Canada hub · founder-led by Ashish Sharma
Web & App Development for Canadian Businesses, Built Remotely in Lucknow, India
Weighing a developer in India for your Canadian business?
Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours. Live calls 8am–12pm Eastern, Monday to Friday.
From CAD 30 an hourexcl. GST/HSTSee pricing →
- Province rules: tax, privacy, French
- Call times after the 1 Nov 2026 change
- Seven checks to put to any developer
- CAD or USD, paid to a Canadian account
- ★ 4.9 on Google (92 reviews)Lucknow, India profile
- 200+ projects worldwide since 2017
- Top Rated on Upwork, 100% Job Success
Founder-led by Ashish Sharma
What happens after you contact us
Step 1: A reply within 2 hours
Ashish or the team answers on WhatsApp or by email, usually with a few questions about your scope.
Step 2: A call, if you want one
Weekdays between 8am and 12pm Eastern, on a WhatsApp or video call.
Step 3: A free quote within 24 hours
Scope, timeline and either a fixed CAD price or your hourly rate, excluding GST/HST, in writing.
Step 4: You decide, no obligation
If you go ahead, fixed-scope work keeps one price once the scope is agreed, and hourly rates are agreed in writing first. You can pay in CAD or USD by local bank transfer to our Canadian bank account.
Overview
Codingclave Development LLP is one: founder-led by Ashish Sharma and delivered remotely from Lucknow, with no office, phone line or legal entity in Canada. You agree the scope, then pay one CAD price in three instalments by local bank transfer, and talk to us live on weekday mornings, Eastern time. Below is what your province requires of your website or app, how to test what any developer tells you, and when to hire someone else.
By Ashish Sharma, founder · Updated 16 October 2026
Quick answer
Who is Codingclave, and does a team in India suit a Canadian business?
Codingclave Development LLP is an Indian firm led by its founder, Ashish Sharma, with 200+ projects worldwide since 2017; every project is delivered remotely from Lucknow. It suits a Canadian business that wants a fixed price in CAD, is happy with written updates plus live calls between 8am and 12pm Eastern, and wants its domain, hosting and code held in its own name. It's the wrong fit when the work, the supplier or the contract has to be Canadian; the last section lists those cases.
- Paid in three instalments against milestones you can see
- Code and IP pass to you on final payment (fixed-scope builds)
- Free bug fixes for 6 months after launch
- 24/7 response for emergencies on live sites and apps
Where to start
Hire, services, prices and cities
Price guides
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What ‘remote from Lucknow’ means for a Canadian project
Searched for a developer in Calgary or Mississauga and landed here? Codingclave has no address in Canada; your project is delivered from Lucknow, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (A software house is simply a firm that builds software for clients; "agency" and "development company" mean the same here.)
How the work runs
Progress comes in writing on WhatsApp or by email, and decisions get a live call on a weekday morning, Eastern time (your zone). A live site or app that goes down gets a 24/7 emergency response. You pay in CAD or USD by local bank transfer; the invoice itself comes from the Indian LLP, so ask for a sample and put it in front of your accountant before you sign.
What you won’t get
No office visit, no Maps pin in your city and nobody on site to set up a router or a till. You sign with an Indian firm. If any of that is a must, see when to hire someone else.
What doesn’t move
Sales tax, privacy, accessibility and Quebec's French rules attach to your business, not to the person writing the code, so an agency down the street changes none of them. The province table shows which reach you.
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Start from the job you need done
Pick the line closest to your situation. For most people the next question is price.
A price before any call
Open the guide for your project: a WordPress website, a Shopify store, an iOS or Android app, a SaaS product, clinic software or a restaurant website. Rather ask? Message your province and project.
Selling online
Begin with e-commerce development, then the city guide nearest you: Brampton, Surrey, Regina or Saskatoon.
A CRM, client portal or SaaS
Custom software development covers portals, internal tools and SaaS, with city pages for a Calgary CRM, a Surrey CRM and London, Ontario software. Know what the system must do? Outline it for Ashish.
Hours for your own team
See the hourly row in the price bands below, or go straight to Flutter developers or Shopify developers. For longer work, book one developer, or a team of 3 or more, by the month; the rate comes from the hourly band and is set in writing. More on the dedicated developers page.
