Shopify is for retail. Planbrand is for everything else.

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Inventory + fulfilment

Pick Shopify

- Stock counts that update from the warehouse

- Barcode scanning + low-stock alerts

- Carrier-calculated shipping at checkout

- Returns, exchanges, restocking fees

A real shop has a real back office. Shopify built it. If your week is orders going out and stock coming in, this is the right tool.

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Booked-time businesses

Pick Planbrand

- Bookings live on your domain, not Calendly

- Deposits taken at booking, refunded on cancel

- The CRM record updates the moment the form submits

- No Zapier between site, calendar and Personas

Coaches, therapists, photographers, studios, consultants — the website's job is to get a calendar block. Shopify wasn't built for that. We were.

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Memberships + gated content

Pick Planbrand

- Members log in on your domain, not the platform

- Stripe subscriptions without Memberstack on top

- Tiered access on any page or post

- Drip release on a schedule you control

Substacks, communities, paid newsletters, course brands. On Shopify this is three apps glued together. With us it ships as one product.

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Cross-border retail tax

Pick Shopify

- VAT and sales-tax handled per region

- Duties and customs calculated upfront

- Multi-currency checkout at local prices

- IOSS, EU OSS, UK VAT all native

International retail tax is a real engineering problem. Shopify already solved it. If you ship physical goods across borders, do not reinvent that wheel here.

CHECKOUT IS THE PRODUCT

/ USE SHOPIFY

Your business is checkout.

You take orders every day. You hold real inventory. You ship across borders and the tax matters. You have a counter, a POS, maybe a warehouse. Shopify is built for exactly this and it is excellent at it. Stay on Shopify.

THE FRONT DOOR, NOT THE TILL

/ USE PLANBRAND

Your website is the front door.

You sell time, expertise, access or a relationship. The first thing a buyer does is read about you, fill in a form or book a call — not add to cart. Shopify was never built for that shape. We were.

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Moved from Shopify

They weren't running a shop. They moved.

Short, specific, four founders.

I was paying Shopify Plus for a checkout I touched twice a year. I sell retreats. We rebuilt the whole thing on Planbrand around bookings and a deposit form instead.

Lena M.Founder, Studio Pollen

The Shopify app receipts were £340 a month — Memberstack, Recharge, Klaviyo, Calendly bridge. One Planbrand bill replaced all four and the data finally stopped drifting.

David O.Founder, Quiet Goods

Shopify wanted me to treat coaching like a SKU. It never sat right. My AM ripped that out and rebuilt the site around a calendar and an enquiry form in ten days.

Hadley WrenFounder, North Shelf Co.

I'd been duct-taping Shopify to my membership platform for two years. Moved over a weekend. Members now log in on my own domain instead of a Shopify subdomain.

Bram K.Founder, Slow Press Library