over 5000 images and I have no way to get them unless I want to try and remember which 500 I had sent to me. This is insane and theft in my opinion.

Date of experience: June 1, 2018
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
Follow Nena M.
Unfollow Nena M.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

I made an account on shutterfly to be able to send a loved one who lives far away pictures. I sent a few, as a test to see how long it would take for them to get there. It originally showed me a date, which was 2-3 days after I sent them. I was like wow, okay that's great. Finally a week went by, no email confirming delivery. So I went to their site to check, it still said it was sitting at a post office. I checked again a few days later, no update. I sent them an email, according to them it was "lost in transit" and they sent me the pictures to my house. When I got them, they weren't at all what I wanted printed. The prints were garbage, and 2 were cut. Now i'm having issues with my account, and all the customer service chat keeps telling me is to reset my password. I was asked to identify myself as the actual "owner" of the account, which I did immediately. Still no answers, no emails. Nothing. A word of advice, you're better off getting your prints at a local drugstore or something.

Date of experience: May 25, 2018
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
Follow p g.
Unfollow p g.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

No book
May 21, 2018

My Daughter order a book for my wife for Mother's day. She order the book on the 8th if the month. Was scheduled to be delivered on the 14th. IT is the 21st and still no book. She is 15 and a minor and I pay for the book on my credit card. They will not speak to me because she has the account. So much for teaching how to do thing on her own. I can't even help her fix the issue. Will never use them again.

Date of experience: May 21, 2018
Colorado
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
Follow Judy B.
Unfollow Judy B.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Awesome service
May 21, 2018

Great prices and quality is awesome! I have been ordering from shutterfly for years. I love how easy it is to order and its fast service.

Date of experience: May 20, 2018
Idaho
1 review
3 helpful votes
Follow Mar F.
Unfollow Mar F.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Grad Announcements
May 18, 2018

I ordered Grad Announcements. Even though they were labeled as 'cards' they came on thin photo paper. Such a disappointment!

Date of experience: May 18, 2018
Indiana
1 review
5 helpful votes
Follow Karen M.
Unfollow Karen M.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

False Advertising
May 10, 2018

Email for 12 free magnets. Shipping costs over 19 $? I asked if I would receive 10 separate packages and they said no only 1 package. This was the economy freight for less than 1lb package?

Date of experience: May 10, 2018
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
Follow Samantha S.
Unfollow Samantha S.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Waste of money
April 24, 2018

I just spent over $70 for prints and having them delivered to my house, they all look horrible. I cant use any of them theyre fuzzy and bit-mat which is extremely upsetting considering I got them from the devices that actually took the photos. Theres absolutely no reason for the extremely low quality photos I revived. I am very upset will never use this company again. I am out $70and Im going to have to reprint all these photos from a different company. Do not waste your time and money.

Date of experience: April 24, 2018
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
Follow Karen S.
Unfollow Karen S.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Can't delete photos!
April 23, 2018

Ordered all my "FREE" stuff. The items, which could fit in a small priority mail box were going to cost $80 to ship! Now I want to delete photos I uploaded, but can't figure out out how. I've emailed at least 4 times. They keep sending the same answer, but nothing matches what I see on my screen, and I've tried on both browser and app. In general:
Customer help is non existent
There are no free items
Software in both app and browser is confusing.
Browser and app do not share pics
After trying for 3 days to get freebies and prints I gave. I went to Walgreens site. Ordered my prints and picked them up-took me 1 hour total, including going to store to pick up!

Date of experience: April 23, 2018
New York
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
Follow BJ M.
Unfollow BJ M.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Shutterfly is a Scam
April 12, 2018

Terrible site: mobile app is ridiculous to use. They uploaded THEIR choice of my photos- not the ones I would have picked and left out others I would have wanted. I finally deleted their app from my phone. A day later I received an email saying my credit card was billed over 200 dollars for three books. I immediately told them this was a mistake, I did not submit an order because I was still attempting to edit my photos. Their app is so crappy, its a federal production to edit or change photos. In addition pages were left blank and they say youll get 100 photos but you do not. I am contacting better business bureau and NY Attorney General about their dishonesty. Steer clear and do business with an honest place.

Date of experience: April 12, 2018
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
Follow Vanessa C.
Unfollow Vanessa C.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

This is a scam. I decided to give Shutterfly a try after receiving a coupon with a Christmas photo purchase. The site was very hard to use. I manage to create and preview a plaque I wanted to buy. I ordered a plaque and received my "order" after 10 days. To my surprise I received a blank plaque. Shutterfly is refusing to refund or simply send me what I originally ordered. Their response to me has been via email only. There is no way to contact anyone over the phone. They never answer the phone calls.
The email response stated that they sent what I ordered. That I should have previewed my project! You can't order without a preview!
And if the previewed showed a blank plaque why would anyone order that?!
They simply used a coupon to steal money from me. And they will do the same to you!

Date of experience: March 20, 2018
Michigan
1 review
4 helpful votes
Follow J G.
Unfollow J G.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

The site is incredibly confusing to navigate. But more importantly, you need to have all photos fully edited prior to uploading them. Although Shutterfly offers in-site editing, it's mostly a joke. The server gets confused if you attempt to edit a photo that you've already placed on a project, and the editing tools available are weak by late 1990s standards, let alone 20 years later. All this for a premium price tag? No thanks. Use another company if you need real features. That said, the books themselves are well made, if you make it that far...

