Some of you may not have heard of Shopify before, but if you have a small business and are interested in selling items online (who isn’t these days?), you really should become familiar with them. Their platform makes it easy for retailers to setup an online store quickly and they have convinced hundreds of thousands of businesses to use their services.
So just how big has Shopify become? Here are the more interesting Shopify statistics and facts I was able to dig up. As always, I will be adding more and updating these periodically as I find new stuff. Be sure to check back regularly.
Shopify Facts
- Year Shopify launched: 2004
- Shopify headquarters: Ottawa, Canada
- Shopify founders: Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, Scott Lake
Shopify Statistics
Number of Shopify merchants:
Last updated 9/5/18
Number of Shopify merchant clients:
Last updated 5/4/16
Percentage of Shopify merchants that have enabled social selling:
Last updated 2/16/16
Percentage of Shopify traffic that comes from mobile:
Last updated 2/15/18
Percentage of Shopify sales that come from mobile:
Last updated 2/15/18
Number of apps available in the Shopify App Store:
Last updated 9/5/18
Number of Shopify App Store downloads to date:
Last updated 8/1/17
Total amount of sales processed on Shopify to date:
Last updated 9/5/18
Number of countries Shopify has merchants in:
Last updated 8/12/18
Number of people that actively use the Shopify backend platform:
Last updated 8/1/17
Amount that Shopify Capital has advanced to date:
Last updated 10/31/17
Number of Shopify employees:
Last updated 9/5/18
Shopify revenue (quarterly):
- Q2 2018: $245 million
- Q1 2018: $214.4 million
- Q4 2017: $222.8 million
- Q3 2017: $171.5 million
- Q2 2017: $151.6 million
- Q1 2017: $127.3 million
- Q4 2016: $130.4 million
- Q3 2016: $99.57 million
- Q2 2016: $86.6 million
- Q1 2016: $72.7 million
- Q4 2015: $70.2 million
- Q3 2015: $52.78 million
Shopify GMV (quarterly):
- Q2 2018: $9.1 billion
- Q1 2018: $8 billion
- Q4 2017: $9.1 billion
- Q3 2017: $6.4 billion
- Q1 2017: $4.8 billion
- Q2 2017: $5.8 billion
- Q4 2016: $5.5 billion
- Q3 2016: $3.8 billion
- Q2 2016: $3.36 billion
- Q1 2016: $2.7 billion
- Q4 2015: $2.8 billion
Shopify revenue (annual):
- 2018: $1.073 billion
- 2017: $673.3 million
- 2016: $389.3 million
- 2015: $205.2 million
- 2014: $105 million
Shopify Gross Merchandise Volume / GMV (annual):
- 2018: $41.1 billion
- 2017: $26.3 billion
- 2016: $15.4 billion
- 2015: $7.7 billion
- 2014: $3.8 billion
Shopify increase in revenue from 2014-2015:
Shopify increase in GMV from 2014-2015:
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