Topic Guide
Türkiye-focused guides to e-commerce platforms, payments, shipping, costs and online sales operations.
14 articles
May 4, 2026
What should you do, in order, to start selling online in Türkiye? Company and tax registration, platform, payments, shipping, legal texts, ETBİS and a first-90-days checklist.
May 17, 2026
We compare Shopify, İkas and Ticimax on criteria that matter in Türkiye: local payments and instalments, shipping, e-invoicing, total cost and platform lock-in. Plus a fourth option.
May 28, 2026
We compare bank virtual POS with payment institutions like iyzico and PayTR on ease of application, fees, settlement time and instalment options.
June 9, 2026
What do the pre-information form, distance sales agreement, returns and privacy texts actually do, and where should they appear? The risks of copying another site's template.
June 25, 2026
Order data and marketing consent don't belong in the same checkbox. The difference between a privacy notice and explicit consent, commercial message permission and common KVKK mistakes.
July 8, 2026
Carrier agreements, the time an integration saves you and how a free-shipping threshold affects basket size. A practical shipping plan for a small online store, with worked examples.
July 19, 2026
For a business selling online: the difference between e-invoice and e-archive, choosing an integrator, and automating invoices from orders. Plus the questions to ask your accountant.
July 31, 2026
Marketplaces bring fast traffic but come with commissions, price competition and limited access to customer data. Your own store takes patience. The stages of a hybrid model that uses both.
August 16, 2026
A good product page stands in for the shop assistant and answers questions before customers ask. From photos to shipping details, here are the parts of a page that sells.
August 25, 2026
Surprise shipping fees, forced sign-ups, long forms. We gathered common reasons shoppers abandon carts and a practical fix you can apply to each one.
September 5, 2026
In commercial searches, the page that ranks is often a category, not a product. Practical notes on optimising categories and products, filter URLs, out-of-stock items and product schema.
September 13, 2026
Businesses selling online in Turkey need to register with the Ministry of Trade's ETBİS system. An overview of who it applies to, the registration steps and how to display it on your site.
