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Champ Forum

Champ Forum

by Champ

Add a forum to your store

2.8 of 5 stars(13 reviews)
$29/month. 14-day free trial.
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Build a community

Champ lets you easily add a forum to your existing Shopify store in minutes and enables you to build a community around your brand.

Easy installation

Champ takes care of your forums without needing you to install your own software, setting up and managing servers, or performing upgrades.

SEO friendly forums

Champ is served from a subdirectory of your existing Shopify store, adding SEO indexable content to your shop's primary domain.

About Champ Forum

Add a forum to your Shopify store

Having a forum is a great way to create an online community, support your customers, and built loyalty around your brand. Champ lets you easily add a forum to your Shopify store.

Champ is a good for: * Customer support forums * Product pre-sales Q&A * Community discussions * Providing news and updates * Private discussion groups * Site for your team discussions * User-to-user private messaging

Easy installation

The basic installation is done with a simple click. No template modifications are needed.

Good SEO practices

When you use Champ, your forum will be installed within your existing Shopify store's subdirectory (yourdomain.com/community/champ) and not on a separate subdomain.

Because of this, any content that's publicly available and generated in your forum will be indexed by the search engines and can add to providing extra SEO for your site.

Built-in Moderation

You can moderate messages posted in your forums both within the app and on the user-facing pages.

You can also allow certain users (through tagging them) to moderate messages as well.

Built in controls include: * Hiding posts * Editing posts * Pinning topics to the top of the forum

User Access Controls

With Champ, you can easily: * Restrict access to all or certain sections of your forum * Restrict posting permissions * Create read-only forums * Restrict moderator controls at the user tag level

More Features

  • Search functionality built in for forums
  • Display unread messages
  • Notify users of new posts in subscribed topics (requires a mail account)
  • Let users upload files with their posts (requires Cloudinary account)
  • Translate app labels to fit your market
  • User-to-user direct private messaging
  • @mention user referencing within messages
  • User profile pages
  • Edit topic meta data tags
  • Modify Facebook preview link (when sharing forum within Facebook posts)
  • Embed YouTube videos
  • GDPR compliance (App provides easy access to individual customer data and erasure in the dashboard)
  • JSON API
  • Webhooks to allow for more integration possibilities
  • Exportable data in JSON format

Customizable

Basic installation of Champ does not require any template modifications. However, you can completely customize the header, footer, and sidebar of your forum pages*.

  • The core parts of the app cannot be modified, however.

Integrates with

  • Cloudinary,
  • SMTP

See the app in action

Explore how the app works in an example store.

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Support

Pricing 14-day free trial

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$29/month

* All charges are billed in USD. Recurring charges, including monthly or usage-based charges, are billed every 30 days.

2.8 of 5 stars

The overall rating reflects the current state of the app. It accounts for all app reviews but prioritizes the most recent ones.
  • 5 of 5 stars
    54% of ratings are 5 stars
    (7)
  • 4 of 5 stars
    8% of ratings are 4 stars
    (1)
  • 3 of 5 stars
    8% of ratings are 3 stars
    (1)
  • 2 of 5 stars
    0% of ratings are 2 stars
    (0)
  • 1 of 5 stars
    31% of ratings are 1 stars
    (4)
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Most recent reviews

MDaemon Technologies

Rating
5 of 5 stars
Posted
September 28, 2020

Awesome app and amazing support! The app is designed very well and it's clear from studying the app's own forum that feedback from users is being taken into consideration as it evolves. That same forum and the user guide have been good resources for discovering how to customize or add features without the help of a web developer. We've had a few questions during the initial configuration and Simon from Champ has responded quickly each time and has either resolved the issue or has advised us how to best configure to meet our needs. Champ support has been the best we've received from any Shopify app developer to date! Keep up the good work Champ, this app has unlimited potential!

Doza

Rating
1 of 5 stars
Posted
August 24, 2020

Used this for 9 months hopping it will appear on google search helping my site SEO. Nothing happened. More than that the forum is now full of spamming messages... there are about 3500 messages and repplies... only 200 are real... the rest is spam from robots. I wouldn't recommend it... especially for 29 per month.

Roshni Sanghvi

Rating
1 of 5 stars
Posted
June 30, 2020

It doesn't showup on google. If your purpose is SEO, then this won't show up on google. The main forum page will but not the inside pages or Q&A and all etc.

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