Shopify development
Shopify stores built to sell, and to be found
We set up, customize and migrate Shopify stores for Canadian businesses. Clean structure, fast pages and SEO foundations, so your store is ready to grow from the first order.
Why Shopify
The easiest way to run a serious online store
Shopify handles the parts of ecommerce most owners don't want to think about: hosting, security, payments and checkout. That leaves you free to focus on products and customers. It suits everyone from a maker selling a handful of items to a retailer with thousands of SKUs.
What Shopify doesn't do on its own is make your store stand out, load fast with a stack of apps, or rank on Google. That's where we come in.
What we do on Shopify
- Store setup. Theme selection, settings, payments, shipping profiles, taxes and the pages every store needs.
- Theme customization. Your brand, your layout and custom sections, without fighting the theme every time you want to change something.
- Product and collection structure. Organized so shoppers can find things and so Google understands your catalogue. Our ecommerce SEO work builds on this.
- Apps, carefully chosen. Every app adds code to your store. We use as few as possible and remove the ones you're paying for but not using.
- Speed work. Image optimization, script clean-up and theme tweaks to keep the store quick on mobile.
Selling in Canada
Canadian stores have a few extra details to get right: GST, HST and PST settings by province, prices in Canadian dollars, shipping rates that make sense across a very large country, and in some cases French-language content for Quebec customers. We set these up properly at the start so you're not untangling them later.
Moving to Shopify from another platform
We migrate stores from WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace and other platforms, bringing over products, customers and order history where the platforms allow it. Just as important, we redirect every old product and category URL to its new address so your search rankings and existing links keep working.
Good to know: a migration is the best time to fix product descriptions, collections and site structure. Doing it at the same time saves you paying for two rounds of work.
Questions we get asked
Which Shopify plan do I need?
Most small and mid-sized stores start on one of Shopify's standard plans and upgrade as sales grow. We'll recommend a plan based on your products, staff and sales volume.
Can you customize my existing Shopify theme?
Yes. We can add custom sections, change layouts and improve speed on the theme you already have, or recommend a new one if it's holding you back.
Will I lose my Google rankings if I move to Shopify?
Not if the migration is done properly. We map and redirect every old URL before launch and monitor Search Console afterwards.
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Want an honest look at your website?
Tell us what you sell and who you sell to. We will tell you what we would fix first, what it would take, and whether we are the right fit. No pressure and no long contracts to sign before you know us.