Hiboutik Review 2026: Free vs Premium €12.90/mo + Best Alternatives

If you are searching for a Hiboutik review, chances are the free plan caught your eye and you want to know where it stops before moving your whole shop onto it. Fair enough. A POS is painful to switch once your catalogue is loaded and your staff is trained, so the fine print deserves a read before you commit, even when the price tag says zero. This review puts Hiboutik side by side with digabloPos, with 2026 pricing for both and real one-year cost scenarios.

Hiboutik is a French POS software launched in 2013, NF525-certified by LNE. Thirteen years in this market is rare, and it shows: the product is stable, well proven, and its French tax compliance is beyond question. The offer splits into three plans. The free Standard plan covers all POS operations and the daily Z ticket. The Pro plan at €9.90/month excl. tax adds a step up. The Premium plan at €12.90/month excl. tax opens up what most shops end up missing first: the dashboard, advanced reports, customer credit, the kitchen screen and the API. One detail quietly changes the bill: every additional till at the same point of sale requires the multi-till option at €11.90/month excl. tax. Hiboutik gives you 2 free months if you pay annually.

digabloPos is a more recent NF525-certified POS built on a different model: a deliberately wide forever-free plan (unlimited orders, 2 employees, floor plan, thermal printing, offline mode), plus optional modules billed in USD that you add one by one: advanced reports at $20/month, stock management at $15/month, extra employees at $5/month each, reservations at $10/month. It targets restaurants, retailers and service businesses in France and French-speaking Africa, with native FCFA multi-currency.

On compliance, neither takes the lead: both are NF525-certified and both will keep the tax office satisfied. Everything else, the interface, the restaurant features, the real cost once the options stack up, depends on what you run. That is what the rest of this review breaks down, with the actual numbers.

Start with what each gives you before you reach for a card. Hiboutik’s free Standard covers POS operations, products, simple stock, customers and the Z ticket. For a shop that needs to ring up sales and stay compliant, that is a fair deal. digabloPos’s free plan goes further: floor plan included, native offline mode, multi-currency and QR ordering, all with unlimited orders. Free tier against free tier, digabloPos simply carries more.

Reporting is where the gap opens. On Hiboutik, the dashboard, monthly Z reports, accounting exports and analytics sit behind Premium at €12.90/month excl. tax. On digabloPos, they live in a $20/month module, with CSV exports and sales analytics. Neither gives you serious analysis for free; Hiboutik sells it cheaper.

Both offer an offline mode, but not with the same ambition. Hiboutik has one. digabloPos built its product around one: sales are recorded on the device without a connection and sync back on their own when the network returns. If your internet never blinks, you will not care. If it drops on a busy Saturday, this single line can settle the whole decision.

Currency is a short conversation: Hiboutik handles a single currency per account, digabloPos takes several at once (EUR, FCFA, USD, CHF). For a typical French shop, no impact at all. For a border town or French-speaking Africa, Hiboutik is out of the running before the comparison even starts.

The floor plan tells the same story. Hiboutik was built for retail and has no native floor plan. digabloPos includes one in its free plan, with per-table bills, transfers and bill splits. Anyone who has tried to run a Friday dinner service on retail software knows what that absence costs.

On integrations, Hiboutik strikes back on one precise point: native PrestaShop integration, valuable if your online store runs on it. Its API opens with Premium at €12.90/month excl. tax. digabloPos connects to Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero and Zapier, but offers no native PrestaShop connector.

Two last items land directly on the bill. QR ordering, meaning customers order from their own phones at the table, does not exist natively on Hiboutik; digabloPos ships it in the free plan. And multi-till: every additional till costs €11.90/month excl. tax on Hiboutik, and nothing on digabloPos. Put two tills on the counter and one of these “free” plans has already stopped being free.

Monthly prices mislead; the yearly bill, options included, is what matters. Four real scenarios, priced with 2026 rates.

Scenario 1: independent shop, 1 till, 1 employee. Hiboutik’s free Standard covers it: €0/year. digabloPos’s free plan covers it too: $0/year. A genuine tie, and good news either way: for this profile, paying for a POS in 2026 is a choice, not a requirement.

Scenario 2: shop with detailed reports and 2 tills. Hiboutik needs Premium at €12.90/month plus the multi-till option at €11.90/month, which makes €24.80/month excl. tax and €297/year excl. tax. On digabloPos the second till is included, so only the $20/month reports module is paid: $240/year, roughly €220/year. digabloPos saves about €77/year on this profile, and the gap widens with every extra till.

Scenario 3: restaurant with floor plan, 3 employees, advanced reports. Hiboutik needs Premium for the reports, so €12.90/month and €155/year excl. tax, but there is no native floor plan: you improvise a manual workaround. digabloPos adds up the free plan, 1 extra employee ($5/month) and the reports module ($20/month), so $25/month and $300/year, roughly €275/year. On paper, Hiboutik costs about €120 less over the year. On a packed Friday night, running tables without a floor plan costs far more than that. For a restaurant, the price gap does not buy back the feature gap.

Scenario 4: multi-establishments (3 stores) with consolidation. Hiboutik: Premium × 3, multi-till × 3, plus Enterprise on quote, from €50-100/month depending on volume, for an estimated €800-1,500/year excl. tax. digabloPos: enterprise modules, 5 employees and advanced reports, so $80-100/month and $960-1,200/year, roughly €880-1,100/year. The ranges overlap: at this size, get a written quote from both and compare line by line.

