EKM is a UK web shop platform from Preston, sold since 2024 as a single managed plan: £350 plus VAT a month on its site on 23 October 2026 (the figure moved during 2026), with EKM staff building and looking after the shop. It markets itself to fabric shops, and the fabric shops we looked at handle length as a product option, "by the metre" or "by the half metre", or by asking the customer to type a number of metres into the quantity box. There is no till, and stock is a count online.
Omni Tend started in a pub and runs a fabric shop today, so it knows both the keg and the bolt. A bolt comes in as 50 metres and goes out 1.5 metres at a time, on the till in the shop or on the web shop, from the same stock, with a price per metre shown as a price per metre.
| Feature | Omni Tend | EKM |
|---|---|---|
| Where the company is | Suffolk, UK | Preston, UK |
| Monthly price, one till and a web shop | £59 a month (Standard: up to 5 tills and the web shop; £29 for one till without it) | £350 + VAT a month for the web shop, as EKM quotes it; there is no till |
| Contract | Monthly direct debit | Monthly, no contract; 14-day trial |
| Card processing | Stripe reader, or keep your own terminal | EKMPay; the rate is not published on the pages we read |
| Till (ePOS) | ||
| Web shop | Yes, on your own domain, from the same stock | Yes, built and maintained by EKM staff |
| Sell by the metre, kilo or pint | Yes: metres, kilos, pints from a keg or cask | As a product option ("by the metre", "by the half metre") or a note to type metres in the quantity box; no price per metre shown in the shops we read |
| Stock and purchase orders | Yes, with purchase orders from what sold | Online stock counts and low-stock alerts; no purchase orders found |
| Rotas and holidays | Yes, with holidays and blocked periods | |
| Training records | Yes, signed off with a PIN | |
| Daily checks and tasks | Yes, with photos and a log | |
| Kitchen printing and phone orders | Yes, and phone orders | Not applicable |
| Who answers when something breaks | The people who built it, in the UK | UK-based, with a named ecommerce manager |
The EKM column was checked against their own published pages on 23 October 2026; prices and plans change, so check before you decide. Sources: EKM pricing, EKM for fabric shops, Lee Mill Fabrics, Blue Duck Fabrics, Trustpilot
Yes, in the sense that the EKM fabric shops we looked at on 23 October 2026 offer "by the metre" or "by the half metre" as a product option, or tell customers to type the number of metres into the quantity box. The price is shown without a unit and stock is a plain count. In Omni Tend the metre is a measure of the product: the price is per metre, the stock is in metres, and the till in the shop cuts from the same bolt.
No. EKM is a web shop platform; a shop with a counter needs a separate till system, so ask how the two would keep stock in step. Omni Tend is the till and the web shop on one stock.
On 23 October 2026 EKM's pricing page showed one plan at £350 plus VAT a month, billed monthly with no contract, after a 14-day trial. Omni Tend's plans with the web shop are £59 and £99 a month.