Updated as of Jul 10, 2022
Shopify Market Share
Total Active Shopify Store
Globally, Shopify powers 15% of all B2C physical goods eCommerce websites with substantial business and is next only to WooCommerce Checkout in market share. Shopify's market share is estimated to be $382Bin 2021, which is 21% of the worldwide esales and ahead of all its competitors. Shopify now has almost 40% of Amazon's GMV.
•<1M | 87.63% |
•1M-50M | 11.78% |
•50M-100M | 0.3% |
•100M-500M | 0.26% |
•500M-1B | 0.02% |
•>1B | 0.01% |
•>3M | 85.65% |
•1M-3M | 12.39% |
•500K-1M | 1.05% |
•100K-500K | 0.69% |
•10K-100K | 0.19% |
•<10K | 0.03% |
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•Africa | 0.81% |
•APAC | 7.87% |
•EU | 15.82% |
•Latam | 1.47% |
•North America | 70.23% |
•Others | 3.8% |
•Germany | 2.43% |
•Canada | 3.96% |
•Australia | 4.22% |
•United Kingdom | 5.82% |
•United States of America | 68.02% |
•Others | 15.55% |
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90% of revenue share in the B2C physical goods eCommerce ecosystem of Shopify was generated by 12% of websites. The top 0.01% comprising 65 Shopify merchants including Tesla, Pepsi. LVMH and Red Bull generated 18% of the web sales. About 4,200 merchants generated 50% of all web sales. 87% of Shopify merchants make less than $1M in web sales but collectively generated $35B in web sales making up a healthy 10% of Shopify's market share.
The Canadian company is highly popular in North America, holding 70% of the region's total merchants/stores. Moreover, North America is a prominent market for Shopify with sales of $292B generated by Shopify stores which is 76% of Shopify's global market share .
23% of all eCommerce websites in the US are powered by Shopify and in its home country Canada, Shopify has a market share of 25% of all eCommerce merchants making it the eCommerce platform market leader.
3% of the global top 10,000 websites by web traffic are Shopify-powered eCommerce websites. Among all eCommerce technologies, Shopify has the highest market share of merchants among the top 500,000 sites.
Shopify has come a long way to become a major contender to Amazon's hold on eCommerce. From 25% of Amazon's GMV in 2018, Shopify's ecosystem grew to 40% of its GMV in 2020. More importantly, it remains the only profitable company among all eCommerce technology companies with a decent cash flow. Therefore, it shall continue to grow leveraging its significant share of omnichannel merchants as more and more retailers go digital following the change in consumer preference. A big part of its continuing growth will be its payments platform Shopify Pay which is already a preferred payment system for merchants on Shopify and contributes more than 60% of Shopify's overall revenue.