# Shopify

Shopify is a commerce platform for selling online and in person from one dashboard. It includes a storefront builder, payments, shipping, marketing, and point-of-sale tools. SEO is a feature area inside the platform, which generates sitemaps, canonical tags, and SSL automatically.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/shopify · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2006
- Headquarters: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Employees: 5,000+
- Company type: Public (NASDAQ: SHOP)
- Deployment: Hosted by Shopify on its own infrastructure
- Best for: Merchants selling online, in person, and in AI chats, from solo entrepreneurs and small teams to global and complex businesses
- Compliance: PCI DSS Level 1, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3

## Products

- Online store: Storefront builder with prebuilt themes and AI-generated store setup.
- Point of Sale (POS): In-person selling from a phone, card reader, or sales counter, with POS Pro as a paid add-on.
- Shopify Payments: Built-in payment processing with Shop Pay checkout.
- Shopify Capital: Merchant funding of up to $2M in the US with no equity taken.
- Sidekick: Built-in commerce AI assistant in the Shopify admin.
- Shopify Markets: International selling with local currencies, duties, and taxes.
- Hydrogen: Headless commerce toolkit for building custom storefronts.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-Commerce Platforms | 1 of 43 | 78.7 | 72 |
| SEO Tools | 21 of 58 | 2.4 | 4 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 90.7 | 100.0% |
| google_ai_mode | 74.6 | 88.9% |
| perplexity | 70.7 | 77.8% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Shopify AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/shopify, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).