Engineering a Historic Moment: Shopify Gets Ready for Cannabis in Canada

1 · Shopify · Feb. 7, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
On October 17th, 2018, Canada ended a 95-year history of cannabis prohibition. For Shopify, the legalization of cannabis marked a new industry entering the Canadian retail market and we worked with governments and licensed sellers across the country to provide a safe, reliable and scalable platform for their business. For our engineering team, it meant significant changes to our platform to meet the strict requirements for this newly regulated industry. The biggest change for Shopify was the req...