Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational 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.

The company reported that it had more than 1,000,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries using its platform as of January 2021, but according to Builtwith, more than 3.6 million online stores run on Shopify.

The total gross merchandise volume exceeded US$61 billion for calendar 2019.

Traded as:           TSX: SHOP; NYSE: SHOP; S&P/TSX 60 component

Industry:              E-commerce

Founded:             2006; 15 years ago Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Founders:            Tobias Lütke; Daniel Weinand, Scott Lake

Headquarters:    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Services:              Online shopping

Website:              www.shopify.com