🆚 Shopify vs. WHMCS
- 📈 Shopify is much more popular than WHMCS.
- 🌎 Shopify is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 WHMCS is more popular in Iran, Afghanistan, and Mozambique.
Type
About
Shopify is a subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce platform that enables businesses to build and manage online stores, process payments, and sell across multiple channels.
It offers 20+ free and 900+ paid customizable themes, integration with 100+ payment providers, and a comprehensive app ecosystem with 8,000+ apps to extend store functionality.
WHMCS is a self-hosted recurring billing and automation platform used by web hosting providers to manage clients, services, and payments.
It offers automated invoicing and subscription management, domain registration and lifecycle management, configurable products, bundles, and pricing, a ticket-based customer support system, fraud screening, and tax and VAT handling.
Headquarters
Pricing
(1 staff account) $27/month
(5 staff accounts) $72/month
(15 staff accounts) $399/month
(unlimited staff accounts) $27,600+/year
(250 clients) $29.95/month
(500 clients) $44.95/month
(1,000+ clients) $69.95+/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the E-Commerce category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the E-Commerce category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the E-Commerce category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the E-Commerce category.
- 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the E-Commerce category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Turkey in the E-Commerce category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in the United Kingdom in the E-Commerce category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in the United States in the E-Commerce category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,813,555 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


