Beacon Fraud Prevention vs Dodgeball

Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 9, 2026.

The short answer

  • Beacon Fraud Prevention is detected on 2× as many Shopify stores as Dodgeball: 2 vs 1 as of Nov 9, 2026.
  • On the Shopify App Store: Beacon Fraud Prevention 4.8 from 17 reviews and Dodgeball 5.0 from 1 reviews.
  • Dodgeball lists 5 features Beacon Fraud Prevention’s listing doesn’t mention, including Content protection, Delivery, Fraud insurance.

Head to head

Detected stores

Beacon Fraud Prevention: 2
Dodgeball: 1

App Store reviews

Beacon Fraud Prevention: 17
Dodgeball: 1
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Pitch

Fraud Analytics & Chargeback Prevention For High Risk Orders

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Categories
  • Fraud
  • Security - Other
  • Fraud
Languages
  • English
  • Japanese
  • English
Launched
Apr 27, 2018
Nov 13, 2024
Built for Shopify
Built for Shopify
Not badged
Reviews per month
1 last full month
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Detected stores
2active installs
  • Qunol
  • Act+Acre UK
1active installs
Most common store size
11-50 products50%
1,001-5,000 products100%
Top countries
  • United Kingdom50%
  • United States50%
  • United States100%

Momentum

New reviews each month

Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.

012JulJanAprSepJanAugOctBeacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in July 2024Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in September 2024Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in January 2025Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in March 2025Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in August 2025Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in September 2025Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in November 2025Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in January 2026Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in March 2026Beacon Fraud Prevention: 2 reviews in August 2026Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in September 2026Beacon Fraud Prevention: 1 reviews in October 2026Dodgeball: 1 reviews in April 2025
Beacon Fraud PreventionDodgeballCompleted months only
Free options
Free planFree trial
Free planFree trial
Monthly range
From $0.03 to $125/month
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Plans
Risk Manage Basic$0.03/month
14-day free trial$0.03 per order. (Best for low volume merchants.)
  • · Access to fraud & loss analytic system
  • · Automate actions based on fraud analysis
  • · Exclude previously known good customers
  • · Flexible pay as you go pricing plan
  • · No contract commitment
  • · No minimum order requirements
Risk Manage Plus$125/month
14-day free trial$0.025 per additional order. Further discount rate available for businesses that process over 15,000+ orders per month.
  • · $0.025 per additional order
  • · Discounted plan for larger merchants
  • · Includes 5000 free orders per month
  • · Priority rule tuning & dedicated support
FreeFree to install
Platform Fees, and usage based fees like EasyBill Credits and MAU Overages
Coverage
29 of 34 features85%
34 of 34 features100%
Unique strengths
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  • Content protection
  • Delivery
  • Fraud insurance
  • Geolocation redirects
  • +1 more
Fraud
85%29/34
100%34/34
Alerts and analytics
100%11/11
100%11/11
Fraud types
71%5/7
100%7/7
Prevention tools
81%13/16
100%16/16
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Beacon Fraud PreventionDodgeball34 features listed across both App Store listings

Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.

See every feature
Works with also listed by another
  • Checkout
  • Flow
  • Fraud Filter
  • Riskified
  • Checkout
How it sells itself

Stop fraud before it happens! Beacon uses various large data sets like VoIP, disposable email address, and phone numbers, CVV codes, multiple accounts, and more in-order to cross check high risk transactions and to track for suspicious behaviors before bad actors can get away with fraud. Customize and fine-tune the fraud filter and blacklist system to fit various business needs.

Save time, stop fraud and abuse with Dodgeball. Dodgeball provides end-to-end fraud policy and prevention with just a few clicks for your Shopify Storefront. With Dodgeball, you gain a unified view of your customers’ path from first click to transaction. Use Dodgeball’s drag-and-drop Checkpoint decisions to build policies that prevent fraud at every step of the buying journey.

Key points
  • ANALYZE - fraudulent orders using powerful risk data to spot risky behaviors.
  • TRACK - credit card fraud, account takeovers, promotional abuse, checkout bots.
  • CUSTOMIZE - the fraud system & set various fraud parameters for different needs.
  • AUTOMATE - order cancellation/void, holding orders, & control payment capture.
  • Eliminate fraud at every step with automated protection
  • Simple testing, decisioning, and analytics for sophisticated fraud and abuse
  • Full view of user with in-product visibility for faster detection and review
Screenshots
Shopify fraud app QA
shopify fraud protection app for mapping out behaviorsfraud analysis system settings pageshopify fraud engine and fraud filter settings
Application Overview: Your integration at a glance
Application Settings: Configuration to get you connectedCheckpoint Studio: Respond to Key Events via WorkflowsStop Fraud in Its Tracks

All the numbers

Every figure, side by side

A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.

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Adoption

MeasureBeacon Fraud PreventionDodgeball
Detected stores2(ahead)as of Nov 9, 20261as of Nov 9, 2026
Net store change, 28 days0estimated0estimated
Stores added, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Big-brand shareNot enough dataNot enough data
Top store categoriesHealth & BeautyHome & Garden
Top store countriesUnited Kingdom, United StatesUnited States

Reviews

MeasureBeacon Fraud PreventionDodgeball
App Store rating4.8 ★5.0 ★(ahead)
App Store reviews17(ahead)1
New reviews, 28 days0Not enough data
Reviewers a year or more inNot enough dataNot enough data

Pricing

MeasureBeacon Fraud PreventionDodgeball
Free planNot listedNot listed
Lowest paid monthly plan$0.03/monthNo monthly plan listed
Longest free trial14 daysNot listed
Plans listed21

Listing

MeasureBeacon Fraud PreventionDodgeball
Shopify category rank#20(ahead)in Fraud#220in Fraud
Shopify App Charts#8 on Featured by Shopify in FraudNot on this week’s charts
Built for ShopifyYesNo
LaunchedApr 27, 2018Nov 13, 2024
Languages2English, Japanese1English
DeveloperLIZUNA Co., LTDDodgeball Inc

FAQ

Beacon Fraud Prevention and Dodgeball: common questions

Which is more popular, Beacon Fraud Prevention or Dodgeball?
Beacon Fraud Prevention is detected on 2× as many Shopify stores as Dodgeball: 2 vs 1 as of Nov 9, 2026.
Which has better reviews, Beacon Fraud Prevention or Dodgeball?
On the Shopify App Store: Beacon Fraud Prevention 4.8 from 17 reviews and Dodgeball 5.0 from 1 reviews.
What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
Dodgeball lists 5 the others don’t mention, such as Content protection, Delivery, Fraud insurance, Geolocation redirects. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
Where does this comparison’s data come from?
Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Nov 9, 2026; estimated figures are labeled.

How Shoplist compares apps

Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Nov 9, 2026. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.