Shopify SMS Verification

Get the Shopify SMS verification code without tying your personal line to your store, then secure the account with the stronger sign-in methods Shopify recommends.

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, founded in 2006 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand and Scott Lake. It lets merchants build online stores, sell in person with POS, take payments through Shopify Payments and extend their shop with thousands of apps. For account and payment security it can send verification codes to a phone; Shop Pay verification texts arrive this way too.

When Shopify asks for a code, a virtual number lets you receive it without sharing your personal line. That suits entrepreneurs testing a first store, freelancers building shops for clients, or sellers who keep business and private contacts apart. Once you start taking payments, though, Shopify Payments asks for business and identity details in your own name; the virtual number does not replace that.

According to Shopify's help centre, SMS can no longer be set up as a new two-step method and you cannot add a new number for it; authenticator apps, security keys or passkeys are recommended instead. Do not leave a revenue-earning store dependent on a temporary number: add a stronger method and keep your recovery codes somewhere safe.