The SHOP TAX FREE app is free with everything you need to shop the world in the palm of your hand. You can now confidently find, shop and refund on your mobile.
The new SHOP TAX FREE app can help you:
• Track your tax refunds instantly see how much you’re saving
• Find your favourite brands and stores
• Calculate how much you could save
• Quickly find minimum purchase amounts and the tax free shopping rules and information
• Save time, with autofill of tax free forms
• Find the most convenient refund locations in the city and the airport
Designed as the best-in-class tax free shopping companion, the app provides a seamless and personalised experience at every stage of your tax free shopping journey.
Built with the latest mapping technology, you can now easily find stores you love and explore top shopping destinations.
It comes complete with a comprehensive range of tools to help you actively manage all the steps in the tax refund process, including live tracking your refund and of course the SHOP TAX FREE Card.
The app is now available in English, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
Download the app today.
Features include:
• Advanced mapping and geo location technologies
• One touch enrolment through passport scanning
• One touch Tax Free Form tracker
• Refund Calculator with built in intelligence to convert into home currency
• Live tracking and visibility of tax refunds and status
• In app alerts e.g. when your tax refund status changes, and welcome to a new country with the tax information
• In-built SHOP TAX FREE Card, which can be added to Apple Wallet
• Customs and Refund locations
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Global Blue FAQ
Is Global Blue free?
Yes, Global Blue is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Global Blue legit?
⚠️ Warning: Multiple users of Global Blue have mentioned scam or fraud. Investigate thoroughly before using this app.
Didn't get past sign-up.
Phrasing on the sign-up page tells that you agree with ToS and PP when submitting, and then there is an additional checkbox to allow sending marketing content. In fact:
- it doesn't allow to sign up if the marketing checkbox is not checked (saying that you must agree with PP and ToS)
- PP link leads to a website with invalid certificate
- ToS link leads to 404
Keeps Crashing
As soon as I sign in the app crashes. Cant use it at all.
How to delete my info
I would like to delete my information and delete this app, since I have this app I can’t get all my money.
Registration
Terrible .. they app says I need to complete registration but when I get email from GB in told my profile already exists
Update
This app doesn’t work if you buy something it may or may not show up and never shows the updated info if the refund was sent of not!
Not a time saver!
Don’t bother downloading in Tromso no one here knows how to use the app so you end up having to fill out the paper forms anyways it was a huge waste of time! If the have an app they advertise they should take the time to educate their staff how to use the app instead of making me waste an hour of my time filling it out in the app only for the staff at the airport to be clueless and not know how to use the app!
Easier
You can see all your purchase. Hassal free
The app will get you in trouble
I recently had a terrible experience with Global Blue that cost me €247.
I shopped at several stores in Italy, including the Apple Store, where I bought an iPhone 16 Pro. Everything seemed fine as the app showed all the amounts, giving me confidence that the process was working as expected.
However, when I arrived at the airport to have my receipts stamped by customs for my tax refund, I was informed that the Apple Store had not entered my passport information correctly. As a result, I couldn’t get my tax refund for the iPhone purchase, and I lost €280.
This is not just an issue with the store, but with Global Blue as well. The app should have notified me about any missing or incorrect information, especially since it is designed to track such details. Instead, it failed to catch this critical error, leaving me stuck with no refund.
Did not receive refund
I went to the kiosk. I got the stamp. I turned it in with an envelope and both Chanel and blow didn’t refund tax free to me but the other items that I did the same thing with the same officer that got stamped I received I feel like you guys are fraud and I want my money
VAT you will never see
Global Blue said that my documents weren’t stamped on exit. They were. Now the whole transaction has disappeared from their app. So who has the €1099 that I am due?? Let’s play a guessing game…
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