Authorize.Net vs Shopify
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Visa-owned (V) payment gateway processing $149B annually for 445K+ merchants; 20+ year legacy platform reimagined in April 2025 with AI fraud protection competing with Stripe for online payment processing.
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Authorize.Net is a leading US payment gateway providing credit card, debit card, e-check, and digital wallet processing infrastructure for online, in-person, and phone transactions for 445,000+ merchants globally — processing over 1 billion transactions and $149 billion in payment volume annually as of 2025. Founded in 1996 in Salt Lake City, Authorize.Net was acquired by CyberSource in 2007, and then by Visa (NYSE: V) through its $2 billion acquisition of CyberSource in 2010, becoming part of Visa's merchant-facing commerce solutions portfolio.
NYSE: SHOP e-commerce platform at $8.88B FY2024 revenue with $292.28B GMV across 4.82M stores; Black Friday $11.5B processing competing with WooCommerce and BigCommerce for small-to-enterprise direct-to-consumer commerce.
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Shopify Inc. is an Ottawa, Canada-based e-commerce platform — listed on NYSE (NYSE: SHOP) — providing 4.82+ million active merchant stores of all sizes (from solo entrepreneurs to enterprise brands) with tools for online store creation, multi-channel selling (web, mobile, social, in-person), payment processing (Shopify Payments, Shop Pay), inventory management, fulfillment, and marketing analytics, generating $8.88 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024 (+26% year-over-year) with $292.28 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV, +24%) and 875+ million customers who have purchased from Shopify merchant stores. Founded in 2006 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake (started as a snowboard equipment store, pivoted to become the platform), Shopify has become the operating system for independent commerce — the default e-commerce infrastructure for the direct-to-consumer brand economy.
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