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Shift4Shop
Shift4Shop · Center Valley, Pennsylvania, United States · founded 1997
Plans and prices
End-to-End Ecommerce
Free
US merchants only · unlimited staff users · all features · no limits
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Basic Store
$29a month
2 staff users · unlimited products · no additional transaction fees
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Plus Store
$79a month
5 staff users · unlimited products · no additional transaction fees
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Pro Store
$229a month
15 staff users · unlimited products · no additional transaction fees
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On the record
- Abandoned cart recovery
- Yesshift4shop.com · read 20 Sep 2026
- Acquisition news
- Shift4 Payments announced its acquisition of 3dcart on November 5, 2020; the acquired platform served more than 14,000 businesses and was later rebranded Shift4Shop.investors.shift4.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API access condition
- The REST API help article says access may require connecting a payment method and waiting until the store has been active for seven days.support.3dcart.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- App marketplace
- Yesshift4shop.com · read 20 Sep 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Shift4Shop as a privately held Tamarac, Florida technology company with 51–200 employees.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Developer authentication
- The developer workflow uses OAuth authentication and a developer portal with API references and app-creation resources.blog.shift4shop.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Digital products
- Yesshift4shop.com · read 20 Sep 2026
- Documentation depth
- Shift4Shop's developer material includes detailed REST guidance, setup instructions, reference documentation, and private developer forums.blog.shift4shop.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting model
- Shift4Shop is fully hosted and maintained, so merchants do not install or update the core software themselves.shift4shop.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting protections
- Hosting materials describe daily backups, Cloudflare CDN and DDoS protection, IP blocking, SSL, monitoring, and a 99.94% uptime figure.shift4shop.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The product advertises hundreds of integrations, including MailChimp, Avalara, ShipStation, QuickBooks, and POS systems.shift4shop.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Inventory
- Inventory tools track stock and support unlimited categories, variants, and product images.shift4shop.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Legal owner and origin
- Crunchbase lists the legal name as Shift4 Payments, LLC, identifies Gonzalo Gil as founder and CEO, and places the company in Tamarac, Florida.crunchbase.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- License
- Shift4Shop describes itself as neither licensed for download nor open source; its terms reserve ownership and prohibit copying, modification, reverse engineering, and derivative works.shift4shop.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: complexity
- Trustpilot reviewers describe the software as old, complicated, and difficult to learn, with outdated instructional videos.trustpilot.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: customization
- Forbes Advisor identifies limited customization as a disadvantage and says the free plan requires at least $500 in sales.forbes.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: international selling
- TrustRadius reviewers report that the platform is oriented toward U.S. users and handles UK VAT and multilingual needs poorly.trustradius.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: support and outages
- Trustpilot reviewers repeatedly report outages, payment or SSL problems, slow responses, and weak technical support.trustpilot.com · read 15 Oct 2026
