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Inky vs GoAntiquing

GoAntiquing runs the antique mall's back office — dealers, rent, reports. Inky Mall OS runs the counter and puts the same inventory online, on one spine.

What GoAntiquing is for

GoAntiquing is long-established antique-mall and consignment software: unlimited dealers, sales entered or scanned at the counter, end-of-month runs that split sales by dealer and take out rent and commissions, and daily sales alerts so dealers can see how they did. If you need a mall's back office run properly, that's what it has done for years.

Where Inky Mall OS is different

The register part is familiar ground — booths, vendors, rent, payouts, labels, a vendor portal, cashier logins, employee hours. The difference is what happens next: an item you take in at the counter is the same item Inky can photograph, write up and price for eBay and the rest. One inventory, two ways to sell it — and when something sells in the building, Inky reminds you to end its online listing so it never sells twice.

It keeps ringing with the internet down

Mall OS is offline-first, and it runs on Windows and macOS. The register keeps taking sales when the connection drops and catches up when it's back — because a mall's checkout line should never depend on a Wi-Fi router.

What it costs you to run

GoAntiquing is licensed per copy with an annual shop fee, and its Dealer Gateway — the part that lets vendors check their own sales — is billed per dealer, per month. Inky Mall OS is bought once with a small yearly licence, and vendor access is included whether you have six booths or six hundred.

Both are worth working out over three years rather than one, and the current numbers should come from each of us rather than from a comparison page. Theirs are on their site; ours are on our pricing page.

The honest difference

GoAntiquing has been running antique malls since 2002, with hundreds of shops on it. Two decades of real use is a real answer to "will this hold up on a Saturday?", and it's the one thing Inky can't hand you today. What Inky can hand you is the rest. Mall OS covers the same ground — dealers, commissions, rent, payouts, sales alerts, booth statements — in a register your staff can pick up in an afternoon, on Windows and macOS, still ringing when the internet drops. Then it goes where a counter-only system can't: the same booth stock, photographed, written, priced and ready for eBay and the others without being typed in twice. Free for 30 days.

GoAntiquing's current plans and features are on their own sitealways check there rather than trusting a comparison page to stay current. Inky's are on our pricing page.

The real comparison is a photo

Snap something you're selling and watch Inky clean it, write it and price it. That's the whole pitch.

Free to start — no card.

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