Top Features of Akinon Cloud Platform Every Retailer Should Know

Retail in 2025 is a whirlwind. Online stores are constantly trying to keep up with the agility and seamlessness of physical retail. Mobile apps often feel like they have identity crises, inventory management is a disaster waiting to happen, and IT teams are practically pulling all-nighters every week just to hold it all together.

With more sales channels than ever before, and consumers expecting fast, personalized, and frictionless experiences across every single one, retailers are under more pressure than ever. Add to that the need to expand globally, sell on third-party marketplaces, deliver tailored experiences, and run live, influencer-led shopping events… and suddenly, your outdated tech stack feels like trying to stream Netflix through a dial-up modem.

That’s where Akinon makes its entrance.

The Akinon Cloud Platform is purpose-built for this high-speed, omnichannel retail environment. It’s designed not just to help brands survive, but to help them scale, experiment, and thrive. In this blog, we’ll take an in-depth look at Akinon’s key features, the technology that powers it, and why forward-thinking retailers around the globe are making it their digital commerce platform of choice.

What is Akinon?

Akinon is a cloud-native, headless, and composable digital commerce platform that enables brands to deliver next-generation retail experiences across all customer touchpoints, without having to rebuild their entire technology stack.

Trusted by both global enterprises and regional powerhouses, including names like Marks &Spencer, Gap, Samsung, and Network, Akinon powers robust digital commerce strategies in some of the most competitive markets.

You’ll find Akinon on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, meaning it’s not just cloud-hosted, it’s cloud-optimized from the get-go. Built on the MACH architecture (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless), Akinon gives brands the freedom to innovate and scale, without the fragility of legacy systems slowing them down.

But here’s the important part: while Akinon is composable, that doesn’t mean it dumps a bunch of puzzle pieces in your lap. Unlike other platforms that require tons of setup and custom integrations, Akinon comes with pre-packaged business capabilities that dramatically reduce time to market, improve operational efficiency, and keep your teams from drowning in complexity.

Why Do Retailers Need Akinon Today?

Let’s be real. The biggest challenge in retail today isn’t just selling online it’s selling everywhere.

You’re expected to be on your website, on your app, on Amazon, on Instagram, in your physical stores, and even on WhatsApp! Phew! Consumers don’t care where they shop; they just expect it to work. And they expect it to be fast, convenient, and personal.

But legacy systems weren’t built for this. They’re slow, rigid, and monolithic. Making a minor change could take weeks or a team of developers. As a result, most retailers have started combining different tools: a PIM over here, an ERP over there, and maybe an OMS taped in the middle.

It’s not sustainable. It’s a ticking time bomb.

Here’s what modern retailers really need:

• The ability to sell across multiple channels seamlessly
• Faster time-to-market when launching new campaigns or features
• Unified customer and order data
• The capability to deliver localized experiences at scale
• A platform that lets them test, iterate, and scale quickly

And that’s exactly what Akinon delivers. It’s not composable commerce in theory it’s composable in practice. You get the flexibility to build what you need, but with the speed and structure to move fast and make smart decisions.

Whether you’re launching in three countries simultaneously, running a real-time shopping event, or just trying to streamline inventory across dozens of stores, Akinon was built for these challenges.

Top Features of the Akinon Cloud Platform

Here are the top features offered by Akinon that can transform how you manage your digital commerce operations and workflows.

Digital Commerce Engine

This is the beating heart of Akinon.

The platform provides a robust, scalable backend that integrates effortlessly with your front-end, whether it’s mobile, desktop, or a custom Progressive Web App (PWA). Whether you want a stylish storefront, a mobile-first experience, or something tailor-made, you get all the support you need from Akinon.

Akinon is a dream come true for merchandisers. You get an intuitive interface to manage products, inventory, catalogs, and pricing. Whether it’s about launching a one-day promo in a specific region or a 10,000-SKU bulk-update, Akinon can get the job done with ease.

Everything from coupons and discounts to cart rules and campaigns is easy to manage, without diving into technical nightmares or fearing that a simple mistake might take your site offline.

