Shopify Canada prices checked 16 Oct 2026
Shopify Website Cost in Canada (2026), With the Build Done Remotely from India
A small Shopify store in Canada costs about CAD 1,700–3,500 to run in its first year, including about CAD 1,200 of card fees on CAD 36,000 of sales.
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- Build CAD 1,500–12,000 (fixed on scope)
- Basic CAD 37/mo, billed yearly
- Basic: CAD 3.10 per CAD 100 card sale
- Grow pays off near CAD 31,000/mo
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Scope, timeline and either a fixed CAD price or your hourly rate, excluding GST/HST, in writing.
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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
That covers Basic at CAD 37 a month billed yearly, 2.8% + 30¢ on each Canadian card sale, tax on Shopify's bill, a theme, apps and a .ca domain. Having us build it is a one-time CAD 1,500–12,000, fixed in writing once the scope is agreed and finished with a real test order through your checkout. I'm Ashish Sharma, and the scope sheet behind that price is one I fill in myself, from Lucknow, India.
By Ashish Sharma, founder · Updated 16 October 2026
Quick answer
How much does a Shopify website cost in Canada in year one?
Before anyone builds it, a Shopify store in Canada costs about CAD 1,700–3,500 to run in year one if it sells CAD 3,000 a month, about CAD 8,450–10,900 at CAD 20,000 a month, and about CAD 23,900–26,200 at CAD 60,000 a month. In the two bigger stores, card fees are most of the bill. Having the store built is a separate, one-time cost: CAD 1,500–12,000 with Codingclave, fixed once your scope is written down.
- Yearly billing: Basic CAD 37, Grow CAD 99, Advanced CAD 389 a month; Plus from CAD 3,400
- On Basic, Shopify takes CAD 3.10 from a CAD 100 Canadian card sale
- Grow beats Basic past about CAD 31,000 a month in online card sales
- Shopify's invoice carries sales tax as its own line, set by your billing address
- Payouts arrive in CAD; USD payouts need Advanced or Plus
- Typical build: 2–6 weeks, ending with a live test order
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Your first-year Shopify bill in CAD, line by line
I priced three stores on the same assumptions: the plan billed yearly, cards through Shopify Payments, and every sale made online on a Canadian card. Amex, foreign cards and in-person sales are left out here and priced in the next section. Rates come from Shopify's Canadian pricing page, read on 16 October 2026; the totals are our arithmetic.
| Line | Launch: CAD 3,000 a month, 50 orders of CAD 60 | Growing: CAD 20,000 a month, 250 orders of CAD 80 | High-volume: CAD 60,000 a month, 600 orders of CAD 100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan, billed yearly | Basic: 444 | Basic: 444 (Grow at 1,188 only if you need staff logins) | Grow: 1,188 |
| Sales tax on the plan, about 5–15% by billing province (rates by province) | 22–67 | 22–67 | 59–178 |
| Theme | Free theme: 0 | 0, or about 213–610 for a paid one | About 213–610 for a paid theme |
| Apps, CAD 0–150 a month (SAL Accounting's estimate) | 0–1,800 | 0–1,800 | 0–1,800 |
| .ca domain, 15–25 a year | 15–25 | 15–25 | 15–25 |
| Fixed cost before card fees | About 481–2,336 | About 481–2,946 | About 1,475–3,801 |
| Card fees: 2.8% + 30¢ on Basic, 2.6% + 30¢ on Grow | 99 a month, so 1,188 | 635 a month, so 7,620 | 1,740 a month, so 20,880 |
| Shopify Tax fee: 0.25% of sales after the first CAD 100,000, in provinces where you collect | 0 (under the threshold) | About 350 | About 1,550 |
| Running cost, year one | About 1,669–3,524 | About 8,451–10,916 | About 23,905–26,231 |
| One-time build by Codingclave, before GST/HST | 1,500–12,000, fixed once scoped | 1,500–12,000, fixed once scoped | 1,500–12,000, fixed once scoped |
App and domain ranges are SAL Accounting's estimates; your own app list replaces them. The Shopify Tax line follows Shopify's tax pricing page: for a store opened on or after 13 May 2026 the CAD 100,000 is counted over the store's lifetime, not each year, and the fee is capped at CAD 0.99 an order. App charges on the same invoice may carry tax too, so check your first bill.
Reading the table. At launch, card fees are already the biggest single line unless you pay for several apps. From CAD 20,000 a month, card fees are about 70% of the bill or more, and they run at roughly 2.9–3.3% of sales in all three stores. Track fees as a share of sales each month; that number moves, while the plan price barely does. The build and a paid theme are paid once; the other lines come back every year.
Send your monthly sales estimate and product count on WhatsApp and I'll send this table back worked out for your store, with a fixed build price. You can also use the free quote page.
