Gruto Woris 

Great experience overall. The website offers a very good selection, fair prices, and reliable customer service. Everything was straightforward, and the support team was always helpful and responsive. I have had a Lifetime Membership for over 4 years now, and even the platform transition was absolutely no problem. Definitely recommended.

Been with them for the long haul, a few bumps in the road along the way, but the team always does their best!

Very useful for the building of websites. The new update of the website and plugin are nicely done. The database of plugins en websites is enormous and they regular update it.

I started supporting them in November 2023 as a lifetime member. The experience has always been excellent, until the service stopped working. Even during the difficult moments, communication remained respectful and customer-focused, which I genuinely appreciated.
The issue did occur, causing a lengthy outage, but the team worked hard to resolve it. They encountered several problems, there’s no denying that, but they always demonstrated a commitment to finding solutions. What stood out was their transparency and willingness to take responsibility, rather than making excuses.
We are now at a definitive turning point, with the new service back to the same levels of excellence as before, and offering even more. The improvements and refinements clearly show that lessons were learned and acted upon, improving the overall value of the service.
Having a lifetime membership is no guarantee that the business offering it will always be active, so the fact that, despite all the problems, they were all resolved, and the commitment to maintain the lifetime membership was upheld. I don’t think others in their position would have done it; this is a sign of professionalism, against all odds!(It’s refreshing to see a team that genuinely puts long-term customers first.
Kudos Grootmade!

I’ve seen how hard this team has been working for several years now, and I’ve been a loyal subscriber for just as long. I didn't leave Festinger Vault's side during the tough times, and I won't leave it now. In short, this site will be incredibly useful for you.

What I really love is that the service and the website are just great. Been a customer since years and will never quit. Thank you for everything.

Professional services, fast support and great products. Thank you!

I bought a lifetime subscription recently and the value has been excellent.

Had a little trouble with activation at the start but support helped pretty quickly.

The library of themes and plugins is pretty huge and more importantly regularly updated which is the key thing really.

Even if you want to support the developers of a plugin its great to even use grootmade to test the plugin to see if it meets up to your expectations.

The platform is easy to use, whether installing individually or managing everything in bulk, and the dashboard saves our by pushing updates across multiple sites at once.

Plus we all like to save a bit of money with plugins ands this does exactly that

Yeah, I know it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster the past few months. But honestly, these guys didn’t just disappear—they came back and rebuilt everything on a new platform, which counts for a lot. I get that plenty of people have had issues with their lifetime licenses. I only ran into one problem myself after the migration, and it got sorted out pretty quickly.

So yeah, I still think this platform is great value. With anything new, there are always going to be a few hiccups here and there, but as long as they keep working on fixes, I’m happy with my purchase. Plus, it’s already saved me thousands, so I can’t really complain.

A few hicups and some miscommunication at first, but now the platform is stable and service is reactive. A lot of plugins and themes updated regularly.

I bought a lifetime subscription and the number of plugins and themes available is fantastic. They are updated on a regular basis and it's been the foundation of my business allowing me to offer my clients cost effective websites. Never had an issue with any of the plugins or themes I've downloaded. Martin has always been very helpful to support any problems. The plugin is very useful to install and update plugins but I prefer to use the website. Keep up the good work guys!

I was a subscriber to Festinger Vault, which has rebranded as GrootMade (Groot Made B.V., Rotterdam). I discovered charges on my credit card statements under the merchant name "Riding Solo" — a name with zero disclosed connection to this service. Because I didn't recognize it, I missed the window to dispute through my card issuer.
What makes this worse: one of the cards charged had its number replaced due to unrelated fraud, yet this company still managed to bill it. That requires use of card network account updater services — which are only supposed to be used for active, authorized subscriptions.
I have since contacted them directly and am filing complaints with:

ACM (Dutch Consumer Authority) and FTC in the US.

I am not the only one. Read the other reviews here carefully — the pattern of unrecognized charges, cancelled subscriptions being reinstated, and forum posts being deleted is well documented.

And yes, I have sent ALL 18 invoices to your team TWICE now with no response.

