# SHOPIFY INC.

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## Overview

Shopify Inc. is a commerce technology company that provides an internet-based platform for merchants to start, operate, market and grow businesses. Its tools support sales through online stores, physical retail and other channels, with offerings that include subscription plans, point-of-sale services, apps and themes, and payment and other merchant services. Its stated mission is “to make commerce better for everyone.” [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P25191695)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P18773130)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P68690915)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P40824972)

Founded in 2004, Shopify serves millions of merchants in more than 175 countries. It reported US$11.6 billion in revenue for 2025 and approximately 7,600 employees at year-end. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P7829967)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P121910211)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P5461205)[8](https://www.shopify.com/news/about-us)
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## Products & services

Shopify’s products center on a cloud-based commerce platform that lets merchants manage and sell across online storefronts, physical retail, social media, and AI platforms through a shared back end for inventory, transactions, and customer relationships. The platform is multi-tenant and built for scalability and traffic spikes; it includes security capabilities such as encryption and two-factor authentication, as well as AI tools including Sidekick and Agentic Storefronts. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P7829967)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P39820034)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P76069350)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P40824972)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P1337849)[12](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/ai-powered-tools/sidekick)

Merchant-facing products and services include Shopify Payments, POS and POS Pro for in-person retail, lending and other financial products, shipping labels, POS hardware, and marketing tools such as Shop Campaigns. Shopify’s app, theme, and domain offerings extend the platform; the App Store listed more than 21,000 apps as of December 31, 2025. For buyers, Shop Pay provides accelerated checkout, Shop Pay Installments offers an eligible-buyer payment option, and the Shop app supports product discovery, checkout, and order tracking. Shopify Markets provides tools for international selling, including localized currencies, pricing, languages, domains, and storefronts. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P68690915)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P95881771)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P82846885)[15](https://www.shopify.com/pos)[16](https://www.shopify.com/payments)[17](https://www.shopify.com/shop-pay-installments)[18](https://www.shopify.com/international)

For the year ended December 31, 2025, Shopify reported revenue in two product-related categories: subscription solutions were $2.752 billion and merchant solutions were $8.804 billion; merchant solutions represented 76% of total revenue. Shopify Payments facilitated $248.1 billion in gross merchandise volume, with 65.6% payment penetration. For the six months ended June 30, 2026, subscription solutions revenue was $1.552 billion and merchant solutions revenue was $5.201 billion. These are category-level figures; the reported disclosures do not provide revenue shares for individual products. [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T2160437)[20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16737633)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P146257503)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P146257487)
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## Geographic presence

Shopify’s platform serves businesses in more than 175 countries. Its 2025 Form 10-K describes merchants across varied geographies and notes that some subscription, billing, payments and capital activity is denominated in local currencies in select countries; most revenue is denominated in U.S. dollars, while significant operating expenses are in Canadian dollars, euros and British pounds. [23](https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-q4-2025-financial-results)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P2020276)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P96599497)

Shopify reported approximately 7,600 employees worldwide at December 31, 2025; the reviewed filing does not provide an employee breakdown by geography. It does not report revenue by country or region. [26](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480526000007/shop-20251231.htm)
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## Business segments

For fiscal 2025, Shopify reported one operating and reportable segment; it does not treat its revenue streams as separate reportable business segments. [27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P11905051) It separately discloses two revenue streams: **Subscription solutions**, about 24% of revenue, generated primarily from platform subscriptions and variable platform fees, POS Pro, apps, domain registrations, and themes; and **Merchant solutions**, about 76%, comprising complementary services such as Shopify Payments and currency-conversion fees, lending and financial products, partner referrals, shipping labels, POS hardware, App Store advertising, and Shop Campaigns. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P68690915)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P40824972)
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## Company history

Shopify began in 2004, when Tobias Lütke and his co-founders set out to build an online snowboard store and developed their own ecommerce software; the Shopify platform launched publicly in 2006. [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P79174060)[29](https://www.shopify.com/blog/earliest-businesses)[30](https://www.shopify.com/blog/3026632-shopify-is-live) The company expanded beyond online storefronts with Shopify POS and Shopify Payments in 2013, followed by Shopify Plus in 2014. It went public in May 2015. [31](https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-launches-revolutionary-point-of-sale-system)[32](https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-launches-shopify-payments)[33](https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-launches-shopify-plus)[34](https://www.shopify.com/investors/investor-faqs)

In the following years, Shopify broadened its platform and fulfillment capabilities: it completed the acquisition of Tictail in 2018, launched Shopify Fulfillment Network in 2019, and acquired warehouse-automation company 6 River Systems that year. [35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P72979566)[36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P28598001)[37](https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-completes-acquisition-of-6-river-systems) In 2022, it introduced new B2B tools and completed its acquisition of fulfillment-technology company Deliverr. [38](https://www.shopify.com/news/introducing-shopify-editions-100-product-releases-for-the-next-era-of-commerce)[39](https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-completes-acquisition-of-deliverr-to-expand-fast-and-easy-fulfillment-for-merchants-across-multiple-channels) In 2023, Shopify sold most of its logistics business to Flexport, shifting away from operating that fulfillment network directly. [40](https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-announces-first-quarter-2023-financial-results-agrees-to-sell-shopify-logistics-to-flexport)[41](https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-completes-sale-of-shopify-logistics-to-flexport)
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