UK Webshops Company Database 2026 – 28,411 online stores (Excel)

Who sells online in the United Kingdom?

If you sell to online stores — software, logistics, packaging, payments, advertising, wholesale stock — the first question is always the same: who are they? No register lists them. Companies House does not know which company runs a webshop, and a search result is not a list.

So we crawled UK domains one by one and kept the ones with a real, working online store behind them — a cart, a payment method and a legal notice — then matched them to the Companies House register. This table is the result.

What is in the table?

• 28,411 active UK online stores — not companies that might have a shop, but shops we actually checked
• A registered company on every row — 8,981 of them (31.6%) carry the official Companies House name, with company number (55.0%), status (50.8%) and registered office (50.8%)
• Business e-mail (64.8%) and phone (79.6%) — as published by the shop itself: info@, sales@, support@ and the like
• VAT number (26.9%) — only where the shop published it with a GB prefix
• What it sells: product categories (95.8%) and the shop’s own description (85.5%)
• Data completeness score (1–6) on every row, so you can sort the best-filled rows to the top

The platform each shop runs on

Known for 70.1% of the shops:

If you sell a Shopify app, don’t contact 28 thousand shops — contact the ones it is meant for. The table also records the payment, delivery, newsletter, analytics, review and cookie-consent providers found on each site.

And what it sells — official SIC industry

50.4% of the rows carry the official SIC 2007 section from the register, with the full SIC text in a separate column:

The file

• Excel table (XLSX), instant download after payment (the link is valid for 30 days, up to 5 downloads)
• Webshops sheet — 34 columns, one row per business, English header
• Summary — the breakdowns you see on this page, in numbers
• Field descriptions — every column with its source and fill rate
• Information — what the list is, where it comes from and how it may be used lawfully
• SOURCES.txt — the Companies House attribution required by the Open Government Licence

One business = one row. Sites reachable on several domains are merged.

What we have to say honestly

• The company data is not there for every row. UK sites block automated visitors far more often than Hungarian ones, so the legal-notice page could only be read for 67.6% of the shops. That is why the VAT number is 26.9% and the registered address 50.8%, while the company name is on every row. A re-crawl that handles blocking is planned for the 2027/Q1 edition.
• 246 rows belong to a company that is not in “Active” status (proposal to strike off, liquidation, dormant, non-trading). We did not drop them — the Company status column tells you, so you can filter.
• The Legal form column uses two vocabularies: the official Companies House category where the register matched (31.6%), and the form read from the name itself elsewhere (“Limited”). Both describe a registered company.
• The town is missing for 36% of the shops. Where the address the business published does not contain a postcode, the town cannot be derived, so the City column is empty — the full address is still in Street address. Wrong town values (country names, street fragments) were corrected against the official postcode-to-post-town table.
• No domain registration year in this edition, and no revenue or headcount. The latter can be matched from other sources via the company number.
• The table is a snapshot (autumn 2026). Businesses open and close; in six months it will be less accurate. This price does not include updates.
• No contact person names and no e-mail addresses containing a person’s name. Where a business only published such an address, the row has no e-mail.

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