I’ve just submitted the 4th dev support ticket in as many years on this amateur UX, and get complaints from potential customers every week. It’s well past time for a fix to be deployed.
Here’s some of the friction I’m aware of when users try to install apps. There’s likely more…
#1 If you get stuck on this popup it officially means inactive payment method:
#2 This popup can mean inactive instance, inactive payment method or something else:
#3 Apps are automatically uninstalled after installation if payment methods are not active:
Can Atlassian team please take this more seriously? It’s been a open issue since long now which has a direct business impact for all the vendors. Can Atlassian atleast make these messages more descriptive and let customers know that the issue is with Atlassian system and not vendor app?
Just yesterday I faced the “We ran into a little trouble” which was not at all related to payment issue. Retrying after 45 mins, it got auto fixed but at the end customer had a bad experience. He would have not retried if vendor didn’t followup which means business loss for vendor.
Worst part is, dev support appeared to have followed the standard response template and punted it back on payment method. Looks like even Atlas support is not well equipped to debug the issue in first attempt, it took lot of explanation to make them understand that it is not payment issue.
Can someone from Atlas team share any updates on when this will be handled in future?
Our team is already working on fixing error messages related to app installation failures. With this fix, all generic error messages will be replaced by some meaningful errors which would help customers to identify the issue. The team is planning to role out this fix mostly by end of September.
Yet another support ticket just now. Please hurry with the fix.
Edit: @VeereshHosamani the customer here confirmed they have an active payment method and still got this error. They said the install suddenly worked today having made no changes.
You’ve got to wonder what percentage of installation requests don’t work. Huge point of failure on the Marketplace.
@VeereshHosamani Did Atlassian team improve the error messages as per your previous comment?
We have a customer reporting app installation failure and the error message is captured in the screenshot below.
It recommends to check with Partner, but on our side I don’t see any ‘installed’ webhook which failed. I am not sure how to specifically debug the issue for this customer. Are there any guidelines for partners to debug such cases?
At the same time, I see there are other customers for whom the installation worked as expected.
In the past few days I’ve now had MULTIPLE customers unable to become paying subscribers because of how absolutely useless Atlassian’s error messages are. Completely unacceptable.
Apparently when customers are on an annual billing cycle and click “Free Trial”, this is the error message they get:
I feel like I’m going to need to put together an entire documentation page with the dozens of dumb amateur Atlassian error messages along with their human translations.
Another complaint from a customer who cannot install an app. And yet another completely useless error message. @VeereshHosamani this problem has not been fixed.
How is anyone supposed to build on this platform if Atlassian can’t successfully get them past the installation step?! How many installs are vendors losing?
5th support ticket on this problem now submitted to Atlassian.
Honestly, it’s unbelievable that the Atlassian team has not resolved something that should be so simple to adjust and that has such a huge impact on sales.
@VeereshHosamani or anyone from Atlassian can shed some light here?
Had this with a cloud migration customer yesterday. Multiple apps failed to install with no useful message - migration team completely lost, tried again 8 hours later and it magically works…
Is there any plan to improve this behaviour? Specially the new behaviour where apps go in deactivated state (payment method related error) and there then customer, partner & Atlassian support spends lot of time on a ticket to get it addressed.
Another related issue that wastes my time with unnecessary support tickets is preventing customers from uninstalling apps during a trial.
That’s an incredibly hostile policy and UX dark pattern. If there is some logical requirement for it, one would expect the UI to make that policy crystal clear to users when they attempt to uninstall.
