Mrfqy vs YouCan: MENA drag-and-drop stores compared
YouCan popularized easy store builders in MENA. Here's how Mrfqy compares on geography, integrations, pricing, and merchant ops.
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YouCan lowered the barrier to launching Arabic online stores with drag-and-drop pages and social-selling workflows familiar to Instagram merchants across MENA. Mrfqy shares that ease-of-use philosophy but adds structured country packs for all 22 Arab League states, a documented integration catalog, and inventory plus profit tooling for scaling beyond your first 50 SKUs.
Who each platform serves best
YouCan excels for social-first sellers: quick landing pages, campaign links, and lightweight catalogs promoted via WhatsApp and Instagram. Moroccan, Egyptian, and Gulf micro-brands often start here for speed.
Mrfqy serves those same social sellers plus merchants planning multi-country expansion, warehouse-style fulfillment, and data-driven margin management. The free Starter tier keeps hobby and validation-stage stores online without subscription anxiety.
Seasonal sellers — Ramadan hampers, back-to-school, Eid collections — should compare how fast each platform spins up and tears down campaign micro-stores. YouCan may still win on speed; Mrfqy wins when those campaigns become year-round catalogs with inventory carryover.
Arabic and RTL experience
YouCan's builder produces Arabic-friendly pages with RTL support geared to MENA social traffic. Merchants can launch readable mobile storefronts in minutes.
Mrfqy's theme builder adds live preview, bilingual product fields, and country-scoped address forms for every supported Arab market — important when you graduate from single-page funnels to full catalog sites.
Campaign microcopy ages fast on social-first builders. Mrfqy bilingual product fields help you promote the same SKU in Arabic on Instagram and English on LinkedIn without duplicating inventory — useful when your brand graduates from flash sales to evergreen catalog SEO.
Payments and shipping
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YouCan integrates regional payment options aligned with its MENA user base — enabling COD and local gateways common in North Africa and Egypt.
Mrfqy documents each payment and shipping integration with country scope and plan requirements. Native adapters cover Paymob, Fawry, Tap, HyperPay, and major carriers; Pro unlocks the full catalog plus custom domain checkout on your brand URL.
WhatsApp order confirmation is informal ops — document whether your team confirms COD via chat on every platform. Mrfqy's order admin centralizes status for accounting; YouCan-heavy workflows sometimes live split between chat and dashboard.
Pricing and total cost
YouCan pricing follows MENA SaaS tiers — evaluate limits on products, domains, and transaction features as you scale campaigns.
Mrfqy Starter: free for life, 50 products, subdomain. Pro: ~999 EGP/month for custom domain, 1,000 products, five staff, all integrations, marketing pixels, and profit dashboard. Yearly billing discounts apply on the marketing site.
Starting free on Mrfqy Starter lets you prove ROAS before committing to Pro.
Inventory and operations
YouCan focuses on conversion-oriented storefronts; deep inventory and supplier workflows may be lighter than full ERP-style platforms.
Mrfqy Pro adds purchase orders, stock receiving, movement logs, bulk shipping fulfill, and COGS-based profit views — for when Instagram volume becomes operational complexity.
When variant count explodes past 100 SKUs, spreadsheet sync breaks — that's the inflection to evaluate Mrfqy movement logs and low-stock alerts even if YouCan still handles front-end campaigns beautifully.
Bundle and kit SKUs common in social promos need explicit variant mapping on migration — one Instagram bundle should become one Mrfqy product with components, not three orphan listings.
A simple decision framework
YouCan and Mrfqy both lower the barrier for social-first Arab sellers. Choose YouCan when campaign landing pages, WhatsApp funnels, and single-market MENA selling match how you acquire customers today. Choose Mrfqy when Instagram volume is becoming warehouse complexity — purchase orders, supplier records, COGS profit views, and multi-country catalogs.
List your next two growth moves. If they are 'more ad campaigns' and 'faster landing pages,' YouCan's builder workflow may still be optimal. If they are 'sell in UAE and Egypt' or 'see margin by SKU,' Mrfqy's country packs and Pro ops tools align better. Social selling and operational selling are different phases; pick for the phase you are entering, not the one you are leaving.
Time-box a side-by-side test: one weekend, one product line, two checkouts. Measure mobile Arabic readability, payment setup minutes, and whether you need a subdomain or custom domain for brand trust. Mrfqy Starter lets you run that experiment at zero platform cost before upgrading to Pro for custom domain and full integrations.
Campaign speed and ops depth pull in different directions — name which one matters more this quarter.
When to choose Mrfqy
Choose Mrfqy when you need 22-country readiness, lifetime free tier, full integration catalog on Pro, or profit reporting tied to cost price.
Choose YouCan when its builder workflow matches your team's habits and current plan economics work — especially for campaign-heavy, single-market social selling.
Merchants outgrowing YouCan often hit the same wall: beautiful landing pages but no purchase-order paper trail. When your supplier asks for three-way match on inbound stock, Pro ops on Mrfqy beats screenshotting chat threads.
Migration and switching
Recreate or import product lists via CSV; match images and variant options manually for small catalogs. Update bio links and ad URLs to the new Mrfqy domain.
Preserve order history exports from YouCan for tax and support reference before deactivating the old store.
Preserve UTM-tagged campaign URLs in a spreadsheet before switching domains — you will rebuild ad sets faster when each legacy YouCan path maps to a Mrfqy collection slug.
YouCan and Mrfqy both democratize Arab e-commerce. Mrfqy adds pan-Arab infrastructure and ops depth when your business outgrows campaign-only selling.
