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Shopify DevelopmentShopify stores built for the way Canadians buy. We design and develop Shopify and Shopify Plus stores for Canadian brands — with GST/HST/QST handled province by province, bilingual English and French where Quebec is in your market, and checkout tuned for Shop Pay and the payment methods your customers actually use.
A Shopify store selling to Canadians has Canadian problems to solve. GST, HST, QST and PST varying by province. Shoppers who expect Shop Pay and clear shipping costs in CAD. Bilingual requirements the moment Quebec enters your market. A generic theme with dollars pasted over pounds will not cut it.
We build Shopify stores for Canadian brands remotely from our Manchester studio. That means Shopify Tax configured for your provincial footprint, Canada Post, Purolator and UPS wired for real-time rates, Klaviyo flows built CASL-compliant from day one, and themes designed around Canadian buying behaviour — reviews prominent, shipping costs clear early, returns policy impossible to miss.
For growing Canadian brands we work on Shopify Plus: checkout extensibility, Shopify Functions for Canada-specific discounts and shipping logic, and B2B wholesale channels alongside DTC. Every build ships accessibility-conscious, supporting your obligations under AODA and the Accessible Canada Act.
We are based in Manchester, UK, and serve Canadian businesses 100% remotely — with live collaboration hours across EST and PST, and everything quoted in CAD.
Plus-only power: checkout extensibility, Functions, Flow automations and B2B channels for Canadian brands at scale.
GST/HST/QST/PST configured province by province, with exemption handling for the provinces you sell in.
Shop Pay, Shop Pay Installments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal tuned for Canadian conversion.
Canada Post, Purolator, UPS and FedEx integrations with real-time rates and tracking in CAD.
Proper English and Quebec French storefronts with correct hreflang — not a machine-translated theme.
Fast, accessible themes built for Canadian shoppers — no bloated off-the-shelf theme.
Klaviyo and email flows built on express consent and clean opt-ins, per Canada's anti-spam law.
Recharge or native subscriptions, plus wholesale channels for Canadian retail buyers.
Your products, Canadian customers, tax footprint, warehouse setup and growth plans.
Conversion-focused design for Canadian shoppers, reviewed with you over video.
Theme development, app integrations and tax/shipping configuration in a staging store.
Catalogue, collections and copy loaded — in Canadian English (and Quebec French where needed), priced in CAD.
Checkout, tax, shipping and payment testing across provinces before launch.
Go-live with Canadian-hours launch support, then ongoing care plans.
Canada has no single sales tax. 5% GST federally, HST instead of GST in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces, QST on top in Quebec, and separate PST in BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Getting this wrong means back-tax bills; getting it right means configuring your tax setup against your actual provincial footprint during the build, not bolting it on later.
Checkout is where Canadian stores win or lose. Shop Pay adoption keeps climbing, and shoppers abandon over surprise shipping costs more than anything else. We tune the payment mix and surface real carrier rates early, because a fast theme means nothing if checkout leaks.
Bilingual is a conversion feature, not a checkbox. If Quebec is in your market, French-language search and a proper French storefront matter — translated by people who write Quebec French, wired with en-ca/fr-ca hreflang so the two versions never split your rankings.
Selling to Canadians on another platform? We also build WordPress sites for Canadian businesses, and our standard Shopify development covers UK and international stores.
Plus unlocks checkout extensibility — custom checkout logic, Functions for Canada-specific discounts and shipping rules, and B2B wholesale alongside your DTC store. For Canadian brands doing serious volume or selling wholesale, those controls pay for themselves. We will tell you honestly if standard Shopify is enough.
We configure Shopify Tax for simpler footprints, or Avalara/TaxJar where you sell across many provinces. GST/HST/QST/PST rules, product tax codes and exemption handling are set up during the build so you launch compliant.
Canada Post, Purolator, UPS and FedEx as standard, with real-time rates at checkout and tracking pushed to customers. If you use a different 3PL, we integrate its API the same way.
Shop Pay is configured and optimized — one of the highest-converting checkout options in Canada — alongside Shop Pay Installments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal. We test the full payment mix across provinces before launch.
Yes. Proper Quebec French storefronts with en-ca/fr-ca hreflang, translated by people who write Quebec French — not machine translation pasted into a theme. Essential if Quebec is in your market.
Manchester is 5 hours ahead of Toronto and Ottawa (4 in summer) and 8 ahead of Vancouver (7 in summer). We hold live calls in your morning (our afternoon) and keep delivery moving async the rest of the day.
A custom Shopify store typically runs C$7,000 to C$20,000 depending on design, integrations and catalogue size; Shopify Plus builds start higher because of the checkout and B2B work. Shopify's own plan fees are separate. Every project gets a fixed quote in CAD before we start.
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