The honest Shopmonkey alternative for independent shops

Shopmonkey handles digital inspections, a dispatch board, invoicing, card payments and two-way texting. Gravy matches those essentials and adds what a back-office-only tool structurally cannot: a website of your own and an AI foreman.

Shopmonkey is a capable back office. The gap is the storefront: it does not build or host your website, and there is no AI helping run the shop. 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.