When you join up as a Shopify Partner and refer clients to us using your referral token, we'll track the revenue that store generates and give a portion of it right back to you. You make 20% of the revenue that Shopify earns from every client's store.
The Frequently Answered Questions page goes into more detail on how the referral system works. Terms and Conditions of the affiliate referral program are here.
Think other shop owners could benefit from your Application? Publish on the Shopify App Store, and reap the rewards of your work on a bigger scale.
The Shopify API lets you access a Shopify store from your own application. While the examples on this page are focused on API development using Ruby on Rails you can use any other language as well. We'll also take care of the billing so you don't have to.
Every month, over a thousand Shopify merchants are looking for a theme. Design a Shopify Theme and publish it on the Shopify Theme Store.
Creating a Shopify Theme isn't much harder than designing a HTML/CSS page. Our own scripting language Liquid is incredibly intuitive and for most parts self-explanatory. There is also no price undercutting as the minimum price for any theme on our Theme Store is $80.
If you have any other questions about joining up, about the Partner Program or about Shopify in general, just contact us, or visit us in the community forums.
You start earning revenue as soon as your clients do.