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Shopify Stores in Benin

Updated Dec 13 2024

There are 474 live Shopify stores in Benin.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Shopify stores in Benin.

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Shopify Growth in Benin

Shopify's worldwide quarter-over-quarter growth has been quite impressive over the last few years, and that trend is visible within most countries.

  • Shopify stores in Benin increased 25.1% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q3.
  • Shopify stores in Benin increased 46% year-over-year in 2024 Q3.

Here is Shopify's quarter-over-quarter growth in Benin.

Quarter
Active Stores
2019 Q1
1
2019 Q2
2
2019 Q3
3
2019 Q4
6
2020 Q1
11
2020 Q2
18
2020 Q3
27
2020 Q4
42
2021 Q1
35
2021 Q2
88
2021 Q3
82
2021 Q4
101
2022 Q1
86
2022 Q2
92
2022 Q3
118
2022 Q4
142
2023 Q1
182
2023 Q2
182
2023 Q3
260
2023 Q4
284
2024 Q1
297
2024 Q2
371
2024 Q3
379
2024 Q4 (to date)
474
Active Stores by Quarter

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

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

Top Categories For Shopify Stores In Benin

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for Shopify stores in Benin.

  • 2.3% of Shopify stores in Benin sell Apparel products.
  • 2.1% of Shopify stores in Benin sell Home & Garden products.
  • 0.6% of Shopify stores in Benin sell Consumer Electronics products.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In Benin

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.

  • Instagram is used by 4.0% of Shopify stores in Benin.
  • Facebook is used by 2.3% of Shopify stores in Benin.
  • WhatsApp is used by 1.9% of Shopify stores in Benin.
Type
Stores
Instagram
19
Facebook
11
WhatsApp
9
Tiktok
7
YouTube
3
LinkedIn
1

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In Benin

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

  • 29% of Shopify stores in Benin have an email on their website
  • 14% of Shopify stores in Benin provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
136
Phone
64

Provinces With The Most Shopify Stores In Benin

It's relatively easy to identify the country in which an ecommerce store operates. However, very few ecommerce stores provide a location to the province-level or city-level and even fewer provide a street address.

Here is the province distribution of Shopify stores in Benin. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 243 Shopify stores in Benin are based in Littoral Department.
  • 90 Shopify stores in Benin are based in Atlantique Department.
  • 21 Shopify stores in Benin are based in Ouémé Department.

Cities With The Most Shopify Stores in Benin

Here is the city distribution of Shopify stores in Benin. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 242 Shopify stores in Benin are based in Cotonou.
  • 99 Shopify stores in Benin are based in Unknown.
  • 78 Shopify stores in Benin are based in Abomey Calavi.

Top Shopify Apps in Benin

Here are the top 10 apps, ordered by number of installs, across all Shopify stores in Benin.

With a paid account on Store Leads, you'll be able to see which stores have installed specific apps. You can also see when specific apps were installed (or uninstalled) by each store.

Number of Employees for Shopify stores in Benin

  • 100.0% of Shopify stores in Benin have Unknown employees.

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in Benin by the number of employees.

Employees
Stores
Unknown
474

Top Shipping Carriers For Shopify Stores In Benin

  • 0.4% of Shopify stores in Benin ship by UPS.
  • 0.2% of Shopify stores in Benin ship by Fedex.
  • 0.2% of Shopify stores in Benin ship by USPS.

Here are the top shipping carriers for Shopify stores in Benin.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
UPS
2
Fedex
1
USPS
1

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In Benin

.com is the most common top-level domain, by far, for world-wide Shopify stores. Some countries have been faster than others to adopt alternate (such as country-specific) top-level domains.

  • 71.7% of Shopify stores in Benin have a .com domain.
  • 12.4% of Shopify stores in Benin have a .store domain.
  • 10.1% of Shopify stores in Benin have a .shop domain.

Here is the top-level domain distribution for Shopify stores in Benin.

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
340
.store
59
.shop
48
.online
11
.site
4
.org
3
.es
3
.net
2
.boutique
1
.fr
1

Top Shopify Stores In Benin

Here are the top stores in Benin ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
www.centransporcontainer-sl.es
2,143,021
2024/09/06
Gadget Innovant
2,860,542
2021/02/26
Zebra Footwear
2,943,118
2019/11/29
sobepec.com – SOBEPEC
3,165,519
2021/07/02
LOORKA
3,206,341
2023/06/02

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