A business website
Web development covers new sites and rebuilds; Surrey businesses have their own page. SEO and ads after launch sit in the price bands below.
Restaurants and trucking
Restaurants: the restaurant website guide above, then how commission-free online ordering compares with delivery apps. Trucking firms need software that talks to systems they already pay for, so begin with our dispatch software guide.
Your city matters less than your province, because the province sets the rules below. Still unsure? Send one line through the quote page and we'll say which guide fits.
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Province by province: the rules that stay with your business
Ontario charges 13% HST; Nova Scotia 14%; New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island 15%. Alberta and the three territories charge only the 5% GST. British Columbia (PST 7%), Manitoba (RST 7%), Saskatchewan (PST 6%) and Quebec (QST 9.975%) add a provincial tax to the 5% GST. How our own invoices are treated is for the tax note on this page and your accountant.
| Province / territory | Sales tax | Privacy law for customer data | Website accessibility | French | Our pages for you |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario | HST 13% | PIPEDA; PHIPA for health custodians | AODA: with 50+ employees, WCAG 2.0 AA for public web content posted after 1 Jan 2012 (live captions and pre-recorded audio description excluded) | — | Brampton stores, London software |
| Quebec | GST 5% + QST 9.975% | Private-sector privacy Act, as amended by Law 25 (assessment before data leaves Quebec); PIPEDA across borders | — | Generally required for content aimed at the Quebec public, websites included (Bill 96); confirm with counsel. We deliver the French version, checked by a fluent French reviewer | — |
| British Columbia | GST 5% + PST 7% | BC PIPA; PIPEDA across borders | — | — | Surrey stores, Surrey CRM, Surrey websites |
| Alberta | GST 5% only | Alberta PIPA, with a notice duty for providers outside Canada (next section); PIPEDA across borders | — | — | Calgary CRM |
| Manitoba | GST 5% + RST 7% | PIPEDA | With 1+ employee in Manitoba, from 1 May 2025: WCAG 2.1 AA for new web content, content needed to reach your goods and services, and new or significantly updated web apps; accessible formats on request | — | Find your job |
| Saskatchewan | GST 5% + PST 6% | PIPEDA | — | — | Regina stores, Saskatoon stores |
| Nova Scotia | HST 14% | PIPEDA; PHIA for health custodians | — | — | — |
| New Brunswick | HST 15% | PIPEDA; PHIPAA for health custodians | — | — | — |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | HST 15% | PIPEDA; PHIA for health custodians | — | — | — |
| Prince Edward Island | HST 15% | PIPEDA | — | — | — |
| Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut | GST 5% only | PIPEDA | — | — | — |
PST, RST and QST can also fall on software and services your business buys, and each province draws that line differently; ask your accountant before the first invoice arrives.
Sending marketing email? Canada's anti-spam law (CASL) applies in every province; our Toronto marketing guide covers consent.
Not sure which rows apply? Send your province and the project and we'll tell you.
Have a project in mind?
Send a few lines on WhatsApp, or get a free CAD quote within 24 hours.
Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours.
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Before real customer data reaches any offshore developer
Most builds don't need real customer records until launch week, so settle what the developer may see before work starts. The PIPEDA and app-store side is on our Flutter hiring page; this covers what it leaves out.
Staging first, production later
Hand over a staging copy filled with test or anonymized records. Open production access only for a task that needs it, and log who used it.
Alberta
When a service provider outside Canada handles personal information, your policies must name the countries and the purposes. Before or when the data is collected or transferred, people must be told how to get that information and who answers their questions (Government of Alberta).
Quebec
The privacy impact assessment required by the private-sector Act (P-39.1) comes before the developer receives any database export, not after it.
Health records in ON, NB, NS and NL
PHIPA, PHIPAA, PHIA and the contracts built on them may restrict storage or access outside the province or the country. Ask counsel before any record leaves your systems.
What we can do on our side
We can build and test on dummy records, inside the access you grant; the ESMED membership platform and Dr. Akash Dubey's booking portal, both ours, hold member and patient details. Whether a build satisfies a privacy law is for your counsel to judge.
