Shopify is a software service used for building and running online shops.

It has about 20% of the market currently and is very popular for its reliability, ease of use and pricing.

As a user, you don’t need to know the technology used by your favourite retailers with their online shops – just that it is safe.

Shopify sites typically use one or more of the following payment services

• Shopify
• Shop Pay
• Paypal
• Google Pay
• Apple Pay
• Amazon Pay

The built in Shopify Pay service is easiest for the retailer, but they can choose what they want.

Recently, Shopify created the Shop app to put hundreds of thousands of independent merchants in one convenient app. If you buy using the Shop App, they say that your card information is already encrypted and protected.

The app also allows split payments e.g. pay by instalments, which seems to becoming increasingly popular as a way of avoiding credit card interest payments.

You choose how you want to pay.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.