Ecommerce Website Development in Canada

In practice, the French version cannot be an afterthought. It has to be available on terms at least as favourable as the English, which affects navigation, forms, error messages, transactional email, and support content rather than just marketing pages. We plan for two languages at wireframe stage, because French copy typically runs longer than English and a layout built for one will break on the other. Translation is done by a French speaker rather than machine output.

As a product requirement, not a setting. That means capturing and storing proof of consent with a timestamp and source, distinguishing express from implied consent along with when implied consent expires, an unsubscribe that works in every message and takes effect quickly, and accurate sender identification. Transactional messages are treated separately from commercial ones in the code, because conflating them is the most common way teams end up sending something they should not have.

We are outside Canada, so our services are generally not subject to Canadian sales tax on our invoice, and self-assessment rules may apply depending on your province and registration status. Because the provincial position varies considerably, we would rather your accountant confirms the treatment before the first invoice than reconcile it afterwards. We quote in Canadian dollars and hold the figure for the project.

Honestly, with a written-first working style. Our day ends before yours starts even in the east, and overnight in the west, so there is no live overlap to schedule around and we do not pretend otherwise. Work is handed over in writing at the end of our day, which lands as your morning, and questions that would block us are flagged before we stop rather than discovered overnight. One scheduled call a week in your morning covers what genuinely needs a conversation.

From CA$560for a basic Shopify store on a free theme, CA$1,400to CA$3,900 for a full store with a custom theme, and more for custom Next.js builds. Add the running costs: platform fees, apps and payment gateway charges. We quote both so you can compare the real yearly number, not just the build.

Shopify if you want to launch fast and don't have a developer on call. WooCommerce once you're doing roughly CA$0.048to 4 lakh a month in sales and the per-sale fees start to hurt, as long as someone keeps it updated. We build on both, so we don't have a reason to push either one.

Three to six weeks for most Shopify and WooCommerce stores. The slow part is usually the catalogue: product photos, descriptions and variant data. If those are ready, we move faster. Custom Next.js stores take longer, usually eight weeks and up.

Yes, all three are in the base scope. UPI through Razorpay or Cashfree, COD with rules by pin code and order value, and GST invoices generated per order with the right HSN codes. These are the things that cause the most pain after launch, so we don't treat them as extras.

Yes. We map every old product and category URL to its new one with 301 redirects, carry over titles and descriptions, and check Search Console after launch. Stores lose rankings in migrations when redirects are skipped, not because of the platform change itself.