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Canva Reviews Summary

Canva is recognized for its user-friendly design tools and extensive asset library, appealing to both novice and experienced creators. However, significant concerns have emerged regarding its customer service, particularly the absence of a phone support option and difficulties in navigating the cancellation process. Many users report frustrations with billing practices, technical glitches, and inadequate responses to complaints, leading to dissatisfaction and feelings of being undervalued. Overall, while Canva's platform is praised for its functionality, the company's customer service approach appears to undermine its reputation, prompting calls for improvements in support and communication.

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Spam emails
December 19, 2020

I get 5-10 spam emails form these crooks a week! They use scamed email addresses! Not a trust worthy company!

Date of experience: December 19, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Horrible customer service
December 15, 2020

Beware if you are considering using this company. My real estate team has used Canva for several years and sadly, we are just learning that their customer service is non-existent. We recently had an unfortunate situation with multiple files/designs being deleted and it's remained unresolved for over a month despite our expressed urgency. We have filed an issue report via the website countless times and corresponded with a vague named rep, who offered no answers and now doesn't even respond to any update requests. All we get is that "It's been escalated." Of course, there's no phone number to reach an actual person. Some response, either way, would be expected as a customer given the deletion of files that we need desperate help retrieving and no one gets back to us. You realize the true support a company has when something goes wrong. Even though we are paying customers, they have not been at all helpful. We have waited patiently and are now going to have to pay a 3rd party to recreate files that should be available in a server from a company that houses all our graphic design files. We will have to stop using this company unless a quick resolution is offered.
Update: As soon as we posted this we started receiving emails from Canva but again, now over 2 months into our issue, we still have no resolution. I've been contacted by half a dozen people with the same email address. Each one tells me how it's been escalated... for 2 months

Date of experience: December 15, 2020
Italy
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Intuitivo, pratico, con suggerimenti frequenti e idee innovative per le immagini che cerco. Buone iniziative anche per i social. Anche per i neofiti

Date of experience: December 13, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Rip off scam
December 4, 2020

I unfortunately subscribed to canva pro but then decided I didn't want it so tried to cancel within a week. They couldn't find the subscription but I now see two months of charges. Of course there is no reply to my email. What a scam they are...

Date of experience: December 4, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Beware if you are considering using this company. My real estate team has used Canva for several years and sadly, we are just learning that their customer service is non-existent. We recently had an unfortunate situation with multiple files/designs being deleted and it's remained unresolved for over a month despite our expressed urgency. We have filed an issue report via the website countless times and corresponded with a vague named rep, who offered no answers and now doesn't even respond to any update requests. All we get is that "It's been escalated." Of course, there's no phone number to reach an actual person. Some response, either way, would be expected as a customer given the deletion of files that we need desperate help retrieving and no one gets back to us. You realize the true support a company has when something goes wrong. Even though we are paying customers, they have not been at all helpful. We have waited patiently and are now going to have to pay a 3rd party to recreate files that should be available in a server from a company that houses all our graphic design files. We will have to stop using this company unless a quick resolution is offered.

Date of experience: December 3, 2020
New Zealand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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We used Canva once but when we went to shut down our account we were unable to, as somehow the account was under an out of date email address, which was super odd. After being charged $20 per month for several months and multiple messages to Canva customer service, I had to cancel my credit card to stop the charges. Poor customer care from Canva.

Date of experience: November 30, 2020
Peru
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I paid and have proof of purchase 12 days ago. I am unable to use pro functions and site signals that I need to upgrade! I have written several times and NOTHING except canned automatic replies. The contact form won't allow for more than one screenshot. I literally saw a message that said, "We are receiving more messages than usual. Duh. Hire more people. There are plenty of folks needing work these days!

Date of experience: November 20, 2020
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Annoying site issues
November 18, 2020

The site has bugs and crashes all the time. It says "problem saving your design" and then starts over and over. I am looking for a good alternative.

Date of experience: November 18, 2020
Canada
10 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Ok
November 17, 2020

Canva lets you create posters and stuff like that. You also don't have to download it. You can simply search it up and BOOM! There it is! Although there's a little issue. It doesn't let you create your own. You can only use the ones in Canva and change the words on there but you can't choose your own. If Canva can fix that little issue then it'll be great!

