The State of Rain

Rain provides an integrated Point-of-Sale and Website system for retailers.

Quarterly Growth

At present, there are 829 live stores running on the Rain platform.

Here is the quarter-over-quarter growth of stores running Rain.

It's hard to know exactly when a Rain store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Stores

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

New Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked new stores that are running Rain.

Platform Wins

Over the last 90 days, Rain has taken 4 merchants from competitive platforms.

Platform Win Stores

Here are the top stores won from competitive platforms.

Pricing Plan Breakdown

Here is the pricing plan breakdown for stores on Rain.

Category Breakdown

Here are the top 20 industry verticals for stores on Rain.

Country Breakdown

The largest part of Rain's install base is within the United States, but they have a solid presence within the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia as well.

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

Social Media and Contact Info

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest have significant presence within the Rain install base, with Facebook and Instagram especially showing quite strongly.

As expected, email remains an extremely popular communication channel with the majority of Rain stores providing an email address for customer communication.

Third-Party Technologies

Many Rain merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Rain App Store. We're tracking 20 different technologies that have 2,225 collective installs on Rain stores.

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

Themes

Rain has an active and extension theme store. Merchants using Rain can use one of those pre-built theme or develop their own custom theme to meet their needs. We're currently tracking over 1 different Rain themes. Here are the top themes.

Top-level Domain Distribution

The vast majority of Rain stores use a .com domain. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only recently been introduced 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.

Get more insights on Rain stores

Our search interface is easy to use and helps you find the Rain stores that are relevant to you.

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

Filter on stores with Facebook accounts.

For more insights on Rain stores, create a free account and have a look for yourself.