Shopify businesses for sale, with the operating team included
Most listings hand you a login and wish you luck. What follows is what we sell instead, what comes with it, and the cases where you should buy somewhere else.
We buy ecommerce businesses, run them, and sell them on. That order matters, because it means every business listed here has been operated by the people describing it to you. We are one of the options rather than a neutral guide, and the last section says plainly where we are the wrong one.
What is on the list
The businesses we have for sale trade with real revenue and a supplier who knows the account by name. They are not starter stores. Alongside those, the catalogue carries the businesses we are in the process of acquiring, priced on request, because a buyer who waits three weeks for the right category is better served than one pushed into the wrong one now.
We do not publish the roster on this page. It changes as businesses sell, and a list that is wrong by Thursday is worse than no list. Ask and you get the current one, with the trading history behind each business rather than a headline figure.
What transfers on the day you buy
The store, the supplier relationships, the customer list, and the ad accounts with their spending history intact. That last one is worth more than it sounds: an ad account carries learning that a new account has to buy again from scratch.
Where a business trades on a non-English domain, we acquire the matching English domain before the sale and it transfers with the business. A brand that reaches one market and cannot reach the next one is worth less than it looks, and this is the part most buyers find out about afterwards.
The part that is different
The team that ran the business keeps running it. Marketing, operations, suppliers, support: the same people, the day after the sale. You own the business and we operate it.
This is the whole reason the model exists. The usual failure in buying an ecommerce business is not overpaying, it is inheriting a job. Revenue holds while the previous owner is still answering emails, then drifts once the person who knew the supplier and the ad account is gone. Keeping that person in place is a cheaper answer than replacing them.
What you can check before committing
Revenue reconciled against the platform, the payment gateways and the marketplaces. Cost of goods, shipping, ad spend, staff and software verified line by line rather than accepted as a summary. Read-only access to the live store so the numbers can be checked at source.
Diligence runs in person wherever it can. You come to the office or someone comes to you, and the figures get walked through in the room. Remote diligence over read-only access is the fallback rather than the default, because a walkthrough surfaces the questions a spreadsheet does not prompt.
Where Ecomma is the wrong choice
You want to compare the whole market. We sell from our own deal flow. Flippa will show you more listings in an afternoon than we will in a quarter, and if breadth is what you want, that is the honest answer.
You want an auction to set the price. One counterparty is a negotiation. If competitive bidding matters to you, use a venue where several buyers see the same business.
You want to run it yourself. The operating side is most of what we are, so you would be paying for the part you intend to replace.
Common questions
What Shopify businesses does Ecomma have for sale?
The current list moves as businesses sell and new ones are acquired, so it is shared as a catalogue rather than published as a fixed page. It covers what is on market now and what is being acquired next, with the trading history behind each one.
Can I keep the team running the business after I buy it?
Yes, and that is the usual arrangement rather than an add-on. The same people who ran the marketing and operations before the sale carry on afterwards, so the business does not stop working the day the previous owner leaves.
What can I verify before committing?
Revenue reconciled against the platform and the payment gateways, cost lines checked one by one, and read-only access to the live store. Diligence happens in person where that is possible, because reading numbers aloud on a call is not the same as walking the business.
What size businesses trade here?
Established businesses with verifiable revenue rather than starter stores. Where a budget does not reach the current portfolio, the conversation moves to a business built to brief instead, which is a different purchase with a different price.
Related reading
Two different products get sold under this phrase, and the prices are not in the same universe. Prebuilt against established sorts which one you are looking at before you spend anything.
For the venues rather than the businesses, Flippa, Empire Flippers and Acquire.com compared covers who lists what. Buying from another country brings its own handover problems, covered in buying a Shopify store from abroad.
Starting
Start the buyer intake and someone here picks it up. If you would rather see how the operating side works first, read what we do after the sale closes.
Sources and dates
Ecomma has completed 80+ acquisitions since 2022, across the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, and the UAE. Figures come from ecomma.co and are current at the time of writing. No competitor fee or multiple is quoted here on purpose, because that pricing moves and stale numbers circulate for years. Updated September 2026.