Shopify, Inc. engages in the cloud-based commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. The company is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario and currently employs 8,300 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2015-05-21. The firm provides essential Internet infrastructure for commerce, offering tools to start, grow, market and manage a retail business of any size. The company provides platforms and services that are engineered and delivers a shopping experience for consumers online, in store and everywhere in between. Its software enables merchants to run their business across all of their sales channels, including Web and mobile storefronts, physical retail locations, social media storefronts, and marketplaces. The firm's Shopify platform provides merchants with a single view of their business across all of their sales channels and enables them to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, fulfill and ship orders, build customer relationships, source products, leverage analytics and reporting, and access financing, all from one integrated back office. The Shopify's platform operates across 175 countries.