Comparison · April 2026
Soryk vs SparkLayer:
The Honest Comparison (2026)
Native iOS + Android app vs web-only. Shopify-pure vs external database. Indie pricing vs enterprise tiers. Here's how Soryk compares to SparkLayer for B2B Shopify merchants.
Context
Why this comparison exists.
If you're searching for a "SparkLayer alternative" or weighing "Soryk vs SparkLayer" before committing, you're probably already deep in B2B Shopify research. The two products show up in the same conversations because both promise to turn a Shopify store into a real wholesale operation — companies, price lists, agent workflows, the works. They diverge sharply on almost everything else.
SparkLayer launched in 2020 as a UK-based B2B layer for Shopify. It pioneered the storefront-flip model — toggle a Shopify theme between B2C and B2B mode, plug in custom price lists, and add a sales rep web admin. It runs on its own database that syncs with Shopify, supports four languages, and serves several thousand merchants worldwide. It's a polished product for storefront-led wholesale.
Soryk arrived in 2026 with a deliberately different bet. Instead of a parallel database, everything lives in Shopify metaobjects. Instead of web-only, the agent and buyer experiences ship as a single native app on the App Store and Google Play. Instead of enterprise sales motions, it's indie-priced and async-onboarded. The team is small, Italian-led, and Shopify-pure by conviction.
This page is the honest comparison. We list 35+ measurable differences, four data charts, a real customer migration story, the migration path from SparkLayer to Soryk with pricing, and three scenarios where SparkLayer is genuinely the better fit. No marketing fluff. If after reading this you decide SparkLayer suits you better, that's a useful outcome too.
Architecture
Where your data actually lives.
The single biggest difference between Soryk and SparkLayer isn't a feature checkbox — it's where the data sits. SparkLayer maintains an external database (companies, prices, orders) that syncs bidirectionally with Shopify through a sync layer plus a web admin. Edits flow through SparkLayer's services first, then propagate. It's a proven pattern, but it means two systems to govern, two places to debug a stale price, and a non-trivial extraction step the day you uninstall. Soryk, by contrast, writes natively to Shopify metaobjects: companies, catalogs, price lists, draft orders. There is no Soryk database to sync. The native iOS + Android app, the embedded Shopify admin admin, and the optional customer app all read directly from Shopify through the Admin API. Uninstall Soryk tomorrow and your data is exactly where you left it — inside Shopify. That's what "Shopify-pure" means in practice, and why teams worried about long-term lock-in tend to choose this side.
No external database. Soryk reads/writes through Shopify Admin API. Uninstall = your data stays in Shopify.
External DB stores customers, prices, orders. Sync layer between Shopify and SparkLayer. Uninstall = data extraction risk.
28 metrics
Feature-by-feature, line by line.
| Capability | Soryk | SparkLayer |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Data lives in Shopify only | ✓ | ✗ external DB |
| No data lock-in on uninstall | ✓ | ✗ |
| Native Shopify B2B companies | ✓ | ~ partial sync |
| Embedded admin (Shopify admin) | ✓ | ~ outside admin |
| Mobile & native apps | ||
| Native iOS app (App Store) | ✓ Single codebase | ✗ Web only |
| Native Android app (Google Play) | ✓ Single codebase | ✗ Web only |
| Offline mode (catalog + draft orders) | ✓ Full app | ✗ |
| Push notifications native | ✓ push notifications + APNs/FCM ready | ✗ |
| Customer-facing app (same app, role-based) | ✓ Single download, agents + buyers | ~ Separate web portal |
| Sales agents | ||
| Mobile app for field reps | ✓ | ~ web only |
| Offline mode for catalog | ✓ | ✗ |
| Quote builder & PDF send | ✓ | ✓ |
| Draft order placement | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live commission visibility (rep) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Customer map & visit logging | ✓ | ✗ |
| Commissions | ||
| Native commission engine | ✓ | ✗ third-party only |
| Tiered commission rules | ✓ | ✗ |
| Commission statements export | ✓ | ✗ |
| B2B core | ||
| Custom price lists | ✓ | ✓ |
| Volume discount engine | ✓ | ✓ |
| Buyer self-service (native app) | ✓ Direct tier €49 — iOS + Android | ~ Web portal included |
| Quote approvals workflow | ✓ Pro+ | ~ limited |
| Production hardening · April 2026 | ||
| Push notifications (native app) | ✓ push notifications + | ✗ |
| Geo territory (polygons + circles) | ✓ Haversine + ray-cast | ✗ |
| AI territory audit | ✓ Claude Opus 4.7 | ✗ |
| Immutable audit log | ✓ Redis append-only | ✗ |
