Shopify is an 🏷️#ecommerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. [1] The company reports that it has more than 500,000 merchants using its platform, with the total gross merchandise volume exceeding $45 billion. [2][3][4][5] Dissatisfied with the existing e-commerce products, Shopify's founders created a 📝Zero To One evolution by scratching their own itch. [6]
The Shopify App Store provides an open 🏷️#marketplace for merchants to enhance their online stores with downloadable features, value-add services, and purpose-built plugins offered by a community of independent developers that they've coalesced around them. [7]
References
- Hands-off Business a Reality, financialpost.com
- About Shopify, www.shopify.ca
- Shopify: 2016 Year In Review, shopify.com
- How Shopify Became the Go-To Ecommerce Platform for Startups, entrepreneur.com
- Canadian Software Company Shopify Files for U.S.-Canada IPO, wsj.com
- Our Canadian CEO of the Year You’ve Probably Never Heard of, theglobeandmail.com
- Shopify: Developers, developers.shopify.com