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Company details

  1. Email service provider
  2. Digital printing service
  3. Prints and signs store
  4. Printer store
  5. Software company

Information provided by various external sources

SMS, GPRS, Restaurant, Food, Receipt, Wireless, Mobile, POS Printer are used to receive online orders to accept/reject & finally print as a thermal receipt


Contact info

  • Christchurch Road, NP19 8AJ, Newport, United Kingdom

  • ibacstel.com

2.6

Poor

TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

4 reviews

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

AVOID if you value your time and sanity

This company has rebranded as PrinterCo and they are still terrible.

I have been with iBacstel for about 5 years. I have finally asked them to cancel the last printer, but I have had no response. They continue to invoice me every month for services I tried to cancel many times, with no reply from the company.

After 2 years, I stopped trying to fix the many problems and cancelled a planned expansion of my business in the restaurant ordering service. They had the audacity to try sell me a service for several thousand pounds when the one I was paying for was so terrible to begin with.

I was promised great service and I have had anything but. The problems have been many and often. Everything from orders getting stuck in their servers to printers not connecting to their iConnect system.

I had 5 active client printers with them and 3 printers as standby printers. I only had the standby printers because often a printer would disconnect from iConnect and would have to be replaced with another, which meant travelling to a clients premises to switch a printer, sometimes 50 miles away. I lost count of how many times I had to do this. iBacstel do not allow you to put a printer on hold (to stop being charged monthly for it) and insist that you would have to pay for a new license if putting a previously registered printer back on their server. They don't offer refunds either, no matter how long their service has been offline.

Over the 5 year period, I lost all of my clients because the service was so unreliable. It is difficult to reach iBacstel. Sometimes you can reach them on chat, but it is very rare and they let bots do the insulting now. Tickets have to be submitted via chat, which is mostly offline. Their phone number has been disconnected/unavailable for years. They increased their prices by 200% and promised better support, but the support is worse than ever. When you chat to someone on their chat support, they can do nothing to help except submit a ticket, which often goes unanswered and unresolved.

At one stage, only 2 out of 5 restaurant clients had a connected printer. The other 3 were offline and the backups were also offline. All 8 had a WiFi connection, but iConnect did not show them as being connected. The offline statuses ranged from an hour (the most recent disconnection) to 16 hours (the previous disconnection) and as far as 40 days. One back-up printer was offline for more than 300 days and would not connect, so I had to ask twice for it to be deleted from my account. There was no compensation given for any downtime. I have asked them to disconnect the last active printer and I have received no response from them. Of course, the invoice arrived. The last customer had to deal with losing 15 to 20% of his online orders for the past 2 years thanks to iBacstel. I recommended a service cancellation long before that.

There has been nothing but stress dealing with iBacstel and I am not surprised by the negative feedback I have seen here and on other review sites. This company doesn't even pretend to give a damn about its customers. I have been more than patient and I hate having to write this negative, but honest review. In all honesty, what I have written here is barely the tip of the iceberg.

If you value your health, sanity and that of your customers....find a different company and make sure it's not iBacstel under a different name. They seem to change their name when the heat becomes too much.

3 August 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Worst company I have ever deal with

Worst company I have ever deal with. No Customer support... No Response on Chat... No body picks up phone... Ignore them I believe.. Printerco.net is the very same as they changed the name of the company. All the people behind it are the same.

17 September 2019
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The worst customer service &…

The worst customer service & support..There is no contact number no reply to my email..Printer is not working & it’s busy weekend..Terrible ..Anyone’s thinking to buy a printer think twice..

30 August 2019
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

horrible service

I have purchased two printers and 5 wooCommerce license from them in July 2017. And right after I bought the products, they said they have internal changes with IT team, so no body help me for the intergration which I was promised before I bought them.

They never reply my emails nor my support tickets. I wrote to them that I want to return all products and got my money back, and they never replied.

I'll take legal action agasinst them.

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Update:
After many emails, and coordnination. They finally got my printers to work. So 1 star become 2 now.

Update again:
2 stars become 1 as they don't respond my issue

23 December 2017
Unprompted review

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