Mobile business app

Crate vs Bumpa

Bumpa and Crate agree on the most important thing: the merchant is on a phone. They part company on what happens once the business grows past what one person can hold in their head.

What Bumpa is: A phone-first app for small Nigerian businesses to record sales, track stock and sell through social and chat.

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How does Crate compare to Bumpa?

Bumpa and Crate are both built for a business run from a phone, and both accept that a large share of orders arrive as chat messages rather than as checkouts. Bumpa is designed around the app itself, which makes the first week very easy. Crate is designed around a full commerce platform that is usable from a phone, which makes the second year easier: staff roles and permissions, more than one stock location, a point of sale sharing one count with the online store, discounts, bundles, an owned domain and a storefront you can design. If your business is one person and a chat list, either will serve you. If it is becoming a team with a shop and a delivery rider, the two diverge.

Side by side

Qualitative and stable. No prices and no fee percentages for either side, because both change without notice and a comparison table carrying a stale number is worse than no table.

Crate compared with Bumpa, by dimension.
What	Crate	Bumpa
Phone first	Yes. The dashboard is designed at 360px first.	Yes. Phone first is the premise of the product.
Selling in chat	Built in, and a chat order is a real order with real stock movement.	Built in.
Your own storefront	A designed storefront on your own domain, edited in a visual builder.	A store page.
Staff and permissions	Roles, per-staff permissions and an activity trail.	Built around the owner.
Locations	More than one stock location, with transfers between them.	A single stock view.
Point of sale	Included, sharing one stock count with the online store.	Sales are recorded in the app.
Payments	Card, transfer and USSD, through more than one provider.	Local payment collection.

Which one you actually want

Both columns are real. If the right-hand one describes you, take it: a product that does not fit you is a refund with extra steps.

Choose Crate if

You are adding staff and need to control what each of them can see.
You hold stock in more than one place and are tired of reconciling it.
You want a real storefront on your own domain, not a page inside an app.
You sell in person as well as online and want one stock count for both.

Choose Bumpa if

You are one person, starting today, and the shortest possible setup wins.
Recording sales and stock in an app is the whole of what you need.
You are not ready to think about a domain or a designed storefront.

Where Crate is behind

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Where Crate is behind: time to first sale. Bumpa is quicker to start with, because there is less of it. Crate asks a few more questions during setup because it is going to hold staff permissions, more than one stock location and a designed storefront later. If you want to be selling within the hour and nothing else matters yet, that is a fair reason to start elsewhere.

About switching to Crate from Bumpa

Short answers, and none of them hedge. If yours is not here, ask us on the contact page.

Is Crate harder to set up?

There is more to it, because there is more in it. Onboarding walks through the parts you need in order to sell, and the rest waits until you want it.

Does Crate work on a low-end Android phone?

Yes. The dashboard is built mobile first and checked at 360px, and every screen works over a slow connection.

How this comparison is kept honest

Last checked September 03, 2026

Everything said about Bumpa here is a qualitative property of the product taken from what Bumpa publishes about itself: what kind of product it is, which channels it sells through natively, and which capabilities it ships rather than leaves to an add-on. We publish no prices, fees, percentages or counts for any competitor, including ourselves, on these pages, because those change without notice and a table carrying a stale number does more damage than no table.

Claims about Crate on this page do not go beyond what our own feature, pricing and security pages already state. Where they would, they are not made.

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