Bumpa alternatives in Nigeria (2026): 7 options, honestly compared

Checked against each company's public pricing page on 29 September 2026. Prices change; if you're reading this much later, check their sites too. We make one of the seven products on this list, and we've tried to be as fair to the other six as we'd want them to be to us.

People go looking for a Bumpa alternative for a handful of reasons. The plan you need costs more than you expected. A feature you want is marked "Can be purchased" on top of your subscription. Your selling happens in WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, and those sit outside the system. Or you've outgrown a catalogue with a link, and you want a store that does more of the selling.

Bumpa is a good product, and plenty of Nigerian merchants learned to run a business properly on it. But it isn't the right fit for everyone, and there are real options. Here are seven, what each one is best for, what it costs, and where it falls short.

Bumpa alternatives at a glance

For reference, Bumpa's Starter plan is ₦15,000 a quarter (₦5,000 a month) or ₦50,000 a year, and Growth, the plan most growing stores end up needing, is ₦250,000 a year and isn't sold quarterly.

A note on fees: where a platform says its fee is "plus the provider's fee", the payment gateway charges its own fee on top. Where it doesn't, the platform's fee is what you pay. Compare the totals, not the headline percentage.

1. Bizthom

Best for: merchants who sell in DMs, on a website and offline with a POS, and who want the software to do some of the selling.

This is us, so read this section with that in mind.

Bizthom gives you an online store, connects it to your DMs, and gives you a POS to sell offline, all as one system, with inventory and orders always in sync. Here's what that covers. Everything is on every plan unless it says otherwise.

Website selling

• A store built to convert, with a drag-and-drop designer, templates and a fast checkout.
• Bag timer, stock urgency, social proof and Share with a friend, to move visitors to pay.
• Reviews with text and photos, plus video and voice notes from Growth.
• Spin to Win, sales countdowns, personalization and part payments at checkout, from Growth.
• Your own domain or a free .mybizthom.com one, SSL, SEO and AI SEO, product FAQs and a blog.
• Pay on delivery, and you choose who pays the payment fee: you, the customer, or half each.

DM selling

• One inbox for your website chat, WhatsApp, SMS and email. Instagram and Facebook are added from Growth, and Telegram on Scale.
• Every person who messages you becomes a contact you keep.
• Send products and reviews into a chat, and send receipts and invoices from it.
• From Growth: predicts which chats will buy or go quiet, flags chats that need a follow-up with a morning digest, and creates orders from the inbox.
• From Growth: links one customer's chats across channels, shows when they open the link you sent, and turns praise in your DMs into reviews on your website.
• On Scale: rewards staff for the DM sales they close.

Sales agent and automation

• Ejiro, the AI sales agent, sells on your website and WhatsApp. It negotiates within the lowest price you set, follows up when a chat goes quiet, and hands over to you when it should.
• Every plan includes Ejiro chats: 100 a month on Basic, 300 on Growth and 1,000 on Scale, then ₦100 per extra chat. Follow-ups on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are free.
• From Growth, Ejiro learns from your DMs how you talk about your products, prices and delivery.
• Every automation, including abandoned-bag recovery across WhatsApp, SMS and email, is on every plan. You can run 3 at once on Basic, 10 on Growth, and unlimited on Scale.
• AI writes your product descriptions. From Growth, it writes your campaigns, and you can ask Bizthom plain questions about your sales, stock and customers.

Inventory and POS

• Unlimited products on every plan, with variants, barcodes, automatic SKUs, restock alerts and bulk editing.
• A POS with barcode scanning that sells from the same stock as your website and DMs. From Growth it keeps working without internet and can put a sale on hold.
• Inventory locations: 1 on Basic, 3 on Growth and 10 on Scale.
• On Scale: purchase orders, suppliers, stock transfers, stock states, variants that share one stock (like decants), a Moniepoint POS connection, and loyalty points redeemed in store.

Orders, customers and marketing

• Record orders from outside your website, and use checkout links, payment links, invoices, receipts, draft orders and abandoned bags.
• Each customer's journey from first visit to order, forms that capture leads, and customer accounts.
• Campaigns by WhatsApp, SMS and email, with segments, promos and discounts.
• Shipping zones with transit times and pickup. Free shipping and dispatch riders are added from Growth.
• Meta and TikTok Pixel and Conversions API, so your ad platforms see the sales a browser pixel misses. Also traffic attribution, profitability tracking and Meta ad performance.

