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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 17, 2019</div>
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      <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <br>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">FORM S-8</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">UNDER</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: bold;">SHOPIFY INC.</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">30-0830605</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(State or Other Jurisdiction of</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Identification No.)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">150 Elgin Street, 8th Floor</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2P 1L4</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">6 River Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Grant Plan</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(Full Title of the Plan)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">The Corporation Trust Company</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(302) 658-7581</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-style: italic;">Copy to</font>:</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Joseph A. Frasca</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Chief Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Shopify Inc.</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">150 Elgin Street, 8th Floor</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Canada</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">(613) 241-2828</div>
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    <div>Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated
      filer,&#8221; &#8220;smaller reporting company,&#8221; and &#8220;emerging growth company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</div>
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            <div>Large accelerated filer&#160; &#9746;</div>
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            <div>Accelerated filer&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;&#160; &#9744;</div>
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            <div>Non-accelerated filer&#160; &#160; &#9744;</div>
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            <div>Smaller reporting company&#160; &#9744;</div>
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            <div>Emerging growth company&#160; &#9744;</div>
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    <div>If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the
      Securities Act.&#160; &#160; &#9744;</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Amount </font><br>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Proposed</div>
            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Maximum</div>
            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Offering Price</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Proposed Maximum</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Amount of </div>
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            <div>Class A subordinate voting shares(2)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">88,665(2)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">$32.81(3)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">$2,909,181(3)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">$378</div>
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                <div>Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;), the number of Class A subordinate voting shares being registered hereby shall be adjusted to include any additional Class A subordinate voting
                  shares that may become issuable as a result of stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalizations or any other similar transactions effected without the receipt of consideration that results in an increase in the number of the Registrant&#8217;s
                  outstanding Class A subordinate voting shares.</div>
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                <div>Represents shares subject to issuance upon the exercise of stock options outstanding under the 6 River Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Grant Plan and assumed by the Registrant on October 17, 2019,
                  pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of September 9, 2019 (the &#8220;Merger Agreement&#8221;), by and among the Registrant, Shopify Holdings (USA) Inc., Keymaker Merger Corporation, 6 River Systems, Inc. and the Securityholders&#8217;
                  Representative.</div>
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                <div>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act. The price per share and aggregate offering price are based upon the weighted average exercise price
                  per share of the outstanding stock options under the 6 River Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Grant Plan.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">PART II</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 3.</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Incorporation of Documents by Reference.</font></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">Shopify Inc. (the &#8220;Registrant&#8221;) hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed or furnished with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;):</div>
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            <td style="width: 47.5pt; vertical-align: top; align: right;">&#160;(a)</td>
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                <div>The Registrant&#8217;s Annual Report on <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000010/form40-f2018.htm"><u>Form 40-F</u></a> for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the Commission on February 12,
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                <div><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000016/ex991shopify2019circular.htm"><u>Exhibit 99.1</u></a> to the Registrant&#8217;s Report on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000016/form6k.htm"><u>April 17, 2019</u></a> (first report furnished on this date);</div>
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              <td style="width: 47.5pt; vertical-align: top; align: right;">&#160;(c)</td>
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                <div><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000024/exhibit991financialstateme.htm"><u>Exhibit 99.1</u></a> and <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000024/exhibit992mdaq12019.htm"><u>Exhibit







                      99.2</u></a> to the Registrant&#8217;s Report on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000024/shop6kq12019.htm"><u>April 30, 2019</u></a> (second report furnished on
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                <div><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000034/exhibit991financialstateme.htm"><u>Exhibit 99.1</u></a> and <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000034/exhibit992mdaq22019.htm"><u>Exhibit







                      99.2</u></a> to the Registrant&#8217;s Report on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000159480519000034/shop6kq22019.htm"><u>August 1, 2019</u></a> (second report furnished on
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                <div>The description of the Registrant&#8217;s Class A subordinate voting shares contained in the Registrant&#8217;s Registration Statement on <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000119312515193089/d922907d8a12b.htm"><u>Form 8-A</u></a>
                  (File No. 001-37400) filed with the Commission on May 19, 2015, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
      hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities offered hereby then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and shall be deemed to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents, provided