If this group has done NOTHING wrong, why is the name on my credit card invoice RIDING SOLO? A bike sharing company in the Netherlands?

Been with them for over 4 years now. awesome items! I found my all in one spot for anything plugins and themes.

GrootMade thinks like a technical partner, not just a web agency. They cleaned up a messy WordPress setup, improved performance hard, and made the whole stack way easier to maintain. Communication was fast, direct, and actually useful.

Same issues as other reviews. Festinger changed to grootmade. I received multiple invoices and my lifetime license is gone. I tried getting in contact but no answers on email and my forum posts keep getting deleted. This had became a scam site.

UPDATE 06/04/2026: i also reported this company to the Netherlands fraud department.

FRAUD

Owner of this service, previously known as FestingerVault is fraud.

After getting sued by Automattic (Wordpress.com), their old service (Festinger Vault) has never been the same.

Couple of months ago they rebranded from "FestingerVault" to "GrootMade".

Martin, the Owner of FestingerVault and GrootMade is still trying to charge old customers with fake invoices via Stripe payment processor.

Do not use Grootmade.

FestingerVault = GrootMade = SCAM

They use historic cancelled subscriptions and charge your card, hoping you won't notice. Check your statements and contact your banks.

Purchased a lifetime license from them and after like a month they totally disappared, making many excuses for months that they have been sued and that they are building new platform. Then the new platform is out and gone and then come back and gone and then finally they had to rebrand to grootmade.com. The owner appologized in a post and said they will finally make things right. But here we go again, The new drama starts again. Now they are sayng lifetime members can have their lifetime license in Old website which is no longer updated and is redirecting to the grootmade forum. What a shame Scammers! Refund all lifetime license owners. I am just writing this review, in case someone will do a research about this scam before purchasing. Oh and they try many times to charge again and again! Please do not buy and do not get scammed. New company name same scammers!

Update:

What a shame, They come and lie here under every review that they dont recognize the experience. At least you cant silence us here like you did on your forum meta.grootmade.com. Anyone that asked why their lifetime license was cancelled got banned and lifetime account suspended. At the same time they keep trying to charge again. This is Sick! Stay away! Dont get scammed!

Shameful and deceitful practices.
After their lawsuit that got them in hot water they decided to rebrand and fork their previous project while completely abandoning their original promises.
At one moment you are a lifetime license buyer and then you are banned for no reason from their new platform.
Furthermore, as a lifetime purchaser i had to reclaim my license 3 times and let's not talk about all the downtime that it was faced as the site went through multiple versions each worse than the one before and then going back to the previous design.
Do not trust this company. Do not trust Martin. And definitely do not trust whatever scheme they are planning next.

--- Update 04/04/2026:

Given that I cannot reply to your reply below. Your response is further proof of your deceitful practices. If you had actually taken the time and looked at your inbox you would have clearly seen that I have tried communicating with you and you have yet to respond. What competitive business? I don't even know who your competition is! I have been a loyal fan to FV and Martin throughout the hardship he has gone through.

You banned me for absolutely no reason yesterday. I contacted hello@grootmade and i have no response. Instead of casting doubt on the legitimacy of my experience maybe take the time and check your inbox before providing a generic response to me and everyone else who had a similar experience. And if you are asking for further proof here is the url i get when i try to login:

grootmade/?error=banned&error_description=You+have+been+banned+from+this+application.+Please+contact+support+if+you+believe+this+is+an+error.

and if you want more then respond by email

Update Apr 11 2026:
DO NOT TRUST THE POSITIVE REVIEWS!!
Still no response from their support team however they are basically holding lifetime members hostage unless they provide positive reviews and they check them before they reinstate your lifetime membership.
Here is the message received from one of their crew members:

Dear lifetime member,

After internal discussion, we’ve decided to restore your lifetime license here on GrootMade as a gesture of goodwill.

We would like you to leave a review on our TrustPilot page:

trustpilot /evaluate/grootmade.com

Please let me know when it’s done, and I’ll ask our admin team to restore your license.

With kind regards,
T0mmy

Participants: T0mmy