Shopify
Cloud-based e-commerce platform enabling merchants to create and operate online stores with integrated payment processing and international commerce capabilitie
- Also known as
- shopify
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Shopify?
Shopify is a fully hosted e-commerce platform for building and managing online stores. It provides merchants with payment processing through Shopify Payments, multi-currency support, international market expansion tools, inventory management, and both traditional and headless storefront deployment options.
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.
Monthly subscription from 3.9% per transaction. Free trial available: 3 months at £1/month.
Shopify
Shopify Plus
Contact salesAdvanced features for high-growth brands
- Fully customizable checkout
- Unlimited staff accounts
- Enhanced automation
- Priority support
Shopify Enterprise
Contact salesEnterprise-scale platform for complex organizations
- Higher platform limits
- Deep control and customization
- Dedicated account management
- Committed service levels
Add-ons
- Shopify Managed Markets3.5% per transaction
- Shopify Managed Markets (Shopify Plus)3.25% per transaction
- Currency conversion1.5% per transaction
- Duties and import tax calculation0.5% per transaction
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.
- Platform type
- Hosted all-in-one SaaS
- Open-source
- ✗
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Free / open tier
- ✓
- Transaction fees beyond plan
- ✓
- Payments model
- Built-in payments
- Headless / API-first storefront
- ✓
- PCI-DSS compliance provided
- ✓
- Multi-currency / multi-language
- ✓
- B2B / wholesale features
- ✓
- POS / omnichannel
- ✓
- App / extension ecosystem size
- 21,000+ commerce apps available in Shopify App Store
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (11)
Independently observed- Adyen
- Manhattan
- Vercel
- Hydrogen
- Slack
- Salesforce
- Xero
- QuickBooks
- Shop app
- Dropshipping apps
- Print-on-demand apps
Shopify FAQ
Common questions about Shopify, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Shopify?
Shopify is a fully hosted e-commerce platform for building and managing online stores. It provides merchants with payment processing through Shopify Payments, multi-currency support, international market expansion tools, inventory management, and both traditional and headless storefront deployment options. It is indexed under E-commerce Platforms.
Is Shopify free?
Shopify offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Shopify Plus and Shopify Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Shopify support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Shopify. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Can Shopify be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Shopify, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What does Shopify integrate with?
We have confirmed 11 integrations for Shopify, including Adyen, Manhattan, Vercel, Hydrogen, Slack, Salesforce, Xero and QuickBooks, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Shopify have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Shopify. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Shopify not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Shopify available?
Shopify is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Shopify alternatives
Other e-commerce platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- BigCommerceA customizable checkout platform built for conversion with support for any business modelmedium · 70%
- SwellCloud-based commerce platform for building and scaling online storesmedium · 55%
- MedusaAn open-source, modular e-commerce platform for developers to build custom commerce experiencesmedium · 65%
- commercetoolsCloud-native commerce infrastructure with APIs for building modular, AI-powered shopping experiencesmedium · 58%
- WooCommerceOpen-source WordPress-based solution for building online stores with flexible customization optionsmedium · 66%
- EcwidAn easy-to-set-up online store platform with no transaction fees, designed for merchants at any business stagemedium · 53%
Compare Shopify
Side by side against other e-commerce platforms, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 95 | 0.07 | 6.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 80 | 0.08 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 65 | 0.07 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.05 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 100 | 0.04 | 4.1 | ✓ |
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.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Headless: Yes · Free tier: Yes · Open source: No · B2b features: Yes · Platform type: hosted_saas · Self hostable: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 21,000 | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-04 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
Security
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