Case Studies
The Shopify community is home to over a million independent business owners like you, many of whom have overcome their share of challenges to get to where they are. If you're struggling with a specific problem, explore our case studies for ideas and solutions that you can bring back to your own business.
Meet the Three-Person Team Behind a Global Giftware Company
Closing the Social Distance: How These Businesses Are Creating a Sense of Community
How This Direct to Consumer Brand Disrupted the Handcrafted Footwear Industry
How Heatonist Became the World’s Top Hot Sauce Website (And Found a 3PL to Grow With)
Planting Change: How This CBD Beauty Brand Hopes to Lift Rural America
A Chocolate Maker’s Recipe for Retail Success
Overcoming Seasonality: How to Build a Successful Agritourism Business
Wholesale to Scale: How A Former Interior Designer is Keeping Up With Unexpected Demand
How I Build and Sell Handmade Products in My Spare Time
How This Canadian Footwear Brand Is Finding Success Focusing on Heritage and Style
Launching a Successful Brand: How Panacea Made Over $16,000 in 30 Days
Why Digital Brands Need Physical Retail: an Evening with Bulletin's Co-Founder and COO
Get Inspired: 8 Great Small Business Stories from Shopify Workroom
Squad Goals: Four Collaboration Ideas to Boost Your Small Business’ Sales
The Art of Reinvention: One Couple's Secret to Keeping Their Seasonal Business Thriving
How This Tree-Planting Charity Is Helping Reforestation Efforts Around the World
What Raising Kids Taught 9 Entrepreneur Dads About Work-Life Balance
How a Homegrown West Coast Brand Found an Audience in its Own Backyard
Local Pride is the Active Ingredient in this Body Care Brand’s Global Success
Community is at the Heart of One Small Town's Commercial Success
5 Low-Cost Guerrilla Marketing Tactics to Grow Your Business Offline
Gotamago's Story: Building a Life and a Business Under One Roof
9 Businesses Run by Badass Multitasking Super-Moms
Powering the Pout: The (Other) Woman Behind Kylie Cosmetics
The Kylie Effect: The Power of Offline Experiences for Online Brands
Why Working From the Road Is Good for Business (and How to Do It)
Three Stories, One Goal: A Documentary About the Power of Togetherness
How a One-Woman Juice Bar Became an International Brand
196 Countries, 4 Stores, 2 Warehouses: How This Baby Brand is Growing Up Fast
What's Your Plan B? How a Pro Athlete Built a Winter Coat Brand in the Off-Season
Christmas Crazes: How a Few Unlikely Ideas Changed the Toy Industry Forever
How An Ex-Con Turned His Life Around And Built an $80k per Month Ecommerce Business
Meet the Punk Rocker Who Grew His Passion into a Global Empire with the Help of a Shopify Expert
How Shopify Capital Helped One Small Business Fund a Plus-Sized Dream
Bean to Bar to Business: The Story Behind Soul Chocolate
Paper Isn’t Dead: How Two Merchants Found a Niche in a Waning Industry
Lessons On Serial Entrepreneurship From the Collective Behind 8 Successful Brands
Blog to Business: How Black Girls RUN! Began a Community-Powered Movement
How This 17 Year Old Turned a Love of Watches Into a $13,500 a Month Business
Ethical Underwear: How a Lingerie Company Built Its Brand on Social Change
The Unlikely Story of the Activist Who Shook up the Fashion World
A Day in the Life of Sophia Pierro, Entrepreneur
Meet the Cult Film Superfans Who Turned Vinyl Soundtracks into an Empire
How Slyde Handboards Landed Shark Tank Investments from Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher
The Story of the Brazen Soap Maker Who Beat the Banks With Bath Bombs
The Art of Streetwear: How the Legends League Turned a Creative Outlet into a Brand
Will Detroit Makers and Small Businesses Win One for the Underdog?
Redefining Local: Small-Batch Producers Collaborate to Disrupt the Grocery Industry
