Kleio is one plan per store with every feature in it: a P&L, lifetime value, cohorts and flexible cost rules with dates, unlimited users and orders. nouz is a daily 34-line P&L with a VAT line, logistics priced per parcel, every cost dated and a Forecast page, with several stores on one plan from Pro.
Kleio and nouz share a principle: every feature on every plan, nothing gated, no fee per order. They differ in price and in what sits underneath it. Kleio sells one plan, at $29 a month per store, with a P&L, lifetime value, cohorts, inventory and a flexible set of cost rules, and lets as many people in as you like. nouz sells three plans that differ only in how much they cover, and builds a 34-line daily profit and loss statement on a cost engine that prices logistics parcel by parcel and keeps every cost at the date it took effect. For many stores Kleio is the sensible choice; this page sets out where the extra depth starts to pay.
nouz is one of the tools compared here; competitor prices were read on 1 Oct 2026.
In short
- Kleio publishes one plan, checked 1 Oct 2026: $29 a month per store, every feature, unlimited users and orders, on a 14-day trial, billed through each store's own Shopify account.
- nouz is Base $55, Pro $115 and Scale $289 a month (about €49, €99 and €249). Base covers up to 500 orders a month, and Pro and Scale have no order limit, and Pro and Scale cover several stores on one plan.
- Both date costs: Kleio sets start and end dates on its cost rules, nouz on every cost type, from product costs to overhead.
- Kleio combines stores in different currencies at daily exchange rates; nouz combines stores in one currency only and never adds two currencies together.
- nouz adds per-parcel logistics, a VAT line, a Forecast page, margin targets and breakeven ROAS (return on ad spend) per product; Kleio adds an MCP connection, which lets AI assistants read the data, and unlimited users on one store.
Kleio and nouz at a glance
| Feature | Kleio | nouz |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | one plan per store, every feature | three plans, every feature on each: Base covers up to 500 orders a month, and Pro and Scale have no order limit |
| One store, 300 orders | $29 | $55 on Base |
| One store, 5.000 orders | $29 | $115 on Pro |
| Statement | P&L, dashboard, products, inventory | 34 lines from GMV (gross merchandise value) to EBITDA, with CM1, CM2 and CM3, the margins after goods, after shipping and fees and after ads, and a VAT line |
| Cost rules | variable costs per order, by order weight, or as a share of sales or ad spend, filtered by country, product, shipping method or gateway | five logistics components per parcel, fee rules per gateway, product costs per variant, overhead |
| Cost dates | start and end dates on cost rules | every cost type effective-dated |
| Payment fees | Shopify Payments fees pulled from Shopify | Shopify Payments fees as Shopify reports them; a rule per other gateway |
| Several stores | a consolidated view that converts currencies at daily rates | a combined view in one currency; each store keeps its own costs |
| Forecast | not on its feature list | up to twelve months ahead, this one included: profit, stock and cash |
| Users | unlimited | 1 on Base, up to 5 on Pro, unlimited on Scale |
| AI connector (MCP) | yes | none |
What each costs, by stores
For one store Kleio is the lower bill whatever the store sells: $29 a month against Base at $55 while a store stays within up to 500 orders a month, and Pro at $115 above it. The picture changes with stores, because Kleio bills each store through its own Shopify account and nouz covers several on one plan. The table assumes each store is past Base's order limit.
| Feature | 1 store | 2 stores | 5 stores | 10 stores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kleio | $29 | $58 | $145 | $290 |
| nouz | $115 (Pro) | $115 (Pro) | $115 (Pro) | $289 (Scale) |
The profit tracker cost calculator compares one store across every tool at your own volume. For several stores the arithmetic above is the one to do, with your own numbers.
Where the two cost engines differ
Kleio's cost rules are flexible. A variable cost can be a flat amount per order, a cost by order weight, or a share of sales or of ad spend, filtered by destination country, product, shipping method or payment gateway, with a start and an end date. For many stores that is enough to model fulfilment well, and Kleio's ShipHero integration and CSV upload of per-order shipping costs from a 3PL cover the rest.
nouz models the parcel rather than the order. A split shipment is two parcels, each charged its own label, picking and box. The rate card prices each parcel by weight or by parcel size in zones you define, with one catch-all zone so every destination belongs somewhere, and a zone without a price is flagged rather than counted as free. Pick and pack is a base plus each additional item, return processing lands on the day of the refund, and packaging EPR fees, the producer fees a country charges on packaging, are charged per destination country and material on the composition the packaging rule declares. Every one of those components is effective-dated, like product costs, payment fee rules and overhead, so a carrier increase applies from its own date and a closed month never moves on its own.
