r/shopify
Founded July 2011 · Public — anyone can post
This subreddit is a forum to ask or seek any information regarding Shopify. Store owners can discuss any Shopify-specific issues. Note that this is a promotion-free sub and the rules (please read them) are very strictly enforced. Your post must be specific and unique to the Shopify platform.
Members
378,020
378K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
10.6
from the last 100 posts, spanning 9.3 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Published rules
11
4 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Sep 18
sampled Sep 18
Distinct posters
94%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 11 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/shopify
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 36% | 21 |
| Rant | 34% | 109 |
| Discussion | 14% | 49 |
| Lessons / story | 7% | 89 |
| News / link | 4% | 52 |
| Tool comparison | 3% | 15 |
| How-to | 1% | 128 |
| Show & tell | 1% | 19 |
Based on 73 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 20
- Top 10% score
- 160
- Text posts
- 100%
- Got no replies
- 0%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 08:00 UTC, Mon 01:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned. Promotion goes in r/reviewmyshopify (All store reviews must be posted to r/reviewmyshopify unless part of an AMA / approved review thread.). Minimum 20 karma. Account must be 30 days old.
- All Posts must be related to Shopify Exclusively: All posts must be directly and exclusively related to the Shopify Platform - no posts with issues that may pertain to ecom stores in general. Dropship-related posts should be made to relevant groups like r/dropship or r/dropshipping.
- No Success Stories / Guides / How-To / Blogspam / AI: No unsolicited AMA (ask me anything) posts, success stories, 'how I made' posts, expert guides, blogs, 'top' lists, I analyzed 5,000 stores..., case studies, 'what we learned' etc. Longform posts that are clear blogspam, suspected AI (in the view of a moderator) or reported as such may be removed.
- Soliciting, Promotion, or Direct Soliciting via DM: This should be self-evident. This is a place to exchange helpful information freely, as posts that stay up will help others in the future. This is not the place to promote yourself or services to the members here. Violations and attempts to circumvent this rule by "recommending someone" inviting private solicitation via DM or request for DM will result in a ban. This also includes 'offers to help' (even if free), or 'looking for help' posts or comments.
- No spamming or links to external content.: The sharing of any links, be it in a YouTube description or otherwise is not allowed. Content marketing via blog articles will not be allowed. Please avoid links for signup for Shopify as well as for apps and external courses.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers practical, actionable advice or solutions.
- — Shares first-hand experience and specific examples.
- — Demonstrates deep technical knowledge or problem-solving skills.
- — Validates the original poster's frustration or experience.
- — Provides alternative tools or methods with pros and cons.
- — Engages in detailed discussion, often with follow-up questions or explanations.
What r/shopify's rules say about promotion
4 of 11 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No Success Stories / Guides / How-To / Blogspam / AI
rule 3 of 11
No unsolicited AMA (ask me anything) posts, success stories, 'how I made' posts, expert guides, blogs, 'top' lists, I analyzed 5,000 stores..., case studies, 'what we learned' etc. Longform posts that are clear blogspam, suspected AI (in the view of a moderator) or reported as such may be removed.
Removal reason shown to posters: No Success Stories / How-To / Case Study / Suspected AI
Soliciting, Promotion, or Direct Soliciting via DM
rule 4 of 11
This should be self-evident. This is a place to exchange helpful information freely, as posts that stay up will help others in the future. This is not the place to promote yourself or services to the members here. Violations and attempts to circumvent this rule by "recommending someone" inviting private solicitation via DM or request for DM will result in a ban. This also includes 'offers to help' (even if free), or 'looking for help' posts or comments.
Store, Course, or Illegal Theme Resale
rule 5 of 11
If you attempt to resell or freely offer paid themes or courses that you didn't create or have resale rights, you will be issued an instant and permanent ban. You will not be warned, you will not be told to stop, you will be banned instantly. Store sales are also not permitted to due to our inability to protect buyers from scams. Likewise, posts looking for 'how to sell my store' will not be allowed.
No spamming or links to external content.
rule 6 of 11
The sharing of any links, be it in a YouTube description or otherwise is not allowed. Content marketing via blog articles will not be allowed. Please avoid links for signup for Shopify as well as for apps and external courses.
Removal reason shown to posters: Use of links against the rules of the group
The other 7
- All Posts must be related to Shopify Exclusively
- No Store or App Reviews / Feedback
- We are all grown ups (well, most of us...).
- No 'Dev Research' or App Developer posts
- Account Requirements
- No AI or Suspected AI Slop
- No 3PL Related Posts
Read from r/shopify’s published rules on Sep 8. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/shopify — frequently asked
How many members does r/shopify have?
r/shopify has 378,020 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 18. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/shopify growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/shopify yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 11; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/shopify?
Around 10.6 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 9.3 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/shopify created?
r/shopify was founded in July 2011 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/shopify?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 94% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 18. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/shopify?
r/shopify publishes 11 rules and 4 of them address promotion. The first, “No Success Stories / Guides / How-To / Blogspam / AI”, says: No unsolicited AMA (ask me anything) posts, success stories, 'how I made' posts, expert guides, blogs, 'top' lists, I analyzed 5,000 stores..., case studies, 'what we learned' etc. Longform posts that are clear… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/shopify for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/shopify into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/shopify's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/shopify's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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