Ecommerce Development for Canadian Merchants

No, and we say so rather than imply otherwise. Our working day overlaps the Eastern business day, so a morning question is answered the same day and release windows are agreed in your time zone. Contracts and support are in English. What we bring is a team that has built stores with provincial tax, bilingual store views and Canadian carriers, including the Magento PWA network that serves Clean Harbors across the US and Canada.

Tax rates are keyed to the country, the province and the postal code, and the checkout applies the rate from the delivery address, which is where the CRA places the supply for goods delivered to a customer. We configure HST for Ontario and the four Atlantic provinces, GST for the rest, and QST, BC PST, Saskatchewan PST and Manitoba RST where they apply, then send a test order to every province and territory before launch. This is not tax advice.

If you sell into Quebec, section 52 of the Charter of the French language requires catalogs and similar publications, which the Office québécois de la langue française reads to include websites, to be in French, with any other version available only on terms at least as favourable. Since Bill 96 received assent on 1 June 2022, business customers must be served in French as well as consumers. How far that reaches a merchant with no establishment in Quebec is a question for your counsel. This is not legal advice.

A person in charge of personal information, with their title and contact details published on the site; a privacy policy in clear terms; technology that identifies, locates or profiles a visitor disclosed in advance and left off until the visitor activates it; a privacy impact assessment before personal information leaves Quebec, which includes a hosted analytics tool; and, since 22 September 2024, a copy of a customer's data in a structured format on request. Administrative penalties run up to CAD 10 million or 2 percent of worldwide turnover. This is not legal advice.

Canada Post on the REST API it has required since 30 April 2026, with an OAuth 2.0 token on every call, Purolator on its web services, and the couriers you already hold accounts with, with rate shopping between them at checkout. If a Canada Post module stopped returning rates this year, that API change is almost certainly why, and we rebuild the integration on the current version.

On Shopify, Shopify Payments pays out in CAD on every plan and in USD as well on the Advanced and Plus plans. On Magento and Adobe Commerce, Moneris and Worldline run through platform modules, and Stripe adds Interac Debit through digital wallets, which Interac and Stripe announced in February 2026. Whatever the gateway, settlement is in CAD and cash rounding to five cents is configured, because a Canadian customer notices when it is not.

A non-resident carrying on business in Canada registers once taxable sales pass CAD 30,000 in a single calendar quarter or over four consecutive quarters, and the digital-economy rules in force since 1 July 2021 apply the same CAD 30,000 over twelve months to goods shipped to Canadian consumers. British Columbia separately asks a seller outside the province to register for PST once BC sales pass CAD 10,000 in twelve months, before the goods are delivered. When you register is a question for your tax advisor. This is not tax advice.

Canada's anti-spam law prohibits sending a commercial electronic message without the recipient's consent, and every message has to identify the sender and carry an unsubscribe mechanism. We build the newsletter opt-in as an unticked box with the consent recorded against the customer, keep transactional emails to what the order needs, and wire the unsubscribe so it works in both languages.

Shopify for a single brand selling to consumers, with Shopify Payments, Canadian taxes and bilingual content handled well out of the box. Magento or Adobe Commerce for a distributor or a multi-brand merchant that needs company accounts, customer-specific pricing, a website per tax and currency regime and a deep ERP integration. BigCommerce and WooCommerce where the catalog and the budget point there. We put your catalog, your customers and your systems on one page and let them decide.

Yes. The migration carries the catalog, customers and order history, maps every old URL to a new one with redirects, and rebuilds the tax rules, the carrier integrations and both language versions on the new platform. A test order to every province in both languages is part of the pre-launch check, and rankings are watched for weeks after the switch.

Individually, after the first conversation, because the provinces you deliver to, the languages, the carriers and gateways you hold and the system behind the stock decide the size of the build. There is no price list on this site. You receive the store map, the integration list and an estimate against each item, so the number is attached to a scope you can read.

A Shopify store with provincial tax, bilingual content and Canadian carriers configured is a matter of weeks. A Magento or Adobe Commerce build with a website per regime, store views per language and an ERP integration is a matter of months. The plan you receive after the first conversation carries dates for your store rather than an average.

Yes. We start with a read of the configuration, in particular the tax rules, the store-view or market structure, the carrier modules and the consent setup, because a Canadian store built on a US template is usually where the problems come from. You get a written report of what is sound, what is wrong and what it would take to fix.

Yes. On Magento and Adobe Commerce it is a second website with its own base currency, tax configuration and carriers on the same installation; on Shopify it is a second market. Shipments into Canada by courier have their own duty and tax thresholds and need delivered duty paid labels, which the cross-border page on this site covers in full.