Several stores, two approaches
Both tools can read several stores together, and they draw the line in different places. Kleio's consolidated view adds up stores across currencies by converting each secondary store into the main store's currency at daily exchange rates, and works on the dashboard, the P&L, products and inventory while its other pages stay on one store. It suits an operator running, say, a euro store and a pound store who wants one number.
nouz adds up only stores that share a currency. Selected together in the store menu, they combine on the Overview, on the P&L, with a split by store, and on Inventory; costs, Insights and Settings stay on one store and say which. A store in another currency is shown on its own and never summed with the others, because a converted total mixes the exchange rate into the margin. Each store keeps its own costs, rules and P&L on Pro and Scale.
Where Kleio is the better fit
Choose Kleio when the lowest flat price per store matters most and its flexible cost rules model your costs well enough, or when many people need access to one store without a seat count. It also fits stores that sell in different currencies and want them combined, and teams with an MCP connection for Claude in their workflow. At $29 a month with nothing gated, it is a strong offer, and the comparison of the two is about depth rather than value.
Where nouz is the better fit
nouz fits a store whose margin moves in places a cost rule per order cannot see: split parcels, size-based carrier pricing, packaging fees per market, returns that cost a label and handling on the day they happen. Its statement runs 34 lines with a published formula for each, keeps VAT on its own line so every margin below it is measured on money the store keeps, and takes the Shopify Payments fee as Shopify reports it. An order Shopify stored in another currency is converted at the European Central Bank's reference rate before its own day, and the first sync backfills the store's entire order history.
Around the statement sit three tools that this comparison has nothing to set against. The Forecast page projects up to twelve months ahead, this one included, from the store's own orders, with What if scenarios, goals and a stock and cash plan that says what to reorder and when cash runs short. Margin targets mark every P&L column against your own limits for CM1, CM2, CM3 and EBITDA. And Insights runs each product down the ladder to EBITDA with breakeven CAC, the cost of winning a customer, and breakeven ROAS per product, among eleven tabs on every plan, with the daily profit email and custom reports for up to ten recipients who need no seat. Each of these claims about nouz is listed, with where to check it, on the nouz facts page.
What a morning looks like in each
Kleio's day starts on its dashboard, which its own documentation says works well on a phone, with the P&L, products and inventory a click away and filters to compare periods. Its MCP connection lets a team ask the same numbers questions from an AI assistant. For a store that wants one place to look, with everyone in the team able to look there, the single plan delivers exactly that.
nouz's day starts in the inbox: the daily profit email carries yesterday's thirteen-row waterfall from Net Revenue to EBITDA, with the month's forecast beneath it, and custom reports send the lines you choose to people who need no login at all, a bookkeeper for instance. The Overview opens on today's EBITDA so far, the day the month covered its fixed costs and a list of what needs attention, each item linking to the page that fixes it. A figure with a gap behind it, a product without a cost or a parcel to a zone with no price, is flagged rather than shown as complete.
Five checks for the trial
- Find an order that shipped in two parcels and compare the fulfilment cost in both tools. On nouz it is two labels, two picks and two boxes.
- If your carrier prices by box size rather than weight, set that up in both. A nouz rate card can price by parcel size.
- If you ship into EU markets with packaging fees, check where they land. On nouz they are a logistics component per destination country.
- Refund an order from last month and see which day the refund lands on. On nouz it is the day it was issued, with its return processing cost.
- Combine two stores and check the currencies. Kleio converts at daily rates; nouz adds up only stores that share one.
Switching from Kleio
The orders come from Shopify: nouz backfills the whole order history on the first sync. The cost rules move by hand, and Kleio's dated cost periods translate directly. Unit costs start prefilled from Shopify's cost per item where it is set, each product cost is entered or edited per variant on nouz's Products page with its start date, and each shipping rule becomes a rate card or a pick and pack rule with the date it took effect. A rule Kleio filtered by payment gateway becomes a fee rule for that gateway. Meta, Google and TikTok connect directly; other spend comes in through the ad spend CSV import. A quick way to judge whether the extra depth is worth it is the break-even calculator: put in your contribution per order and your fixed costs, and see how far one wrongly priced parcel a day would move the answer.
How this comparison was made
Kleio's price, plan and features were checked 1 Oct 2026 on its Shopify App Store listing, its homepage and its documentation. nouz's prices are read from the plans its checkout charges, set out under nouz's pricing. No review figure is quoted for either tool. Other single-price and low-price options are in Kleio alternatives and in Bloom and nouz compared.