Our verdict
Both are hosted platforms with no servers to manage. BigCommerce is aimed at international, wholesale and multi-storefront businesses; ikas is tuned for selling in Turkey, with local integrations built in.
At a glance
A practical, high-level comparison based on the projects we deliver. Every business is different — use it as a starting point.
| Criterion | BigCommerce | ikas |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Fully hosted SaaS | Fully hosted SaaS |
| Best for | Growing, wholesale and multi-storefront brands | Merchants selling in Turkey, on their own site and marketplaces |
| Cost model | Monthly subscription tiered by sales volume; no platform transaction fees | Subscription plans; no platform commission on sales |
| Customisation | Stencil themes, open APIs, headless | Theme editor, custom themes, ikas apps and APIs |
| Apps & extensions | Solid app marketplace; smaller than Shopify's | Growing ikas App Marketplace |
| B2B | B2B Edition | Depends on plan |
| International selling | Multi-storefront and multi-currency | Multi-language and multi-currency; local integrations are strongest in Turkey |
| Maintenance effort | Low | Low |
How to decide
Both platforms can run a successful store. The right choice depends on your catalogue, your team, your budget and where you plan to sell.
BigCommerce is a hosted SaaS platform with an open, API-first architecture. Much of what needs apps elsewhere — B2B tools, multi-storefront, generous APIs — is built in.
ikas is a fully hosted commerce platform from Turkey. Local payment, shipping and marketplace integrations are built in, so a store can go live without assembling them one by one.
Switching
Already on one of these platforms and considering the other? We migrate stores between BigCommerce and ikas in either direction, without losing data, revenue or search rankings.
Both are hosted platforms with no servers to manage. BigCommerce is aimed at international, wholesale and multi-storefront businesses; ikas is tuned for selling in Turkey, with local integrations built in.
It depends on what you count. BigCommerce: Monthly subscription tiered by sales volume; no platform transaction fees. ikas: Subscription plans; no platform commission on sales. Compare the total cost over two or three years — platform fees, apps or extensions, hosting, development and maintenance — rather than the monthly price alone.
Maintenance effort on BigCommerce: Low. On ikas: Low. Hosted platforms take care of servers, security patches and updates for you; self-hosted platforms leave that work to you or your agency.
Yes, in either direction. We move products, customers, order history and content, map every old URL to its new address with 301 redirects, and rehearse the go-live so that sales and search rankings carry over.
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