Top Five Ranking

Online shops equipped with shop software gain advantages in operational efficiency, benefiting from easy order processing and valuable analytics for tracking business performance. But shop software provides a better shopping experience for customers as well. In addition to improved site navigation, shop software services expand payment options at checkout and enable timely and relevant communication between businesses and customers.

The UK is a leading market for eCommerce, so its online merchants' choices for shop software are of particular interest to us. Explore the top five rankings we derived from our ECDB data below.

Shopify Leads the Way, Followed by Magento

Of those online stores for which shop software information is available and known, 29% stated they use Shopify to streamline their business operations. Following its tracks is Magento, with 26% of UK online stores using this service.

Further behind are the remaining providers in the top five. WooCommerce and Salesforce both amount to a rounded 7% usage share in British eCommerce, while Visualsoft is used by 4% of stores.

Note that the analysis is based on all online shops that generate the majority of their revenue in the UK.