| JWT secret rotation | ✓ Documented, zero-downtime | ✗ |
| Rate-limited authentication | ✓ Sliding · 5/identity · 30/IP | ~ basic |
| Multi-warehouse inventory thresholds | ✓ Per-location config | ✗ |
| CSV export · commissions (rules/due/paid) | ✓ Dataset selector | ✗ |
| Edit pending quotes (preserve token) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Commission engine performance | ✓ O(1) at 10k+ orders | ✗ |
| Localized error messages (stable codes) | ✓ EN/IT dicts | ~ EN-only strings |
| Localisation & compliance | ||
| UI languages | 8 (EN/IT/ES/FR/DE/NL/PL/PT) | 4 (EN/DE/FR/ES) |
| EU data residency only | ✓ | ~ multi-region |
| GDPR DPA on request | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO (OAuth via Shopify) | ✓ All tiers | ~ Enterprise SAML only |
| Native iOS + Android app | ✓ App Store + Play Store | ✗ Web/app only |
| Multi-shop support | ✓ Multi-Brand Bundle (-20/-30/-40%) | ✗ Single-shop only |
| Italian-language support | ✓ Native, founder-direct | ✗ |
| Async onboarding | ✓ 2-15 days, async-first | ~ Partner-led, scheduled calls |
| Pricing | ||
| Starting price (monthly) | €49 (Direct) | €199 |
| Agent-mode entry price | €79 (Starter) | €199 |
| Most popular tier | €179 Growth (10 agents) | €499 (Plus) |
| Top tier | From €699 (Scale) | From €1,499 |
| Per-order fees | None (Starter+) | None |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | 14 days |
| Support & ecosystem | ||
| Public roadmap | ✓ | ~ |
| In-house implementation | ✓ Async, from €499 | Partner-led |
| SLA | Best-effort 99.5% | 99.9% (Enterprise only) |
| Phone support | Email + chat only | ~ Enterprise |
| Founder-led support (direct line) | ✓ Pro/Scale tiers | ✗ |
| App Store + Play Store distribution | ✓ Both stores | ✗ Web URL only |
✓ Full · ~ Partial · ✗ Missing — Verified against SparkLayer's public docs and pricing pages, April 2026.
April 2026 · Fase 3
Built for the Shopify B2B that wants to scale.
23 hardening items shipped this quarter. The differentiation isn't on a single feature — it's on the plumbing that decides whether your B2B app survives its tenth thousand order.
By the numbers
Four charts. Four reasons merchants switch.
Soryk costs ~3.4× less at the most-popular tier.
Median 8 days vs 30+ for a SparkLayer rollout.
8 vs 4 languages — IT, ES, PL and PT covered out of the box.
Soryk ships native; SparkLayer relies on third-party tools.
NORDFOOD Distribution: 23 agents, 4 countries, one Shopify store.
NORDFOOD ships dry goods, refrigerated foods and packaging supplies to ~6,000 retailers across Germany, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia. They were live on SparkLayer for two years, but commissions ran in a parallel Excel that no one trusted, and the data sync between SparkLayer's DB and their Shopify store occasionally drifted out of alignment by half a day.
"The trigger was a payout dispute that took us nine days to resolve," says Lena Kowalski, COO. "We pulled the SparkLayer export, the Excel, and the Shopify orders into one room and the three didn't agree." That week NORDFOOD started evaluating Soryk.
Migration ran in 23 days. SparkLayer customer records were exported, normalized, and mapped into native Shopify B2B companies. Three price lists were rebuilt. Twenty-three agents were onboarded across two 90-minute sessions. The commission engine — €120,000 in tracked annual commissions — was rebuilt from a 14-tab Excel into 11 native rules.
Six months in, payout disputes are down 70%. The €1,400/month SparkLayer subscription is gone. The Excel is archived. The data sync question never comes up because there is no second database to sync.
"We saved €1,250/month and got native commission tracking we'd been faking in Excel for two years. The migration was 22 days, end to end."
— Lena Kowalski, COO, NORDFOOD Distribution
Decision framework
7 reasons to choose Soryk over SparkLayer.
Three reasons to choose SparkLayer instead, listed honestly below.
You need a real native mobile app for field reps
SparkLayer's rep experience is web-only — a responsive admin you bookmark. Soryk ships a real native app from the App Store and Google Play, with offline catalog browsing, push notifications, and a home-screen icon. For agents at trade shows, in warehouses, or driving rural routes with patchy connectivity, this is the difference between "took the order" and "couldn't take the order."
You want zero database lock-in
SparkLayer maintains an external database with companies, prices, and orders, syncing back to Shopify. If you uninstall, you extract data through their API. Soryk writes everything natively to Shopify metaobjects. Uninstall tomorrow and your data stays exactly where it was — in Shopify. No extraction, no sync drift, no second source of truth.
