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Stores and sites · built for Canadian checkout

Web Development Agency in Canada

We build Shopify stores, company sites, web apps and mobile apps for brands with Canadian customers: CAD prices, sales tax per province, duties settled at checkout and an English and French storefront from launch day. The store dashboard below is a Shopify build of ours in Jordan, shown as such.

Cross-market proof · Jordan, not Canada

Shopify Analytics · tools retailer we built and run
Shopify Analytics dashboard from 7 January 2020 to 7 January 2025: JOD 326,837.704 total sales, 1,157,244 online store sessions, 0.38% conversion rate, 5,084 orders and JOD 76.232 average order value.
0.38%visitors who ordered
326,837 JODsales through the store
−33%carts left behind
5,084orders placed

From the case: Shopify Ads for Hardware Stores in Jordan. Client kept anonymous.Read the full case

Build 01 · Shopify

Shopify builds for Canadian brands, 75+ stores in

Best for in Canada: brands launching in Canada, moving off another platform, or adding a Canadian market to an existing store.

75+Shopify stores built

Shopify grew out of Ottawa and is one of the most used platforms in Canadian online retail, so many Canadian briefs we get start there. As a Shopify Partner since March 2020 we have built more than 75 stores, from first launches to migrations off WooCommerce, Magento and custom carts.

Store set-up

Products, collections, shipping zones by province and tax settings, ready to sell on day one.

Shipping zonesCollections

A theme your team can run

Sections your staff edit in English and French without calling a developer.

LiquidBilingual sections

Apps and integrations

Reviews, subscriptions, loyalty, email and SMS, fulfilment and ERP links, chosen so the store stays fast.

LoyaltyERP

Moving to Shopify

Products, customers, order history and every old URL moved and redirected, with search rankings protected.

Data moveRedirects
Build 02 · Selling into Canada

A Canadian storefront: CAD, duties at checkout and French

Best for in Canada: US and overseas brands opening to Canadian customers, and Canadian brands that also ship south.

3.41return from Canadian buyers, one store

The classic Canadian complaint about foreign stores is the surprise: a price in US dollars, then brokerage and duty fees on delivery. We use Shopify Markets to give one store a Canadian face, with CAD prices, duties and taxes collected at checkout, delivery estimates by province and a French version for Quebec.

Canada as a market

A Canadian market in Shopify with its own price list, rounding rules and subfolder or domain.

CAD/en-ca/ · /fr-ca/

Duties and delivery

Duties and import taxes charged at checkout, and realistic delivery dates for each province and territory.

No fees at the doorProvince dates

French storefront

Language switch, French product pages and a French checkout, with copy from a native writer.

fr-CAFrench checkout

Canadian numbers on their own

Orders and return on spend reported for Canada separately in every ad platform and in Shopify.

Country reportsCAPI
Build 03 · Sites and web apps

Bilingual company sites and web apps

Best for in Canada: clinics, professional firms, trades and B2B companies that win work through enquiries.

For businesses that sell a service rather than a product, we build fast sites in English and French, campaign landing pages, and browser-based tools such as booking flows, client portals and dashboards. Enquiry forms carry CASL-friendly consent wording if you plan to email those leads.

Company sites

WordPress or custom builds with a page per service, in both languages.

WordPressBilingual

Campaign pages

A landing page per offer or season that matches the ad and loads in a blink.

OffersSeasons

Portals and dashboards

Booking, client areas and internal dashboards that run in any browser.

BookingPortals

Leads that arrive

Forms wired to your CRM or inbox, with consent captured for CASL.

CRMCASL

Accessibility built in

Contrast, keyboard use, alt text and labelled forms to WCAG, the standard Canadian provinces such as Ontario point to.

WCAGKeyboard
Build 04 · Mobile apps

iPhone and Android apps for repeat customers

Best for in Canada: stores and services people use every week: loyalty, re-orders, bookings.

An app pays off when customers return often enough to keep it on their phone. We usually build one cross-platform code base for iPhone and Android, go native when the device features demand it, and publish to both stores in English and French.

One code base

Flutter or React Native for both platforms, quicker to ship and to update.

FlutterReact Native

Native when needed

Swift and Kotlin for heavy performance or deep use of the camera, location or payments.

SwiftKotlin

Linked to Shopify

Products, orders and loyalty points read from your Shopify store, with push offers.

PushLoyalty

Store listings in two languages

App Store and Google Play listings in English and French, reviews handled and updates shipped.

App StoreGoogle Play
Build 05 · Checkout

A Canadian checkout with taxes shown and French labels

Best for in Canada: stores that fill carts but lose buyers between the cart and the confirmation page.

Canadians expect the sales tax for their province to appear before they pay, a familiar way to pay and, in Quebec, a checkout in French. We set up Apple Pay plus the cards, wallets and instalment options your provider offers in Canada, then place real test orders from different provinces.

Apple Pay

One tap on iPhone, the shortest route through a mobile checkout.

