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Inky vs Vendoo

Vendoo crosslists listings you've written and integrates a photo tool. Inky does the photo work itself, then writes, prices and files it — booth too.

What Vendoo is for

Vendoo calls itself a crosslisting platform: you write a listing once and it helps you get it onto a lot of marketplaces, tracks your inventory across them, and delists elsewhere when something sells. If you already have a listing written, that's the problem it solves — and tens of thousands of resellers use it for exactly that.

Where Inky starts earlier

Crosslisting assumes the listing exists. Inky's job begins before that — with a photo of a thing on your table that nobody has described, measured or priced yet. It cleans the shot, reads the brand and details off it, writes the listing the way each marketplace wants it written, and prices it from real sold comps rather than a markup rule.

Photos, in the same room

Vendoo's own site lists an integration with a separate photo tool for background removal — the photo work happens somewhere else. Inky's photo studio is part of Inky: cleanup, scene backgrounds, and a manual editor for when you want to take over yourself. One item, one place, nothing to hand off.

And then there's the booth

If you also sell in a shop or a mall booth, crosslisting tools stop at the door. Inky doesn't: Inky Mall OS is a real register — booth rent, vendor payouts, labels, cashiers — and it runs on the same inventory as your online items. Ring a sale at the counter and that item is marked sold on the one list you keep; Inky reminds you to take the online listing down instead of leaving you to notice a week later.

What it costs you to run

Both tools meter, and it's only fair to say so. Vendoo's plans are set by how many items you add each month, and its background removals are rationed by tier. Inky meters with Pearls: most actions spend one.

Where they part company: everyday photo cleanup on Inky doesn't spend Pearls, and bought Pearls don't vanish at the end of the month. It's also worth pricing the whole job rather than one tool — pairing a crosslister with a separate photo app is two subscriptions, and neither of them prices your item from real sold comps or rings a sale at a counter.

The honest difference

Vendoo has tens of thousands of resellers and years of doing this, and that's the one thing Inky can't claim yet — a head start is a real answer to "will this still be here next year?". On what the tools actually do, the difference is where the work begins. Vendoo moves a listing you have already written; Inky writes it, from the photo, with the details read off the item and a price taken from what the same thing actually sold for. Vendoo's own site lists a third-party integration for background removal; Inky's photo studio is part of Inky. And when an item sells in your booth instead of online, the register that rang it up is already the same system. Free to start online, and the register is free for 30 days.

Vendoo'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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