Multiple Shopify store owners have noticed hundreds of referral visits from spy-on-competitors.com, which redirects to 1commerce.co/audit. The site displays Shopify’s logo, making it appear official.
Key Concerns:
Store owners are uncertain what information this site can access through scanning/crawling
The redirect domain and use of Shopify branding raises legitimacy questions
Traffic volumes are significant (200+ referrals reported by multiple users)
Official Response:
Shopify staff clarified that 1commerce is likely a Shopify Partner (a free account anyone can register). The site can only access publicly available, customer-facing information. Partners are permitted to use certain Shopify brand assets to promote their services.
Available Actions:
Report as a Partner Violation if the partner account is acting deceptively or maliciously
Review Shopify’s Brand Assets and Terms of Use guidelines
Status: The discussion remains open with store owners expressing continued discomfort about the traffic and questioning whether to file reports. The consensus suggests this may be a bot crawling shops to generate business leads.
Summarized with AI on November 6.
AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
this site looks pretty official - I didn’t enter my info - but I would hope Shopify would notify them to remove their logo from the homepage as it makes it seem more official
we noticed today that we had 200 instances of referral from this site - was wondering what they could see in regards to the information from most likely submitting our site for scanning etc - on that site -
please let me know thanks - as I am not trying to show my competitors how we are doing what we are doing thanks.
Thank you for sharing a link to this website and for expressing your concerns. 1commerce is most likely a Shopify partner, which is a free account anyone can make. Registering as a partner gives you access to developer tools and beta features for building out Shopify storefronts, themes and apps.
I understand this website claims to provide an audit of your store. The information they would be able to access is only the customer facing information on the website that is accessible to anyone. Third party crawling tools are common and can come from a lot of different sources and be used for legitimate purposes.
Partners are welcome to use certain brand assets on their own sites to promote their services and show that they work on the Shopify platform. You can learn more about how brand assets from Shopify can be used here:Shopify Brand Assets and Terms of Use.
If you believe this partner account is acting in a malicious or deceptive way then please don’t hesitate to submit a report about this here: Report a Partner Violation.
Happening to us too. The last wee we have 200 visits a day from spy-on-competitors.com. Did you end up reporting them? Doesn’t sit well with us either.
I just noticed this today as well.. I have 252 references as of today. I wish someone at Shopify knew more about them. A redirected domain seems a little fishy, but I have to think that they must just be crawling shops with a bot to drum up business perhaps.