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Up-to-date, regulation-based guides to Turkish e-invoicing (e-Fatura, e-Arşiv, e-İrsaliye), marketplaces (Trendyol, Hepsiburada, N11, Amazon, Temu) and e-commerce accounting.
The choice depends on the seller and the buyer. A seller that is an e-invoice taxpayer issues an e-invoice if the buyer is on the Turkish Revenue Administration's registered user list, and an e-archive invoice if not. A seller that is not an e-invoice taxpayer issues an e-archive invoice to every buyer. Both are invoices; what differs is delivery, scenario and reporting to the tax authority.
Under the Tax Procedure Law (VUK), 5 years (starting from the calendar year following the year the invoice belongs to); under the Turkish Commercial Code (TTK), 10 years (from the end of the calendar year in which it was created). What you must keep is not a PDF or printout but the original XML bearing the financial seal.
Automatic e-invoicing is a workflow that transfers the buyer, address, product, VAT, discount and shipping details from a marketplace order directly into the invoice, issues an e-invoice or an e-archive invoice depending on the seller's and buyer's status, and sends the invoice to the marketplace.
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kafatura.com went live on October 2, 2026. It brings a marketplace seller's work, from orders to invoices, stock and accounting, into one panel for 6 sales channels; new sign-ups are currently accepted through a waitlist.
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According to Trendyol's developer announcements, the legacy order service shuts down on October 15, 2026, the origin field for country of origin becomes mandatory on October 23, and October 8 is the deadline for complying with the new return rejection reasons. Sellers using an integration should get confirmation of compliance from their software provider.
You query GİB's e-Fatura registered user list with the buyer's VKN or, if the buyer is a sole proprietorship, their TCKN. If you are an e-Fatura taxpayer as the seller, you issue an e-Fatura when the buyer is on the list and an e-Arşiv invoice when they are not; if you are not an e-Fatura taxpayer, you issue an e-Arşiv invoice to every buyer.
If you sell on more than one marketplace, keep your stock in one central place, map every variant to your channels by barcode and SKU, deduct stock on order and add it back on cancellation and return; prevent overselling with safety stock, threshold alerts and regular counts.
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On kafatura, the stock of every variant is kept in a single central record (Master). When a sale happens on one channel, the same number goes out to all connected channels, and every channel can be synced to the central number with one click. Prices stay separate on each marketplace.
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Simplified-method and business-account taxpayers in Türkiye can issue invoices not exceeding 3,000 TL including taxes on paper in 2026; from January 1, 2027, this threshold ends and all invoices will be e-archive invoices.
In 2026, the penalty for not issuing or not receiving an invoice (VUK 353/1) is 10% of the document amount for each document, and it cannot fall below minimum amounts ranging from 17,000 TL to 170,000 TL depending on the detection order; the annual cap is 17,000,000 TL.
Under UBL-TR 1.43, since September 14, 2026, codes 308 and 339 can only be used in the Investment Incentive (YATIRIMTESVIK) scenario. On an ISTISNA invoice in the TEMEL or TİCARİ scenario, these codes are rejected; on an e-archive invoice (e-Arşiv), you select the YTBISTISNA type.
Since January 1, 2025, marketplaces in Türkiye have withheld 1% tax from seller payouts, calculated on the VAT-exclusive sales price. Sellers offset this amount in their provisional and annual tax returns.
