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Shopify

The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses

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shopify

What is Shopify?

Cloud-based e-commerce platform for building online stores and selling across multiple channels (online, in-person, social, AI). Includes website builder, point of sale, inventory management, and payment processing.

Independently observed

Shopify pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from £19/moHybridFree tier3-day trial

From free (Agentic) to £19/mo (Basic). Free 3-day trial, then intro pricing. Transaction fees 1.3–2% + 25p GBP.

Basic

£19/mo or £25/mo

For solo entrepreneurs

  • Sell online, in person, and in AI chats
  • Card rates from 2% + 25p GBP
  • AI assistant
  • Millions of tokens
  • Earn up to £3,500 in credits

Grow

£49/mo

For small teams

  • Everything in Basic
  • Up to 5 staff accounts
  • Card rates from 1.7% + 25p GBP
  • Earn up to £5,500 in credits

Advanced

£259/mo

For global reach

  • Everything in Grow
  • Up to 15 staff accounts
  • Card rates from 1.5% + 25p GBP
  • Live 3rd-party shipping rates
  • Tailor store by region
  • Earn up to £7,000 in credits

Plus

Contact sales
Contact sales

For complex businesses

  • Everything in Advanced
  • Unlimited staff accounts
  • Fully customizable checkout
  • Up to 200 POS Pro locations
  • Unlimited B2B catalogs
  • Priority 24/7 phone support
  • Card rates from 1.3% + 25p GBP

Agentic

Free
Free

For selling in AI channels

  • Add products to Shopify Catalog
  • Choose which AI channels to sell in
  • Only pay when you make a sale
  • Card rates from 2% + 25p GBP online

Add-ons

  • POS Pro£69/mo

What Shopify does

The capabilities that matter for e-commerce platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Platform type
Hosted all-in-one SaaS
Licensing
Open-source
✗
Deployment
Self-hostable
✗
Pricing
Free / open tier
✓
Transaction fees beyond plan
✓
Payments
Payments model
Built-in payments
Architecture
Headless / API-first storefront
✓
Compliance
PCI-DSS compliance provided
✓
Reach
Multi-currency / multi-language
✓
Selling
B2B / wholesale features
✓
POS / omnichannel
✓
Extensibility
App / extension ecosystem size
Largest commerce ecosystem
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
  • Android
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (2)

Independently observed
  • Social & Marketplaces
  • Shop app

Shopify alternatives

Other e-commerce platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Shopify, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 55 / 100
medium · 63%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Pricing Transparency10016.001600.0✓
Capabilities8716.001387.5✓
Security Posture6514.00910.0✓
Reliability5014.00700.0✓
Price Level5010.00500.0✓
Integrations1430.00411.6✓

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"headless":true,"free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"b2b_features":true,"platform_type":"hosted_saas","self_hostable":false,"payments_model":"built_in","pci_compliance":true,"pos_omnichannel":true,"transaction_fees":true,"extension_ecosystem":"Largest commerce ecosystem","multi_currency_language":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count2mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYeslowsource · 2026-08-01 · 48%
Modelfreemiumhighsource · 2026-08-01 · 80%
Price levelmidmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Starting gbp19mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-01 · 75%
PciYeshighsource · 2026-08-01 · 75%
Soc2Yeshighsource · 2026-08-01 · 75%