The State of nopCommerce in 2026

nopCommerce is an open-source ecommerce solution based on Microsoft's ASP.NET Core framework and MS SQL Server 2012 backend Database. It provides a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend, allowing shopping cart creation.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on nopCommerce usage.

• nopCommerce growth
• Social media usage on nopCommerce stores
• Contact information on nopCommerce stores
• Top categories for nopCommerce stores
• Top countries for nopCommerce stores
• Number of employees for nopCommerce stores
• Number of products sold for nopCommerce stores
• Top nopCommerce technologies
• Top Shipping Carriers used by nopCommerce stores
• nopCommerce store top-level domain distribution
• Top nopCommerce stores
• New nopCommerce stores
• Stores switching to nopCommerce from other platforms
• Stores switching from nopCommerce to other platforms

nopCommerce Growth

At present, there are 13,535 live stores running on the nopCommerce platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running nopCommerce.

• nopCommerce stores decreased -1.2% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q4.
• nopCommerce stores decreased -3% year-over-year in 2025 Q4.

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a nopCommerce store was first created but we use a heuristic that includes historical DNS data which provides a reasonable approximation.

Social Media Usage On nopCommerce Stores

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

• Facebook is used by 46.3% of nopCommerce stores.
• Instagram is used by 30.5% of nopCommerce stores.
• YouTube is used by 22.2% of nopCommerce stores.

Contact Information On nopCommerce Stores

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

• 58% of nopCommerce stores provide a phone number on their website
• 45% of nopCommerce stores have an email on their website

Top Categories For nopCommerce Stores

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for stores on nopCommerce.

• 12.8% of nopCommerce stores sell Business & Industrial products.
• 11.2% of nopCommerce stores sell Home & Garden products.
• 11.0% of nopCommerce stores sell Apparel products.

Top Countries For nopCommerce Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using nopCommerce.

• 12.2% of nopCommerce stores are in United States
• 4.8% of nopCommerce stores are in United Kingdom
• 4.1% of nopCommerce stores are in Canada
• 3.3% of nopCommerce stores are in Italy

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Number Of Employees For nopCommerce Stores

Here is the breakdown of nopCommerce stores by the number of employees.

• 94.5% of nopCommerce stores have Unknown employees.
• 1.7% of nopCommerce stores have 1 - 9 employees.
• 1.0% of nopCommerce stores have 10 - 24 employees.

Number Of Products Sold For nopCommerce Stores

Here is the breakdown of nopCommerce stores by the number of products that they sell.

• 23.2% of nopCommerce stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
• 13.3% of nopCommerce stores sell 250 - 999 different products.
• 10.8% of nopCommerce stores sell 100 - 249 different products.

Top Technologies on nopCommerce Stores

We're tracking 279 different technologies that have 67,738 collective installs on nopCommerce stores.

• reCAPTCHA is used by 62.2% of nopCommerce stores.
• Google Tag Manager is used by 56.9% of nopCommerce stores.
• Google Ads Pixel is used by 55.4% of nopCommerce stores.

Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all nopCommerce stores.

Top Shipping Carriers Used By nopCommerce Stores

• UPS is used by 6.9% of nopCommerce stores.
• Fedex is used by 3.6% of nopCommerce stores.
• USPS is used by 3.5% of nopCommerce stores.

Here are the top 10 shipping carriers across all nopCommerce stores.

nopCommerce Store Top-level Domain Distribution

.com is the most popular top-level domain for nopCommerce stores. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only been introduced somewhat recently and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

That said, you'll find stark regional differences in certain countries. In Australia, .com.au is the most common top-level domain with .com a close second. This is the exception however as .com domains dominate in virtually all other countries.

• 47.5% of nopCommerce stores have a .com domain.
• 4.0% of nopCommerce stores have a .azurewebsites.net domain.
• 3.6% of nopCommerce stores have a .co.uk domain.

Top nopCommerce Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by nopCommerce, ordered by store rank.

New nopCommerce Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Stores Switching to nopCommerce From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, nopCommerce has taken 89 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Here are the top stores that have switched to nopCommerce from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Stores Switching from nopCommerce To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, nopCommerce has lost 112 merchants to competitive platforms.

Here are the top nopCommerce stores that have recently changed to a competitive platform.

Get more insights on nopCommerce stores

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You can segment stores on a variety of dimensions:

• Social Media accounts
• Email address
• Phone numbers
• Country
• Third-party technologies
• Creation date
• Platform
• Top-level domains
• Domain status
• Domain type

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