WooCommerce is open-source. Which means all the hosting + maintenance + security weight is on you.
WooCommerce is flexible, but hosting, security patches, plugin conflicts, and 100k+ SKU scale all fall on the store owner. Karum is a managed platform with a 99.99% availability guarantee and a flat monthly fee.
Karum's four clear edges over WooCommerce.
Managed platform — uptime, security, performance are Karum's job; you focus on the store.
WooCommerce depends on your host (usually 99.5%). Karum: 99.99% contractual.
Updating WordPress + WooCommerce + 40-80 plugins eats 10+ hrs/month. Karum: 0.
WooCommerce slows past 100k SKUs. Karum runs 1M+ SKU stores in production.
On WooCommerce CVE patches are yours. Karum: ISO 27001 + PCI L1 managed.
19 lines — Karum vs. WooCommerce.
WooCommerce is flexible, but every flex falls on the owner. Below are the items that hit daily operations.
| Feature | Karum | WooCommerce |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting responsibility | Yönetilen | Müşteri |
| Contractual uptime | 99.99% | Hosting'e bağlı |
| Update automation | Otomatik | Manuel |
| Security certification | ISO 27001 + PCI L1 | Müşteri yükü |
| Automated backups | Saatlik + 30 gün | Plugin |
| Add-on plugin purchases | 0 ek satın | 40-80 plugin |
| Turkish marketplace channels | 12+ dahil | Plugin / custom |
| Certified e-invoice | Logo / Foriba / İzibiz | No |
| KVKK data residency | İstanbul + Ankara | Hosting'e bağlı |
| 100k+ SKU scale | Yes | Limited |
| Storefront LCP | 1.2s LCP | 4.5s+ LCP |
| Perf + error monitoring | Dahil | Plugin |
| Theme editor | Schema-driven | PHP/CSS |
| AI product recommendations | Yes | No |
| Headless API | Yes | Limited |
| Managed support availability guarantee | P1 < 15 dk | No |
| No WordPress maintenance | Yes | No |
| Total cost (TCO) | Sabit aylık | Plugin + ops |
| Stock sync latency | < 200 ms | Plugin'e bağlı |
From WooCommerce to Karum in four lossless steps.
We move your WooCommerce export + plugin data into Karum. Migration 5-10 days; the old store keeps trading.
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.
Yeşil Pazar: 12 hours/week reclaimed from WordPress maintenance.
On WooCommerce I lost 12 hours every week to plugin updates, hosting babysitting, and security patches. After Karum, I spend that time on the actual store. Page speed dropped from 4.5s to 1.2s.
- Plugin purchases + license renewals: ₺50,000/yr → ₺0
- Black-Sea hazelnut revenue +19% with page-speed gains (Lighthouse 92 → 99)
- PCI-DSS L1 compliance handled by Karum — no hosting-compliance worry
- Trendyol + Hepsiburada native integrations; WooCommerce plugin was unstable
What you wonder before migrating.
The first 8 questions buyers ask — answered by 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.