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Call times after BC, Alberta and Manitoba stop changing their clocks
On 1 November 2026, Ontario and Quebec, the Maritimes, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nunavut fall back an hour as usual. Most of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories don't: they keep the time they are on now, for good (IANA time zone database). Saskatchewan never changed, and Yukon stopped in 2020.
So our Eastern-morning window lands an hour later on western clocks this winter than it did this summer, and an hour earlier again once Eastern clocks spring forward on 14 March 2027. The table works it out for your zone and today's date.
| Where you are | Until 31 Oct 2026, and again from 14 Mar 2027Until 31 Oct | 1 Nov 2026 – 13 Mar 2027From 1 Nov |
|---|---|---|
| St. John's (Newfoundland) | 9:30am– | 9:30am– |
| Halifax (Atlantic) | 9am– | 9am– |
| Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal (Eastern) | 8am– | 8am– |
| Winnipeg (Manitoba) | 7am– | 8am– |
| Regina, Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) | 6am– | 7am– |
| Calgary, Edmonton (Alberta) | 6am– | 7am– |
| Vancouver, Surrey (British Columbia) | 5am– | 6am– |
| Lucknow, India (our team, IST) | 5:30pm– | 6:30pm– |
In British Columbia, the window falls first thing in your day, and earlier still from 14 March 2027. Keep routine progress in writing and save live calls for decisions: scope, design sign-off, launch.
In Saskatchewan, nothing moves on your side; the window shifts only because Eastern clocks do.
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A Canadian firm, a freelancer or a remote team in India
Price matters less than which failure you can live with.
| What to compare | Canadian development firm | Freelancer (anywhere) | Remote team in India (us) |
|---|---|---|---|
| If one person leaves | Covered, if the firm has more than a handful of developers | The work stops until they return or you replace them | Founder-led: ask Ashish in writing who will build yours and who covers if they're away |
| Invoice and tax | CAD from a Canadian entity; GST/HST charged if registered | Ask about currency and registration | CAD or USD to our Canadian account, invoiced by the Indian LLP; prices exclude GST/HST (see the tax note) |
| Live overlap | A full working day if the firm is in your zone | Whatever the two of you agree | Weekday calls 8am–12pm Eastern, written updates, and a 24/7 response for emergencies on live systems |
| Code, accounts and IP | Set by the contract; ask when the IP transfers | Set by the contract; ask when the IP transfers | Transfers on final payment of a fixed-scope build |
| After launch and scope risk | Set by the contract | Usually yours | Fixed price once scoped; bugs fixed free for 6 months after launch |
| If it goes wrong | A company you can take to a Canadian court | Depends on where the freelancer lives | An Indian LLP: check which country's law and courts the contract names |
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How to test what any developer tells you
Anyone can call itself a software company in your city. Seven checks sort out who is where and who owns what; our answer follows each.
1. Does the claimed office match the Maps listing?
Open the listing and the street view. Ours sits in Lucknow, as the Google profile shows.
2. Where do the developers actually sit?
A phone number with a local area code says nothing about where the code is written. Ours is delivered from Lucknow; ask us to name who will work on your project.
3. Who hosts the reviews?
A quote pasted onto a firm's own website proves little. Read ours where they were posted: the Google profile above and our Upwork profile. None of them is presented as Canadian.
4. Whose name is on the domain, hosting, repository and store accounts?
Yours, from the first day. Open them in your business name and invite the developer in.
5. When does the IP transfer, and what do you hold if you stop early?
Ours transfers on final payment. Get the early-exit terms into the written scope.
6. Is the price in CAD, and does it include tax?
A USD figure moves with the exchange rate. Ours is in CAD and excludes GST/HST.
7. What does support after launch cover, and for how long?
Ours: bugs fixed free for 6 months, plus a 24/7 response for emergencies on live sites and apps.
Put the same seven to us when you ask for a quote.
Have a project in mind?
Send a few lines on WhatsApp, or get a free CAD quote within 24 hours.
Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours.
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How to read Clutch, GoodFirms and Techreviewer lists
Search for the top software development companies in Canada and Google answers mostly with directories. They are a fair start if you read them with care. Techreviewer's Canada list, 284 firms when we read it on 16 October 2026, shows why.
