Shop-IQ

Name

Shop-IQ

Legal name

Shop-IQ GmbH & Co. KG

Website

https://shop-iq.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Schweinfurt

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Software Subscriptions: Shop-IQ operates as a Software as a Service provider. The Shop-IQ Web App serves as the central platform for all modules, with customers paying recurring subscription fees for platform access and module usage. The platform includes in-house development team ensuring continuous updates and feature development.
2. Hardware Sales: Shop-IQ provides and sells hardware components including digital shelf labels (ESL), digital displays, access control systems, self-checkout terminals, video surveillance equipment, and sensors. Hardware is sold alongside the SaaS platform as part of the complete digital store solution.
3. Professional Services: Implementation, installation, consultation, and project management services for setting up Smart-Stores and digital store solutions. Shop-IQ accompanies customers from concept and technology selection through to opening day, with a dedicated project manager.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Shop-IQ provides a cloud-based SaaS platform for digital store management, bundling ten modular components (digital signage, electronic shelf labels, HACCP temperature monitoring, energy management, process optimization, IoT device connectivity, self-checkout, smart access control, and video surveillance) under a single web app. The platform is sold together with the underlying hardware (ESL, displays, terminals, sensors, cameras) and supported by professional implementation services, primarily to SMB and enterprise retailers in German-speaking markets.

Product overview

Shop-IQ is a modular digital store management platform delivered as Software-as-a-Service from Schweinfurt, Germany. The core is the Shop-IQ Web-App, a central SaaS platform providing unified, cloud-based control across all store locations. The platform is composed of ten distinct functional modules: Marketing (Digital Signage), Price Label (ESL management), Control (temperature monitoring per HACCP), Process (workflow automation), Energy (utility management), Connect (device networking), Order & Pay (self-checkout terminal), Access (smart entry control), and Secure (video surveillance). The modules are freely combinable, allowing retailers to digitize stores incrementally. At the high end, these modules integrate into complete Smart-Store solutions enabling fully autonomous 24/7 operations in three formats: Hybrid-Store, Stand-Alone-Store, and Container-Store. The company also recently introduced Digital Signage Lite as an entry-level digital signage product and maintains a companion E-Learning platform for customer training.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Shop-IQ Platform (Web-App)

Quantifiable outcome

• Metzgerei Rupp: 10% revenue increase through Smart-Store, with 800+ new customers in three weeks
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers29 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature12 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• VusionGroup (SES-imagotag): VusionGroup (formerly SES-imagotag) is the global market leader in electronic shelf labels and cloud-based IoT retail infrastructure, serving large retailers worldwide. It directly competes with Shop-IQ's ESL and digital store management platform, especially across grocery, specialty food retail, and large-format European accounts where Shop-IQ also wins business.
• Pricer: Pricer is a Swedish-based ESL provider offering cloud-connected electronic shelf labels and in-store digital solutions to European grocery and specialty retailers. It is a direct competitor in the DACH and broader European ESL market that Shop-IQ targets with its Price Label module.
• Hanshow: Hanshow is a major Chinese ESL and IoT retail solutions provider with a global footprint and strong relationships with leading grocery and pharmacy chains. It competes head-to-head with Shop-IQ on ESL hardware and increasingly on integrated digital store platforms in Europe.
• SoluM: SoluM is a Korean ESL manufacturer with a growing European presence, offering ESL hardware plus ESL management software and cloud services. It is a comparable direct competitor in the ESL and digital store management category.

Emerging players

• Displaydata: Displaydata is a UK-based provider of full-color graphical electronic shelf labels and ESL management software, focused on specialty retail and grocery. It is a comparable mid-sized ESL and digital signage player competing for similar European retail accounts.
• Trigo: Trigo is an Israel-based computer-vision autonomous store platform enabling checkout-free retail for grocery and convenience chains. It targets the same autonomous-store opportunity that Shop-IQ addresses with its Smart-Store bundle, though with a different technical architecture.

Broad incumbents

• Diebold Nixdorf: Diebold Nixdorf is a global provider of retail POS hardware, self-checkout, and store digitalization solutions serving large grocery, fuel, and convenience chains. It competes with Shop-IQ's Order & Pay and broader Smart-Store bundle at the enterprise end of Shop-IQ's target verticals (gas stations, food retail).
• GK Software (Fujitsu): GK Software, now part of Fujitsu, is a leading European retail POS and store technology platform serving grocery, fuel, and specialty retailers. It overlaps with Shop-IQ's modular SaaS platform across POS integration, pricing, and store operations in the DACH market.
• Samsung: Samsung provides commercial-grade digital signage displays and the MagicINFO platform used widely in retail and QSR environments. Its displays are deployed by Shop-IQ (e.g., 6 Samsung smart displays at Einkaufswelt Seng) and it represents a broad-incumbent competitor to Shop-IQ's Marketing/digital signage module.

Others

• Avery Dennison: Avery Dennison is a global materials science company with a significant retail RFID and Intelligent Labels business, including a strategic investment in Hanshow. It is adjacent to Shop-IQ's ESL and IoT retail category as both a potential supplier and ecosystem participant rather than a direct head-to-head competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights8 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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