Aspro or Frontbox: a template inside Bitrix or a storefront on top of it
Aspro is a ready‑made solution installed inside 1C‑Bitrix. Frontbox is a storefront and an app that sit on top of your Bitrix and are run by an engineer on a subscription. Here is where Aspro is enough — and where it becomes the ceiling.
Three key differences
A template + a Bitrix licence + partner implementation + yearly renewals.
Storefront, app, SEO, content, analytics and an engineer — in one subscription.
≈ 197,000 ₽ in year one (Maximum + Small Business) and ≈ 86,700 ₽ every following year for renewals — before implementation and customisation.
From 19,000 ₽/mo with support and updates included. Source‑code buyout — 95,000 ₽/mo × 18.
Tuned by hand: composite cache, CSS/JS bundling. PageSpeed 59–86 after optimisation, per reports in their own knowledge base.
Server rendering and Elasticsearch by design. Search under 100 ms across 100,000 products.
Point by point
Left — Aspro: Maximum per aspro.ru and the Bitrix Marketplace. Right — Frontbox per subscription terms.
- Aspro
- A ready‑made solution (template) inside 1C‑Bitrix
- Frontbox
- Storefront + app on top of your Bitrix — or another backend
- Aspro
- In Bitrix
- Frontbox
- In Bitrix — nothing is migrated
- Aspro
- PHP monolith and jQuery: the Maximum demo ships 1 MB of HTML and 1.3 MB of CSS; speed‑ups are manual settings
- Frontbox
- Next.js, server rendering, Elasticsearch search < 100 ms at 100k+ SKUs
- Aspro
- None. “PWA” means a manifest and push; a separate mobile template only in Premier and Liteshop
- Frontbox
- iOS + Android from the same code as the site. Add‑on to the subscription, included in White Label
- Aspro
- 5–7 themes and “a million setting combinations”; custom design is a separate service from 25,000 ₽
- Frontbox
- Component storefront under your brand; updates never roll back your changes
- Aspro
- Multilingual = a second site install (multisite); regions = subdomains
- Frontbox
- Locales, currencies and warehouses are properties of one catalog and one deployment
- Aspro
- 149,900 ₽ for the solution; renewal 74,950 ₽/year (50%); plus a Bitrix licence at 47,000–96,500 ₽ and its renewal
- Frontbox
- Light / Standard / Premium from 19,000 ₽/mo; White Label 95,000 ₽/mo × 18 — source code is yours
- Aspro
- Tickets, Mon–Fri 07:30–16:00 MSK, complex issues in 2–3 days, active licence required; customisation is paid separately
- Frontbox
- A dedicated engineer on Telegram, 5 hours of changes in Standard, SLA in Premium
- Aspro
- A partner agency (≈ 2,000 in the directory) — from 100,000 ₽ per store
- Frontbox
- We do: demo on your catalog → core connection → gradual switch
- Aspro
- Only with a renewed licence; back up before updating, changes may be overwritten
- Frontbox
- Rolled out to every subscription client at no extra cost; public monthly releases
Aspro prices and terms from aspro.ru, partners.aspro.ru and marketplace.1c-bitrix.ru as of August 2026 (seasonal −25% discount not included). Frontbox prices are indicative and depend on the catalog.
When Aspro is the right call
- A typical store with a few hundred products and a standard purchase flow
- You need to launch in 3–5 days through a partner agency and design is not a priority
- No mobile app needed — “add to home screen” is enough
- You have an in‑house Bitrix developer to maintain the template and updates
When Frontbox
- The store is already on Bitrix, but the front is slow and template changes are expensive
- You need an app under your own brand — from the same data, no third parties
- A catalog of 10,000+ items that needs instant search and facets
- Languages, currencies, regions — without a second copy of the site
- You want one invoice and one responsible person instead of an agency, a content manager and a developer
Moving from Aspro to Frontbox
Bitrix stays. Only the storefront changes: shoppers see a new site and app, you keep working in the same admin, ERP sync and CRM stay untouched.
- 01
Demo on your catalog
We connect the catalog from Bitrix and show search, product pages and the app on your products.
- 02
Storefront next to the live site
The new front runs on a staging domain; redirects from old URLs are prepared in advance — rankings are preserved.
- 03
Gradual switch
Traffic moves in parts. The Aspro template stays as a fallback; rollback is a single setting.
Questions when moving from Aspro
What store owners on Aspro ask. Everything else — on a demo.
Do we have to give up Bitrix and the Aspro licence?
No. Bitrix stays as the backend: catalog, orders, ERP sync, CRM. The Aspro template stops being the storefront but can stay as a fallback. You no longer need to renew the Aspro licence.
Will we keep our search rankings?
Yes. URL structure and redirects are prepared before the switch; technical SEO — structured data, sitemap, meta, redirects — is part of Frontbox.
Can we keep the Aspro design?
Logic and elements can be carried over, but most clients use the move to get a branded design instead of a catalog theme shared by 2,000 identical sites.
We are on Premier or Liteshop, not Maximum
No difference: Frontbox works with any Bitrix edition that has the “Online store” and “Catalog” modules.
What about the customisations we made in the template?
We review them on the demo: business logic stays in Bitrix, storefront logic moves into Frontbox components — and updates never roll it back again.
See the difference on your own catalog
Send a link to your Aspro store — we connect a demo to your Bitrix and show speed, search and the app on your products. No commitment.