Marketplace Management

If you want to launch your own marketplace or expand to third-party platforms like Amazon, Trendyol, or Hepsiburada, that’s a cakewalk with Akinon’s Marketplace Management module.

Not only can you onboard third-party sellers and manage listings, but you can also define commissions and enforce vendor compliance, all from a central dashboard. And since it’s integrated with the broader Akinon ecosystem, your inventory, pricing, promotions, and orders stay synced automatically.

This means you can build a marketplace experience that rivals the likes of Zalando or Amazon, without having to build the technology from scratch.

Omnichannel Order Management System (OMS)

For those who want to provide in-store pickup, split shipments, or distributed fulfillment, a modern OMS is a necessity, and that’s exactly what Akinon provides.

Akinon’s Order Management System allows you to route orders based on custom logic: inventory availability, shipping speed, cost efficiency, location you name it. You can empower your customers to choose whether to pick up in-store today or receive delivery at a later date from your nearest warehouse.

Akinon simplifies returns and exchanges with barcode-based processing, smart restocking workflows, and automated refunds while giving you complete visibility from order placement to delivery and back.

Unified Commerce Architecture

Customer experiences are often fragmented, but they don’t have to be.

Akinon’s Unified Commerce module makes sure your customer has a seamless journey whether they’re on your website, app, in-store, or shopping via live stream.

This feature allows your shoppers to use any channel to access their wishlists, order history, and loyalty points. No more nasty headaches because that coupon only works online.

You can run personalized recommendations, loyalty programs, and omnichannel marketing campaigns from one place, with real-time data syncing across the board.

Multichannel Management

With Akinon by your side, managing multiple channels would no longer feel like herding cats.

It combines your website, mobile apps, marketplaces, and even in-store systems into a unified control center. With this, it becomes really easy for store owners to customize promotions, content, and pricing based on the channel.

Want to run a flash sale only on your app? Done deal. Need to create localized promotions for your UAE and US websites? You need just a few clicks.

Its multichannel commerce without the chaos.

Live Shopping Events

Akinon allows you to host real-time live shopping events, and you can integrate them directly into your storefront. Customers can watch product demos, chat with hosts or influencers, ask questions, and most importantly purchase instantly without leaving the stream.

Akinon gives you a whole lot of options! You can embed live sessions into your website or app, run limited-time promotions, feature influencers, and gamify the shopping experience to increase engagement. Best of all, the platform monitors conversions and viewer metrics in real time, so you can optimize on the fly.

Live shopping has exploded across the globe, and it shows promising growth over time. With Akinon, you’re not just prepared you’re in a prime position to lead the trend.

Multi-Store &Multi-Language Support

Running multiple brands or expanding your brand globally requires turning to Akinon, as the platform makes managing multiple stores, currencies, and languages really easy, from a single backend.

Think of it like an air traffic control system for all your storefronts whether you’re running Gap in Turkey, Banana Republic in the UAE, or a regional D2C brand in three languages.

Each storefront can have its own:

• Domain
• Product catalog
• Pricing structure
• Language and translation settings
• Payment methods and shipping options

And the best part? You don’t need separate development teams or codebases to manage them. Akinon lets you launch faster, maintain consistent branding across regions, and minimize operational complexity, especially during peak periods like flash sales.

Visual Storefront (PWA-Based)

Modern customers demand lightning-fast, app-like experiences even in their browsers. Akinon delivers this with a Progressive Web App (PWA)-based Visual Storefront.

Built to be mobile-first and ultra-fast, the storefront can be fully customized without rewriting the frontend. It delivers an app-like UX smooth, immersive, and lightning-quick.

Benefits include:

• App-like performance without the need for a native app
• Offline functionality and background syncing
• Near-instant loading through caching and prefetching
• Easy A/B testing for front-end experiments

The result? Higher conversions, happier customers without your dev team worrying about performance bottlenecks or platform limitations.

Akinon App Builder

Do you want your own branded mobile app for iOS and Android, but without the time and cost of hiring a mobile team?

