Checkout Champ vs Sticky.io

Sticky.io vs Checkout Champ

Checkout Champ is a performance ecommerce package: funnel landing pages, a checkout you can reshape, and a CRM dashboard on the same account. Its homepage says it has processed more than $7 billion, handles over 200 million transactions a year, and lists 60,000-plus active users. Those figures are the vendor's, on checkoutchamp.com.

Sticky.io is LimeLight CRM under its current name. The public price covers one CRM with checkout, payments and recovery, and the company claims more than 17 years of recurring billing. Recovery sits beside the base license. It is sold on request, and you pay only on revenue it wins back. No rate card is published.

Operators who have used both recommend Checkout Champ for teams still tuning the checkout, and Sticky.io for teams whose billing rules and subscriptions have gotten complicated. A Shopify growth thread describes that same split.

Neither platform rotates a whole checkout under one ad address.

Sticky.io vs Konnektive Checkout Champ

Sticky.io vs Konnektive Checkout Champ turns the same choice into three names: packaged pages, a CRM you connect yourself, or the LimeLight billing platform. Checkout Champ is a packaged front end in the Konnektive class, and the landing pages come with it. Konnektive is the CRM you connect your own landers to. Sticky.io is the billing rival from the LimeLight line. Checkout Champ vs Konnektive separates the packaged front end from the CRM. Konnektive vs Sticky.io separates that CRM from Sticky.io. The vendor pages do not describe the routing code as shared, so Checkout Champ stays the packaged product and Konnektive stays the deeper CRM.

Checkout Champ sells the pages with the routing

The funnel builder can run an A/B/C/D test on a single page, and you can test the price, the product, the upsell flow or the gateway. Checkout Champ lists that test on its pricing page. It is how you tune a step inside a funnel you are already hosting there.

That pricing page also says the platform is integrated with over 270 gateways. Routing spreads each sale across merchant accounts you already have, in a product that also includes the landing page and the checkout.

Access starts with a demo. Each account is assigned an account manager for onboarding, and the pricing FAQ describes a 60-day setup period. After that, keeping the manager is a paid option.

Some fraud and compliance tools are separate monthly lines. The named plugins are PAAY 3DS, Fraud Manager, Clym.io and Account Updater. Your processor's own fees sit outside those lines.

A G2 review objects to the per-order charge because it raises the monthly fee as volume grows. That charge is a percentage of sales added to the base, so the monthly total grows as volume grows. The Checkout Champ review covers the checkout and the gateway list.

Sticky.io keeps the rebill on the first gateway

A routing profile can split sales by weight, round robin or priority, put a monthly cap on a gateway, and fail over when a gateway is down. Preserve billing, once checked, forces later rebills onto the gateway that created the original order. The rule is in the routing-profile article.

The homepage describes smart routing across 160-plus payment gateways, and an automatic cascade when a charge declines. That cascade, together with Recovery, is what a subscription-heavy merchant weighs against Checkout Champ's gateway list and packaged pages.

Recovery stays off the base license. It is offered on request and only on recovered revenue, so the percentage is in the quote they send you.

A Capterra review calls Sticky.io expensive and says the billing screen is a mess, with the reviewer planning a replacement. The Sticky.io review covers subscription billing.

One campaign link, for paid traffic

ElasticFunnels is a funnel platform for teams that run paid traffic. It builds the pages, hosts the checkout, and keeps the click, the order, the rebill and the refund on one record, with the CRM and the attribution on that same data. It sits in this comparison for the team whose ad has to keep a single address while the page and the checkout rotate.

Variants are chosen on the server under that campaign link, so the ad keeps the address it already has. Checkout Champ's page test, and Sticky.io's checkout, leave that address fixed to one version.

The checkout includes order bumps, one-click upsells and subscriptions. Multi-MID routing is a weighted split of each first sale across that merchant's NMI accounts. Rules can follow card brand, product and amount, and each account can carry a daily cap. Upsells and rebills stay on the account that took the sale. Stripe, PayPal, Klarna and Authorize.net each connect as one account. A soft decline stops on the account that received the attempt.

Starter is $97 a month, Growth $197, Scale $497. Every feature is on every plan. What changes is the allowance: 50,000, 250,000 or 500,000 page views a month, plus brands, domains, seats and automation runs. The trial runs 14 days, with no credit card required. Pages, funnels and a custom domain can be set up during the trial. Sales through ElasticFunnels' own gateways carry a 0.5% fee. Sales sent to an outside checkout sit outside that fee.

ElasticFunnels is newer than the platforms beside it, and independent reviews are still scarce. Until a real volume of orders has gone through it, the performance claims rest mostly on what the vendor says. ElasticFunnels was built in 2023, so relatively few independent reviews exist so far. Outside reviews are too thin to confirm the routing and the test results. The pages, the checkout and the routing can still be set up on the trial before any volume moves.

The page-stack comparison is ElasticFunnels vs Checkout Champ.

What $500,000 in a month costs

Checkout Champ Growth adds one percent of sales processed on the platform to the monthly base in the table. On $500,000 in sales, that percentage comes to $5,000, so the platform cost is $5,300 before the processor and before the billable fraud and 3DS plugins.

Enterprise holds that same monthly base and reduces the percent once monthly sales pass $1 million. Checkout Champ describes a scale-based reduction and leaves the tiers for a quote.

Sticky.io's share of sales starts at that same percent and steps down to 0.25% at the highest published tier. At $500,000, the revenue share is still the starting rate, so that same $5,000 is added to the higher base fee and the platform total is $5,499 before decline fees. Each decline adds a fee that starts at $0.04 and can fall to $0.02 as volume scales. That extra cost depends on how many transactions decline. Processor fees are separate. Recovery, if you turn it on, is its own quote.

ElasticFunnels charges the flat monthly plan above, and that gateway fee applies only when the charge runs through its own gateways. The checkout cost calculator runs these pricing models on your revenue. The multi-MID routing guide places this routing next to the other platforms.

My take

I would start with Checkout Champ when the team still needs the lander, the checkout and the gateway mix in one login. When failed rebills start cutting into profit, I would move to Sticky.io if the declines are taking a meaningful share of revenue.

Read how we research checkout tools for the criteria behind that call. If your landers already exist and you want the CRM behind them, start with the Konnektive review. Every pair is listed under all head-to-head comparisons.