Shopify Checkout Changes Threaten Package Protection Startups

Shopify, the Canadian-based e-commerce software giant, is walking a tightrope.

The company has growing ambitions to promote its own software, such as its Shop Pay branded checkout, which appears on many of its 2 million merchants’ sites. Those goals are beginning to clash with the interests of the small software firms that historically have provided the add-on software tools Shopify offers its merchants.