BigCommerce vs Faprika

BigCommerce is a hosted e-commerce platform founded in Sydney in 2009 and now based in Austin, Texas. It is a publicly listed company and, in 2025, its parent company renamed itself Commerce while keeping BigCommerce as the platform brand alongside the product feed service Feedonomics and the visual site builder Makeswift. Its pitch against Shopify is openness: no transaction fees on orders through its embedded payment providers, open APIs and strong headless and B2B capabilities.

The platform includes more out of the box than most rivals: product options and variants, faceted search, customer groups and price lists, multi-currency and multi-storefront management. Core, Growth and Scale plans have fixed monthly prices but cap sales (GMV) per tier and charge a small fee on orders through outside payment providers, so a growing store is moved to a higher plan or to Performance, which adds custom pricing and contract terms. Channel Manager connects listings to Amazon, eBay, Google Shopping and social platforms.

BigCommerce suits mid-market brands, B2B wholesalers and companies building a headless storefront with Next.js or a CMS. Beginners usually find Shopify easier, with a larger theme and app ecosystem, while WooCommerce gives more control to teams that want to self-host. For Turkish merchants, local payment, marketplace and e-fatura integrations are thin, so local platforms such as ikas or T-Soft are often more practical.

Faprika is a hosted e-commerce platform from Istanbul, run by İnovabil Teknoloji San. ve Tic. A.Ş. The company cites about 20 years of e-commerce experience and more than 3,000 brands on the platform. Its core job is to give Turkish merchants an online store plus one panel for orders, stock, shipping and e-invoicing across their own site and the big marketplaces.

Faprika connects to Trendyol, Hepsiburada, Amazon, n11, Temu, AliExpress and others, syncs stock, sends e-Fatura, e-Arşiv and e-İrsaliye documents, and plugs into Turkish payment providers such as iyzico, PayTR and Param, plus bank virtual POS. Other modules cover WhatsApp orders, dealer commissions, B2B wholesale, multi-currency export, warehouse management and FaprikAI for ads and content. Plans come in two families: Profesyonel (Start, Master, Ultimate, Elite) and Premium (Smart, Enterprise, Exclusive), plus a custom Private tier. Marketplace integrations only arrive from Ultimate upward.

Faprika suits Turkish SMBs and growing brands that sell on several marketplaces and want local invoicing and cargo handled in one place. Compared with ikas, it feels more traditional but offers deeper B2B and ERP options; Ticimax and İdeaSoft are its closest like-for-like rivals. Shopify is better for selling abroad with a global app ecosystem.

Buying tip: listed prices are starting prices tied to yearly payment, with campaigns such as pay one year, use 15 months and 12-month installments. Check whether VAT is included and which integrations are marked optional before choosing a tier.