The word ERP is frightening: it brings to mind six-month projects and five-figure quotes. For a Shopify store, the question is simpler. Which software will bring products, inventory, orders and customers together in one place, without making you re-enter what the store already knows? Here is how to frame the choice.
Updated on 13 October 2026
An enterprise resource planning system brings together, in one application, the data and tasks that several tools usually share: the catalogue, inventory, purchasing, orders, customers, sometimes production and invoicing.
For a Shopify store, the point is not to have more features. It is to stop copying. The store remains the storefront and the sales channel; the ERP becomes the workstation from which you run it.
Synchronisation first, and in both directions: the store must tell the ERP when an order arrives, and the ERP must send back its changes to prices, stock and records without a manual export. Ask how the tool learns that something changed: through a periodic import, or through an immediate notification from Shopify.
Then the boundary between internal and public. The supplier, the cost price, a note about a customer have no business on the storefront. A good tool clearly separates what goes to Shopify from what stays with you.
History and permissions, as soon as there are several of you: who changed this price, and when? An ERP that keeps no trace of each action leaves you alone in front of a discrepancy.
Where the data is hosted, preferably in Europe, and the way out: can you export your data and leave? A tool you cannot leave is not a tool, it is a dependency.
The total cost, finally: subscription, add-ons billed separately, number of users, set-up fees. A single price covering every shipped module avoids the surprise of the next tier.
LIORA is an ERP built for Shopify stores, installed from the Shopify App Store. Today, 18 modules are shipped and included in the subscription: dashboard, products, media, inventory, pricing, orders, customers, promotions, bundles, collections, integrations, timeline and audit, settings, replenishment, invoices and profitability, data health, support centre, and production with recipes for those who make their own products.
Two modules are in development: advanced analytics and customer communication. Others are planned, including multi-store and automation. They are announced on the roadmap, with no promised date.
To be clear: LIORA produces your invoices and tracks your payments and profitability, but it is not accounting software, and it does not yet run several stores from one account. You pay for what exists, at the price of what exists.
LIORA costs €40 per month, everything included, with no commitment and a 5-day free trial during which nothing is charged. One plan, no tiers and no endless add-ons: what ships, every subscriber gets.
To compare with another ERP, bring everything back to the total cost over a year: the subscription, but also modules billed separately, extra users, the Shopify integration when it is paid for, and the time it takes to set up.
The Shopify connection goes through OAuth, the official procedure: you authorise the application from your store, without ever typing or handing over a password, and you see the permissions granted. LIORA then imports products, stock, customers and orders.
During the trial, work on your real catalogue: adjust a stock level, change a price, prepare a promotion, and check on the store that everything follows. That is the only demonstration worth having.
Both. LIORA installs from the Shopify App Store, like an app, and works like an ERP: products, inventory, pricing, orders, customers, promotions and production brought together in one application, synced with the store.
No. Shopify remains your storefront and your sales channel. LIORA connects to it, imports the store’s data and sends your changes back.
Yes. Export formats and the terms of data portability are described on the dedicated page of this site, and your Shopify catalogue keeps working if you leave.
Try LIORA free for five days. Nothing is charged before it ends.
