Shopify
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Shopify is commercial e-commerce software made by Shopify Inc. Shopify Inc. was founded in 2006, and it is based in Canada. Its English Wikipedia article has about 11k readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- Shopify Inc.
- Since
- 2006
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 11k a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- Hosted e-commerce platform for building online stores with themes, checkout, payments, point-of-sale and a large app store.
- Adopt it when
- A merchant wants to sell online quickly without managing hosting, and can work within Shopify's data model.
- Watch out
- Monthly app costs add up, and checkout and URL structure are only partly customisable.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service and mobile app
- Built with
- Ruby on Rails and Liquid
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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The description is the maker's own, quoted as written. Facts come from Wikipedia and refresh weekly. Readers are counted on Wikipedia's mobile site only, because automated traffic that Wikimedia does not flag inflates desktop counts.