İkas was a fine start. But once you hit 5+ marketplaces and sync issues wore you out.
İkas sets up fast, but pile on 5+ marketplaces and stock sync, missing multi-warehouse, and the certified-e-invoice ceiling all surface. Karum gives you the same ease at enterprise capacity.
Karum's four clear edges over İkas.
The same ease plus enterprise capacity in one panel — you don't have to swap infrastructure as you scale.
İkas caps at 5; we run 12+ channels with 200ms sync.
İkas: 5-15 min. Karum: < 200 ms. Oversell risk gone.
İkas assumes one warehouse. Karum supports unlimited + smart routing.
İkas: only Logo. Karum: Logo + Foriba + İzibiz — failover + leverage.
19 lines — Karum vs. İkas.
Set marketing claims aside — these are measurable features that affect daily store operations.
| Feature | Karum | İkas |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace channels | 12+ kanal | 5 kanal |
| Stock sync latency | < 200 ms | 5–15 dk |
| Marketplace error replay tool | Yes | No |
| Multi-warehouse | Yes | No |
| Smart shipment routing | Yes | No |
| Number of e-invoice providers | 3 sağlayıcı | Sadece Logo |
| e-Archive integration | Yes | Limited |
| AI product recommendations | Yes | No |
| AI content moderation | Yes | No |
| Headless API (REST + Webhook) | Yes | Limited |
| B2B customer portal | Yes | No |
| Theme editor | Schema-driven | Sınırlı |
| Webhook topic count | 33 topic | 9 topic |
| API rate limit (default) | 1000 rpm | 120 rpm |
| Subscription product model | Yes | Limited |
| Loyalty program | Yes | No |
| availability guarantee response time | P1 < 15 dk | İş günü |
| No revenue commission | Yes | Limited |
| KVKK data residency | İstanbul + Ankara | TR |
From İkas to Karum in four lossless steps.
A typical migration runs 7-12 days. Your old store keeps selling throughout; at cutover we take over with zero downtime.
Discovery + plan
We audit your existing store — SKU count, customizations, integrations, theme structure. Then write a cutover plan.
Data extraction
Catalog, customers, orders, coupons, subscriptions, reviews — Karum CLI reads from legacy APIs and normalizes them. Onboarding team supervises.
Import to Karum
Data lands in Karum, marketplaces connect, theme is ported to the schema-driven editor. Validated in a staging store.
Go-live
Final delta sync, DNS flip, 301 redirects — zero-downtime cutover. Onboarding team on standby for the first week.
Atölye 33: six-month scorecard after the İkas-to-Karum move.
On İkas, the moment we added our 5th marketplace stock sync started eating 2-3 sales a day. After moving to Karum, sync errors dropped 96%, we now run 11 marketplaces, and time spent in the panel is down 42%.
- Oversell incidents: 18/month → 0
- When İkas's single Logo e-invoice provider went down, we switched to Foriba in 4 minutes on Karum
- Multi-warehouse: Istanbul + Ankara auto-routing dropped delivery time 31%
- AI product recommendations lifted average basket value 12%
What you wonder before migrating.
The first 8 questions buyers ask — answered straight from our onboarding team.
Your first sale this week. Setup in 5 minutes.
Our onboarding team runs the process. Data migration, product mapping, and channel connection included — first sale on average in 3–7 days.