what is shopify

Shopify is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company that provides a proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. It is a complete commerce platform that lets you start, grow, and manage a business. Shopify offers a suite of services, including payments, marketing, shipping, and customer engagement tools, to online retailers. With Shopify, merchants can build and customize an online store and sell in multiple places, including web, mobile, in-person, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops, and across multiple channels from social media to online marketplaces. Shopify is completely cloud-based and hosted, which means you can access it from any connected compatible device, and they handle software and server upgrades and maintenance for you. As of December 2022, Shopify reported that it had more than 2,000,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries using its platform.