Want to talk this through?WhatsApp Ashish (opens WhatsApp)Get a free CAD quote →
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How much Shopify takes from a CAD 100 sale in Canada
On Basic you keep CAD 96.90 from a CAD 100 online sale on a Canadian card. I ran the same CAD 100 order through all four plans' published rates. Online figures include the 30¢ fixed fee; Shopify lists no fixed fee for in-person card payments, so those figures are the percentage alone.
| Plan | Canadian card, online | Amex or international card, online | Card in person | Canadian debit card in person | Extra if you use another payment provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | CAD 3.10 | CAD 3.80 | CAD 2.60 | 15¢ | CAD 2.00, plus that provider's own fee |
| Grow | CAD 2.90 | CAD 3.70 | CAD 2.50 | 15¢ | CAD 1.00 |
| Advanced | CAD 2.70 | CAD 3.60 | CAD 2.40 | 15¢ | CAD 0.60 |
| Plus | CAD 2.45 | CAD 3.45 | CAD 2.40 | 10¢ | CAD 0.20 |
Small orders pay a bigger share. The 30¢ doesn't shrink with the basket: on a CAD 20 order, Basic takes CAD 0.86, or 4.3%. Below an average order of about CAD 30, bundles or a free-shipping threshold do more for your margin than any plan change.
The last column is the reason to stay on Shopify Payments. Use another provider and Basic still adds Shopify's own 2% on top of that provider's bill.
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When Grow, then Advanced, starts paying for itself
Grow pays for itself above about CAD 31,000 a month of online card sales on yearly billing. The rule behind that figure: every step up cuts the domestic online card rate by 0.2 points, so divide the monthly fee gap by 0.002 and you have the sales level where the higher plan stops costing extra.
Foreign cards move the line up
On Amex and international cards, Basic to Grow saves only 0.1 points (3.5% to 3.4%), so a store with many such buyers needs more volume than the table shows.
Staff accounts are the other reason to move
Basic has no additional staff accounts, Grow has 5, Advanced 15 and Plus unlimited. If a second person needs their own login to pack orders or answer customers, that can settle it whatever your sales.
Plus starts at CAD 3,400 a month
Its domestic online rate is 2.15% + 30¢, a quarter point below Advanced. On fees alone, moving up from Advanced on yearly billing pays only above roughly CAD 1.2 million a month in online card sales, so stores move to Plus for other reasons.
Starter
The store plans on shopify.com/ca/pricing on 16 October 2026 were Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus, with no Starter card, so this guide prints no Starter price.
| Move | Extra plan cost a month | Rate saving | Break-even, card sales a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic to Grow, billed yearly | CAD 62 | 0.2 points (2.8% to 2.6%) | About CAD 31,000 |
| Basic to Grow, billed monthly | CAD 83 | 0.2 points | About CAD 41,500 |
| Grow to Advanced, billed yearly | CAD 290 | 0.2 points (2.6% to 2.4%) | About CAD 145,000 |
| Grow to Advanced, billed monthly | CAD 385 | 0.2 points | About CAD 192,500 |
| Basic to Grow, card payments through another provider, billed yearly | CAD 62 | 1 point off Shopify's extra fee (2% to 1%) | About CAD 6,200 |
Not sure which side of the line you're on? Send your monthly card sales and staff count and ask which plan fits.
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Hidden costs of a Shopify store in Canada
The plan price on Shopify's page is not what hits your credit card statement.
The plan price is not the charge
Basic's CAD 37 is the monthly share of one CAD 444 yearly charge, and Shopify puts sales tax on its own line: CAD 466.20 with 5% GST, or CAD 501.72 with 13% HST. Monthly billing starts at CAD 49 before tax. App subscriptions land on the same invoice.
Tax on Shopify’s bill is separate from tax you charge
Shopify sets the tax on your subscription by your store's billing address, and it may be GST, HST or PST. Since 1 January 2026 a Manitoba billing address also gets 7% RST as a separate line, so GST plus RST comes to 12% (Shopify's billing-tax page). Charging your customers is its own question: the CRA says you must register for GST/HST once taxable sales pass CAD 30,000 in one calendar quarter or over four consecutive quarters (canada.ca). Rates by province are in the table on our Canada page.
Theme Store prices carry no currency
Paid themes on the Shopify Theme Store ran from 150 to 430 on 16 October 2026, and the page names no currency. If you're charged in US dollars, budget about CAD 213–610, or use a free theme with a few custom sections.
Apps bill monthly and add up
Each app bills on Shopify's invoice every month, so three CAD 15 apps cost CAD 540 a year before tax. Before installing one, ask whether a theme section built once could do the job. I built the membership and publishing platform for the European Society of Medicine on WordPress/PHP, so when a store pays monthly for a members or gated-content app, I can tell you whether a one-time custom build could replace it.
