Lakasir vs Shopify POS
Lakasir and Shopify POS are both point of sale software. Lakasir is open source under GPL-3.0, with 911 GitHub stars. Shopify POS is a commercial product from Shopify Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Lakasir when
- A small Indonesian or similar retail business wants a simple free POS on a Laravel server.
- Pick Shopify POS when
- A Shopify merchant opens a shop, market stall or pop-up and wants one inventory across online and in person.
Side by side
A point-of-sale with products, unit pricing, discounts, purchasing, stock taking, receivables, vouchers, simple accounting and USB thermal printing from the browser.
Shopify's in-store point of sale, sharing products, inventory and customers with the Shopify online store.
Community and some docs lean Indonesian, and the Flutter mobile app is a separate piece.
It is weak for restaurants, and the Pro tier is required for multi-staff retail features.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and mobile app
Mobile app and cloud service
PHP, Laravel, Filament, Flutter and MySQL
Not published
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Shopify Inc.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
911 GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release 1.1.11.
Not known
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.