Lightspeed Retail vs Katana

Two inventory tools side by side. Prices are the starting plan a small business would pick, in USD.

Compare	Lightspeed RetailLightspeed	KatanaKatana Technologies
In one line	POS and inventory built for shops with deep catalogs	Manufacturing inventory, free for up to 30 SKUs
Starting price	From $89/mo	Free
Six-person team	Not listed	$0/mo
Plans	Basic $89/mo; Core $149/mo; Plus $289/mo (1 register each, extra registers $59/mo, each extra location another plan fee); card-present payments 1.5% with Lightspeed Payments; up to 18% off annual ($109/mo on Basic monthly)	Free (up to 30 SKUs, unlimited users and locations; unlimited SKUs for the first 15 days; Shopify is the only store integration on Free); Advantage by quote on a yearly contract
Pricing model	Paid	Free tier
Free trial	—	—
Users	1 register per plan	Unlimited
Integrations	QuickBooks, Xero, Shopify, Mailchimp	Shopify, QuickBooks Online, Xero
Team size	2–10 people · 11–50 people · 51–200 people	2–10 people · 11–50 people
Available in	US · UK · CA · AU	US · UK · CA · AU
Phone support	Plans not stated	None listed
Live chat	Plans not stated	None listed
Support hours	Phone: 24/7 · Live chat: 24/7	Not published
Incidents posted	32 incidents posted on Lightspeed's status page, which covers all Lightspeed products and regions, in the 90 days to Oct 27, 2026; 9 marked major or critical by Lightspeed. Status page	We found no public status page for Katana Technologies.
Capterra score	4.0 / 5 from 976 reviews	See reviews on Capterra
Trustpilot score	Not listed	2.0 / 5 from 13 reviews (few reviews)
Fit: Retail shop	92	45
Fit: Restaurant or café	15	20
Fit: Service business	15	10
Fit: Agency or studio	5	5
Fit: Trades or contractor	20	40
Fit: Online store	70	80
Why people pick it	Best-in-class retail inventory Multi-store	Free tier for very small catalogs Built for production planning
Where it falls short	Pricier than Square Annual contracts common	Paid plan price not published 30-SKU cap on free
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Six-person prices are what a team of six would pay on the published plans; "Not listed" means those plans don't cover six. How we calculate prices

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