Payouts and settlement
Shopify Payments in Canada has no minimum payout. Money takes at least 3 days to settle, and longer for a new store. Captures from Friday to Sunday go out as one payout, and nothing is paid out on weekends or holidays (Shopify's Canada payments page). Plan launch-week stock purchases around that gap.
Starting for almost nothing
On 16 October 2026 the Canadian pricing page offered 3 days free, then $1 a month for 3 months, as printed with no currency label. With a free theme, no paid apps and your own photos, the first quarter costs a few dollars plus card fees. Doing it yourself stops being cheap when the hours you spend on the store cost more than a fixed build. It also stops when you need something a free theme can't do, such as a link to your stock or accounting system. Already started on the trial? We can pick the store up as it is: choose "Finish or fix a store I started myself" in the form.
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Selling to American customers from a Canadian store
A card issued outside Canada counts as international to Shopify Payments in Canada, and getting paid in US dollars has its own conditions.
US cards cost more per sale
A US-issued card is charged at the international rate: CAD 3.80 on a CAD 100 sale on Basic, against CAD 3.10 for a Canadian card.
Payouts land in Canadian dollars
Every plan pays out in CAD. USD payouts to a USD bank account need Advanced or Plus.
Fees the help pages don’t price
Shopify's Canada payments page names a multi-currency payout fee and a currency exchange fee but gives no amount for either. Both show under Settings > Payments in your admin; add them to your budget before you show prices in US dollars.
A budget rule for mixed sales
If 40% of your sales come from US buyers, those sales cost about 0.7 points more (3.5% against 2.8%). For the growing store in the first table, CAD 8,000 a month of US sales adds about CAD 56 a month, or CAD 672 a year, before any conversion charge.
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Shopify vs WooCommerce vs custom: the same store’s cost compared
Take the growing store again: CAD 20,000 a month across 250 orders. WooCommerce card fees are from WooPayments' schedule for Canadian cards, read on 16 October 2026.
| Line | Shopify Basic | WooCommerce with WooPayments | Custom build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | CAD 444 a year | None | None |
| Payment fees | 2.8% + 30¢: CAD 7,620 | 2.9% + CAD 0.30: CAD 7,860, plus 1% on international cards, 2% on currency conversion and CAD 20 per dispute | Your payment processor's published rate; we can integrate Stripe |
| Hosting | Included | Your hosting plan | Your hosting plan |
| Updates and security | Shopify's job | Yours, or a care arrangement quoted once agreed | Yours, or a care arrangement quoted once agreed |
| Build | CAD 1,500–12,000, fixed once scoped | CAD 1,500–12,000, fixed once scoped | Quoted once the scope is agreed |
On card fees alone, WooPayments costs this store CAD 240 a year more than Shopify Basic, so skipping Shopify's plan fee saves just CAD 204 a year before hosting, paid plugins and updates. At this size, pick WooCommerce for control of the code and data, or because you already run WordPress well.
To see a Shopify store of ours, open Richa Khemka's shop, where a Kolkata fashion designer sells her clothing collections, priced in rupees. On your own build, the risk still sits on our side: you see the design on a preview link before the second payment, the store is in your own account from day one, and the last 20% is paid at launch, after the test order has gone through your checkout. WooCommerce work and moves to Shopify sit on our e-commerce development page. For the three-year version of this comparison, read Shopify vs WooCommerce vs custom: it is priced in rupees for Indian stores, but the method carries over.
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Paying someone to build it: published prices beside ours
Here is what other developers and agencies publish, each dated, with USD turned into CAD at 1.4196, the Bank of Canada daily rate for 15 October 2026. Scopes differ, so compare what each price includes before comparing the numbers.
| Source | What it publishes | About CAD | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ecommercedevelopmentpros.ca | Basic set-up CAD 3,000–4,000; full custom store CAD 8,000–40,000+ | As published | Updated 24 Sep 2026 |
| OuterBox, a US agency | Low-cost set-up USD 500–2,000; custom design USD 5,000–20,000+; Advanced or Plus builds USD 25,000–100,000+ | 710–2,839; 7,098–28,392+; 35,490–141,960+ | Updated 29 Sep 2026 |
| Codingclave | Store build CAD 1,500–12,000, fixed once scoped; developer CAD 30–60 an hour; both before GST/HST | As published | 16 Oct 2026 |
Codingclave is not a Shopify Partner, and the build is done remotely from Lucknow. Where your store lands in our band depends on four things: how many products and variants it carries, how many custom sections the design needs, whether there is a migration, and which outside systems it has to talk to. Before fixing a price I ask for your product spreadsheet, variants included, because the variant count changes the work more than most owners expect. Our hourly rate of CAD 30–60 is for fixes and changes on a running store; a new store gets a fixed price. For hourly work and other ways to hire, see hiring a Shopify developer.
