Download websites that use ShopBase

Storefront platforms are not interchangeable, and the one a merchant picks says more about their business model than about their technical taste. ShopBase is a clear case. The platform is built by ShopBase for dropshipping, print on demand and cross border selling, with product sourcing, fulfilment and multi currency checkout wired in from the start rather than bolted on through third party apps later.

As of October 2026 we detect ShopBase on 6,948 sites. Launched in 2019 and run as a Proprietary hosted service, ShopBase is young by ecommerce platform standards, and the population it carries turns over faster than a single count suggests. Stores in this segment open, test a product, then close or rebrand within a season, so a snapshot of the storefronts live today is a genuinely different object from a list of every store that has ever existed on the platform.

For a researcher the signal is unusually legible. A storefront here implies a seller who holds no stock, who works through a supplier network rather than a warehouse, who is sensitive to transaction fees, and who is very likely operating across borders and currencies. Merchants of that shape buy a predictable set of things: advertising management, creative production, supplier and sourcing tooling, payment and fraud services, customs and shipping software, and review or upsell apps.

Two groups therefore ask for the export. Suppliers and service vendors want the storefront population because it is a directly addressable set of small merchants who have already committed to a model those vendors sell into. Competing platforms want the same file because switching costs in this segment are low and the merchants are actively comparing fees. A per domain lookup does neither job. Knowing that one shop runs the platform is trivia unless the shop is already your customer, while the list turns the same fact into a market you can work through.

The limits are worth naming rather than glossing. Hosted storefronts are recognised from the markup, asset domains and checkout behaviour they expose, which works well while a store is trading and not at all once it has gone dark, and dormant domains are common in dropshipping. We carry no version data for a hosted platform, since every merchant runs whatever the vendor shipped, so the export answers who and where instead of which release. Country and top level domain columns carry more weight here than usual, because cross border selling means the shop's registration and its actual market often differ.