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The State of Zid in 2025

Updated Jul 4 2025

Based in Saudi Arabia, Zid is an ecommerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease.

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

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Zid Growth

At present, there are 8,368 live stores running on the Zid platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Zid.

  • Zid stores increased 0.2% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q2.
  • Zid stores increased 2% year-over-year in 2025 Q2.
Quarter
Active Stores
2020 Q4
445
2021 Q1
583
2021 Q2
1,859
2021 Q3
2,154
2021 Q4
2,513
2022 Q1
2,677
2022 Q2
3,764
2022 Q3
4,071
2022 Q4
3,657
2023 Q1
4,948
2023 Q2
5,388
2023 Q3
5,629
2023 Q4
6,253
2024 Q1
6,575
2024 Q2
8,154
2024 Q3
8,655
2024 Q4
8,396
2025 Q1
7,944
2025 Q2
8,352
2025 Q3 (to date)
8,368
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 Zid store was first created but we use a heuristic that includes historical DNS data which provides a reasonable approximation.

Social Media Usage On Zid 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.

  • Instagram is used by 51.8% of Zid stores.
  • Tiktok is used by 28.2% of Zid stores.
  • Snapchat is used by 28.0% of Zid stores.
Type
Stores
Instagram
4,336
Tiktok
2,361
Snapchat
2,340
Twitter
2,030
Facebook
809
WhatsApp
318
LinkedIn
50
YouTube
38
Pinterest
2
Discord
1

Contact Information On Zid 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.

  • 14% of Zid stores provide a phone number on their website
  • 10% of Zid stores have an email on their website
Type
Stores
Phone
1,172
Email
828

Top Categories For Zid Stores

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

  • 15.6% of Zid stores sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 15.3% of Zid stores sell Apparel products.
  • 11.5% of Zid stores sell Home & Garden products.

Top Countries For Zid Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Zid.

  • 53.0% of Zid stores are in Saudi Arabia
  • 0.7% of Zid stores are in United Arab Emirates
  • 0.4% of Zid stores are in United States
  • 0.4% of Zid stores are in Oman

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

Number Of Employees For Zid Stores

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

  • 99.0% of Zid stores have Unknown employees.
  • 0.3% of Zid stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.2% of Zid stores have 10 - 24 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
8,284
1 - 9
28
10 - 24
19
25 - 49
11
50 - 99
6
100 - 249
7
250 - 999
6
1000 - 4999
5
5000+
2

Number Of Products Sold For Zid Stores

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

  • 30.4% of Zid stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 7.4% of Zid stores sell 25 - 49 different products.
  • 6.9% of Zid stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
2,541
10 - 24
470
25 - 49
622
50 - 99
121
100 - 249
576
250 - 999
347
1000 - 4999
96
25000 - 99999
73
100000 - 249999
78
250000+
468

Top Technologies on Zid Stores

We're tracking 51 different technologies that have 66,170 collective installs on Zid stores.

  • Cloudflare is used by 99.9% of Zid stores.
  • Cloudflare CDN is used by 99.9% of Zid stores.
  • Apple Pay is used by 82.3% of Zid stores.

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

Technology
Stores
8,363
6,883
4,444
4,436

Top Shipping Carriers Used By Zid Stores

  • UPS is used by 0.0% of Zid stores.
  • USPS is used by 0.0% of Zid stores.
  • Aramex is used by 0.0% of Zid stores.

Here are the top 4 shipping carriers across all Zid stores.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
UPS
3
USPS
2
Aramex
2
Fedex
1

Zid Store Top-level Domain Distribution

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

  • 62.6% of Zid stores have a .com domain.
  • 17.6% of Zid stores have a .store domain.
  • 7.9% of Zid stores have a .sa domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
5,240
.store
1,474
.sa
663
.net
219
.com.sa
197
.org.sa
167
.shop
103
.co
100
.online
30
.ae
28

Top Zid Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
barllina.com
56,659
2020/12/11
Dkhoon Emirates
62,791
2019/07/05
Reefi
80,758
2018/06/15
alwastta.com
82,647
2021/02/19
warazan.sa
84,455
2021/04/16

New Zid Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
متجر Fabulous
3,708,226
2025/07/04
aldaknaa.com
4,177,064
2025/07/04
sndal1.com
4,404,710
2025/07/04
moveon-sa.com
5,027,810
2025/07/04
LEVANT.VEIL
6,707,080
2025/07/04

Stores Switching to Zid From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Zid has taken 47 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Platform
Stores
17
10
4
1
1
1

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
alyanksa.com
399,646
WooCommerce
2025/04/27
refqstore.sa
570,034
Salla
2025/05/18
eobservatory.com.sa
1,197,905
WooCommerce
2025/04/28
m5lb.com
1,377,801
Salla
2025/05/11
qasaralasar.com
1,504,048
OpenCart
2025/06/18

Stores Switching from Zid To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Zid has lost 21 merchants to competitive platforms.

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

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
ashwered.com
219,938
Custom Cart
2025/05/25
Kwality Ice Cream
265,864
Magento
2025/04/20
beewaysarabia.com
963,741
WooCommerce
2025/06/15
ccoffetaste.com
1,656,312
WooCommerce
2025/06/15
SLEEKZ
2,972,837
Shopify
2025/05/04

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