Shopify Stores in France: How to Build a Contact List (71,295 Stores)

64% of French Shopify stores publish an email and 66% an Instagram link, but only 10% a phone. How app, agency and supplier teams should build their French outreach list.

You sell to online stores: a Shopify app, a theme, a payments or shipping tool, ad management, or wholesale products. France is your next market, and you need a list of French Shopify stores you can actually contact. The short answer: there are 71,295 French Shopify stores in the Bot Harbour file, 64% publish an email address on their website and 66% link an Instagram account, but only 10% show a phone number. So French Shopify outreach is an email and social job, not a calling job.

Key facts (Bot Harbour data, October 2026)

71,295 Shopify stores and 70,564 WooCommerce stores in France: 141,857 in total.
Shopify France: 45,320 stores list an email (64%), 47,385 an Instagram link (66%), 16,784 a TikTok link (24%), 7,211 a phone (10%).
WooCommerce France: 47,089 list an email (67%), 21,516 a phone (30%), 10,151 a LinkedIn page (14%).
Niche files: 15,159 fashion and apparel stores, 13,728 home and garden stores, 12,705 food and drink stores.
France's data regulator, the CNIL, allows B2B email prospecting without prior consent when the message relates to the recipient's job, with a simple way to opt out.

Who is this guide for?

A sales or growth lead at a company that sells to e-commerce merchants and wants 500 qualified French stores in its CRM this month. Typical examples: a Shopify app developer launching a French version, an agency offering store migrations, a logistics company adding French clients, or a brand looking for French resellers.

What does a usable list of French Shopify stores contain?

A usable list answers three questions for every row: what the store sells, how big it is, and how to reach it. That means these columns:

Store name, website and category, so you can filter to your niche.
Platform (Shopify or WooCommerce), because your pitch depends on it.
Email, phone and contact page URL found on the store's own site.
Social links: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube.
Signals: theme, estimated monthly sales, advertising channels and installed apps. Installed apps show who already uses a competitor.

A bad file is a "top 100 stores" list with no contacts, a scrape of marketplaces where sellers are not independent stores, or a list with no platform column that mixes Shopify, Wix and dead sites.

The chart shows why the platform column matters. Shopify stores lean on Instagram and TikTok. WooCommerce stores are three times more likely to show a phone number and about four times more likely to have a LinkedIn page, so they suit phone and LinkedIn outreach better.

How do I get a list of Shopify stores in France?

Pick the platform file that matches your product. Selling a Shopify app or theme? Start with the Shopify stores in France database (71,295 stores). Selling WordPress plugins or hosting? Use the WooCommerce stores in France database. Selling to all online retailers? The full France e-commerce stores list combines both.
Filter by category. Keep only the niches your offer fits. If you only need one niche, the fashion, home and garden, and food and drink files are smaller and cheaper.
Rank by size and fit. Sort by estimated sales, then flag stores whose installed apps include a competitor or a tool you integrate with.
Split by channel. Group A: email present. Group B: no email but Instagram. Group C: phone present (mostly WooCommerce). Each group gets a different first message.
Need something not in the file? For a custom field, such as stores using a specific app or shipping to the Gulf, ask for a custom web scraping extract.

How do I check the list before I pay?

Open five websites from the free sample. Each should be a live store that sells what its category says, on the platform the file claims.
Match one email per site. The address in the file should appear on the store's contact page or footer.
Check location and language. In our sample the City column is often empty and sometimes shows an address outside France (brands that ship to France). Filter on the Country and Language columns, not City.

Is it legal to email French online stores?

Yes, under conditions. The CNIL guidance on email prospecting says professionals can be contacted without prior consent when the message relates to their job, provided they can object easily and for free and every message names the sender. Generic company addresses such as contact@ or info@ are not covered by those personal-data principles. Keep an unsubscribe link in every email and remove anyone who opts out.

What to do next: your first 20 actions

Import the file into your CRM with columns for platform, category, channel group and status.
Write a short email in French. Mention the store's niche and one concrete benefit.
Send it to 50 Group A stores in one niche and track replies for a week.
Follow non-repliers on Instagram and send a short DM a few days later.
Call 20 Group C WooCommerce stores that show a phone number.
Look at which niche replied most and move it to the top of your list.
Repeat with the next 50 stores, adding the objections you heard to your FAQ.

Frequently asked questions

How many Shopify stores are there in France?

The Bot Harbour Shopify stores in France database lists 71,295 stores (October 2026). It counts stores found by our crawl, not every Shopify account.

How do I find a list of Shopify stores?

Use a dataset that already detects the platform from each website, then filter by country and category. Searching Google store by store is slow and misses most small stores.

Which stores are Shopify stores?

A Shopify store loads files from cdn.shopify.com and often has /collections/ and /products/ paths. The Platform column in the file does this check for you.

Do French Shopify stores publish phone numbers?

Few do: 10% of French Shopify stores list a phone, against 30% of WooCommerce stores. Plan email and Instagram first.