BoxCommerce

BoxCommerce is an all-in-one e-commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses in emerging markets, particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2017, the platform combines website development, payment processing (including mobile money, credit/debit cards, EFT, crypto, and QR payments), shipping and logistics, inventory management, and social commerce into a single dashboard. Merchants can launch a fully functional online store in under 10 minutes. BoxCommerce has reached 5,400 merchants in Kenya — making it 16 times larger than Shopify in that market by merchant count — and is expanding across Africa and Southeast Asia with partnerships including MTN, Standard Bank, Microsoft, and Meta.