Craftgate vs Sipay

Craftgate is an Istanbul-based payment orchestration platform for Turkish merchants. Instead of integrating each bank's virtual POS separately, a merchant connects its existing POS agreements and payment providers to Craftgate once and manages them through a single API and dashboard, routing every transaction to the most suitable provider and reducing dependency on any single acquirer.

The platform covers smart routing rules based on card type, bank, installment count or cost, automatic fallback to another POS when a provider fails, installment tables and campaigns, a hosted checkout form and payment links, card storage for repeat payments, fraud rules, and marketplace features for sub-merchant onboarding and split payouts. Reporting brings transactions from every bank into one view, which simplifies reconciliation, and SDKs and plugins help with integration into custom sites and common e-commerce platforms. Pricing is not public and is agreed with each merchant, typically based on transaction volume.

Craftgate suits mid-size and large merchants, marketplaces and subscription businesses that already have several bank POS agreements and want better approval rates, lower costs and resilience. Very small merchants without their own bank agreements are usually better served by an all-in-one payment service provider such as iyzico, PayTR, Param or Sipay, which handle the merchant relationship themselves. Global orchestration tools such as Spreedly or Primer have little coverage of Turkish banks and local installment practices.

Sipay is a Turkish fintech company based in Istanbul and licensed by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey as an electronic money institution. It provides payment infrastructure for online and offline merchants and a digital wallet for consumers, positioning itself as a single provider for collecting payments, splitting funds and paying out.

For merchants, Sipay offers virtual POS for card acceptance, installment payments with Turkish card programs, payment links that can be shared over messaging apps, email or social media, recurring payments, and marketplace and sub-merchant payment flows that split funds between sellers. Plugins for popular e-commerce platforms speed up integration, and APIs serve custom checkouts. The consumer wallet supports money transfers, bill payments and shopping. Pricing is commission-based and negotiated per merchant, depending on volume, sector and settlement schedule.

Sipay fits Turkish e-commerce sites, marketplaces and service businesses that want one partner for online collection, installments and marketplace payouts. Merchants should compare commission rates, settlement times, installment options, support quality and fraud tools before choosing. iyzico and PayTR are the main local competitors, Param is another licensed alternative, and Stripe is not directly available to companies registered in Turkey.