Shopicial ‑ Community Forum
The Shopicial – Social Forum app is another one by the team at app1pro, who designed the Xenforum app and several other Shopify apps.
It is a more recent addition to the Shopify app store than Xenforum and, while it shares many of the same features, it should be noted that it is less well-reviewed by Shopify merchants than its older brother.
However, it does allow merchants to create paid forums – introducing an extra monetization opportunity for Shopify store owners.
- Creates a professional forum to help build your network
- Supports paid forums with one-time or recurring membership fees
- Forum members can create/reply to topics using a WYSIWYG editor, mention, search, like and upload images
- Multiple post types including image and video
- Easy to edit profiles and set notifications for users
- Easy to manage topics/posts and users from the admin page or storefront view
- Designed for easy mobile and desktop use
- Customizable colors, menus, CSS and JS
- SEO-friendly – helps you increase organic traffic to your store
- Easy to install and use
- Pro plan includes email service
- Low monthly fees
- Some historical issues with paid social ad conflicts after uninstalling – but recent reviews suggest it has been fixed
- No free version
- Short free trial (7 days only)