Ecommerce Website Design in Toronto

A straightforward store on Shopify or WooCommerce with a modest catalogue typically runs $8,000 to $20,000. Once you add custom checkout logic, multiple shipping rules, tax across provinces, or an integration with your inventory system, it moves into the $20,000 to $60,000 range. We quote a fixed price in writing before any work starts — see our packages for what is included at each level.

Shopify if you want the platform to handle hosting, payments and security and your requirements are conventional. WooCommerce if you already run WordPress and want more control over the code. A custom build only when the way you sell genuinely does not fit either — complex pricing tiers, B2B ordering, or a product configurator. We will tell you honestly which one your business needs, including when the cheaper option is the right one.

Eight to sixteen weeks for most stores, from approval to launch. A small catalogue on an established platform can be quicker; anything with custom checkout, multi-currency or an ERP integration takes longer. The single biggest variable is product data — photographs, descriptions, prices and variants. Stores that run late almost always run late on product content, not code.

Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. The rankings survive if the URLs are mapped properly: every old product and category URL gets a 301 redirect to its new equivalent, the metadata comes across, and the sitemap is resubmitted. Migrations that lose traffic are almost always migrations where nobody mapped the URLs.

It has to — most Canadian ecommerce traffic is mobile now, and mobile is where checkouts get abandoned. We design for the phone first and test on real screen sizes rather than assuming. Particular attention goes to the checkout, because that is where stores quietly lose the sales they already earned.

Yes. Payment gateways including Stripe, PayPal and Shopify Payments; real-time shipping rates from Canada Post, UPS and Purolator; and GST, HST and PST configured correctly by province. Getting Canadian tax right is a common failure in stores built by companies outside the country.

Yes. Every store is handed over with training on your own admin, so you can add products, change prices, run a sale and check orders without calling us. If you would rather we handled it, that is what a maintenance plan covers.

Yes. We are based in North York and work across Toronto, the GTA and all of Ontario, and we have built stores for clients across Canada. Ecommerce projects run perfectly well over calls, email and screen sharing.

Every store launches with the technical groundwork in place: clean product URLs, unique page titles and descriptions, structured data for products, fast loading and an XML sitemap. That makes it eligible to rank. Competing for the terms your products sell under takes ongoing work, which is what our SEO service covers.

We stay on. Platform updates, security patches, backups, new product types, and changes as the catalogue grows. Most of our clients have been with us for years. Read the full FAQ for questions about pricing, process and ownership.