Lumina vs Prediko: which inventory planning tool fits a scaling brand?
Both are modern, quick to set up, and built for consumer brands. The difference is how much of your brand they can handle. Prediko is off-the-shelf: log in and go, if your business fits the template. Lumina is built around the brand you run, however niche the requirements. Here's the line-by-line breakdown.
Updated September 2026•By Oana Bradulet, Founder, Lumina
The bottom line
Prediko is off-the-shelf planning. Lumina is planning built around your brand.
Prediko is a genuinely good product for what it targets: a simple, off-the-shelf planner for Shopify brands. Forecasting, purchase orders, and raw material planning in one clean app, at an accessible price, with almost no setup. If your brand is simple, that's a real strength. The mismatch appears the moment your requirements aren't standard. A forecast you need to steer when you're off your growth targets. MOQs at more than one level. A complicated product hierarchy. Landed costs that determine your real margin. A cashflow forecast. A second sales channel, or a system Prediko doesn't connect to. Brands moving from Prediko tell us the same thing: each of those ended up in a spreadsheet next to the tool, until the tool wasn't where the planning happened any more. Lumina is the same generation of product, with modern UX and onboarding in weeks, built the other way round: configured to how your brand works, with every channel in one forecast, bespoke connections to your stack, and merchandising, cost, and cash in the same system.
"Prediko was fine while we were simple. But the forecast was top-down only, so we couldn't steer it when we were off target, there was no cashflow forecast, and landed costs ended up in spreadsheets. Anything slightly non-standard and we were working outside the tool."
— Founder, Fashion brand
When to pick which
Pick Lumina if
Your brand has requirements a template can't hold.
You need to steer the forecast: a bottom-up forecast scaled to your top-line plan, with your promotions, launches, and growth assumptions layered in.
Your supply chain has real complexity: MOQs at more than one level, a complicated product hierarchy, multiple locations, long lead times.
You sell across Shopify, Amazon, retail, or wholesale, and want it all in one forecast.
You need landed costs, supplier payment schedules, and a cashflow forecast inside the planning tool, not in spreadsheets around it.
You run, or are about to run, an ERP, a WMS, or accounting flows that need connecting properly.
You want a team alongside you, at onboarding and as your brand grows, not just a login.
Pick Prediko if
Your brand is simple, and you want simple.
Shopify is your only sales channel, and that's not changing soon.
Your products, suppliers, and MOQs are straightforward, and the standard forecast does the job.
Your stack is Shopify plus a 3PL like ShipBob or ShipHero, with nothing heavier to connect.
You want forecasting, POs, and raw material planning in one app at an accessible price, with no setup to speak of.
Lumina vs Prediko: feature comparison
Feature
Lumina
Recommended
Prediko
Built for
Who the product is genuinely designed around
Scaling DTC, omnichannel, and FMCG brands, £1–30M
Shopify-native DTC brands
Demand forecasting
Bespoke methods per product, built on your data from every channel; transparent and adjustable
Standard forecast from your Shopify sales history
Steering the forecast
Bottom-up forecast scaled to your top-line plan; promotions, launches, and growth assumptions layered in; override anything
Standard forecast, as generated
Onboarding & support
Guided onboarding with the Lumina team, live in weeks, then ongoing support as your brand grows
Self-serve setup, quick to start
Automated replenishment & POs
Lead-time, MOQ, and container aware; supplier-linked; custom order rules
PO creation, tracking, and supplier sharing
Raw materials & BOM
Production Suite: BOMs, BOM explosion, production planning, MRP
Raw material planning from BOMs
Sales channels in the forecast
Shopify, Amazon, TikTok, retail sell-through, B2B and wholesale
Shopify; Amazon and TikTok connectors in progress
Connects to your stack
Bespoke connectors to ERPs, WMS, accounting, and other sources
Shopify, ShipBob, ShipHero, Amazon MCF
Multi-location planning
Native, including recommended transfers
Multi-location tracking
Range planning & merchandising (WSSI, OTB)
Merchandising Suite
Not covered
Landed costs & margin
Built in: freight, duty, and extra charges per unit
Not covered
Cash flow & supplier payments
Supplier payment schedules from your PO terms, and a cash forecast across every channel
Cash projections from the PO calendar
Configurable to non-standard workflows
Custom modules and automations, built around how you operate
Standard workflow
Reporting & metrics
Unlimited custom reports and dashboards; ask Lumina AI for any number
20+ reports
AI assistant
Ask questions in plain language, build reports by asking, connect Lumina to Claude
AI Copilot for forecasting
Pricing
Plans from £295/month plus a one-off setup fee; published
From $49/month, stepping up by revenue; published
Best customer profile
Demand planner or ops lead at a £1–30M multi-channel consumer brand
Founder or ops lead at a Shopify-only DTC brand
Yes Partial No
Forecasting: the same generation of tool, working from different data
This is one of the few areas where the two are genuinely close. Both are modern, both forecast from your sales history without an analyst tuning parameters, and both produce forecasts you'd use rather than rebuild in a spreadsheet. If your business is Shopify-only, Prediko's forecast will land within touching distance of Lumina's.