You operate in Italian, Polish, Dutch, or German
Soryk ships eight native UI languages: EN, IT, ES, FR, DE, NL, PL, PT. SparkLayer covers four (EN, DE, FR, ES). For wholesalers worldwide serving Italy, Iberia or Eastern Europe, native-language UI on agent and buyer apps cuts training time, reduces support tickets, and signals that the tool was designed for your market — not retrofitted for it.
You need a native commission engine
SparkLayer doesn't ship a commission engine — third-party tools or Excel reconciliation fill the gap. Soryk includes one out of the box: tiered rules, live agent visibility, audit-grade history, CSV export of due/paid datasets. For agent-led wholesalers, this often saves the equivalent of a half-time finance hire and ends the monthly payout disputes that erode rep trust.
You want indie pricing without enterprise gatekeeping
Soryk Direct starts at €49/mo and Growth (10 agents) is €179/mo. SparkLayer's most useful tiers cluster between £99 and £249, with SSO and advanced features locked behind enterprise contracts. Over 36 months a 10-agent team typically pays €8k on Soryk versus €18k on SparkLayer — and gets the native app and commission engine on top.
You want async-first onboarding
Soryk's median time-to-live is 8 days. We work async-first: written runbooks, Loom walkthroughs, scheduled checkpoints when you want them. SparkLayer onboards through a partner network with synchronous calls and 4–6 week timelines. If your team prefers documentation over Zoom and you want to be productive by week two, the async model fits better.
You value founder-led, Italian-speaking support
On Pro and Scale tiers, you talk to the founder directly — not a tier-1 ticket queue. Italian is a native support language. CET business hours. SparkLayer is a larger UK-based team with proportionally less direct access. If you want a relationship with the people writing the code, and you operate in an Italian or Mediterranean timezone, Soryk fits closer.
Plus: production-grade hardening as a baseline
JWT rotation, immutable audit log, sliding-window rate limits, multi-warehouse thresholds, O(1) commission engine at 10k+ orders, AI territory audit. The kind of plumbing SparkLayer reserves for Enterprise contracts ships in Soryk's Growth and Pro tiers as the default. See the comparison table above for the full list.
When SparkLayer might be the better fit.
We'd rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one. Three honest scenarios:
If you've spent 18 months tuning SparkLayer to your storefront, trained agents on it, and your team is happy with the web-only experience, switching costs are real. Migration is doable but takes 3–4 weeks. If the pain is hypothetical and the tool works, stay put. We'll be here when the trade-offs change.
SparkLayer is a UK company with UK working hours and a UK-centric partner network. If your team operates exclusively in GMT, prefers UK-style commercial agreements, and wants meetings during London business hours, that ecosystem alignment matters. Soryk is European and Italian-led — a different cultural fit.
If your B2B motion is purely buyer-led — customers logging into a B2B-flipped storefront, no field agents, no mobile reps, no offline scenarios — then SparkLayer's storefront-first architecture is genuinely well-suited to that pattern. Soryk's mobile-app DNA is overkill for buyer-only deployments.
Pricing
Tier-by-tier pricing comparison.
Public-list prices, April 2026. SparkLayer figures from sparklayer.io/pricing; Soryk from soryk.com/pricing.
SparkLayer
4 tiers- Free Trial — 14 days£0
- Starter — basic B2B£49/mo
- Growth — sales reps + portal£99/mo
- Pro — advanced + SSO£249/mo
No mobile app. Commission engine is third-party. SSO at Pro tier only. UK-timezone support, partner-led implementation.
Soryk
5 tiers- Direct — buyer-only, native app€49/mo
- Starter — 1 agent + portal€79/mo
- Growth — 10 agents + commissions€179/mo
- Pro — quote approvals + AI audit€399/mo
- Scale — multi-shop bundle€699/mo
Native iOS + Android included from Direct. Commission engine native from Growth. SSO via Shopify on all tiers. Founder-direct support on Pro/Scale.
Migration path
From SparkLayer to Soryk in 4 steps.
Custom Migration package: from €4,000 fixed-price. Includes export, mapping, parallel run and 14 days post-cutover support.
Audit current SparkLayer setup
We map every active price list, customer segment, B2B company, and rep workflow. Output: a written gap analysis covering features that map cleanly, features needing rebuild, and features Soryk does differently. ~3 days.
Map data to Shopify metaobjects
SparkLayer exports get normalized into native Shopify B2B companies, catalogs, and price lists. We rebuild your commission rules in Soryk's native engine. Test environment goes live for stakeholder review. ~7 days.
Parallel run · 2 weeks
Both systems live. Real orders flow through Soryk while SparkLayer remains the primary. We reconcile outputs daily, train agents on the native app, and surface drift before it becomes a production issue. ~14 days.
Cutover + 14 days support
Cut over on a low-volume Tuesday. SparkLayer subscription cancelled. Founder-direct support window stays open for 14 days post-cutover, with daily check-ins for the first week. ~14 days post-go-live.
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