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Canadian rules that change the scope, and what stays in your name
Planning these into the scope costs less than fixing them after launch.
AODA, for Ontario organizations with 50 or more employees
Since 1 January 2021, businesses and non-profits in Ontario with 50 or more employees must make their public website meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA. That covers content posted after 1 January 2012; live captions and pre-recorded audio descriptions are exempt. Whoever controls the site, directly or by contract, is responsible (ontario.ca). Budget an accessibility pass: alt text, colour contrast, form labels and a checkout you can finish by keyboard.
French for Quebec shoppers
We can set up a second store language in Shopify and supply the French copy, read by a fluent French reviewer and approved by you before it goes live. Whether Quebec's Charter of the French language applies to your store is for your lawyer to confirm.
Email consent at checkout
We leave the checkout's email-marketing box unticked, so everyone on your list chose to join. How CASL applies to the emails you send is a question for your counsel.
Customer data
Your business stays accountable for customer information that a contractor outside Canada handles for it, as the Privacy Commissioner's cross-border guidance explains (our notes on it). Quebec's private-sector privacy Act (P-39.1, section 17) adds an impact assessment before personal information leaves the province. For a new store build we work inside your Shopify admin and don't need to download customer lists.
In your name from day one
The Shopify account, the bank account Shopify Payments pays into, the .ca domain and every app subscription belong to your business and sit on your card. You keep the owner login; we work through access you grant from your admin, with the permissions you choose, and you can remove it at any time. Nothing needs transferring at the end, and the theme code and IP are yours on final payment.
What "done" means
Handover comes when the refund, delivery, terms and contact pages are live and we have run one real order through your live checkout together, then refunded it. That single order proves payments, tax, shipping rates and the confirmation email in one go. A typical store reaches that point in 2–6 weeks.
Pricing in CAD
What we charge to build or fix a Shopify store
A new store gets a fixed price. Work on a store you already run is billed by the hour. A migration is quoted once I've seen the old store. Who we are is on the about page; to get a number for your store, use the free quote page.
Online store
CAD 1,500 – CAD 12,000
Excl. GST/HSTOnline store (Shopify, WooCommerce or custom) · Typical timeline: 2–6 weeks
A new Shopify store, built in your own account: theme set-up or customization, products, shipping and tax settings, policy pages and a live test order. Fixed once the scope is agreed.
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Developer by the hour
Fixes, new sections, app set-up and speed work on a store you already run.
Move a WooCommerce or other store to Shopify
Products, customers, orders and redirects from the old URLs, so search traffic follows the move. More on our e-commerce development page.
Changes and updates after the 6-month bug-fix period
New sections, app changes and theme updates, quoted when you know what you need.
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Shopify's own charges, from the plan and card fees to apps and themes, are billed to you by Shopify directly and never pass through our invoice.
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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Send three numbers: expected monthly sales, average order and product count. You get the first table worked out for your store, with the plan I'd pick and a fixed CAD build price, free by WhatsApp or email.
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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.
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- 200+ projects worldwide since 2017
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In your business's name, on your card. You then give us access from your admin and choose which parts of it we can touch.
The scope sheet
Products and variants, pages, apps, shipping zones and the provinces where you collect tax. It sets the fixed CAD price, and the first 40% starts the work.
Theme and sections on a preview link
You review the design on a preview link before anything goes live. The second 40% falls due at the milestone written into the scope.
Products, shipping and tax
The catalogue goes in, shipping rates and tax collection are set, and you connect your own bank account for Shopify Payments payouts.
Policy pages and the test order
Policy pages go live and we run the test order described above.
Launch, then six months of fixes
The final 20% is due at launch, and the theme code and IP become yours with it. Bugs in the delivered work are fixed free for 6 months, and an emergency on the live store gets a 24/7 response.
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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
Written by Ashish Sharma, who scopes and prices Codingclave's Shopify builds. Shopify, WooCommerce, Bank of Canada, CRA and Ontario figures were read on 16 October 2026; plan prices, card rates, the trial offer, Shopify Tax terms and the exchange rate change, so check them again before you rely on them. The per-sale cuts, break-even levels, CAD conversions and table totals are our arithmetic, and the build prices are ours, excluding GST/HST.
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- Shopify Help Center – Shopify Tax pricing
- Shopify Theme Store – Paid themes
- WooCommerce – WooPayments fees
- Bank of Canada – Daily exchange rates
- Government of Ontario – How to make websites accessible
- Canada Revenue Agency – When to register for and start charging the GST/HST
- LégisQuébec – Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (P-39.1)
- OuterBox – Shopify website design pricing
- Ecommerce Development Pros – Shopify website design cost
- SAL Accounting – Shopify pricing in Canada
- Richa Khemka – online store on Shopify (our build)