Pricing
$29 a month.
That is the whole price list.
Every feature, unlimited members, unlimited posts. Billed with your regular Shopify invoice, cancellable from inside the app.
Charged in USD through Shopify billing.
- Unlimited forums, topics, posts and members
- Members-only forums and per-customer permissions
- Moderation queue, moderators and spam defences
- Private member-to-member messaging
- Points, badges and a public leaderboard
- Image uploads, polls, tags, reactions and search
- Email digests from your own domain
- Webhooks, JSON API and full data export
- Support by email from the people who build it
Why $29?
It is a fair question, and the honest answer is about what the alternatives actually cost once you add them up.
Tens of thousands, then hosting
A developer building a forum with permissions, moderation, spam handling, email and an API is a months-long project. When it ships you still pay to host it, and you own every bug in it from then on.
Free, until you host it
Self-hosted forum software runs $20–50 a month in hosting before you have done any work, and it needs upgrading, backing up and patching. It also has no idea who your Shopify customers are.
$29, on your own domain
Hosted, backed up and maintained by us. Signed in with the customer accounts you already have, and served from your storefront domain so the content is yours.
The subdomain problem
Most forum software has to live on a subdomain like forum.yourstore.com.
That is not a cosmetic detail: search engines treat a subdomain as a largely separate
property, so the years of questions and answers your members write build very little
authority for the store you are actually trying to rank.
Champ renders through Shopify's App Proxy, which means every forum page is served from your main domain under a path you choose. The content compounds where it is useful.
Billing questions
How does billing work?
Shopify handles all of it. When you subscribe, a Champ app charge is added to your regular monthly Shopify invoice. Because your Champ billing cycle can start on a different day from your Shopify billing cycle, the charge may not appear on the very next invoice.
Can I cancel at any time?
Yes. There is no contract and no minimum term. You unsubscribe from the Billing section inside the Champ dashboard. The subscription is prepaid for the month and is not prorated, so cancelling mid-cycle ends access at the end of the period you have paid for.
What happens to my forum if I cancel?
Your data stays in place. The forum stops serving to your storefront, but nothing is deleted on cancellation — resubscribe and it comes back as it was. You can also request a full JSON export of forums, topics, posts and users at any time from the Data section.
Are there limits on members or posts?
No. Forums, topics, posts, members and messages are unlimited. The price does not change with the size of your community.
Ready when you are
Install Champ and have a forum running on your store this afternoon.