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What Is the Market Share of Shopify?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 2:33 pm

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services “including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants.

Shopify was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake after attempting to open Snowdevil, an online store for snowboarding equipment. Shopify was originally written in Ruby on Rails by Lütke.

He has stated that he “was looking for a platform that would give [him] complete control over the look and feel of [his] website”, but could not find anything suitable. Lake spent three months building a Java-based platform which failed to gain traction, after which Lütke decided to rebuild his store using Ruby on Rails.

As of March 2020, Shopify has more than 1 million active users, including 625,000 merchants using their platform to run their businesses with over $155 billion worth of merchandise sold. In 2019, Shopify had gross merchandise volume (GMV) of $41.1 billion US dollars. This made Shopify the second largest ecommerce platform in terms of GMV just behind Alibaba Group’s Taobao marketplace with $768 billion US dollars in GMV in 2019.

Shopify has been growing rapidly since its initial public offering in 2015. In 2019, it surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in Canada after its stock quadrupled in value.

PRO TIP: The market share of Shopify is not known and may vary. Shopify may not be the best platform for your business. Do your research and talk to other businesses to see if Shopify is the right platform for you.

What Is the Market Share of Shopify?

Shopify’s market share is growing rapidly.

Dale Leydon

Dale Leydon

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