NexoPOS vs Shopify POS
NexoPOS and Shopify POS are both point of sale software. NexoPOS is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.3k GitHub stars. Shopify POS is a commercial product from Shopify Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick NexoPOS when
- A small shop or restaurant wants a self-hosted web POS and is fine buying modules for extras.
- 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 web point-of-sale for retail and hospitality with sales, inventory, purchasing, customers, rewards, accounting reports and a module system.
Shopify's in-store point of sale, sharing products, inventory and customers with the Shopify online store.
Multi-store, restaurant and other workflows come as marketplace modules, many of them paid.
It is weak for restaurants, and the Pro tier is required for multi-staff retail features.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Mobile app and cloud service
PHP, Laravel, Vue, Tailwind CSS 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.
1.3k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release v6.3.0.
Not known
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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.