Pricing: Basic ₦29,000 a quarter or ₦99,000 a year; Growth ₦69,000 or ₦249,000; Scale ₦129,000 or ₦459,000. The checkout fee is 1.5% on Basic and 1% on Growth and Scale (0.7% on Scale yearly), capped at ₦2,000 per payment. The payment provider's fee is on top: 1.4%, capped at ₦1,800. Campaigns are paid in naira from your wallet: WhatsApp ₦3, SMS ₦8, email ₦4 per message.

Where it falls short: it costs more to start than Bumpa. Beyond Basic's one staff account, more team members, the Instagram and Facebook inbox, and a POS that works without internet start on Growth. If you only need a catalogue with a link, you'll be paying for a lot you won't use.

Moving from Bumpa: you can import your Bumpa store directly (products, collections, customers and order history), or ask us to move it for you. For the full side-by-side, read Bizthom vs Bumpa: an honest comparison.

2. Catlog

Best for: WhatsApp and Instagram vendors who want a clean store link to send customers, for the lowest monthly price.

Catlog gives you an online store, order and customer records, payments and invoices, and discounted delivery booking in Nigeria and Ghana. Its Basic plan adds importing products from Instagram, partially paid orders and customer testimonials. Higher plans bring more businesses under one account, product videos, affiliates and expense tracking.

Pricing: Lite ₦2,750 a month, Basic ₦6,500, Business+ ₦12,500 and Business Pro ₦25,000, with 12% off when you pay yearly. Catlog's payments page lists a fee on each payment: 1% on Basic (max ₦500) and 0.8% on Business+ (max ₦300). An October 2025 announcement on its blog says payments into your wallet are now free and withdrawals cost 0.5% (max ₦1,000), so ask them which applies to you.

Where it falls short: the cheap plans are tight on products (10 on Lite, 100 on Basic), and a custom domain and the Facebook Pixel start on Business+. Staff accounts start on Business+ as well (2 of them). If you run ads or sell a wide range, the plan you actually need is closer to ₦12,500 a month.

3. Selar

Best for: creators selling courses, ebooks, tickets, memberships and other digital products.

Selar is built for creators. It sells digital products, services, subscriptions and tickets, handles pre-orders, and has an affiliate network where other people sell your product for a cut. It takes payment in many currencies and pays out to bank accounts, mobile money and PayPal. You can sell physical products too.

Pricing: the Starter plan is free forever, with 40 products. Pro is ₦12,000 a month, Turbo ₦22,500 and TurboPlus ₦50,000. On every plan you pay a transaction fee of 4% + ₦50 per naira sale, which you can choose to pass on to your customer.

Where it falls short: it's built for creators first. It handles delivery prices and order tracking for physical products, but its plans don't list a point of sale, so selling in person isn't covered. And at 4% + ₦50 per sale, the free plan gets expensive once you're selling real volume: on ₦1,000,000 a month, that's at least ₦40,000 in fees.

4. Paystack Storefront

Best for: getting a free, simple seller page up in minutes.

If you already take payments with Paystack, Storefront is the quickest way to put your products on a page. It's mobile-friendly, shows products and variants, alerts you when stock runs low, lets customers reach you on WhatsApp, and charges delivery fees. You manage orders from the Paystack app.

Pricing: free. No setup fee and no subscription. You pay Paystack's standard fee on each sale: 1.5% + ₦100 for local payments (the ₦100 is waived under ₦2,500), capped at ₦2,000.

Where it falls short: it's a seller page, not a full store system. Paystack's Storefront guide covers products, orders, discount codes and delivery, but not campaigns, abandoned-bag recovery or customer segments, so following up with customers is up to you. Paystack does sell a card terminal for in-person payments (₦100,000 per device), but the Storefront guide doesn't cover selling in person from the same stock. It's a good place to start.

5. Shopify

Best for: brands that sell internationally and want the world's biggest app store behind them.

Shopify is the global standard for online stores, with thousands of themes and apps, a strong checkout and a point of sale. If you sell to customers abroad, or plan to, nothing else here matches its reach.

Pricing: Basic is US$19 a month billed yearly (US$27 monthly), Grow US$54 and Advanced US$299. It's billed in dollars, so the naira cost moves with the exchange rate. If you take payment through a third-party provider such as Paystack instead of Shopify Payments, Shopify adds its own fee: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow. Selling in person is included on every plan; POS Pro, the version for a physical shop, is US$89 a month per location.