Sponsored places
Two listings carried a SPONSOR label: a Denver firm and a Cyprus firm, both under the Canada filter. A paid position isn't a ranking, and a country filter isn't a location check.
Which dollar
About half the 260 firms in its rate study list $20–49 an hour (28.0% at $20–29, 25.2% at $30–49), shown as '$' with no currency code and no date. Ask whether a band is USD before comparing.
Recent reviews
Check how the directory confirms a reviewer worked with the firm, then sort by newest. A firm whose last review is from 2022 may not have the same developers now.
We don't rank ourselves. Put the seven checks above to any firm on a directory list.
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Work you can look at (none of it Canadian)
Six projects of ours, named so you can find them and judge them yourself. None is Canadian, and we quote no results.
Online pharmacy store, India
A WooCommerce store for Anand Medico Chemist.
Membership and publishing platform, Europe
WordPress and PHP, for the European Society of Medicine (ESMED).
Event website, UAE
The Dubai Digital Xchange Summit site, on Next.js with Sanity CMS.
One template, many sites, India
More than 20 government polytechnics in Uttar Pradesh run their websites on a single template system of ours.
Healthcare portal with online booking, India
For Dr. Akash Dubey.
Price-comparison web app, India
Correct Prices, in React and Node.
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When you should hire someone else
A clear no at the start saves both sides a quote that was never going to work. Our Flutter page covers on-site work, security clearance and SR&ED funding. Here are the other cases where any remote team in India is the wrong pick.
Your procurement requires a Canadian supplier
Some buyers, funders and tenders need a vendor of record registered in Canada. We can't be that supplier.
You need to be able to sue at home
If the contract must be enforceable against a company in a Canadian court, hire a Canadian firm.
Your project has to run in French
Our French versions go through a fluent French reviewer. If discovery, meetings and support must also happen in French every day, hire a team that works in French.
Discovery needs people in the room
Workshops on a shop floor or in a clinic often work better in person. We run discovery on video; if that won't do, choose someone who can visit.
Your counsel says the data stays in Canada
If health-custodian records must not leave the province or the country, a team abroad is ruled out, however the access is set up.
Your BC team wants to pair all day
Daily screen-sharing through your working hours is hard to arrange from India, and hardest for British Columbia, where our window opens first thing in the morning.
The edit is too small to scope
Swapping a photo or a footer address isn't worth a written scope. A freelancer paid by the hour, or your site builder's own editor, is the better buy.
Pricing in CAD
What projects cost in CAD (before GST/HST)
One row per kind of project, each with the guide that explains it. The bands are wide on purpose: a five-page brochure site and a site with bookings and client logins share a label but not a budget.
WordPress website
CAD 500 – CAD 2,500
Excl. GST/HSTWordPress website · Typical timeline: 1–2 weeks
A WordPress site your team can edit. The WordPress price guide explains the range.
Get a quote for this plan
Business website (custom design, Next.js or WordPress)
A custom-designed site in Next.js or WordPress for a business that has outgrown a theme; the Dubai Digital Xchange Summit site uses the same Next.js and Sanity pairing. See web development.
Online store (Shopify, WooCommerce or custom)
Shopify, WooCommerce or custom, handed over with refund, delivery, terms and contact pages after a test order placed together; most stores take 2–6 weeks. See the Shopify cost guide.
Mobile app (iOS + Android, Flutter or React Native)
One app for iOS and Android, in Flutter or React Native. The app cost guide covers what drives the figure.
Custom software, portal or SaaS
Portals, internal tools and SaaS products. See custom SaaS development cost.
Custom CRM
For a team that has outgrown spreadsheets or per-seat SaaS fees: your own pipeline stages, fields and reports. See CRM development for Calgary.
SEO and digital marketing (monthly retainer)
Local SEO, Google and Meta ads, content marketing and a monthly report, on a retainer; nobody can promise rankings. Our Toronto SEO and marketing guide covers CASL too.
Developer by the hour
A developer working through your own task list. See Flutter developers.
Ongoing support, migration or integration
Quoted once the scope is agreed, because the work depends on what you already run.
