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Microsoft Channel
Microsoft Channel
by Microsoft
3.2
(324 reviews)
Best suited for stores looking to run ads on Microsoft's search and shopping networks.
Easily reach millions of new consumers and grow your business with Microsoft Advertising. With the Microsoft Channel app, Shopify merchants can now easily connect with millions of people at the intersection of work and life on the Microsoft Search Network and Microsoft Audience Network. The onboarding is simple, allowing you to showcase your products using paid and free listings and connect with consumers who are more likely to make a purchase online. With free listings, you are automatically able to show on the Microsoft Bing Shopping tab and the Microsoft Start Shopping tab. With the Microsoft Channel app, Shopify merchants can now easily connect with millions of people at the intersection of work and life on the Microsoft Search Network and Microsoft Audience Network. The onboarding is simple, allowing you to showcase your products using paid and free listings and connect with consumers who are more likely to make a purchase online. With free listings, you are automatically able to show on the Microsoft Bing Shopping tab and the Microsoft Start Shopping tab. more Grow your business with a large valuable audience Showcase your products with free and paid listings Ensure your success with real time reporting
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Free to install. Additional charges may apply.
45/100
Mixed signals · from 323 reviews
What it does
Grow your business with a large valuable audience
Showcase your products with free and paid listings
Ensure your success with real time reporting
One plan, no tiers to choose between
This developer publishes a single plan (Free to install), so plan choice does not arise — the only decision is whether to install it. The listing summarises it as “Free to install. Additional charges may apply.”.
Pricing
Free to install
45
/ 100Mixed signals
Scored on 323 merchant reviews we hold for Microsoft Channel, across five checks. Every figure is computed from those reviews — expand any row to see the counts behind it.
Recent reviews rate below this app's own average
Reviews in the last 12 months average 2.31, 1.42 stars below the lifetime average of 3.73. Worth reading the newest reviews before installing.Total cost is not knowable up front
1 plan listed, but the listing notes additional charges may apply.Review history
2019–2026 · 323 reviews read| 2019 | 7 reviews |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 reviews |
| 2021 | 33 reviews |
| 2022 | 52 reviews |
| 2023 | 58 reviews |
| 2024 | 82 reviews |
| 2025 | 68 reviews |
| 2026 | 19 reviews |
What merchants say
3.2
97%
of reviews get an answer26%
had used it a year when they wroteRecent merchant reviews
The newest 8 of 324. Open one to read it in full, with the developer's reply where there is one.
I created a Microsoft Ads account after advertising on Google and Meta for more than two years without any major issues. I thought Microsoft Ads might be a good additional platform, especially because many businesses seem to ignore it. That turned out to be a mistake. My account was suspended within seconds of creation. After suspending it, Microsoft sent me an automated email asking me to verify my identity. I submitted the required documents and completed the verification successfully. Even after being verified, my account remained blocked. I contacted Microsoft Ads support multiple times, expecting at least a proper explanation. Instead, I kept receiving the same useless response that the account would remain blocked, with no real reason, no transparency, and no meaningful support. This is one of the worst advertising platform experiences I have ever had. Google and Meta may have their issues, but at least there is usually some process, explanation, or way to understand what went wrong. With Microsoft Ads, the experience feels completely automated, careless, and unfair. Suspending an account instantly, asking for identity verification, approving the verification, and then still keeping the account blocked without explanation makes no sense. It wastes the advertiser’s time and shows a serious lack of respect for businesses trying to use their platform. Microsoft Ads support was disappointing, unhelpful, and robotic. If this is how they treat new advertisers, it explains why many businesses do not bother with Microsoft Ads. Very poor experience. I would not recommend Microsoft Ads to any serious advertiser unless they are ready to deal with random suspensions, automated replies, and zero accountability.
Terrible experience! I can't decide which one is worse, their platform or their support! We have a 6-figure ad budget, and we wanted to activate this channel as well as Google and Meta but it's impossible to work with them. Haven't seen something like this in my life! As you can see in the rest of reviews, so many people have problems with their verification process, and dealing with the support team is worse than dealing with ChatGPT! spent hours going forth and back with them, but no result, and they haven't answered my last message from 10 days ago. You see this and you compare the Microsoft and google stock price trend, you see why it's like this! Don't waste your time with them. And to Micsosoft support, don't send me the template that you've sent to rest of 1 star reviews, answer my email!
Very rigorous review process, and the onboarding experience was frustrating. My domain was marked as fraudulent, which prevented me from connecting my store and running ads. I understand platforms need security checks, but the process felt unclear, difficult to resolve, and not very helpful for legitimate business I don't recommend to anyone! stick with the google sales channel.
Awful setup experience. Merchant Center should be separate from creating an ad account. The Shopify channel does not provide enough clear guidance. Microsoft is still far behind when it comes to Shopify.
Microsoft closed my merchant account without explanation, without right to appeal in future.
I have a legal business, registered LLC, selling legal products, and my website was flagged as fraudulent
My account gets banned because my business name does not match the name I put in microsoft ads account, I try to appeal to change it and put it right, but to appeal, business name has to match the name you put in the account, so it does not let me appeal. When I try to go into the account settings to change the name of the account, it just logs me out because of the account being banned. What a waste of time.
After resolving a couple store issues, this app has been working pretty smooth for me. It has kept everything synced in realtime without any store violations, which I appreciate.
Microsoft Channel FAQ
Answered from this app's own listing and its full review record.
Best suited for stores looking to run ads on Microsoft's search and shopping networks.
The Shopify App Store lists this app as “Free to install. Additional charges may apply.”. It does not publish plain monthly prices we can compute against.
On our scorecard Microsoft Channel rates 45 out of 100 — mixed signals — read from 323 merchant reviews. The developer has published replies to 313 of 323 reviews. The score reflects what the review record shows, nothing more.
324 merchants have reviewed Microsoft Channel, averaging 3.2 out of 5. We hold the review history from 2019 to 2026, which is what the year-by-year chart on this page is built from.
At a glance
3.2 / 5 · 324 reviews
2.31 from 29 reviews
29 (was 76)
313 of 323 reviews
3 months
Free to install. Additional charges may apply.
September 30, 2019
2019 – 2026
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