Suburban Propane 4+

About the only effective ability of this app is to take your money. Your local dealer has no ability to communicate to you or to indicate if their shop is open or not via the app. Nearly all communications are routed through a contact center or if you use the function in the app, no one responds. Like the app, the Suburban Contact Center has limited abilities as well. They can take your order or process a payment, but they have to pass along a message to the locals as the Contact Center is unable to tell you if a delivery is in process or the status. The company says their mission is “customer satisfaction“ which is about as disingenuous as one can be.

It was difficult to add my credit card to my profile and then pay my bill. It took me three tries after getting lots of weird errors. Then it told me it was already added to my profile after the third attempt even though it wasn’t showing up. I did several force quits on the app and it finally started showing up and let me pay my bill. Really clunky and buggy. Other than that, the app does everything I need it to.

This app is virtually useless. Seems to be done so they can feel hip enough to say they have one, not to actually benefit the customer. Also have always hated their billing process and how that information is conveyed. It’s the most confusing of any of our utilities. Can hardly tell what is due and when, when payments were processed and when you need to pay by to avoid a late charge. Also, would be great to get a reminder before said late charge was applied! Lastly, this company has steadily raised our already high rates SIGNIFICANTLY each year despite no changes in consumption and no explanation. We will shop around.