Shopify

Shopify is both a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario and the name of its computer software platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. The Shopify company was founded in 2004, and its software platform was initially based on earlier software written by its founders for their online snowboard store. The company reports that it has more than 500,000 merchants using its platform, with total gross merchandise volume exceeding $40 billion.