Akinon’s App Builder makes it possible. With its drag-and-drop interface, you can build beautiful, functional apps without writing a single line of code.

With Akinon, you can:

• Create layouts with reusable components
• Sync the app with your storefront in real time
• Push updates instantly no need to go through the App Store or Google Play
• Track in-app behavior and optimize user flows

Whether you’re building a loyalty app or a full-featured shopping app, this builder lets you move quickly and keeps you in control of the user experience.

Pre-Integrated Partner Ecosystem

One of the most time-consuming (and expensive) tasks in eCommerce is integrating third-party services.

Akinon cuts that time down dramatically with a vast ecosystem of pre-integrated partners. Whether you need payment processors, logistics providers, CRM platforms, or analytics tools its already in place.

You’ll find ready integrations with:

• ERP systems like Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, and Oracle
• Payment providers like PayPal, Stripe, PayU
• Buy Now Pay Later solutions like Klarna, iyzico, Tabby
• Communication &Search tools like Twilio, Algolia, Segment
• Shipping and logistics companies like Aramex, DHL, UPS, and more

Need something custom? No worries! Akinon’s APIs are well-documented and flexible, so you can build or plug in anything you need.

Store Digitalization Suite

Akinon isn’t just for online retail it helps you digitally empower your physical stores, too.

With the Store Digitalization Suite, store associates become more than cashiers they become trusted advisors and fulfillment partners.

Tools like Clienteling, Endless Aisle, Store Fulfillment, and Mobile POS allow your team to:

• Look up customer profiles and recommend products
• Check stock availability across other stores and warehouses
• Place orders from the shop floor directly
• Fulfill online orders using local store inventory

This transforms your store from a passive display space into a powerful fulfillment and engagement hub.

A Look Under the Hood: Akinon’s MACH Architecture

So, what makes Akinon so fast, flexible, and reliable?

It’s the MACH architecture short for Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless.

Here’s what each component means:

• Microservices:Each capability (OMS, PIM, Loyalty, etc.) is modular and independent. Updating one won’t break the rest.
• API-First:Everything is built with APIs at its core, making it easy to connect with your CRM, ERP, CMS, and more.
• Cloud-Native: Hosted on Microsoft Azure, Akinon comes with built-in scalability, disaster recovery, and auto-scaling.
• Headless: Your frontend and backend are decoupled, so you can innovate your UX without touching backend logic.

This gives you maximum agility. Want to run experiments, release updates faster, or connect your favorite tools? You can do all of it without replatforming every year.

The Real-World Payoff: What Retailers Are Actually Seeing

Okay, so it all sounds great on paper. But what are retailers actually experiencing when they move to Akinon?

Here’s what they’re reporting:

• Rapid time-to-market: Launch new stores and channels in weeks, not months.
• Higher conversions: PWA Storefronts + App Builder = smoother UX and stronger engagement.
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO): One unified platform means fewer tools, fewer developers, and fewer surprises.
• True omnichannel growth: Retailers are finally breaking down silos between store, web, mobile, and marketplace.
• Agility like never before: Want to try TikTok commerce or launch a new marketplace? You can – with confidence!

Samsung’s MENA digital operations, for example, run on Akinon, and they’ve seen major improvements in speed, flexibility, and cross-channel performance.

Final Thoughts: Is Akinon Right for You?

If you’re just starting out with a basic Shopify store for your sock startup, Akinon might be more than you need.

But if you’re an ambitious, fast-scaling brand with multiple stores, markets, and channels one that’s looking to streamline operations, improve performance, and grow globally then Akinon is absolutely worth your attention.

It’s modern, flexible, and built specifically for the complexities of retail. You get the power of composable commerce, without drowning in complexity or slow rollout cycles.

Yes, retail is changing fast. But with Akinon, you’ll change faster.

Need Help Implementing Akinon?

Whether you’re planning a full migration or starting fresh, the team at Codilar Technologies can help you move faster. From strategic planning to hands-on execution, we are with you at every step.

Let’s build the future of eCommerce, together!