5 Best Flutterwave Store Alternatives in Nigeria (2026)

Flutterwave Store does one thing well. It gives you a free online store connected to one of Africa's biggest payment companies, with solid multi-currency support.

But like Paystack's equivalent, it's a payments product first and a store second. It's thin on inventory, order automation, buyer trust and discovery.

If you've hit those walls, here are 5 alternatives, two of them also free to start. Competitor pricing below is as advertised at the time of writing, so check the current rate on each site before deciding.

Where Flutterwave Store falls short

• Minimal store management: basic product listings, little automation as orders grow
• No trust layer: secure checkout, but nothing that tells first-time buyers you're legit
• No discovery: all traffic is traffic you bring
• Payments-company priorities: the store is an add-on to the gateway

1. Paylo: free start, plus the trust layer Flutterwave never built

Paylo matches Flutterwave Store's ₦0 entry and adds what gets first-time buyers to pay. The Free plan needs no card. Sales to your own customers carry no Paylo fee, and we charge 5% only on buyers we bring you, for each buyer's first 12 months.

With escrow-protected payments, the buyer's money is held until delivery, which ends the "pay first and pray" objection. Your verified storefront also sits in our buyer marketplace, so new customers can find you and see you've been vetted.

Inventory and order management come with unlimited products on every plan. Crypto payments, powered by Breet, sit alongside cards and transfers, so you still have an answer for international customers, the one area where Flutterwave Store was strong.

Paid plans in naira can wait until your volume justifies them. Pro is ₦150,000/year (about ₦12,500/month) and drops our fee on buyers we bring you to 2%. Business is ₦300,000/year (about ₦25,000/month), takes it to 0%, and adds multicurrency support and white-label branding. Both bill every 6 months or yearly. Payment processing fees from Paystack and Breet apply on every plan, separate from our fee.

Honest limitation: for heavy international, multi-currency selling, Flutterwave's and Shopify's rails still reach further, and on Paylo multicurrency comes with the Business plan.

Best for: sellers who chose Flutterwave Store for "free" but now need buyers to trust and find them.

2. Bumpa: for operational depth

Bumpa (from ₦15,000/quarter, about ₦5,000/month; no free plan since late 2025) gives you real business tooling: inventory with reorder alerts, bookkeeping, staff accounts and a POS terminal. It's a management app, with no escrow or marketplace.

3. Paystack Storefront: the mirror image

Paystack Storefront is the like-for-like swap: another free, minimal store from a payment company. Choose between them on which gateway you prefer, and expect the same ceilings either way. See our guide to Paystack Storefront alternatives.

4. Catlog: for WhatsApp-first sellers

Catlog (₦7,500–₦16,500/month) is built for sellers whose entire funnel is WhatsApp, with catalog links, order forms and delivery booking. It does more workflow than Flutterwave Store and is aimed at paid users.

5. Shopify: for international scale

At $29–39/month (₦45,000+ at 2026 rates) plus apps, Shopify only beats a free local store when you have export customers and margins to match. We compare the full costs in Shopify alternatives in Nigeria.

Bottom line

When you need buyers who don't know you to find you and pay, open a free Paylo store. Escrow and verification are included, and sales to your own customers carry no Paylo fee.