Market map · Australia

Ecommerce stores in Australia_

As of 4 November 2026, 55,063 ecommerce stores are based in Australia: 674 with 51+ employees, 71 hiring right now, led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Melbourne.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
55,063
51+ employees
674 · 1%
Hiring now
71 · 32 new in 30 d
Largest segment
General consumer goods ecommerce · 25,206
Top city
Melbourne · 1,027
Running cold outbound
3
Platform detected
47,542 · 86%
55,063ecommerce stores in Australia
674with 51+ employees
71hiring on their own career site today
32opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Ecommerce stores in Australia, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
General consumer goods ecommerce
25,206 · 48
Fashion & apparel ecommerce
11,025 · 18
Health, beauty & food ecommerce
7,092 · 3
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce
4,884 · 5
Food production, wholesale & retail
4,749 · 7
Vehicle & parts retail
2,300 · 2
Pet supplies ecommerce
2,233 · 1
Jewellery & watch ecommerce
2,232 · 0
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce
1,786 · 1
Visual art galleries & prints
1,147 · 0
Tobacco, vape & cannabis retail
1,009 · 0
Books publishing & retail
712 · 0
Machinery equipment wholesale
681 · 0
Plants, flowers & fresh produce trade
595 · 0
Industrial & chemical distribution
591 · 1
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
34,998 · 2
2-10 employees
17,416 · 10
11-50 employees
1,975 · 10
51-200 employees
487 · 20
201-500 employees
114 · 13
501-1000 employees
42 · 9
1001-5000 employees
22 · 5
5001-10000 employees
4 · 2
10,001+ employees
5 · 0
By city
companiesshare
Melbourne
1,0272%
Haymarket
5571%
Petrie Terrace
4151%
Perth
3961%
Sydney
2881%
Dandenong
2630%
Adelaide Bc
1800%
Brisbane
1490%
Victoria
1450%
Burleigh Heads
1320%
Moorabbin
1190%
Alexandria
1160%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest ecommerce stores in Australia

The largest ecommerce stores of the country, by headcount; marketplaces, portals and directories left out.

55,063 ecommerce stores in Australia; 71 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of ecommerce stores in Australia

Tools found on these companies' websites and in their DNS records, page plumbing left out.

05 — Shop platforms

What Australia's ecommerce stores run on

Ecommerce platform, payment providers and marketing stack, read from the stores' own pages and DNS. A platform is detected on 47,542 stores (86%); headless, custom and undetected builds make up the rest. Shares are of all 55,063 stores. Payments and marketing cover only the providers our crawl detects today (PayPal, Stripe, Klarna, SumUp; Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Brevo and the like).

Payment providers
storesshare
PayPal
2,5455%
Stripe
6601%
Klarna
2160%
Marketing & support stack
storesshare
Mailchimp
4,9879%
Microsoft Clarity
3,2226%
Klaviyo
2,6425%
Brevo
9062%
Hotjar
9012%
tawk.to
6261%
Zendesk
3611%
HubSpot
3601%
Pinterest
3521%
MailerLite
3411%
Matomo
1640%
LiveChat
1020%
Ecommerce stores by industry
storesshare
Commerce & trade
49,29690%
Automotive
2,3314%
Media & content
2,0704%
Manufacturing & industry
7731%
Health care
2350%
Consumer services & leisure
1270%
Hospitality & travel
680%
Technology & software
530%
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55,063 ecommerce stores are based in Australia: 674 with 51 or more employees, 71 hiring right now (32 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Melbourne. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/australia)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Ecommerce stores in Australia: questions

How many ecommerce stores are there in Australia?

55,063 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 674 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company is an ecommerce store?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which ecommerce stores in Australia are hiring?

71 have an open role on their own career site today and 32 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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Yes: filter on ecommerce stores and Australia, add size, city or technology, and export with verified e-mails. The first 20 largest companies are on this page.

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