Shopify is the place to run an online store, and DUMA does not replace it. DUMA is for the parts around the shop window: a till for your shop or pop-ups, rotas, customers, loyalty, email and reports, on one bill.
Keep your Shopify storeFree plan, foreverTill works offline
Keep Shopify for your online store. Its storefront, checkout, themes and app store are mature, and DUMA has no hosted online store today (one is planned for later).
Look at DUMA if you sell in person too and are weighing up POS Pro, or if the apps around your store (loyalty, forms, rotas) keep adding to the bill. Be clear about one thing first: DUMA has no Shopify connector yet, so stock does not sync between the two by itself.
Shopify’s figures are from its UK website. DUMA’s are from the product today.
Shopify’s prices and features as of November 2026, read on Shopify’s own UK website on . Prices change, so check the linked source before you decide.
| Job | DUMA | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | Free plan, forever, with no card needed. Business is £89 a month, coming soon. | Basic £25, Grow £65, Advanced £344 a month paid monthly (£19, £49, £259 paid yearly). Plus from £1,800 a month.Source: shopify.com |
| Online store and checkout | Not available:No hosted online store yet; one is planned. A storefront API lets a custom-built site use DUMA’s products, stock and orders. | Included:A full online store with themes, checkout and Shopify Payments.Source: shopify.com |
| In-person till | Included:Included and free in full, on any tablet, phone or laptop you already own. | Partly:Every plan includes casual in-person selling for limited staff. POS Pro is £69 a month per location, billed yearly.Source: shopify.com |
| Card fees | DUMA does not process cards. Keep your card machine: Square and SumUp connect directly, and any other works with the amount keyed in. | In person from 1.5% to 1.7% by plan with Shopify Payments. Online from 1.3% + 25p to 2% + 25p.Source: shopify.com |
| When the internet drops | Included:Cash and card-machine sales save on the till and send themselves when the connection returns. Nothing queued is thrown away. | Included:Cash and manual payments offline for all POS users. Offline card payments can be switched on in admin.Source: help.shopify.com |
| Stock by size and colour | Included:Every size and colour has its own stock, per location, taken off by every till sale. | Partly:Inventory counts and low-stock alerts for the shop come with POS Pro.Source: shopify.com |
| Staff rotas | Included:Included and free in full: rotas, clock-ins on phones, leave requests, labour next to sales. | Partly:Not listed on Shopify’s POS features page; rota apps come from the Shopify App Store.Source: shopify.com |
| Loyalty | Included:Included: stamp cards and points, recognised at the till by the customer’s QR code. | Partly:Shopify’s own UK blog says Shopify POS doesn’t have built-in loyalty tools and points to apps.Source: shopify.com |
| Email marketing | Included:Included, with a free allowance, sent only to customers who opted in. | Included:Up to 10,000 emails a month free, then charged per 1,000.Source: shopify.com |
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Included Partly, or it depends Not available
Read on Shopify’s UK website on 2 November 2026. Shopify changes its prices from time to time, so check the linked page before you decide.
Each month, before card fees and hardware, whose prices Shopify doesn’t publish. Loyalty and rota apps from the Shopify App Store cost extra. Selling online too? Keep your Shopify plan for the store: DUMA doesn’t replace it.
£0a month, forever
The till, stock by size and colour, rotas and loyalty on the free plan.
Basic £25 a month, Grow £65, Advanced £344 when paid monthly; £19, £49 and £259 a month when paid yearly. Plus starts at £1,800 a month.
Source: shopify.comOnline card rates with Shopify Payments: 2% + 25p (Basic), 1.7% + 25p (Grow), 1.5% + 25p (Advanced), 1.3% + 25p (Plus).
Source: shopify.comIn-person card rates: 1.7% (Basic), 1.6% (Grow), 1.5% (Advanced and Plus).
Source: shopify.comUsing a payment provider other than Shopify Payments adds a fee of 2%, 1%, 0.6% or 0.2% by plan.
Source: shopify.comPOS Pro: £69 a month per location, billed yearly.
Source: shopify.comEmail: up to 10,000 emails a month free.
Source: shopify.comFor selling online, Shopify is the more complete product, and we would not ask you to leave it.
Themes, checkout, payments, shipping and a store you can launch without a developer.
On DUMA
DUMA has no hosted storefront today.
Whatever you need, someone has usually built an app for it.
On DUMA
DUMA covers fewer things, in one place, and adds integrations on request.
Shopify keeps online and POS stock in one place.
On DUMA
DUMA does not sync with Shopify yet, so if you sell in both, one of them has to be the stock record.
Shopify Payments takes card payments online and in person.
On DUMA
DUMA works with your existing card machine instead of processing payments.
Shopify runs very large stores.
On DUMA
DUMA is new, built for small owner-run businesses, and supported by the person who builds it.
Shopify alone is enough if you only sell online.
DUMA’s case is everything that is not the online shop window.
Keep your storefront and its checkout. Use DUMA for the till, the team and your customers.
Import your products
Export your products from Shopify as a CSV and import it into DUMA. Sizes, colours, prices, SKUs, barcodes and stock come across, and a product is matched rather than duplicated if you import again.
Open the till for your shop or pop-up
Any tablet or phone will do. Connect your card machine, or key the amount into it.
Decide where stock lives
There is no Shopify connector yet, so pick one system as the stock record for each location. Tell us if you need a live sync — we add integrations on request — or a developer can send orders in through DUMA’s API.
Add the team and the regulars
Put the rota, clock-ins and loyalty in DUMA, and email the customers who opted in.
No. Keep your Shopify store and its checkout. DUMA has no hosted online store today; one is planned for later. DUMA runs the parts around it: a till for in-person sales, rotas, customers, loyalty, email and reports.
For in-person selling, yes. DUMA’s till is free in full and keeps working offline for cash and card-machine sales. Shopify’s POS Pro is £69 a month per location, billed yearly (as of November 2026). The catch is stock: DUMA does not sync with Shopify yet.
Not directly yet. You can import your products from Shopify’s CSV export. Orders and stock do not sync between the two on their own; tell us if you need that, because we add integrations on request.
Yes. DUMA reads Shopify’s product export, including sizes and colours, prices, SKUs, barcodes and stock, and matches products by name and SKU so a second import does not duplicate them.
The one you have. Square and SumUp readers connect directly. Any other card machine works through the till’s Card machine method, with the amount keyed in.
DUMA has a free plan forever, with no card needed. Business will be £89 a month, or £80 a month paid yearly, and is coming soon.
Start free in minutes, with no card needed. We’ll help you import your products and set up the till.