      that, any Report on Form 6-K of the Registrant hereafter furnished to the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act shall be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement only if and to the extent provided in such document.</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">Any statement contained in this Registration Statement or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement will be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent
      that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement modifies or supersedes that statement. Any statement so modified or superseded
      will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.</div>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 4.</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Description of Securities.</font></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">Not applicable.</div>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 5.</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.</font></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">Not applicable.</div>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 6.</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</font></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">Under the <font style="font-style: italic;">Canada Business Corporations Act</font> (the &#8220;CBCA&#8221;), the Registrant may indemnify its current or former directors or officers or another individual who acts or acted at the
      Registrant&#8217;s request as a director or officer, or an individual acting in a similar capacity, of another entity, against all costs, charges and expenses, including an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, reasonably incurred by the
      individual in respect of any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other proceeding in which the individual is involved because of his or her association with the Registrant or another entity. The CBCA also provides that the Registrant
      may advance moneys to a director, officer or other individual for costs, charges and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with such a proceeding; provided that such individual shall repay the moneys if the individual does not fulfill the
      conditions described below.</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">However, indemnification is prohibited under the CBCA unless the individual:</div>
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                <div>acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the Registrant&#8217;s best interests, or the best interests of the other entity for which the individual acted as director or officer or in a similar capacity at the Registrant&#8217;s request; and</div>
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                <div>in the case of a criminal or administrative action or proceeding that is enforced by a monetary penalty, the individual had reasonable grounds for believing that his or her conduct was lawful.</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: -18pt; margin-left: 42.5pt;"><br>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">The Registrant&#8217;s by-laws require the Registrant to indemnify each of its current or former directors or officers and each individual who acts or acted at its request as a director or officer, or an individual acting in
      a similar capacity, of another entity, against all costs, charges and expenses, including, without limitation, an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, reasonably incurred by the individual in respect of any civil, criminal,
      administrative, investigative or other proceeding in which the individual is involved because of his or her association with the Registrant or another entity.</div>
    <div><br>
    </div>
    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">The Registrant&#8217;s by-laws authorize it to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of each of its current or former directors or officers and each person who acts or acted at the Registrant&#8217;s request as a
      director or officer, or an individual acting in a similar capacity, of another entity.</div>
    <div><br>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">The Registrant has entered into indemnity agreements with its directors and certain officers which provide, among other things, that the Registrant will indemnify him or her to the fullest extent permitted by law from
      and against all liabilities, costs, charges and expenses incurred as a result of his or her actions in the exercise of his or her duties as a director or officer.</div>
    <div><br>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">The foregoing summaries are necessarily subject to the complete text of the CBCA, the Registrant&#8217;s by-laws and the agreements referred to above and are qualified in their entirety by reference thereto.</div>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 7.</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Exemption from Registration Claimed.</font></div>
    <div><br>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">Not Applicable.</div>
    <div><br>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 8.</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Exhibits.</font></div>
    <div><br>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">The following documents are filed as exhibits to this Registration Statement.</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;"> <br>
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            <div>Exhibit No.</div>
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          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top; border-bottom: 2px solid black;">
            <div>Description of Exhibit</div>
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            <div>4.1</div>
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          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000119312515174504/d863202dex41.htm">Specimen Class A subordinate voting share certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant&#8217;s Registration Statement on Form
                F-1, as amended (File No. 333-203401), filed with the Commission on May 6, 2015).</a></div>
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          <td style="width: 8%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div>4.2</div>
          </td>
          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000119312515206718/d933538dex1.htm">Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to the Registrant&#8217;s Report on Form 6-K, furnished to
                the Commission on May 29, 2015).</a></div>
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          <td style="width: 8%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div>4.3</div>
          </td>
          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000119312515206718/d933538dex2.htm">By-laws of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2 to the Registrant&#8217;s Report on Form 6-K, furnished to the Commission on May 29,
                2015).</a></div>
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          <td style="width: 8%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div>5.1*</div>
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          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div><a href="nt10004986x1_ex5-1.htm">Opinion of Stikeman Elliott LLP.</a></div>
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          <td style="width: 8%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div>23.1*</div>
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          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div><a href="nt10004986x1_ex5-1.htm">Consent of Stikeman Elliott LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).</a></div>
          </td>
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          <td style="width: 8%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div>23.2*</div>
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          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div><a href="nt10004986x1_ex23-2.htm">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.</a></div>
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            <div>24.1*</div>
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          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div><a href="#POWEROFATTORNEY">Power of Attorney (included in the signature page to this Registration Statement).</a></div>
