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Lumina vs Prediko: which inventory planning tool fits a scaling brand?

Both are AI-native, modern, and fast to set up. The difference is operational scope. Here's an honest line-by-line breakdown of where Prediko shines, where it stops short, and when Lumina becomes the right next step.

Updated May 2026By Oana Bradulet, Founder, Lumina
The bottom line

Prediko is forecasting. Lumina is the full planning system around it.

Prediko is a genuinely good product for the segment it targets — Shopify-only DTC brands £1–5M that want AI-first forecasting and PO suggestions without a steep learning curve. The mismatch isn't quality, it's scope. Once you add channels (Amazon, retail, wholesale), warehouses, or supplier complexity, too much of the planning workflow ends up back in spreadsheets — supplier payments, cash flow, multi-channel aggregation, range planning. Lumina is the same generation of tool — AI-native, modern UX, fast onboarding — but with the operational depth scaling brands actually need.

"Prediko got us off spreadsheets and we loved it for a year. Then we added Amazon and a second warehouse and the wheels came off — too much was happening outside the tool."
— COO, DTC consumer brand at £8M, Shopify + Amazon

When to pick which

Pick Lumina if

You've outgrown Prediko or you're picking a tool you won't outgrow.

  • Revenue between £5M and £100M, growing materially YoY.
  • You sell across Shopify, Amazon, retail, and (sometimes) wholesale — not a single channel.
  • You need supplier ops and cash flow inside the planning tool, not in three separate spreadsheets.
  • You want AI-native forecasting plus automated replenishment, range planning, and omnichannel aggregation in one platform.
  • You're tired of evaluating tools every 18 months as you outgrow each one.
Pick Prediko if

You're a Shopify-only DTC brand getting off spreadsheets for the first time.

  • Revenue under £5M, single channel (Shopify), simple supply chain.
  • You don't yet have a dedicated planner — your ops lead or founder owns inventory.
  • Forecasting is the workflow that hurts most right now, and supplier ops still lives comfortably in a spreadsheet.
  • You want fast, lightweight setup at a low price point, and you're fine re-evaluating tools as you scale.
  • You don't need Amazon or retail aggregation, multi-warehouse logic, or cash flow visibility yet.

Lumina vs Prediko: feature comparison

FeatureLumina
Recommended
Prediko
Built for
Who the product is genuinely designed around
Scaling DTC, omnichannel, FMCG brands £5–100M
Shopify-only DTC brands £1–5M
AI-native forecasting
Native — AI built in from day one
Native — AI built in from day one
Modern UX & fast onboarding
Yes — ~1 week guided setup
Yes — clean, lightweight, fast setup
Automated replenishment & POs
Full replenishment workflow with lead time + MOQ logic
PO suggestions only — no full PO ops
Cash flow & supplier payments
Built in — supplier ledger + cash impact view
Not in scope
Multi-channel (Shopify + Amazon + retail + B2B)
Native — built for omnichannel from day one
Shopify-centric; weaker outside it
Multi-warehouse, multi-region planning
Native
Limited
Range planning & merchandising workflows
Built in for fashion / consumer SKUs
Not in scope
Supplier ops & ledger
Built in
Not in scope
Integrations (ERP / IMS / accounting / 3PL)
Shopify, Amazon, Unleashed, Cin7, Xero, QuickBooks, 3PL exports
Shopify, QuickBooks; lighter elsewhere
Handles complex ops as you scale
Designed for it from day one
Becomes simplistic once ops get complex
Modular pricing
Pick modules; from £59/user/mo + add-ons
Tiered plans, forecasting-only scope
Best customer profile
Demand planner / ops lead at a £5–100M consumer brand
Founder / ops lead at a £1–5M Shopify-only DTC brand
Yes Partial No

Forecasting: same generation of model, different operational scope

Both Prediko and Lumina use modern AI-native forecasting — this is one of the few areas where the comparison is genuinely close on the engine itself. Both train on your real data, both handle seasonality and promo cycles without manual model tuning, and both produce forecasts you'd trust without rebuilding in a spreadsheet. The difference shows up at the edges. Lumina's forecasting aggregates demand across Shopify, Amazon, retail EDI/sell-through, and B2B orders into a single view — and the model adapts to channel-shift patterns (TikTok Shop launches, Amazon Prime Day spikes, retail seasonality) that don't exist in a Shopify-only dataset. If your business is Shopify-only, Prediko's forecasting will land within touching distance of Lumina's. If you sell on three channels, Lumina's forecasts will be materially more useful because they're built on data Prediko doesn't ingest cleanly.