Date of experience: March 15, 2018
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Tony K.
Unfollow Tony K.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

I compared this site to some others like Walmart. The Shutterfly site is hard to follow and does not do a good job of uploading photos so that you can see the card in advance of purchasing it. It also struggles to effectively upload the address and event information. Overall, very disappointed with this site and I will not use Shutterfly in the future.

Date of experience: March 13, 2018
Idaho
1 review
6 helpful votes
Follow Jacob H.
Unfollow Jacob H.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Terrible Shipping
March 9, 2018

I worked on a photo book for 3 months and I paid extra money for shipping to get it by Friday. On Friday morning I got a text saying that it wouldn't arrive until Monday. I needed the book to be there by Friday because the person that I was giving it to would only be there for the weekend. The worst part was that when I ordered the book it said "Guaranteed Delivery Friday" and now I have to spend more money to ship the book out to the person and not share the experience of giving it to them in person. I couldn't be more furious. I'm never ordering through Shutterfly again. Use I different company to print your books.

Date of experience: March 9, 2018
Florida
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
Follow Kay D.
Unfollow Kay D.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Fir storing and ordering photos and photo products Shutterfly is very good, provided you don't do groovebook.

Date of experience: March 8, 2018
Texas
6 reviews
14 helpful votes
Follow Ellen L.
Unfollow Ellen L.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

I ordered products from Shutterfly several times. But there are couple things that I hate! First of all, they dont give anything FREE as they say, they actually charge a crazy amount for shipping so we end up paying the product. Then after they charge a lot of shipping they take FOREVER to send the product. Ridiculous! The quality is not bad but the advertising is completely FAKE!

Date of experience: February 19, 2018
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow zahra p.
Unfollow zahra p.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Shocking
February 13, 2018

I ordered tow pictures print, oh my god never expected such bad bad quality not only print is so cheap, bad color, they are even cut my picture, i have half body and full ceiling

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
Georgia
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
Follow Anna T.
Unfollow Anna T.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

ABSOLUTELY A NIGHTMARE
January 30, 2018

FIVE TIMES PRODUCTION ERROR:
YES! You read that correctly, they printed my order the wrong time five times. After telling me they were going to watch it come out right, the pictures on my save the dates were crooked and not how I had them on my preview when I placed the order, I went for the third time when they told me to change the structure of the card, AGAIN received them wrong, and wrong again after that, MONICA a supervisor there laughed at me when I was complaining and almost in tears from how upset I was. She was a total $#*!. I have never had such terrible customer service in my life. Then when I wasn't expecting it, and after they refunded me my money, they sent me even more and those too were wrong. I HAVE FIVE $#*!TERFLY BOXES AND TONS OF ENVELOPES AT MY HOUSE AND WRONG SAVES THE DATES! OH MY GOD! CAN YOU SAY NIGHTMARE?

Date of experience: January 30, 2018
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
Follow Lauren G.
Unfollow Lauren G.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

I made a small 8x8 20 page book, I individually formatted each page but when I went to pay I was being charged a fee for their formatting. After speaking on the life chat, a representative referred me to an FAQ that answered my question so I closed the chat. I was then made aware that removing the fee involved extensive changes to my book. I then proceeded to ask via message on facebook if there was an alternative answer. The customer service was atrocious, instead of clearly admitting the flaws of the program that trap you into paying unnecessary fees I was repeatedly given round about answers, and generally not being helped. It is not clear that a so called storytelling format will garner an extra charge and that the charge will remain whether or not you use the formatting. As I had completely changed the format to suit my needs I thought it would not be to difficult to remove the fee. I was incorrect. After trying to do as directed and change the format to remove the fee everything was changed. While the original chat representative was courteous, the facebook response was not. I think shutterfly has poor interface and poor service over all. I will be paying the fee and ordering the book if only for the time I have already lost on it. I will never use the site again, just simply for fear or wracking up some other ridiculous fees that no one can help you remove without destroying all that effort.

Date of experience: January 27, 2018
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
Follow Carrie S.
Unfollow Carrie S.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

Absolutely horrible
January 26, 2018

I placed an order for a photo album and the book I recieved was all wrong. They printed the wrong cover and some of the photos I had saved were not in the book. I emailed their customer service and was told I shouldve double checked my project before submitting (which I did) and that their printing company goes by the saved project. I was not happy with that response so I contacted someone else who credited me another book. So I redid the whole book again and double, then triple checked, and placed my order. I received it in the mail today and they somehow managed to screw it up even worse than the first time! And I had to end up paying for the shipping on this book so now Ive spent over $60 dollars and have two books that were made incorrectly!

Date of experience: January 26, 2018
Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow Dana K.
Unfollow Dana K.
Send Message
Share Review
Report Review

A Simple Request Not Met
January 25, 2018

It blows my mind that Shutterfly rather canceled my order than to meet my simple request. I asked not to stretch the canvas print over a stretcher bar to which the canvas is stapled. I just wanted to receive a rolled canvas print instead since I will be traveling and need to be able to put it in my suitcase. I would say a pretty simple request. They would just skip the last step in the process. But no, they couldn't do it.

Date of experience: January 25, 2018

From the business

Create photo books, personalize photo cards & stationery, and share photos with family and friends at Shutterfly.com.


shutterfly.com
Founded in 1999
Redwood City, CA, United States
+161