The USA is the second-largest ecommerce market in the world with plenty of business potential for budding ecommerce entrepreneurs. Before launching an online store, it’s important to get an overall view of the leading ecommerce platforms in the USA and their respective market shares.

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Leading ecommerce platforms in the USA

Shopify currently has the largest ecommerce platform market share in the USA, with more than one in four (28%) online businesses using it to power their stores. In second place is Wix Stores, with 19%, followed by WooCommerce Checkout, with 16%. 

As the three largest ecommerce platforms, Shopify, WooCommerce Checkout, and Wix Stores’ combined market shares in the USA make up 63%. In other words, nearly two out of every three online shops in the USA use one of these three leading ecommerce platforms to sell their merchandise.

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Fourth on the list of the leading ecommerce platforms in the USA is Squarespace’s Add to Cart, which has 15% of the total market share. This is followed by Ecwid, with 4% of the ecommerce platform market share in the USA.

Let’s have a deeper look at the three largest ecommerce platforms, Shopify, WixStores, and WooCommerce Checkout.

Breakdown of WooCommerce Checkout, Wix Stores, and Shopify market share in the USA

As of February 2024, there are around 2.7 million online stores in the USA that use Shopify as their ecommerce platform. From culinary and fitness to comics and fashion, the range of niches they’re in is wide and varied.

The majority of these stores are located in California. Some 94,600 businesses there use Shopify as their preferred ecommerce platform. This is followed by New York and Florida, home to approximately 41,500 and 37,600 Shopify customers, respectively.

A similar trend is seen with Wix Stores and WooCommerce Checkout, powering around 1.8 million and 1.6 million online stores in the USA, respectively. These businesses also span across a huge range of industries including sports, health, foodstuffs, and automotive.

Like Shopify, most of the businesses running on Wix Stores are located in California, Texas, and Florida, with 89,900, 50,000, and 37,900 online businesses running on Wix Stores in those states, respectively. Meanwhile, the states with the biggest number of stores using WooCommerce Checkout are California, New York, and Florida. Incidentally, these above-named states are also among the top 10 states with the largest number of small businesses

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