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Champ

Champ

by Champ

Add a forum to your store

3.6 of 5 stars(10 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

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.

3.6 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
    60% of ratings are 5 stars
    (6)
  • 4 of 5 stars
    10% of ratings are 4 stars
    (1)
  • 3 of 5 stars
    10% of ratings are 3 stars
    (1)
  • 2 of 5 stars
    0% of ratings are 2 stars
    (0)
  • 1 of 5 stars
    20% of ratings are 1 stars
    (2)
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Most recent reviews

John Carson Lester Jr DBA TeleDistributors Call Center

Rating
1 of 5 stars
Last edited
March 14, 2020

I am an American in the Philippines. 9 years now. The crazy thing is Shopify said this app wasn't available to me because I am in the Philippines. But it downloaded it anyways! Actually, I didn't see the non-compatability notice until after I downloaded it. Maybe the developer put that up AFTER he saw a "foreign" order come in! That is a very stupid policy if that is what he decided because there are obviously millions of Americans like myself living abroad. It's a big market!

The app has FAILED to download ANY of my 600+ customers! It is SUPPOSED to download your EXISTING customers into the app. But it utterly failed to do that in my case.

I put in a support ticket almost a day ago. No response yet.

This is not an impressive introduction, although the app does look like it has real potential.

As an American, let me use the app here in the Philippines and provide good and timely customer service and I will give you 5 stars and a rewritten glowing review once you have earned it.

Under my old PureHeartsInternational Shopify account that was on the USA side of Shopify, I have probably written more app reviews than anyone, probably more than 1000 of them. I write great reviews for great developers!

Best Trading Indicator

Rating
5 of 5 stars
Posted
February 26, 2020

Very satisfied with the APP
The technical support is one of the best I've seen so far.
Very responsive, patient and helpful
This app is the BEST forum APP for Shopify. Period

WowzaBrain

Rating
5 of 5 stars
Posted
May 28, 2019

Our site lets parents learn to read or improve their reading at home. Champ lets them ask quick questions when they run into difficulties. The other subscribers can see their questions and our responses so they know (A) we're helpful and (B) there's an answer to a problem they either have or may have in the future.

We've had no difficulties with Champ's functions so far. It does what it's supposed to do. It has a lot of features, though, so you may have trouble finding, selecting, or deselecting the features you want. The good news is that EVERY single time I've had a question, Simon at Champ has responded with quick, useful guidance. I'm a happy camper.

Developer reply

May 28, 2019

Thanks for the review!

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