One tap

Cards, wallets and instalments

The Canadian payment options your store provider supports, added as integrations; we set them up and are not their partner.

CardsWallets

Tax shown before paying

GST, HST or PST and QST calculated for the delivery province and shown in the summary.

GST · HSTPST · QST

Shorter forms

Address lookup, Canadian postal code format (A1A 1A1) and French field labels for Quebec.

Postal codeFrench labels
Build 06 · Speed and conversion

Faster pages, more Canadian orders

Best for in Canada: stores whose ads bring visits that do not turn into orders.

95+PageSpeed score on mobile · Jordan

Shoppers in rural Canada and on mobile data feel every heavy app and oversized image. We strip what slows the store down, put price, delivery date, duties and returns where the buyer sees them first, and judge the work by orders rather than a speed score.

Core Web Vitals

LCP, INP and CLS brought into the green on the pages that take ad traffic.

LCPINPCLS

Lighter pages

Modern image formats, lazy loading and unused apps removed.

WebPFewer apps

Product page answers

CAD price, duties included, delivery estimate and returns shown above the fold.

Duties includedDelivery estimate

Phone first

Designed and tested on phones before desktops.

Device tests
Side by side

Which platform suits a Canadian business

We work on every option below and recommend on fit, not on what is easiest for us to sell.

PlatformPick it whenCanadian exampleBest proof
ShopifyYou sell products onlineRetailers in any province, any catalogue size326,837 JODShopify sales · Jordan
Shopify MarketsYou sell into Canada from outsideCAD prices, duties at checkout, French3.41return, Canada · Canada
WordPressYou sell a serviceClinics, firms and trades—no published case
Custom web appYou need a toolBooking, portals, dashboards—no published case
Mobile appCustomers return weeklyLoyalty and re-orders—no published case
Launch ahead of the rush

The Canadian launch calendar, 2027

New builds and redesigns go live and get tested well before a Canadian peak, never in the middle of one.

Season
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Ramadan & Eid al-FitrFebruary – March
Victoria Day long weekendMay
Canada Day & summer salesLate June – July
Back to school & ThanksgivingAugust – October
Black Friday weekLate November
Boxing Day & Boxing WeekLate December
Build and testLive for the peakTune afterwardsRamadan moves about 11 days earlier each year. Canadian Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October, weeks before the US one, and Boxing Day is 26 December.
Change freeze

From early November to the end of Boxing Week we only fix, we do not redesign.

Real orders first

Checkout and tax tested with orders from several provinces before Black Friday.

Pages on standby

Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Boxing Day banners prepared in both languages, ready to switch on.

How a build runs

From the brief to a store taking orders

We work from Amman (UTC+3). That is seven to eight hours ahead of Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, and ten to eleven ahead of Vancouver, so the overnight numbers are read before your team logs on. You approve the design before we build and test the store before it opens.

Brief and review

Your products, Canadian customers and whatever store or site you have now.

Day 1

Plan and estimate

Platform, pages, integrations, taxes and timeline, sent within one working day.

Day 1

Design in two languages

Key pages designed in English and French for your sign-off.

Week 1 →

Build and wire up

Theme, products, the Canadian market, payments, shipping and ad tracking.

Then

Open and hand over

Test orders from several provinces, training for your team, then support.

Launch
FAQ

Building for Canada, your questions

Something else on your mind? Send it on WhatsApp.

Can one Shopify store serve Canada and the USA?

Yes. Shopify Markets gives the store a Canadian and a US version, each with its currency, prices, language and URLs, and each tracked separately, as in our jewelry account.

Can the store run fully in French?

Yes: product pages, navigation, emails and checkout in French, with a language switch and hreflang for Google. A native writer supplies the French text.

Do you set up GST, HST, PST and QST?

We configure Shopify’s Canadian tax settings per province based on what your accountant confirms. We do not give tax advice ourselves.

How do we stop customers paying duties at the door?

By collecting duties and import taxes at checkout through Shopify Markets and a carrier that supports it, so the parcel arrives with nothing left to pay.

Are you a Shopify Partner?

Yes, since March 2020, with more than 75 Shopify stores built.

Can you move our store to Shopify without losing rankings?

Yes. Products, customers and orders move across, every old URL is redirected once, and we avoid launching between November and Boxing Week.

Do you build apps as well?

Yes: cross-platform apps for iPhone and Android from one code base, native ones when required, listed in both stores in English and French.

Will the new store be connected to our ads?

Yes. Purchase tracking for Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat is part of every build and is checked against real orders. See paid ads in Canada.

A plan written for Canada

Ask for a build plan for Canada

Leave your name and number. Within one working day you get the platform we suggest, the pages and integrations, the Canadian tax and duty set-up and a timeline.

  • A quick look at your current store or site
  • What a bilingual Canadian version needs
  • Payments, taxes, shipping and tracking to set up
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Your next step

Pick one service for Canada, or combine them

One team in Amman plans Canadian campaigns next to our work in Jordan and the Gulf, with a separate plan, budget and report for Canada.

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