Date of experience: November 16, 2020
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SCAMMERS
November 11, 2020

Don't use Canva- impossible to cancel! Keep charging my account and I never use their product. They do not reply to emails- causing me great stress. DO NOT USE CANVA

Date of experience: November 11, 2020
Virginia
2 reviews
24 helpful votes
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Nothing infuriates me more than when you take every step prescribed to make sure the process is working only to have an epic fail delivered in return for your time, money and effort. Look at the proof (with the crop marks extended so there's no debate about what was supposed to be in and what was out of the crops) and you tell me if the card reflects the PROOF. The print version doesn't even agree with the mini proof on the card delivered with the order. No quality control going on here.

UPDATE: Canva quickly responded to my complaint and arranged a replacement order that arrived in a week and was as per the proof. Very happy with the corrective measure. Shame they couldn't just get it right the first time.

Date of experience: November 3, 2020
Texas
1 review
16 helpful votes
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The worst customer service. I've gone from love to serious distrust in a matter of weeks. I decided to try Canva Pro using a 3rd party promotion code. The code did not apply and I immediately contacted customer service to have them help me fix it (why not cancel the order and reprocess it?) Customer service is slow to respond and unhelpful - there is a lot of finger pointing and 'there is nothing we can do but wait. I had to get my bank involved. Be very careful as you are powerless once they have your credit card.

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Australia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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UNFAIR CHARGE
October 26, 2020

I wish I had seen all these reviews about Canva's charging after the free trial. I cancelled my account and got charged days after. I have not received an answer from the customer service until now. I am very upset with the whole situation.

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Useless Support Team
October 22, 2020

The worst support team you will ever come across. Have been trying to resolve an issue for weeks now

Date of experience: October 22, 2020
GB
1 review
32 helpful votes
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Unfair charge
October 15, 2020

My card was charged for a service I have never subscribed. No warning email, nothing! I was just "surprise by a year subscription invoice and the credit card I used to use to buy single material in their website charged for £107, so frustrating and disappointed with this service trying to sneak in automatic charges without proper warning. I have now cancelled my "subscription" straightaway and I want to see if a refund will be given.

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
Norway
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Tried a free trial, managed to cancel it in time. Money has been drawn from my account, let's see if I'll get my money back. Wouldn't recommend anyone to use this service because of these trial-issues. Otherwise a good service, sure. But being scammed is never fun:-( Being drawn 120$ when you can barely afford yourself sucks. What a company.

Date of experience: September 29, 2020
NL
1 review
1 helpful vote
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BULLCRAP
September 27, 2020

THIS SITE IS $#*!! 1! 111! 11! 11!
IT SUDDENLY REMOVED ALL MY DESIGNS I WORKED SO HARD ON! 11! 11! 11! 1! 1! 1!
I HAVE TO START OVER! 11! 1! 11!

Date of experience: September 27, 2020
GB
1 review
24 helpful votes
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I subscribed to try product and decided I didnt want it. Recieved reminder that they would take a payment and I clicked the support link to cancel the subscription and it brought me to an error page. I went online to try and do it myself - I thought it worked as I got the screen shot below, but this did not work. Then they took payment and have not responded. I have just been made redundant and cannot afford this - I hope no-one else suffers like this - this, this is appalling.

Date of experience: September 18, 2020
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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THIEVES... BEWARE!
September 15, 2020

Worst customer service ever! I purchased the pro package in march of this year. Everything seemed fine. Then in June or July I noticed I was no longer a pro member anymore (which I never canceled) but they have been taking 12.95 out of my account every month. I've emailed them several times and they take over 10 days to respond and they said they cant find my account. I have 2 and they claimed they couldn't find either. They wanted me to jump through several hoops just to prove its my account etc. so I'm asking a question which took over 10 days for them to respond in which I didn't noticed they responded until 4 days later. And because I "failed to respond they CLOSED MY TICKET" I told them its unfair seeing that they take over 2 weeks to respond and close my ticket after only 4 days? I've just decided to stop payment because they are nothing but a SCAM!

Date of experience: September 15, 2020
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Basically, canva got breached for their trash security and got my money STOLEN. I have been robbed away from 1500 pounds, and I'm abruptly really annoyed. Canva might seem legit but they have let many users get pwn'd and robbed from.

Date of experience: September 3, 2020