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Intake vs Bravo
Bravo asks you to run the whole shop on one pawn platform: loans, buys, the register, and their selling channels. The reason a shop looks at that stack is often buying, and buying is the one thing Intake adds to Shopify, so the selling side stays with the company that does it for millions of stores.
What Bravo asks of you
Move the register, the loans, the buys, compliance, and online selling onto one vendor's platform, with a data migration and staff training before go-live.
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Where the two differ
Everything in their column comes from Bravo's own public pages.
Where you work
Intake
In a browser on a Mac, a PC, an iPad, or a phone, or inside Shopify next to your products.
Bravo
In their cloud system, on standard hardware they do not lock you into.
Where the shop runs
Intake
On Shopify, the platform behind millions of stores. Intake is an app you add to it.
Bravo
On their own cloud platform.
What the product covers
Intake
Buying: price the piece, take the seller's ID, pay out, and put the piece into inventory.
Bravo
The full pawn and retail counter: loans, renewals, layaways, buys, sales, and firearms compliance.
Your website and checkout
Intake
Shopify builds and hosts the website and runs the checkout customers already know.
Bravo
Their branded website, plus listings to Buya, eBay, Guns.com, and a customer app.
Getting a bought piece online
Intake
Finish the buy and the piece is already in the catalog, with what you paid and its photos.
Bravo
The same item record lists in-store and to their connected channels from one click.
Pricing gold and coins
Intake
Weight and purity against the live metal price, and a coin sheet you set.
Bravo
Hourly gold spot feeds, weight-based payouts, and payout bands staff have to follow.
Reporting to LeadsOnline
Intake
Buys file with the seller's ID details and item photos.
Bravo
Daily police reporting to LeadsOnline, BWI, RAPID, and similar.
Adding other software
Intake
Thousands of apps, and any Shopify developer can build what is missing.
Bravo
Their own products: MobilePawn, Messenger, and eCommerce add-ons.
Getting started
Intake
Open a Shopify store, then add Intake to it in a click.
Bravo
A demo, a data migration, configuration, and training. Most stores live in about 30 days.
If you leave
Intake
Your products, customers, and orders stay in Shopify.
Bravo
Your records live in the system you are leaving. They export to common file formats.
Prices and features checked against Bravo's and Shopify's published pages, August 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
Why Intake
What running on Shopify buys you
Intake is one app doing one job. Around it sits Shopify, with the apps, developers, and sales channels that come with it.
The gap was buying, and only buying
Shopify does the rest better than a closed platform: the website, the checkout, the email apps, the ad channels, the developers. The one thing it could not do is take a piece in over the counter and pay for it, so shops that buy went looking for a platform built around that gap and gave up everything else to get it. Intake fills the gap and leaves the rest alone.
All-in-one means one roadmap
A single vendor's loans, firearms book, marketplace, customer app, and register all compete for the same team's attention. Split them up and each one has to win on its own: the checkout, the email app, the ad channels. Intake only has to be the best at buying.
The website is the part customers actually see
Selling online is Shopify's whole business, from the templates to a checkout millions of shoppers already have their card details saved in. Bravo sells through its own branded site and connected marketplaces. Intake starts from the platform those shoppers already use.
The ecosystem comes with the platform
Whatever the shop needs next, from loyalty to accounting to a wholesale channel, is an app away, and any Shopify developer can work on your store. On a closed platform, a missing feature is a support ticket and a place in someone's roadmap.
A piece you buy is instantly everywhere you sell
When a buy completes, the piece becomes a product with its cost, SKU, and photos. It is on the website, in the next email, and in your Google and Facebook ads without anybody exporting a file. There is no second inventory to reconcile.
Buying is the product, not a tab
Melt against the live metal market, a bullion sheet you set, comps behind hand-priced pieces, licence scan with a Do Not Buy check, LeadsOnline filing, and a resale hold per store. Your rates decide the payout, so a new buyer prices a chain the way the owner would.
Trying it is not a migration
Intake installs in a click and uninstalls the same way, and your old system keeps its history while you decide. Moving onto an all-in-one pawn platform means converting customers, inventory, and open tickets, with most stores live in about a month.
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Anyone at your counter buys the way you would
Shopify runs the selling. Intake runs the buying. Together they are the whole shop: your rates, your counter, your record.
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