Shopify Dubai

Shopify is an eCommerce website development Dubai, which develops computer software for online stores and retail point of sale systems.

History

It was founded in 2004 and was initially based on previous software developed by its founders for their online snowboard store. Supposedly, the company has 150,000 merchants using the platform, with a total volume of gross merchandise exceeding $ 8 billion.

Shopify was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake after trying to open Snowdevil, an online snowboard equipment store. Dissatisfied with the e-commerce products on the market, Lütke, a trade programmer, decided to start his own business.

Lütke used open-source, framework and ruby ??on rails to build Snowdevil's online store and launched it after two months of development. Snowdevil's founders launched the platform as Shopify in June 2006.

In 2010, Shopify launched a competition called “Build-A-Business”, in which participants create a business using the commerce platform. Contest winners receive cash prizes and mentoring from entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson, Daymond John, Timothy Ferriss, and Eric Ries. fastest in Ottawa by the Ottawa Business Journal in 2010. Over the next four years, the company grew from 40 employees to over 500, with offices in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and Kitchener.

The company received $ 7 million from the first series of financing in December 2010. In October 2011, it received $ 15 million in the second series of financing. In February 2012, Shopify acquired Select Start Studios Inc ("S3 "), a mobile software developer, along with 20 of the company's mobile engineers and designers.

In August 2013, Shopify bought Jet Cooper, a 25-person Toronto-based design studio. The company received $ 100 million in the third phase of financing in December 2013.

In 2014, the platform claimed to host around 120,000 online retailers and was listed as No. 3 on Deloitte's list of the 50 fastest-growing companies in Canada, as well as No. 7 on the list of 500 fastest-growing companies in North America. and was listed as # 3 in Deloitte’s  Fast50 in Canada, as well as # 7 in Deloitte’s Fast 500 of North America. On April 14, 2015, Shopify entered into an initial public offering on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchange with the symbols "SHOP" and "SH", respectively. Shopify went public on May 22, 2015, with a 51% increase during the first trading day.

Description

Shopify Dubai is a fully managed commerce platform that helps establish a business online and provides a retail point of sale systems for online and offline businesses. Its key features include the ability to manage products, inventory, customers, orders, and discounts. Shopify merchants can accept payments online and in-person using an integrated payment system, called Shopify Payments, or an external gateway, such as Paypal or Bitcoin payments.

In June 2009, Shopify launched its API platform and App Store. The API allows developers to create apps for Shopify's online stores and then sell them on the company's App Store. There are currently more than 1,000 free and paid apps. Several companies have developed applications that integrate with the Shopify platform. Several companies have developed apps that integrate with the Shopify platform.

The Shopify Theme Store was opened in April 2010. It allows developers to sell theme templates using the Shopify platform. The company launched a free mobile app on the Apple App Store in May 2010. The app allows Shopify store owners to view and manage their stores from iOS mobile devices.

In August 2013, Shopify announced the launch of Shopify Payments, which allows merchants to accept credit cards without the need for an outsourced payment gateway. The company also announced the launch of a POS system, especially for iPads. He uses an iPad to accept credit card payments.

In January 2014, the company launched a redesigned version of its mobile app and launched a mobile card reader. In February 2014, Shopify Plus was launched as a scalable e-commerce system designed for large companies and high volume customers.