What is Shopify

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce software developer founded by Tobias Luke and headquartered in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. The service software Shopify provides is a shopping cart system in the SaaS field, which is suitable for cross-border e-commerce to establish independent sites. Users can pay a certain fee to use various themes/templates to build their own online stores.

About Shopify

Currently, Shopify has 600,000 sellers and more than 1 million active users worldwide, with total platform sales of $82 billion;

In the past three years, the total number of Shopify employees has tripled to 632. Industry insiders believe that Shopify's software has good growth potential because it is popular among corporate users.

Function

1. Create a store, website or blog

Customized branded e-commerce stores that are optimized for mobile devices;

Full access to your store’s HTML and CSS, making it easy to customize every aspect of your site.

Use your own domain name, or purchase one through Shopify.

Host your entire website on Shopify

Publish and categorize articles on the Shopify blog, create a presence, encourage discussion, and moderate comments.

2. Shopping cart

Every Shopify store includes a free 256-bit SSL certificate. All pages, content, credit card and transaction information are protected by the same level of security used by banks;

Get automatic shipping rates from major carriers like UPS, USPS, and FedEx;

Recover lost sales by automatically sending emails to potential customers with links to their abandoned carts, encouraging them to complete their purchases.

From Bitcoin to PayPal to iDEAL, Shopify integrates with more than 100 external payment gateways from around the world.

Set shipping rates with fixed prices, tiered pricing, weight-based, and location-based rates. Major country and state tax rates will be automatically handled based on your location.

Improve your average order size by offering free shipping to your customers. You can choose the price point at which the free shipping fee applies.

Use multiple languages. The online store checkout is available in more than 50 languages, and you can translate the store theme at any time to meet your needs.

3. Store management

·Manage orders, logistics inventory, refunds and returns;

Manage customer data.

4. Social media integration , such as Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.

5. Analyze store/website data and export reports, etc.

Materials needed to open a store

1. A foreign mailbox (gmail, outlook, hotmail, yahoo, yandex, etc.) or a corporate mailbox, Alibaba Cloud mailbox. Do not use domestic mailboxes such as QQ, 163, etc., otherwise the registration will be blocked immediately;

2. Dual-currency credit card that supports US dollars is fine, VISA and MASTER are both fine, basically all are supported, as long as you are working on an overseas platform, it will be required.

How to Register

1. Open the official website and click Register, enter your email address to start:

2. Enter the password and store name. It is recommended to write in English or pinyin, not in Chinese;

3. After filling in the information, you can enter the backend.

cost

There's a 14-day free trial, after which monthly subscriptions range from $29 to $299.

Development History

In 2006, Lütke, Lake, and Weinand officially launched Shopify, a set of tools that merchants and store owners can use to build their own online stores.

In 2009, Shopify released an API platform and app store. Both new products were designed to help existing Shopify merchant customers and a new group of developers.

In 2010, Shopify released a free app, Shopify Mobile, which gave merchants and store owners a new way to manage online sales. Shopify Mobile was a revolutionary product because it allowed merchants to monitor their online stores, find customer information, and complete orders from their mobile phones.

-In 2011, Shopify has helped build more than 11,300 online stores, which have generated more than $125 million in revenue.

-In 2013, Shopify completed a $100 million Series C financing.

-On May 21, 2015, Shopify went public in the United States with a market value of US$2.14 billion.

-In January 2017, Shopify announced its merger with Amazon, allowing merchants to sell products to Amazon from their Shopify stores.

In April 2017, Shopify launched a Bluetooth-enabled debit and credit card reader for purchases in physical stores and retail outlets.

-In July 2017, Shopify announced a partnership with eBay to sell products on the platform.