The State of PayKickstart in 2026

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

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

PayKickstart Growth

At present, there are 275 live stores running on the PayKickstart platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running PayKickstart.

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

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

Social Media Usage On PayKickstart 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.

• LinkedIn is used by 17.5% of PayKickstart stores.
• Facebook Group is used by 16.0% of PayKickstart stores.
• Facebook is used by 6.2% of PayKickstart stores.

Contact Information On PayKickstart 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.

• 18% of PayKickstart stores provide a phone number on their website
• 15% of PayKickstart stores have an email on their website

Top Categories For PayKickstart Stores

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

• 17.8% of PayKickstart stores sell Computers products.
• 14.9% of PayKickstart stores sell Business & Industrial products.
• 14.5% of PayKickstart stores sell Internet products.

Top Countries For PayKickstart Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using PayKickstart.

• 13.8% of PayKickstart stores are in India
• 10.9% of PayKickstart stores are in United States
• 0.7% of PayKickstart stores are in Germany
• 0.4% of PayKickstart stores are in Canada

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

Number Of Employees For PayKickstart Stores

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

• 97.5% of PayKickstart stores have Unknown employees.
• 1.5% of PayKickstart stores have 1 - 9 employees.
• 0.7% of PayKickstart stores have 100 - 249 employees.

Number Of Products Sold For PayKickstart Stores

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

• 58.2% of PayKickstart stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
• 2.5% of PayKickstart stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
• 2.2% of PayKickstart stores sell 10 - 24 different products.

Top Technologies on PayKickstart Stores

We're tracking 96 different technologies that have 1,892 collective installs on PayKickstart stores.

• Google Tag Manager is used by 54.9% of PayKickstart stores.
• Google Ads Pixel is used by 54.5% of PayKickstart stores.
• Google Adsense is used by 53.5% of PayKickstart stores.

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

Top Shipping Carriers Used By PayKickstart Stores

• UPS is used by 0.4% of PayKickstart stores.
• Fedex is used by 0.4% of PayKickstart stores.
• Correos is used by 0.4% of PayKickstart stores.

Here are the top 3 shipping carriers across all PayKickstart stores.

PayKickstart Store Top-level Domain Distribution

.com is the most popular top-level domain for PayKickstart 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.

• 66.5% of PayKickstart stores have a .com domain.
• 13.8% of PayKickstart stores have a .in domain.
• 5.5% of PayKickstart stores have a .io domain.

Top PayKickstart Stores

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

New PayKickstart Stores

Here are the 0 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Stores Switching to PayKickstart From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, PayKickstart has taken 230 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

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

Stores Switching from PayKickstart To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, PayKickstart has lost 1 merchants to competitive platforms.

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

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