Lumina forecasting wins
  • Aggregates Shopify, Amazon, retail, and B2B into a single forecast
  • Channel-shift modelling for omnichannel demand patterns
  • Forecasts roll up to channel, region, and SKU views without rework
Where Prediko is genuinely strong
  • Shopify-only DTC demand with stable seasonality and promo patterns
  • Lightweight setup — usable forecast in days, not weeks
  • AI-native model that handles new SKUs without manual tuning

Scope: forecasting only vs the full planning workflow

This is the heart of the comparison. Prediko is forecasting and PO suggestions — that's the deliberate, well-executed scope. Lumina extends across the rest of the planning workflow: full replenishment ops, supplier ledger, cash flow visibility, range planning, multi-warehouse and multi-channel aggregation. For a £3M Shopify brand, Prediko's tight scope is a feature — you don't want to pay for things you won't use, and the rest of the workflow fits comfortably in spreadsheets. For a £15M omnichannel brand, that same tight scope becomes a tax — your planner ends up with Prediko open in one tab, a supplier-payments spreadsheet in another, a cash flow model in a third, and an Amazon-aggregation workbook in a fourth. The tool stops being the centre of gravity for the planning meeting, and at some point you ask why you're paying for it.

Cash flow and supplier ops: connected vs separate tools

Prediko forecasts demand and suggests POs. It doesn't tell you what those POs do to your cash runway, whether you can actually afford them this month, or how they line up against supplier payment terms. That's by design — Prediko isn't trying to be a supplier ops or cash flow tool. The result is that most Prediko customers run those workflows in a spreadsheet alongside the planning tool. Lumina ties the PO to the supplier ledger and the cash flow view. You can see what's on order, what it costs, when it lands, and what your runway looks like — in one place. For brands where cash is a real constraint (i.e. most scaling brands), that single integration changes how planning meetings actually run.

Multi-channel: native omnichannel vs Shopify-centric

Prediko is built around Shopify. The integrations, the data model, the forecasting workflow all assume Shopify is your primary (or only) channel. Brands with material Amazon revenue typically tell us they end up exporting Amazon data into a spreadsheet and reconciling it with Prediko's forecasts manually — which defeats the point of having a planning tool. Lumina was designed multi-channel from day one. Shopify, Amazon, retailer EDI/sell-through, and B2B orders aggregate natively into the same forecast and the same replenishment view. For scaling brands that have outgrown a single channel — which, in our experience, happens between £5M and £10M for most consumer brands — this is 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. It's the surrounding workflow becoming unmanageable. The three most common signals we hear: (1) a planner spending more than half a day a week in spreadsheets reconciling supplier payments, cash flow, or Amazon data; (2) adding a second warehouse or a meaningful Amazon/retail channel and realising Prediko doesn't aggregate it cleanly; (3) the planning meeting fragmenting across four tabs instead of running from one tool. If any of those are happening, it's usually time. The migration is straightforward — Lumina imports historical data, connects to the same Shopify (plus the channels Prediko doesn't) and your accounting system, and runs guided onboarding in under a week. Most teams have their first real planning meeting in Lumina within two weeks of starting the switch.

Frequently asked questions

See Lumina against your real data

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll connect a few of your sources — Shopify, Amazon, your accounting tool — show you what the planning workflow looks like with your actual SKUs, and tell you honestly whether Lumina is a fit or whether you should stick with Prediko a while longer.