Shopify POS vs TastyIgniter
Shopify POS and TastyIgniter are both point of sale software. Shopify POS is a commercial product from Shopify Inc. TastyIgniter is open source under MIT, with 3.8k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Shopify POS when
- A Shopify merchant opens a shop, market stall or pop-up and wants one inventory across online and in person.
- Pick TastyIgniter when
- A restaurant wants its own ordering site instead of paying marketplace commissions.
Side by side
Shopify's in-store point of sale, sharing products, inventory and customers with the Shopify online store.
Online food ordering, table reservations and menu management for restaurants, with multi-location support.
It is weak for restaurants, and the Pro tier is required for multi-staff retail features.
Many extensions and themes are paid, and payment setup is on you.
Production-ready (both)
Mobile app and cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
PHP, Laravel and MySQL
Closed source, sold by Shopify Inc.
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
No Wikipedia article of its own
3.8k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v4.4.5.
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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.