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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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Connecticut
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Book cover designer
July 17, 2018

Had trouble setting up account. 24 hr turn around. Hmm. Trouble finding whether or not I can make a cover for a paperback book. Multiple email requests for help. No response. The site "book cover" is for e-books only. Terrible business model.

Date of experience: July 17, 2018
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Malditos ladrones
June 29, 2018

No pongan sus datos de tarjetas de credito en la pagina web or por la aplicacion, son unos estafadores.

Date of experience: June 29, 2018
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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How they got me ok so I called in to let them know I was not able to print my flyer or share it and I needed some help not even in print preview would Not be able to see the whole page. When I called I got foreign man telling ok I need you to log on to this web page and I can help after I explained probably 5mins or half my situation I thought he knew what he was doing. Then he logs on takes over my computer and tells me I have many viruses on my computer that explains why I can not print (b. S.), I knew off the back it was (b. S) he went ahead and told me I need to give him my last name and email which he should be able to pull up since I am a memeber and he needed a visa or master card. Why because he would be charging me $199 to get rid of my viruses. At this point I was pissed I told him I called for a printing issues and I know my computer was not detected with a virus for sure and I was recently hacked on Facebook humm very suspect. So I told him I wanted to speak to someone in customer service he yelled at me and told me NO! And said good bye have a nice day.!. Please explain to me wtf is going on because I am highly scared I changed all my passwords and account info due to this incident.

Date of experience: June 14, 2018
Tennessee
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Was very excited to use this and thought it might be the missing piece to my real estate business. I use similar sites to create flyers. Nothing seemed to load or be changed out easily and although I spent a significant amount of time on it, never ended up with anything I could use. Getting my money back.

Date of experience: June 6, 2018
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Awful.
May 31, 2018

Full of glitches, and there is absolutely NO customer service. I attempted to contact Canva twice, and asked to be followed up with... I am still waiting!

Date of experience: May 31, 2018
Mississippi
40 reviews
136 helpful votes
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The reason I gave it a one-star rating is due to the fact that when I try signing up, the buttons on the home page do not work, therefore I can't even so much as provide an email address.

Date of experience: May 10, 2018
Singapore
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Copy and paste always screws up somehow, very slow, glitch, the only reason to go on it is because of its templates. The editing and designing process however is a nightmare

Date of experience: May 8, 2018
Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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TERRIBLE! TONS OF GLITCHES! I guarantee all the 5 star reviews are from Canva workers... who don't want to waste their time talking to us.

Date of experience: May 4, 2018
Vermont
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I had business cards printed, they were wrong and there is NO way to talk to anyone about it... I am simply screwed. And on top of it, as I have been trying to get ANYONE to talk to me about this at all, they charged me another month of service so now I am out almost $100. I would shout obssenities if I thought it would help and I am NOT that kind of person. I HATE Canva.com now.

Other than that, it's a simple way to create media. If they didn't suck, they would be great. HIRE SOME HUMANS!

Date of experience: May 3, 2018
New Zealand
1 review
2 helpful votes
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BAD BAD BAD
April 26, 2018

It doesn't even let you undo and has a lot of problems glitches all the time. Overall review BAD or should I say DISGUSTINGLY TERRIBLE

Date of experience: April 25, 2018
Nepal
27 reviews
188 helpful votes
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The website is very useful to make designs online. There are tons of templates, designs, graphics to use.
The UI is easy to interact with, and most importantly this has replaced my Photoshop designing for creating contents.

Best go-to design website. Better than Fotor considering the regular android app updates.

Date of experience: April 6, 2018
Florida
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Stole my money.
March 28, 2018

I forgot to unsubscribe from Canva and was charged their monthly subscription $12.95. I then cancelled my subscription that same day right after getting charged. I asked for a refund. Based on their refund policy, which they issue refunds, one states "Failure to cancel trial on time". I have already submitted three tickets already and they haven't got back to me within their stated 24hr time frame... Its been two weeks still no response. THIEVES.

Date of experience: March 28, 2018
Kentucky
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Update... My wife paid for a year subscription to Canva in full. She cancelled a month prior to her subscription ending so she wouldn't be charge for another year. Instead of letting her finish out the year, they refunded the portion of the year and she lost access to all of her work. When she requested that they give her the final month of the year she paid for they said no and made her pay for a month at a higher price. The mistake was on their end and they are not willing to help a paying customer.

I had a horrible experience with cancelling my trial subscription and was charged two or three extra months and had to request a refund each time to get my money back. Good product, horrible customer service. No phone number or chat service, only email support.

Date of experience: March 26, 2018
Michigan
1 review
13 helpful votes
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This site is very helpful to me especially when doing some portfolio, resume, collage pictures and artworks. What I also like is that I could choose from bunch of different built-in templates in addition to that I could also create my own, and share them in different format to my friends and love ones..

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
India
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Superb collections
February 7, 2018

It is good website i liked it i dono y ppl always find negative in everything. For free no website will give lots of layouts, and photo quality also good. Respect there work if someone is helping us always don't try say bad.

Date of experience: February 7, 2018
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible
February 6, 2018

You can't share with others and you can't add google drawings to canva.
You could get free pictures by copying and pasting from google.
Not worth even going on canva. Go do something else.

Date of experience: February 6, 2018
Australia
2 reviews
28 helpful votes
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Awful templates that steal work off from designers. Stay away from this service if you want to keep the creative industry from going down the drain.

Date of experience: January 8, 2018
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Too many errors.
December 5, 2017

Previously, I used to love Canva, me and my kids have always used it. Recently, Canva had many bugs and had said Sorry, something went wrong. I found it very annoying as I had lost hours of work. I do not recommend this website, unless you want to waste your time.

Date of experience: December 5, 2017
Washington
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Canva is great for graphic design - within limits - but god forbid you ever have a problem with your billing or need any kind of support or customer service. It is nonexistent. You have to just troll through all their FAQ which answers everything BUT the question you want to know the answer to.

Date of experience: October 28, 2017
Florida
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Worst experience ever and a complete rip-off. I have never been more disappointed. Repeated emails with no response.

Date of experience: October 9, 2017