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About Shopify
Shopify is the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides merchants with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business. The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify currently powers over 377,500 businesses in approximately 150 countries and is trusted by brands such as Tesla, Red Bull, Nestle, GE, Kylie Cosmetics, and many more.
Shopify as a Neutral Platform
Shopify operates as a neutral platform that supports the right to free speech. Shopify strongly believes in diversity and we feel that service should not be refused to merchants based on their political or religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or background. As Shopify is a platform, the hosting of a store is not an endorsement of a store, its products, or its owners. If a merchant’s business and its products are legal in the jurisdiction where it operates, the merchant can use the Shopify platform.
Facts
- Shopify is an ecommerce platform that allows businesses to set up an online store and sell products on their own website.
- Shopify does not sell products on behalf of merchants, instead merchants host their stores on our platform, similar to how a social platform hosts a user account or a publishing platform hosts a blog.
- Shopify was founded and operates as a platform that supports the right to free speech.
- Shopify does not advertise on Breitbart nor do we endorse them.
Milestones
Shopify platform released
2006
merchants in
~175 Countries
# employees
1,900+
# apps in our app store
1,400+
# merchants
377,500+
# themes in our theme store
100+
total sales on shopify
$29 Billion
# experts in our network
780+
Shopify Offices
Ottawa, Canada (Headquarters)
Toronto, Canada
Montreal, Canada
Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
San Francisco, USA
