Akinon vs Sentos

Akinon is an enterprise commerce platform founded in Istanbul that serves large brands and retailers in Turkey, the Middle East and Europe. It provides the building blocks a retailer needs to run complex omnichannel operations: headless storefronts, an order management system (OMS), product information management (PIM), marketplace integrations, mobile apps and tools that connect online sales with physical stores.

Because it is headless and API-first, brands can build their own storefront experience while Akinon runs the commerce engine underneath. The OMS routes orders across warehouses and stores, supporting scenarios such as click and collect, ship from store and cross-channel returns. The PIM centralizes product content and pushes it to the web store, mobile apps and marketplaces, while marketplace integrations manage listings, stock and orders on major regional platforms from one place. Pricing is enterprise and quote-based, and projects usually involve an implementation phase with Akinon or a partner agency.

Akinon fits large fashion, retail and consumer brands that have outgrown SaaS storefronts and need to orchestrate stock and orders across many channels and countries. It is far more than a small or mid-size shop needs, and the budget and project timeline reflect that. Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools and Shopify Plus are the main international alternatives, while ikas and Ideasoft serve smaller Turkish merchants.

Sentos is an e-commerce management system from Sentos Yazılım Teknolojileri A.Ş., a Turkish company that has served online sellers since 2017. Its corporate office is in Ataşehir, Istanbul, with R&D in Konya. The core job is to run every sales channel from one panel: Trendyol, Hepsiburada, N11, Çiçeksepeti, Pazarama, Amazon and about twenty other marketplaces, plus your own web store.

You define a product once and push it to each channel with rule-based listing, while a Buybox tracker and price robot react to competitors. Stock is held in one place and drops on every channel the moment an order arrives. Orders trigger automatic e-invoices through ten integrators such as EDM, Uyumsoft, Sovos and Digital Planet, and that e-invoice link is free on all packages. Twelve cargo integrations print labels in bulk, seventeen accounting connectors cover Logo, Mikro, Nebim, Netsis and Paraşüt. Packages are annual licenses from Basic to Platinum priced by order and product volume, plus a monthly Prestige subscription with unlimited orders.

Sentos fits Turkish SMB and mid-size sellers juggling several domestic marketplaces. It is built for the Turkish market: e-export covers Amazon, Etsy, Zalando and Ozon, but global brands will find Linnworks or Cin7 broader, and Ticimax suits sellers who mainly want a web store with integrations built in.

Buying tip: the 7-day trial needs no card and does not auto-renew, the annual license can be split into three installments, and Temu integration is a paid add-on.