Lightning Inventory
Shopify inventory optimization app by Automate Commerce·Stocktakes | Transfers | Adjustments | Supplier Receipts | Barcode Scanning | CSV
Snapshot
Ongoing.AI tracks Lightning Inventory daily — category rank, keyword positions in App Store search, install footprint, listing changes, and reviewer sentiment — back to when we first observed the listing.
Rating
4.30
11 reviews
Pricing
From $15/mo
free_trial
Built for Shopify
No
Years live
4
launched Jul 21, 2021
Last updated
Jun 30, 2026
Shopify listing
Catalog position
Where Lightning Inventory sits in the App Store.
Rank and percentile inside the Inventory optimization category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.
Rank in Inventory optimization
#63
of 432 active apps
Review count percentile
85th
vs category siblings
Rating percentile
65th
vs category siblings
Years on App Store
4
since 2021
Listing change cadence
What Lightning Inventory has changed lately.
Every pricing tweak, tagline refresh, and Shopify-side listing ping. Captured from Ongoing.AI’s per-scrape diff log — the cadence and the content of changes, in one strip.
Shopify Lastmod · Jul 1
2026-06-28 → 2026-06-30
Shopify Lastmod · Jun 29
2026-06-26 → 2026-06-28
Shopify Lastmod · Jun 28
2026-06-24 → 2026-06-26
Reviews
What merchants are saying
- 92%positive11
- 0%neutral0
- 8%negative1
Top themes
What merchants praise
“Lifesaving app. We use it to keep track of our returns and the functionality is great. We are able to barcode scan from multiple mobile or ipads and keep the count in one file, ready for a list to transfer back to our main warehouse. The customer support is outstanding, regular improvements and very responsive.”
What merchants complain about
“I wish this did the one simple thing I needed it to: move all of my inventory at one location to another with one click. But it doesn't. I still had to choose every item (over 200 of them) manually, add them to a list and then manually click through every one to bring its number to zero at the first location, having also adjusted the inventory numbers individually at the second location. For me, this is money totally wasted - I could have done that myself without the app.”
Plans
Lightning Inventory pricing tiers.
LIGHTNING PRO
$15.95/month
- Real-time, multi-user stocktakes
- Instant or send & receive transfers
- Supplier receipts
- Instant adjustments
- CSV import & export
- Barcode & QR scanning
Capabilities
What Lightning Inventory can do.
The 7 capabilities Lightning Inventory lists across its category, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.
Inventory management
7- Barcodes
- Multi-location
- SKUs
- Stock replenishment
- Stock transfer
- Scanners
- Inventory planning
FAQ
Lightning Inventory — frequently asked questions.
What is Lightning Inventory on Shopify?
How much does Lightning Inventory cost?
Is Lightning Inventory free?
When was Lightning Inventory launched?
Is Lightning Inventory Built for Shopify?
What are the best Lightning Inventory alternatives?
Methodology
Where the numbers come from.
Ratings, review counts, pricing tiers, “Built for Shopify”, launch date, and category memberships come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily by Ongoing.AI’s crawler. The review-count trajectory is the diff between today’s snapshot and snapshots from 7 and 28 days ago. Topic counts and sentiment come from the review corpus, topic-tagged with Claude. Install footprint is observed via Ongoing.AI’s tech-detection pass against actively-tracked Shopify storefronts. Catalog position is computed at snapshot time against every active app sharing the primary category. Snapshot generated .
Find every brand running Lightning Inventory.
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