Companies Using Ideasoft

I've spent the last decade analysing technology adoption across millions of domains, and Ideasoft is one of the clearer cases of a platform that only makes sense in its home market. As of our October 2026 crawl, we find Ideasoft on 1,778 live store domains and have matched 799 of them to companies. The company behind it, ideasoft Yazılım San. ve Tic. A.Ş., was founded in Istanbul in 2005 and lists more than 200 team members on its about page. In 2025 control passed to Turgut Nezih Sipahioğlu, who also controls the payments company Sipay, through GT Global Danışmanlık A.Ş. The Turkish Competition Board cleared that deal with behavioural commitments, per ELIG Gürkaynak's summary of the decision.

Growth trajectory

The current crawl reads 1,229 domains in June 2026, then 1,685 in July and 1,778 in October. The June to July step reflects changes on our side, the domains we cover and the signals we detect Ideasoft with, rather than a burst of new stores: the set of domains we crawl turns over every month, with dead sites dropping out and new ones added. Since July the count has stayed between 1,649 and 1,778. Meanwhile 235 domains dropped Ideasoft since we began tracking exits in March 2026, so new stores roughly replace lost ones.

"Ideasoft is a twenty-year-old Turkish incumbent now owned by the man behind a payments company. The question for the next two years isn't whether it grows, it's whether payments bundling changes who signs up." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales Signal: The base is stable, not expanding. Treat the 1,778 stores as a fixed pool and watch the next few monthly crawls for a change in who joins.

Customer profile

Ideasoft's customers are small: 52.92% have 1 to 10 employees and 30.61% have 11 to 50. Yet they're often older than the size suggests. 17.23% were founded in the 2000s, 12.24% in the 1990s and 14 companies before 1960, including Koska (1907), Tariş Üzüm (1913) and İstikbal (1957). These are established Turkish producers that went online with a hosted store.

Ideasoft's own reference page names İstikbal, Koska and Spigen among its customers, and all three load Ideasoft in our crawl. 16 of the 50 companies in our list run the store on a subdomain beside a corporate site: Koska on online.koska.com, Beybi on shop.beybi.com.tr, Antalyaspor on store.antalyaspor.com.tr. Some of those stores are B2B rather than retail. Kodsan uses Ideasoft for a dealer login portal and Günsan Elektrik for an e-catalogue.

Sales Signal: Two segments. Founder-run shops with 1 to 10 staff buy quickly and churn quickly. Established manufacturers running a subdomain store move slowly, but they're the accounts where integrations with ERP, marketplaces and dealer pricing matter.

Industry and geographic concentration

Turkey accounts for 644 of the 656 matched companies with a known country, about 98.2%, and no other country has more than two. Retail leads the industries at 22.42%, and the manufacturing cluster behind it, food and beverage (4.16%), furniture (3.89%), general manufacturing (3.09%), appliances (2.15%) and textiles (2.01%), adds 15.3%. Outside commerce the list includes a football club store and the Ahbap aid association's market.

Sales Signal: For anyone selling into Turkish SMB commerce, Ideasoft's list is a clean filter: one country, physical goods, and a stack that already includes marketplace and accounting connectors. Turkish language and lira pricing are table stakes.

Where stores move

Two exits pass our switching tests, both small and both one-way: 11 domains moved from Ideasoft to Shopify and 11 to Ikas since March 2026, with none coming back. For Ikas, only 6 of the 17 domains ever seen with both still run both, so these look like real replatforming. Ikas is the larger domestic rival in our data, per its own profile. Set against 235 total exits, though, most stores that leave Ideasoft simply close or move to something we can't see.

"Eleven domains each to Shopify and Ikas isn't a stampede. Most Ideasoft stores that disappear close or go dark rather than replatform, and that matters more for the business than any single rival." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales Signal: Migration agencies have a thin but real pipeline toward Shopify and Ikas. Retention tools have the bigger opening: most exits are stores going dark, not stores switching.

Technology ecosystem

Cloudflare fronts 99.77% of live Ideasoft domains, which points at platform-level hosting rather than merchant choice. Google Analytics runs on 89.46%, and Yandex.Metrika on 8.17%, a regional habit you rarely see on Western platforms. For chat, JivoChat (9.58%) leads WhatsApp Business Chat (5.07%) and Tawk.to (2.76%). All shares are of the 1,774 live Ideasoft domains in our clean set.

Sales Signal: Chat and messaging are under-adopted: fewer than one store in ten runs JivoChat, and WhatsApp chat is on about one in twenty. A Turkish-language support or messaging tool has plenty of room here.

Ownership and payments

Sipay's owner now controls the platform these stores run on. Sipay offers digital wallet, virtual POS, physical POS and payment services, and it was already one of the payment institutions integrated with Ideasoft. The Competition Board found the deal could restrict rival payment providers and cleared it only with commitments: for two years after closing, extendable by two more, Ideasoft must keep access open to competing payment institutions and must not share their sensitive data with Sipay. Bundling payments into the store is the obvious direction, and the commitments limit how fast it can go.

Sales Signal: Payment providers competing with Sipay keep their access for now, but should expect Ideasoft's own payment offer to get more prominent in the merchant panel once the commitment period ends.

Key takeaways

• 1,778 live store domains, 799 matched companies, 98.2% of located ones in Turkey.
• Small but established customers: 52.92% have 1 to 10 staff, yet 14 predate 1960.
• Manufacturers selling direct, often on a shop. or online. subdomain.
• Only small exits pass our tests: 11 domains each to Shopify and Ikas.
• Payments ownership: control passed to Sipay's owner in 2025, under two-year competition commitments.

Sales applications

Outreach template: "Merhaba {first_name}, I noticed {company} runs its online store on Ideasoft at {subdomain}. We work with Turkish manufacturers on {specific gap: Trendyol stock sync, Turkish-language chat, dealer pricing}. Would it be worth 15 minutes to see how it fits your Ideasoft setup?"

Targeting strategy: On TechnologyChecker.io, filter Ideasoft stores to 11 to 200 employees in Retail, Food and Beverage Manufacturing or Furniture. That's the group large enough to buy add-on software and small enough that the owner still decides.

Competitive angle: The 22 domains that left for Shopify and Ikas have shown they will change platforms; the 235 that dropped Ideasoft without a visible successor may need help getting back online.

Explore the full list of 1,778 Ideasoft store domains and 799 matched companies at TechnologyChecker.io, refreshed monthly.