The summary fits in two sentences. Hiboutik is cheaper for simple profiles, the shop with 1-2 tills and no complex reporting needs. digabloPos packs more into its free plan and pulls ahead as soon as tables, multiple tills or multiple currencies enter the picture.

Interface first, because your staff will touch it a hundred times a day. Hiboutik offers a web interface that does the job but looks dated in places, with a lot of settings exposed at once; expect an average learning curve for a new hire. digabloPos goes for a modern, touch-first interface with a clean design and quick onboarding. That is not only a matter of taste: every training minute saved is a seasonal worker who is productive sooner.

Support follows the same generational split. Hiboutik answers by email and maintains a well-stocked online knowledge base, but there is no phone hotline on the basic plans. digabloPos runs an in-app chat plus email, with answers during business hours and documentation translated into 6 languages.

On updates, each has its own style. Hiboutik ships regular releases and has accumulated an enormous feature set over the years; digabloPos ships monthly and adds features frequently, based on user feedback. One has depth, the other has pace.

The ecosystem draws a sharper line. Hiboutik leans on its native PrestaShop integration, an API that opens with Premium, and accounting integrations: a coherent package for the connected French retailer. digabloPos lines up Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, Zapier and Stripe Terminal for card payments.

Hardware will not trap you with either. Hiboutik runs in a browser, on a tablet or PC, and works with standard thermal printers (Epson, Star). digabloPos runs on iPad, iPhone, Android, Web and Windows, with open hardware too. In both cases your existing equipment probably survives the switch.

The real dividing line is geography. Hiboutik is aimed first at France. digabloPos covers France and French-speaking Africa, with native FCFA support and 6 interface languages (FR, EN, ES, PT, RU, SW). If your business reaches beyond France, the question settles itself before you even compare prices.

You run a simple independent shop, 1 till, unit sales. Take Hiboutik’s free Standard and move on. It covers the need, it is compliant, and if you later want detailed reports, Premium at €12.90/month is one of the gentlest price tags on the French market.

You sell online with PrestaShop and want it synced with your physical till. Hiboutik, no hesitation. The native PrestaShop-Hiboutik integration has been running for years and just works. Rebuilding the same thing elsewhere through Zapier is time you will never get back.

You run a restaurant or a bar. digabloPos, and the verdict is blunt: free native floor plan, serious offline mode, QR ordering included, modules à la carte. Hiboutik is a good retail POS you can bend toward hospitality; digabloPos was built for it.

You trade in French-speaking Africa. digabloPos, and there is no real debate: native FCFA multi-currency, offline mode designed for unstable connections, multilingual support. Hiboutik, single-currency and centered on France, is simply not a candidate on this ground.

You want the most features without paying. digabloPos. Its forever-free plan carries unlimited orders, floor plan, offline mode, multi-currency and QR ordering, with no forced upgrade three months in.

You line up several tills at one point of sale. digabloPos, by plain arithmetic: multi-till is included, while Hiboutik charges €11.90/month excl. tax per additional till. At three tills, the difference shows on your bank statement.

You want the cheapest option with basic reports, in a classic shop. Hiboutik Premium at €12.90/month excl. tax. At that price it is hard to beat, as long as you need neither a floor plan nor a hardened offline mode.

The first mistake is comparing sticker prices instead of real prices. “Free” and “€12.90” mean nothing until you have listed your actual needs: how many tills, reports or not, tables or a counter. Redo the scenario 2 maths with your own numbers before deciding.

The second is dismissing offline mode because “our connection is fine”. It is fine until the Saturday it drops, precisely when the queue is longest. Ask each vendor what happens during two hours without internet: how many sales go through, how many are lost.

The third is choosing without testing on your real products. A demo with three fake items proves nothing. Import fifty real references, have your least technical employee ring up sales, and watch where they stumble. Both products have a free plan, so this full test costs a few hours, not a cent.

The fourth is forgetting the exit cost. Before you type in 800 products, check that you can export your catalogue, your customers and your history if you ever leave. A clean CSV export is worth gold on moving day.

The last is underestimating growth. Today’s one-till shop may be next year’s two-till shop, or the restaurant that opens a terrace. On Hiboutik, each added till costs €11.90/month excl. tax; on digabloPos, each employee beyond two costs $5/month. Plan for eighteen months out, not for next week.

Do not decide on this review alone; reviews age. Both products are free to try, so try them.

Open a Hiboutik Standard account and a digabloPos account on the same day. Load the same product sample into both, fifty references is plenty. Spend a week ringing up sales in parallel during quiet hours, with the people who will actually use the till. Write down three things: how long an ordinary sale takes, the questions your team asks, and whatever annoyed you.

If you run a simple shop, the answer will come fast: free Hiboutik holds its ground, and three clicks will tell you whether its interface suits you. If you are in hospitality, run a full test service on digabloPos, floor plan and kitchen tickets included; that is where the difference jumps out. And if more than one currency crosses your counter, ring up one sale in FCFA and one in euros: only one of the two will manage it.

One timing tip before you sign anything. Hiboutik gives you 2 free months when you pay annually, and that discount will still be there next month. Run your trial on the monthly plan first, and commit to a year only once the till has survived a real rush hour with your real team. An annual plan signed in week one is how a shop ends up paying until December for software it quietly stopped using in March.

Then do the maths. Your tills, your staff, your modules, over twelve months, on each side. This review gives you every number you need: €12.90/month of Premium and €11.90/month per till on one side, $20/month of reports on the other. One hour with a calculator saves a year of regret.