Where it falls short: the price you see isn't the price you pay. Abandoned-checkout recovery, email and SMS campaigns and customer chat are built in, but dollar billing, the third-party fee and any paid apps you add all stack up. And selling in WhatsApp and Instagram DMs isn't among the built-in features on its pricing page.

6. WooCommerce

Best for: businesses with a developer, or the budget for one, who want full control of their own website.

WooCommerce is a free, open-source store plugin for WordPress. You own the site and the code, there's no limit on products or orders, and WooCommerce takes no share of your sales. Paystack and other Nigerian payment providers plug into it, and thousands of extensions add almost any feature you can think of.

Pricing: the plugin is free, with no monthly subscription and no platform fee on sales; you pay only your payment provider's fee. The costs sit elsewhere: hosting (WooCommerce's own pricing page puts it at US$25 to US$350 a month for most stores), a domain, and paid extensions at US$29 to US$299 a year each.

Where it falls short: you're running a website, not just a store. Hosting, updates, security, backups and speed are your job, or your developer's. WooCommerce's own POS mode doesn't support stores in Nigeria yet, so selling in person means a separate extension. Built-in abandoned-cart recovery is one experimental reminder email, and WhatsApp messaging needs an extension too. It's powerful, and it's the most work of anything on this list.

7. Fisco

Best for: businesses that sell products and also take bookings or appointments.

Fisco combines a storefront, inventory, orders (online, walk-in and social), invoicing and customer management with booking pages. That makes it a good fit for businesses like salons, studios and makers who sell products and services side by side.

Pricing: the Starter plan is free, with a 2.5% fee on online payments (cash sales are free, and you choose who pays the fee). Pro is ₦10,000 a month, with no service fees on online sales, selling in USD, GBP, EUR and stablecoins, automated reminders and up to 5 team members.

Where it falls short: 2.5% on every online sale adds up on the free plan; past about ₦400,000 a month in online sales, Pro is the cheaper choice. Pro sends automated reminders and follow-ups, but its site doesn't list a DM inbox, campaigns or ad tracking.

Is there a free Bumpa alternative?

Yes. Paystack Storefront, Selar's Starter plan and Fisco's Starter plan all cost nothing a month. You pay per sale instead, so "free" is cheapest while your sales are small. WooCommerce is free too, but you pay for hosting and extensions, so it's rarely free in practice.

And if price is the only reason you're leaving, it's worth knowing that Bumpa itself offers a free app, Paperless by Bumpa, linked from its pricing page.

How to choose

• You sell digital products or courses: Selar.
• You want a free page and you're just starting: Paystack Storefront.
• You want the cheapest store link for your DMs: Catlog.
• You sell products and take bookings: Fisco.
• You sell mostly abroad: Shopify.
• You have a developer and want full control of your site: WooCommerce.
• Your customers find you in DMs, you want your website to convert, and you also sell offline with a POS: Bizthom.
• You're happy on Bumpa and your team knows it: stay. Switching costs time, and it's only worth it if it fixes a problem you actually have.

What moving off Bumpa involves

Whichever platform you choose, export three things before you go: your products, your customers and your order history. Your customer list is the part you can't rebuild.

On Bizthom, you can import a Bumpa store directly. Products, collections, customers and past orders come across, matched to each other so your reports still add up. You can also import from Shopify, WooCommerce, a WhatsApp catalogue or a CSV, or ask us to move your store for you. Most stores are trading the same day.

FAQ

What is the best Bumpa alternative in Nigeria? It depends on how you sell. For selling in DMs, online and offline with a POS, with AI and automation, Bizthom. For a cheap store link, Catlog. For digital products, Selar. For a free page, Paystack Storefront. For international brands, Shopify. For full control with a developer, WooCommerce. For products plus bookings, Fisco.

What is the cheapest Bumpa alternative? Paystack Storefront, Selar Starter and Fisco Starter have no monthly fee; you pay per sale. Of the paid plans, Catlog Lite is the cheapest at ₦2,750 a month.

Can I move my Bumpa store to another platform? Yes. Bizthom imports Bumpa stores directly, including order history. With other platforms, export your products and customers from Bumpa and import them.

Does Bizthom cost more than Bumpa? At the entry level, yes: ₦29,000 a quarter against ₦15,000. Compare what's included, though. Bizthom's Basic has unlimited products, a WhatsApp and website inbox, a POS with barcode scanning, and Ejiro with 100 chats a month.

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