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Intake vs Jewel360
Jewel360 asks you to move the whole shop onto one vendor, website included. The reason a shop considers that is 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 Jewel360 asks of you
Move the register, the website, the customer list, and the marketing onto one vendor's platform, and build your site with their builder.
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Where the two differ
Everything in their column comes from Jewel360'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.
Jewel360
In their system.
Where the shop runs
Intake
On Shopify, the platform behind millions of stores. Intake is an app you add to it.
Jewel360
On their own platform.
Your website and checkout
Intake
Shopify builds and hosts the website and runs the checkout customers already know.
Jewel360
Their website builder and their payments.
Getting a bought piece online
Intake
Finish the buy and the piece is already in the catalog, with what you paid and its photos.
Jewel360
Listed on their top plan.
Email and texts
Intake
Your pick of first class email apps, from Mailchimp to Klaviyo.
Jewel360
Their own email tools.
Ads
Intake
Shopify pushes your products into Google, Facebook, and Instagram ads.
Jewel360
Not listed
Pricing gold and coins
Intake
Weight and purity against the live metal price, and a coin sheet you set.
Jewel360
Not listed
Reporting to LeadsOnline
Intake
Buys file with the seller's ID details and item photos.
Jewel360
Not listed
Adding other software
Intake
Thousands of apps, and any Shopify developer can build what is missing.
Jewel360
A set list of partners.
What it costs
Intake
$650 a month per location you enable, then a monthly price for each module you turn on. No setup fee and no licence per computer. Shopify's own plan is separate, from $39 a month.
Jewel360
$750 to set up, then a monthly price by quote. The setup fee only comes back once you are processing payments through them.
If you leave
Intake
Your products, customers, and orders stay in Shopify.
Jewel360
Your records live in the system you are leaving.
Prices and features checked against Jewel360's and Shopify's published pages, August 2026. A blank is something they do not list. Spotted something out of date?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 website builder, email tool, payments, reporting, 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. Jewel360's own plan list puts its Shopify connection on the top tier, so the thing they charge the most for is the thing Intake starts from.
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 platform means moving the website, the customers, and the sales history with it.
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The way you buy, running without you
Shopify runs the selling. Intake runs the buying. Together they are the whole shop: your rates, your counter, your record.
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