- Fixed price in CAD once the scope is agreed
- Free quote within 24 hours
- No obligation
None of these is a quote. Your written quote fixes one price once the scope is agreed, split 40% when work begins, 40% at the agreed mid-point milestone and 20% on launch day.
Prices are in Canadian dollars (CAD) and exclude GST/HST. Our invoices are issued from India; if your business is GST/HST-registered, ask your accountant how to account for imported services. You can pay in CAD or USD by local bank transfer to our Canadian bank account.
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Tell us your province and what you need built. Asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Ashish Sharma
Founder, Codingclave
Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours. Live calls 8am–12pm Eastern, Monday to Friday.
What happens next
A reply within 2 hours
Ashish or the team answers on WhatsApp or by email, usually with a few questions about your scope.
A call, if you want one
Weekdays between 8am and 12pm Eastern, on a WhatsApp or video call.
A free quote within 24 hours
Scope, timeline and either a fixed CAD price or your hourly rate, excluding GST/HST, in writing.
You decide, no obligation
If you go ahead, fixed-scope work keeps one price once the scope is agreed, and hourly rates are agreed in writing first. You can pay in CAD or USD by local bank transfer to our Canadian bank account.
- ★ 4.9 on Google (92 reviews) · Lucknow, India profile
- 200+ projects worldwide since 2017
- Top Rated on Upwork, 100% Job Success
- Founder-led by Ashish Sharma
Prefer WhatsApp?
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Your side of the work, before any developer starts
Send the job first; the quote will flag which of the other four steps apply to you.
Send the job and your province
Through the quote page or on WhatsApp. Say which rows of the province table apply, and the reply can deal with them from the start.
Open the accounts in your business name
Domain, hosting, a GitHub organization and the payment account your customers pay into; for an app, the Apple and Google developer accounts too. You invite the developer in and never hand the accounts over.
Update your privacy notice
Say that a service provider outside Canada may handle personal information. Alberta and Quebec add steps of their own (see above).
Pick an accessibility target
WCAG 2.0 AA is the AODA level for Ontario organizations with 50 or more employees, and 2.1 AA is Manitoba's, so 2.1 AA meets both. WCAG 2.2 AA, the current W3C version, is the safest target for a new build.
Tell us if you sell to Quebec
Say so before the build starts. French copy is part of what we deliver, checked by a fluent French reviewer, and your counsel confirms what Quebec's language rules ask of you.
FAQ
Common questions about hiring us from Canada
Can’t see yours? Ask on WhatsApp and get a straight answer, not a sales script. Replies come within 2 hours.
Founder-led by Ashish Sharma
Which privacy law covers my business: PIPEDA or a provincial law?
Can a developer in India work with my customers' personal data?
Is British Columbia changing its clocks in November 2026?
Should a Canadian business hire a team in India, a freelancer or a Canadian firm?
Where can I check Codingclave's reviews before I get in touch?
Does a website accessibility law apply to my business outside Ontario?
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Ashish Sharma
Founder, Codingclave · Updated 16 October 2026
Ashish Sharma founded Codingclave and still leads it. The team works remotely from Lucknow, India, with 200+ projects worldwide since 2017; there is no Canadian office.
How we put this page together
Researched and drafted with AI assistance on 16 October 2026; Ashish Sharma reviews and approves it before it goes live. Tax rates, privacy laws, Ontario's and Manitoba's accessibility rules, the 2026 clock changes and Techreviewer's list were read that day on the pages listed below; the Quebec privacy Act was checked for a sibling page, and Quebec's French-language rule rests on legal commentary, so confirm it with counsel. The CAD bands are ours and exclude GST/HST.
Sources (8)· public sources cited on this page
- Canada Revenue Agency – GST/HST calculator (and rates)
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada – Provincial laws that may apply instead of PIPEDA
- Government of Alberta – Organization responsibilities for protecting personal information
- LégisQuébec – Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (P-39.1)
- Government of Ontario – How to make websites accessible
- Government of Manitoba – Accessible Information and Communication Standard Regulation, M.R. 47/2022
- IANA – Time zone database NEWS
- Techreviewer – Top software development companies in Canada