Phivi Review: Dessert Clubs

Phivi (pronounced like FEE-vee) is the most bespoke dessert club on our list. Every treat in their boxes is lovingly handmade in Brooklyn (NY), and the company will proudly tell you that they're "made with ingredients you can pronounce". That makes these desserts some of the freshest you'll find, typically shipping out within a day or two of when they were made.

3 dessert clubs to choose from

Since our last evaluation, Phivi expanded its dessert club offerings to include three boxes:

• Artisanal Assortment: the flagship dessert club at Phivi, each box comes with an assortment of 8 treats according to a monthly theme. These could include cakes, cupcakes, macarons, brownies, cookies, confections and more. Some past themes have included Bone Appetit (October, of course), Happy Holidays, and Fall Harvest. This club is priced at $59.95 when you opt for month-to-month billing, but you can also choose to pay upfront for your whole subscription; for example, the one-year plan is $611.40.
• Macaron Lover: if macarons are your thing, you can get 12 handmade treats in five different flavors each month. (Phivi also wants you to know that they're "larger than your average macaron".) It's priced at $34/month when you subscribe to the month-to-month plan; we didn't see any savings when prepaying for a 3-month subscription, though.
• Cookie & Brownie Box: this is the only Phivi dessert club that doesn't let you pay month-to-month. Instead, you'll have to choose if you want 12 cookies/brownies every quarter, billed as $59.95 at the time of each delivery, twice a year for $115.90 total, or four times a year for $223.80. These are also themed based on the time of year.

Shipping fees are extra

But, shipping isn't factored into those prices. You should plan on paying about $10 per box, which will be added to the price during checkout or visible in your cart once you've added a dessert club.

Super-personalized

Is it worth it? We'd say "yes" and so would many of Phivi's loyal, enthusiastic customers. Check out Phivi's social media channels for any of the unboxing videos there or on the Phivi website to see for yourself. Besides loving the made-by-hand desserts, customers are really enamored of Phivi's personalized approach to putting together each box. As you fill out your subscription information, you'll be asked to tell Phivi what month you were born in, your favorite types of treats, and even your favorite color, and they'll keep that in mind as they pull each box together (maybe wrapping some treats with a ribbon in the color you like, or adding extras of your most-loved desserts when available). And, if you're sending a Phivi dessert club as a gift, make sure to enter your personalized gift message during checkout too.

Phivi continues to expand

We're also pretty impressed with Phivi's overall customer service. When we noticed on the Artisanal Assortment page that the "up next" section was a couple months out of date, we reached out to the team via email to make sure that they were still rolling out the deliveries. We got a response within a few hours, apologizing for the lack of updates and confirming that yes, it's business as usual at Phivi. (That was probably partly due to some big wins for the company around the time of our review, like a rebranding and securing a huge grant to expand Phivi even further. Congratulations to them!)

Very customer-centric

Other aspects of Phivi's attention to its customers that we really love are the ability to set a shipment schedule based on the subscribers' needs (like skipping or pausing deliveries at any time), offering a strict cross-contamination policy and making the effort to avoid any allergens that customers tell them about, and taking great care to make sure that even warm-weather destinations get desserts in nicely-chilled condition.

One of the best dessert clubs on the market

If you prefer a variety of desserts in each box rather than a single large item, Phivi is an excellent club to join. Each box in the Artisanal Assortment includes a delightful selection of at least eight different treats, though you could always opt for just-macarons or just-cookies-and-brownies if you prefer. While they are newer to the scene, Phivi seems to be taking off like a rocket with no signs of slowing down any time soon. This dessert club earns our second-place ranking and is well worth a look.

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On the Phivi website