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With the highest-converting checkout and flexible options for every size of business, Shopify stores sell more products, lower your costs, and save you time.

Built into every store

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Cheetah fast.
Ridiculously reliable.

With a 99.99% uptime rate and 300 points of presence worldwide, Shopify’s infrastructure won’t leave your customers hanging.

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The world’s
best checkout

Shopify’s checkout converts a whole 15% better on average than other commerce platforms. Which means more sales for you.

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The magic of AI
in your corner

Generate store headlines, product descriptions, chat replies, and blog posts that sell—all with a little help from Shopify Magic.

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Shopify themes

Shopify themes are made for commerce

Every theme comes with selling and conversion features built right in. Just pick a theme that reflects your brand, then make it your own.

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Put your own spin onthemes

Add your branding and product videos. Customize your colors. Make your store feel likehome.

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Drag and drop

Effortlessly add pages and switch up the layout with Shopify’s online storeeditor.

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Sell worldwide orwholesale

Show different products and pricing to international and B2B customers with contextual storefronts.

The custom content customers need

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Do more with commerce apps

With 8000+ apps to choose from, the Shopify App Store has whatever extras your store needs—from added features to custom product options.

Plus all the features youneed, right out of the box

Powered by the best checkout in the world, Shopify converts shoppers into buyers 15% better on average than other platforms.

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Help shoppers imagine how your products fit into their liveswith videos, 3D visualization tools, and other rich media.

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Give your customers an easy way to find exactly what they’relooking for.

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Let customers select which country and what currency they’reshopping in.

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Encourage customers to fill their carts by recommending moreproducts they’ll love.

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Instantly conjure up product descriptions, store headlines,chat replies, and blog posts with Shopify Magic.

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Shopify stores are optimized for speed and accessibility,so everyone can shop and nobody has to wait.

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Everything’s designed responsively, so things look goodno matter what device customers use to visit your store.

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Custom options

If you can imagine it, you can build it

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OPT /01Go LiquidGet the best of both worlds. Build your own one-of-a-kind store in no time with Liquid, then leave the rest to us.
OPT /02Go headlessGet full control. Tap into Shopify's APIs and developer tools to build your own bespoke store, integrated with your preferred stack.

Go Liquid

Create a store as unique as your brand. Leave the maintenance to us.

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Build fast and easy

With Liquid, Shopify’s supercharged templating language, you can quickly create a custom store with the exact look and feel you need. And it works right alongside old faves like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON.

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Speed. Security. Reliability.

Monitoring uptime, optimizing for speed, keeping bots at bay—we handle it all. So whether you’re doing a big drop or launching in a new country, you know your store is safe, reliable, and running fast.

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An editor everyone canuse

Let each team do what they do best. Any team can edit content, launch landing pages, and even update the design. Which leaves your developers free to focus on the big stuff. No bottlenecks. No gatekeeping.

Ready to roll your own theme?

Go headless

Choose your own stack

Get exactly the store your business needs. With the flexibility to use tech you already love.

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Battle-hardened APIs

Shopify’s Storefront API serves millions of queries/min and is deployed globally at the edge. So customers around the world experience snappy load speeds, no matter what device they shop on. And with no rate limits, you can run big sales events without throttling or unexpected bills.

Dig into the docs
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Launch in half the time with Hydrogen

Fast-track development with Hydrogen, Shopify’s React-based toolkit. Skip the setup with flexible UI components, hooks, and utilities—all optimized for commerce and preconfigured to work with Shopify’s APIs.

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Host for free on Oxygen

Instantly deploy your Hydrogen store using Oxygen, our free global hosting solution, which is available on all Shopify plans except Starter. Or host with your preferred provider.

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Ready to go custom?

Join millions of merchants on Shopify

All kinds of businesses. All kinds of stores. All built to sell.

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Shopify allowed us to build the most playful customer experiences while maintaining complete control of our development process.

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  • Emily Miller, CEO / Founder
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Loading speed is flawless and instant, on mobile and desktop—providing a seamless experience for customers globally, regardless of device.

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We love our theme. It’s simple to navigate. It’s easy to update. My dev team moves at laser speed. If we have an idea, it’s implemented same-day.

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  • Joshua Ariza, Founder and CEO

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