Konnektive vs Checkout Champ

Same CRM, two ways to buy it

You are down to two names, and the useful fact is that they share a core. Checkout Champ's about page says the company licensed the Konnektive engine and built a new product for ecommerce. Its CRM page says that product is built on top of Konnektive. What you are choosing is the package around that core.

One package is the CRM itself. You bring the landing pages, a call center can type an order inside the system, and the public step is a call because the marketing site sends you there instead of a plan grid. The other package adds hosted funnel pages, a checkout and a Growth price you can read before anyone gets on the phone. If the landers are already yours, the Konnektive review is the longer note on that CRM. If you want the pages included, keep the Checkout Champ review open beside this one.

Checkout Champ vs Konnektive

Konnektive presents itself as a CRM and payment platform for ecommerce and affiliate marketers. From that homepage, the next step is to schedule a call. It cites more than 200 million transactions, 60,000 merchants, and over $7 billion processed a year. Those three figures are the company's own. It also lists 250-plus payment processors and support for 100-plus currencies.

The campaign setup article explains the two ways an order can be placed. On a phone campaign, an agent types the order in Order Entry, inside the CRM. On an ecommerce campaign, the charge runs on your web pages through form code or the API. Hosted funnel pages come with Checkout Champ. This article is about pages you already have, and about orders typed in the CRM.

G2 reviewers say the learning curve is steep, because many screens sit between the login and the number they want. The billing policy says every account is prepaid, and payment has to arrive before any billable product is activated. Subscription fees on that policy are non-refundable. The price is written in the contract.

The fees you can read, and the one you cannot

Checkout Champ's pricing page lists Growth as a monthly fee plus 1% of gross sales. That plan is for sellers with $50,000 or more in monthly sales. At $50,000, the percent comes to $500 on top of the monthly fee. Enterprise keeps the monthly fee and uses a lower percentage, for sellers at $1 million a month or more. That lower percentage is not given as a single public number. The pricing FAQ says extra funnels, domains and users cost nothing more, and the bill follows sales volume plus a percentage of sales processed on the platform.

A G2 reviewer says the per-order fee raises the monthly bill as sales grow. Add that percent to your sales before you decide what the month will cost. Every new account gets a manager. If the gateway logins are ready, the setup call can configure the account. After 60 days, paying to keep that manager is optional.

Konnektive's homepage leaves its platform fee for the call. Under the billing policy, the account is activated after payment arrives. Read Checkout Champ's rate on its pricing page. Read Konnektive's rate in the contract.

Four page variations, and what that does to the ad

Checkout Champ's testing page says you can test checkout pages and upsell pages, and see average order value and lifetime value for each variation. You can run four variations at once, and you can set how much traffic each one receives. The test lives on pages in the funnel. You still paste the landing URL in the ad account. The guide to testing a lander without resetting ad learning explains why that URL matters for Meta, Google and TikTok.

Konnektive's campaign article, linked above, covers Order Entry, form code and the API. The four-variation test is the Checkout Champ page linked in this section. A rotation under one campaign link is the ElasticFunnels section below.

The store catalog can stay where it is

Checkout Champ's about page says the product connects to the store tools you already use, and that its job there is to process the payment. The stores it names are Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Magento. The catalog stays in the store. The checkout and the funnel pages sit beside it.

Konnektive's ecommerce campaign runs the order on pages you host, through form code or the API. That suits a team whose pages are already built, or a developer who will add the form. Checkout Champ suits a team that wants those funnel pages hosted and the store left in place.

When the ad needs one link

ElasticFunnels is a funnel platform for teams that run paid traffic. Affiliates, product vendors, agencies and ecommerce brands use it for the pages, the checkout, a CRM and attribution on one data layer. A page can be generated from a prompt or cloned from a URL. Sessions, orders, rebills and refunds share a timeline, and automations plus a call center use that same timeline.

For a media buyer, the useful difference is the campaign link. Every plan can rotate variants on the server under one URL, so the ad keeps its destination. Meta, Google and TikTok keep their learning, and the test does not send the ad back through review. The link is one part of the platform. The checkout can add an order bump, then a one-click upsell, and it can bill a subscription. It charges through Stripe, NMI, PayPal, Klarna or Authorize.net, and it can send the buyer on to ClickBank, JVZoo, BuyGoods, Digistore24, Shopify Checkout, Shop Pay or Cartpanda.

If you have two or more NMI merchant accounts, the first sale can be divided across them by weight. You can filter by card brand, product and amount, and you can cap each account for the day. The upsell and the rebill stay on the account that took the first sale. Stripe, PayPal, Klarna and Authorize.net each remain a single account, separate from that split.

Starter is $97 a month, Growth is $197 and Scale is $497. Features stay the same on every plan. What changes is the allowance for page views, brands, domains, team seats and automation runs. The trial runs 14 days, and it starts without a credit card. In those 14 days you can set up a page, a funnel and a custom domain. The 0.5% fee applies only to sales through the gateways named above.

Buyers who want a direct-response CRM often compare ElasticFunnels with Konnektive. Checkout Champ is the hosted ecommerce product on that CRM. The quick answer at the top still decides between Konnektive and Checkout Champ. ElasticFunnels fits when the ad must keep one URL and the order stays on the same record as the click. ElasticFunnels vs Checkout Champ compares those two. The ElasticFunnels review covers ElasticFunnels on its own.

ElasticFunnels is newer than the platforms it competes with, and there is very little independent third-party review coverage to check its claims against. Until you run real volume through it, you are largely taking the vendor's word for it. Work on it started in 2023, which is why independent reviews are still scarce. Pages, the test, checkout and the CRM are on every plan, and the orders you run are how you judge those claims.

Which account to open

Konnektive, if the pages and the phone team are already yours

Book a Konnektive call if the landing pages are already live, agents need Order Entry, and you can wait for a contract to learn the fee. The processor count and the currency count are on the homepage linked above. G2 reviewers say those screens take a while to learn, and the first weeks in the admin are the slow part.

Checkout Champ, for hosted funnel pages

Open a Checkout Champ account if the catalog can stay on one of the stores named above, and you want funnel pages, checkout and the four-variation test together. Growth and Enterprise prices are on the site before the first meeting. Compare that percentage of sales with your own volume, using the Growth line above.

See Checkout Champ pricing before you schedule the Konnektive call. Put the published Growth fee beside the figure in the contract.

Other pages on this choice

• ClickFunnels vs Checkout Champ if the other tool in the stack is a funnel builder.
• Systeme.io vs Checkout Champ if you want a lower monthly plan.
• The sales funnel software roundup for the wider set.
• All head-to-head comparisons.