          </td>
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          <td style="width: 8%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div>99.1*</div>
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          <td style="width: 92%; vertical-align: top;">
            <div><a href="nt10004986x1_ex99-1.htm">6 River Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Grant Plan.</a></div>
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    <div>________________</div>
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                <div>Filed herewith.</div>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 9.</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<font style="font-weight: bold;">Undertakings.</font></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 40.5pt;">(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:</div>
    <div><br>
    </div>
    <div style="text-indent: 54pt;">(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;</div>
    <div><br>
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    <div style="text-indent: 54pt;">(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
      represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement; and</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 54pt;">(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 40.5pt;"><font style="font-style: italic;">provided, however</font>,<font style="font-style: italic;">&#160;</font>that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the information required to be included in a
      post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
      Statement.</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 40.5pt;">(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
      offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 40.5pt;">(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.</div>
    <div><br>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">(b) The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant&#8217;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
      Act that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
      Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
      liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
      controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
      such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">SIGNATURES</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
      Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, Canada, on October 17, 2019.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a name="POWEROFATTORNEY"><!--Anchor--></a>POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS</font>, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Tobias L&#252;tke, Amy Shapero and Joseph A. Frasca, and each of them, with
      full power to act without the other, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full and several power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
      amendments, including post effective amendments, and supplements to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
      granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they or he or she might or
      could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his or her or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 24.5pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.</div>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 17, 2019
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
SHOPIFY INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Canada
30-0830605
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
(I.R.S. Employer
Incorporation or Organization)
Identification No.)
150 Elgin Street, 8th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2P 1L4
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
6 River Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Grant Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
The Corporation Trust Company
1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
(302) 658-7581
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
Copy to
:
Joseph A. Frasca
Chief Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Shopify Inc.
150 Elgin Street, 8th Floor
Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4
Canada
(613) 241-2828
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated
      filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer  ☒
Accelerated filer                   ☐
Non-accelerated filer    ☐
Smaller reporting company  ☐
Emerging growth company  ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the
      Securities Act.    ☐
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities to be Registered
Amount
to be
Registered(1)
Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share
Proposed Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price
Amount of
Registration Fee
Class A subordinate voting shares(2)
88,665(2)
$32.81(3)
$2,909,181(3)
$378
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), the number of Class A subordinate voting shares being registered hereby shall be adjusted to include any additional Class A subordinate voting
                  shares that may become issuable as a result of stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalizations or any other similar transactions effected without the receipt of consideration that results in an increase in the number of the Registrant's
                  outstanding Class A subordinate voting shares.
(2)
Represents shares subject to issuance upon the exercise of stock options outstanding under the 6 River Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Grant Plan and assumed by the Registrant on October 17, 2019,
                  pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of September 9, 2019 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among the Registrant, Shopify Holdings (USA) Inc., Keymaker Merger Corporation, 6 River Systems, Inc. and the Securityholders'
                  Representative.
(3)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act. The price per share and aggregate offering price are based upon the weighted average exercise price
                  per share of the outstanding stock options under the 6 River Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Grant Plan.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
Shopify Inc. (the "Registrant") hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed or furnished with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"):
(a)
The Registrant's Annual Report on
Form 40-F
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the Commission on February 12,
                  2019;
(b)
Exhibit 99.1
to the Registrant's Report on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on
April 17, 2019
(first report furnished on this date);
(c)
Exhibit 99.1
and
Exhibit

                      99.2
to the Registrant's Report on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on
April 30, 2019
(second report furnished on
                  this date);
(d)
Exhibit 99.1
and
Exhibit

                      99.2
to the Registrant's Report on Form 6-K furnished to the Commission on
August 1, 2019
(second report furnished on
                  this date); and
(e)
The description of the Registrant's Class A subordinate voting shares contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on
Form 8-A
(File No. 001-37400) filed with the Commission on May 19, 2015, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
      hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities offered hereby then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and shall be deemed to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents, provided
      that, any Report on Form 6-K of the Registrant hereafter furnished to the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act shall be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement only if and to the extent provided in such document.
Any statement contained in this Registration Statement or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement will be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent
      that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement modifies or supersedes that statement. Any statement so modified or superseded
      will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 4.
