A storefront that is yours
Your own domain, your logo, your colours, and a home page you arrange from ready-made sections. Nothing on it says karqa except a small credit.
קַרְקַעThe ground your shop grows in.
Your own online shop, ready to sell across Europe.
A storefront on your own domain, a back office to run it from, and card payments paid straight into your own account — everything a shop needs to sell online, in one place.
Why karqa
Every shop grows from the ground up.
קַרְקַע — ground, soil, land.
karqa is Hebrew for soil. Before a shop can grow it needs ground: somewhere customers find it, roots that hold — payments, invoices, shipping — and something tending it while you are busy. That is what we give you. The growing is yours.
The money goes to you
Stripe pays each order straight into your own account. No one holds your balance in between, so payouts, refunds and disputes are yours to see.
What you get
Everything a shop needs
The parts you would otherwise buy from several suppliers and wire together yourself — already working, and working together.
Design your storefront
Templates and a visual page builder, so your shop looks like your brand.
- Ready-made templates to start from
- A page builder with live preview
- Video banners, countdowns and a reviews wall
Manage products and stock
Products, variants and stock in one place, with a warning before anything runs out.
- Variants with their own price, stock and images
- Low-stock alerts at a level you set
- Orders, returns and refunds in one place
Sell more
Tools that turn more of your visitors into paying customers.
- Countdowns, reviews and product spotlights
- Cash on delivery and the buyer's own currency
- A Google Shopping feed kept up to date
Get real support
A person who sets up your shop with you and answers within a working day.
- Set up together with you
- Replies within one working day
- English, Romanian and Hungarian
Built for sellers
It runs while you sell.
Selling is the part you want to do. The rest — invoices, warnings, paperwork and reviews — takes care of itself.
Invoices issue themselves
Every paid order gets a proper invoice, numbered from your own series and emailed to the customer as a PDF. Refund it and the credit note follows. In Romania they are issued in the format e-Factura accepts, or through your Oblio account.
It tells you before you have to ask
Stock falling under a threshold you set. A paid order left unfulfilled too long. A featured product that has sold out. You hear it from your dashboard, not from a customer.
The legal basics are already there
Cookie consent that really keeps analytics off until it is accepted, the privacy, terms and returns pages every shop must publish, a returns window you set, and old customer data cleared on a schedule.
Reviews ask for themselves
When the courier marks a parcel delivered, the buyer is asked for a review. Only people who bought can leave one, so every review on your shop counts.
Where you sell
Sell where you choose.
Open your shop to the countries you want to serve, and only those.
Countries you choose
Activate the countries you sell to. A country you have not activated cannot place an order.
VAT per destination
VAT is worked out for where the order is going, so cross-border sales are charged correctly.
Your currency, their view
You price in your own currency, and visitors can see prices in theirs.
Local integrations start in Romania — e-Factura, Sameday and Oblio — and more countries follow.
How it works
From first message to first order.
Tell us about your shop
What you sell, where, and what is in your way right now.
We set it up with you
Your domain, Stripe payouts and shipping — with a go-live checklist that shows what is left.
Open your shop
Start taking orders. If something comes up, we are a message away.
Pricing
One charge, and where it goes.
No monthly fee — only a percentage on what you sell. Part of it is Stripe's, not ours, so here is the split.
No monthly fee
The platform
Your storefront, your admin, the back office and everything in it, with nothing to pay each month.
3% + €0.25on each paid order
The transaction
Taken at the moment the customer pays, out of the payment itself. Nothing to invoice, nothing to reconcile at the end of the month.
Where that 3% + €0.25 goes
- Stripe
- 1.5% + €0.25
- Their fee for processing the card, charged by them. We never touch it.
- karqa
- 1.5%
- Ours. No fixed part, so a small order costs you proportionally less of it.
- Stripe's share is their standard rate for European cards. A card issued outside Europe costs more — that is their price list, not ours, and they publish it.
- Refund an order and our share goes back with it, in proportion to what you returned.
- From 1 March 2027, the monthly fee becomes €8.
Questions
Good to know before you start.
Do I need technical skills?
No. You run the shop from a back office made for shop owners, and we set it up with you.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. Your shop lives on your own domain, with your name on it.
Who holds the money?
You do. Stripe pays each order straight into your own account — we never hold your balance.
Which countries can I sell to?
The ones you activate. VAT is worked out for each destination.
Is there a contract or minimum term?
No minimum term. Either of us can end it with 30 days' notice, as the Platform Terms of Use set out.
Can I leave and take my data with me?
Yes. Export everything at any time, free, and you still have at least 30 days after leaving to download it.
Contact
Tell us about your shop
What you sell, roughly how much of it, and what is in your way right now. We read every message and answer with a person.