The difference is what the forecast can see. Lumina forecasts from every channel you sell through, Shopify, Amazon, TikTok, retail sell-through, and B2B, in one view, so channel shifts, Prime Day spikes, and retail seasonality are part of the picture rather than missing from it. It picks the method that fits each product, layers in your promotions, launches, and growth plans, and shows you why the number is what it is. If you sell on three channels, that's the difference between a forecast of your business and a forecast of one part of it.
Lumina forecasting wins
Every channel in one forecast, with channel-level views without rework
Your promotions, launches, and growth plans layered in, and every method visible and adjustable
New lines with no history forecast from similar products
Where Prediko is genuinely strong
Shopify-only demand with predictable growth that lands on target
Quick to start: a usable forecast in days with self-serve setup
Raw material forecasting from BOMs, in the same app as the sales forecast
Fit: off-the-shelf vs built around your brand
This is the heart of the comparison. Prediko is off-the-shelf by design, and that's a compliment: you log in, connect Shopify, and the standard workflow is there. Forecast, PO, raw materials, bundles, locations. For a simple brand it's the right amount of tool.
The trouble is that scaling brands stop being simple, and they stop being simple in different ways. For one it's the forecast: growth targets the forecast can't be steered towards, promotions and launches it doesn't know about. For another it's the supply chain: MOQs at supplier and product level, a product hierarchy with real depth, several locations. For another it's money: landed costs that decide the true margin, supplier payment terms, a cashflow forecast. And for most, eventually, it's channels and systems: Amazon, retail, wholesale, an ERP, a WMS. A template can hold one of those at a stretch. It can't hold your particular combination, so each one ends up in a spreadsheet next to the tool, and the planning meeting migrates to the spreadsheets.
Off-the-shelf also means self-serve. You work out what to configure, what the numbers mean, and where it could go wrong, on your own. That's fine when the brand is simple and the stakes are low. It's a different proposition when you're committing a season's cash on the strength of a forecast you set up yourself.
Lumina is built the other way round, and supported the other way round. Onboarding is guided by the Lumina team, with your data, and we stay alongside you as your brand grows, as a partner rather than a login. The forecast is bottom-up and scaled to your top-line plan, with your knowledge layered in and every number open to override. The data model fits your product hierarchy and your MOQ structure rather than the other way about. Merchandising, cost, and cash workflows live in the same system as the plan. Every channel is in one forecast, and connections to your stack are built for what you run. And for the parts of your operation that don't fit anyone's template, custom modules and automations are built around how you operate. The planning meeting runs from one place, and it stays that way as you grow.
Cost and cash: PO calendar projections vs the full picture
Prediko projects cash from its PO calendar, which is useful: you can see what your planned orders will cost and when. What it doesn't have is the cost side underneath (landed cost per unit, so you know your true margin) or the payment side around it (supplier payment terms, deposits, balances, what's due when), and it sees Shopify demand only.
Lumina builds landed cost from freight, duties, and every extra charge, so margin is real rather than the supplier's invoice price. It generates a schedule of supplier payments from the terms on your POs and shipments, and forecasts cash in and out across every channel, so you can see the impact of your committed spend and upcoming buying and adjust before a pinch point. For brands where cash is a real constraint, which is most scaling brands, that's the difference between a projection and a plan.
Channels and systems: Shopify-native vs built for the stack you have
Prediko is Shopify-native by design: the data model, the integrations, and the workflow assume Shopify is your channel. Native Amazon and TikTok connectors are on their roadmap, but today brands with meaningful marketplace or retail revenue tell us they export that data and reconcile it with Prediko's forecast by hand, which defeats the point of having a planning tool. Beyond sales channels, the integration list is a 3PL list; an ERP or an accounting system isn't in the picture.
Lumina was built multi-channel from the start. Shopify, Amazon, TikTok, retail sell-through, and B2B orders come together in the same forecast and the same replenishment view, and connections to your ERP, WMS, accounting tool, or any other source are built for your stack rather than picked from a list. For scaling brands that have outgrown a single channel, which in our experience happens somewhere between £3M and £10M for most consumer brands, that's the difference between a planning system and a forecasting tool with adjacent spreadsheets.
When to switch from Prediko to Lumina
The trigger is rarely the forecasting itself; Prediko's forecasts are fine while the brand is simple. It's your supply chain outgrowing the simple mould. The signals we hear most: (1) the supply chain has got more complex: a product range with real depth and variation, MOQs at more than one level, several locations, long or variable lead times, and the standard workflow can't hold it; (2) Amazon, retail, or wholesale has become a meaningful share of demand and it's being reconciled in a spreadsheet, or you've added an ERP, a WMS, or accounting flows that Prediko can't connect to; (3) you need to steer the forecast against growth targets, or landed costs, supplier payments, and cashflow have become weekly work happening in tabs next to the tool.
If any of those are happening, it's usually time. The switch is straightforward: Lumina imports your historical data, connects Shopify plus the channels and systems Prediko doesn't, and runs guided onboarding. Most teams are running their first planning meeting from Lumina within weeks of signing.
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