Description of Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Under the
Canada Business Corporations Act
(the "CBCA"), the Registrant may indemnify its current or former directors or officers or another individual who acts or acted at the
      Registrant's request as a director or officer, or an individual acting in a similar capacity, of another entity, against all costs, charges and expenses, including an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, reasonably incurred by the
      individual in respect of any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other proceeding in which the individual is involved because of his or her association with the Registrant or another entity. The CBCA also provides that the Registrant
      may advance moneys to a director, officer or other individual for costs, charges and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with such a proceeding; provided that such individual shall repay the moneys if the individual does not fulfill the
      conditions described below.
However, indemnification is prohibited under the CBCA unless the individual:
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acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the Registrant's best interests, or the best interests of the other entity for which the individual acted as director or officer or in a similar capacity at the Registrant's request; and
●
in the case of a criminal or administrative action or proceeding that is enforced by a monetary penalty, the individual had reasonable grounds for believing that his or her conduct was lawful.
The Registrant's by-laws require the Registrant to indemnify each of its current or former directors or officers and each individual who acts or acted at its request as a director or officer, or an individual acting in
      a similar capacity, of another entity, against all costs, charges and expenses, including, without limitation, an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, reasonably incurred by the individual in respect of any civil, criminal,
      administrative, investigative or other proceeding in which the individual is involved because of his or her association with the Registrant or another entity.
The Registrant's by-laws authorize it to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of each of its current or former directors or officers and each person who acts or acted at the Registrant's request as a
      director or officer, or an individual acting in a similar capacity, of another entity.
The Registrant has entered into indemnity agreements with its directors and certain officers which provide, among other things, that the Registrant will indemnify him or her to the fullest extent permitted by law from
      and against all liabilities, costs, charges and expenses incurred as a result of his or her actions in the exercise of his or her duties as a director or officer.
The foregoing summaries are necessarily subject to the complete text of the CBCA, the Registrant's by-laws and the agreements referred to above and are qualified in their entirety by reference thereto.
Item 7.
Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not Applicable.
Item 8.
Exhibits.
The following documents are filed as exhibits to this Registration Statement.
Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibit
4.1
Specimen Class A subordinate voting share certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
                F-1, as amended (File No. 333-203401), filed with the Commission on May 6, 2015).
4.2
Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to the Registrant's Report on Form 6-K, furnished to
                the Commission on May 29, 2015).
4.3
By-laws of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2 to the Registrant's Report on Form 6-K, furnished to the Commission on May 29,
                2015).
5.1*
Opinion of Stikeman Elliott LLP.
23.1*
Consent of Stikeman Elliott LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
23.2*
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
24.1*
Power of Attorney (included in the signature page to this Registration Statement).
99.1*
6 River Systems, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Grant Plan.
________________
*
Filed herewith.
Item 9.
Undertakings.
(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
      represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement; and
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(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;
provided, however
,
that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the information required to be included in a
      post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
      Statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
      offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b) The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
      Act that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
      fide
offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
      Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
      liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
      controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
      such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
      Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, Canada, on October 17, 2019.
SHOPIFY INC.
By:
/s/ Tobias Lütke
Name: Tobias Lütke
Title: Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS
, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Tobias Lütke, Amy Shapero and Joseph A. Frasca, and each of them, with
      full power to act without the other, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full and several power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
      amendments, including post effective amendments, and supplements to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
      granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they or he or she might or
      could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his or her or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Tobias Lütke
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors (Principal Executive Officer)
October 17, 2019
Tobias Lütke
/s/ Amy Shapero
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
October 17, 2019
Amy Shapero
/s/ Robert Ashe
Director
October 17, 2019
Robert Ashe
/s/ Gail Goodman
Director
October 17, 2019
Gail Goodman
/s/ Colleen Johnston
Director
October 17, 2019
Colleen Johnston
/s/ Jeremy Levine
Director
October 17, 2019
Jeremy Levine
/s/ John Phillips
Director
October 17, 2019
John Phillips
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned certifies that it is the duly authorized United States representative of the Registrant and has duly caused this Registration Statement on
      Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, Canada, on October 17, 2019.
SHOPIFY PAYMENTS (USA) INC.
By:
/s/ Amy Shapero
Name: Amy Shapero
Title: President and Chief Financial Officer