The honest Kukui alternative for independent shops

Kukui handles a website plus marketing, SEO, email and reviews. Gravy matches those essentials and adds what a back-office-only tool structurally cannot: the shop floor itself: digital inspections, a dispatch board, invoicing and card payments, and an AI foreman.

Kukui is a website-and-marketing platform, and a good one, but it stops at the storefront. Most shops run Kukui alongside a separate management system to actually run the bays. Gravy does both in one bill, usually for less than Kukui alone. Gravy includes marketing and reviews, is modular so you keep the tools you like, and builds you a real website connected to the rest of the shop.

Based on each vendor's publicly listed features and starting pricing as of September 2026. Vendors change products and prices, so please verify current offerings before deciding.