Skip to content
CodingclaveCanada
Get a quote

WooCommerce and Shopify · Updated 16 Oct 2026

E-Commerce for Canadian Sellers: WooCommerce and Shopify, Built in India

We build and fix WooCommerce and Shopify stores for Canadian sellers, with sales tax, Canada Post and Stripe or Moneris proven on a real test order before handover, and we move WooCommerce stores to Shopify with a 301 for every old URL.

Get a free CAD quoteWhatsApp AshishSee CAD pricing

Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours. Live calls 8am–12pm Eastern, Monday to Friday.

CAD 30–60 an hourexcl. GST/HSTSee pricing →

  • New store: CAD 1,500⁠–⁠12,000, fixed price
  • Fixes on a live store: CAD 30⁠–⁠60/hr
  • GST/HST, Canada Post, Stripe, Moneris
  • Live test order placed with you
  • A 301 for every old URL on a move

What does your store need?

  • Reply within 2 hours
  • Free quote within 24 hours
  • Prices in CAD, excl. GST/HST

Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours. Your details go only to Codingclave's team in India so we can reply; see our privacy policy. Prefer chat? WhatsApp us, or email [email protected].

Replies come from Ashish or the team.

What happens after you contact us

  1. 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.

  2. Step 2: A call, if you want one

    Weekdays between 8am and 12pm Eastern, on a WhatsApp or video call.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

Our team builds remotely from Lucknow, India; I'm Ashish Sharma, the founder who reads your catalogue and sets the price. Fixes run CAD 30⁠–⁠60 an hour. A new store sits in our CAD 1,500⁠–⁠12,000 band, and every build or move gets one fixed price once the scope is agreed.

By Ashish Sharma, founder · Updated 16 October 2026

Quick answer

WooCommerce or Shopify: which should a Canadian online store run on?

Stay on WooCommerce if articles bring your traffic, if wholesale or B2B pricing runs the catalogue, or if you want to choose your own host. Move to Shopify if nobody on your side wants to keep WordPress, PHP and plugins patched. Card fees rarely decide it: on a CAD 100 sale, WooPayments or Stripe takes CAD 3.20 and Shopify Payments on Basic takes CAD 3.10. Where they differ is Moneris, which WooCommerce leaves alone and Shopify Basic tops up with its own 2%.

  • Fees read 16 October 2026, in CAD, on a Canadian card before sales tax
  • Moneris on Shopify Basic: your Moneris rate plus Shopify's 2%
  • A move turns /product/ into /products/, so each old URL needs a 301
  • Plan prices tier by tier: the Shopify cost guide for Canada

01of 9

Build, fix or move: the three store jobs we take on

Most store work I'm asked to price is one of three jobs. Send the URL and I'll tell you which one yours is, and whether it's an hourly job or a fixed-price one. If you only need a site with no checkout, the WordPress website cost guide is the better place to start.

  • A new store on WooCommerce or Shopify

    Products and collections, checkout, sales tax from your own registrations, Canada Post or flat-rate shipping, and the refund, delivery, terms and contact pages. A typical store takes 2–6 weeks from agreed scope to first real order.

  • A WooCommerce store that already trades

    A plugin conflict, a checkout error, an overdue PHP or WooCommerce upgrade, slow product pages, a shipping rate that vanished overnight. This is hourly work. When one fix is all you need, a developer for a few hours is enough, and I'll say so.

  • WooCommerce to Shopify

    A move planned around the redirect map, with a plain list of what an export leaves behind agreed before anything is imported.

  • Integrations

    Stripe is the gateway we set up most often. Moneris, PayPal, Canada Post or an inventory feed goes in through the provider's own plugin or API. When no plugin does what your store needs, a wholesale price rule or an odd shipping zone, we can build that piece.

Send the URL and get your job named.

Want to talk this through?WhatsApp Ashish (opens WhatsApp)Get a free CAD quote →

02of 9

What store owners ask before hiring us from India

  • How do the hours work across a 9½ to 10½ hour gap?

    Lucknow is 10½ hours ahead of Toronto in winter and 9½ in summer. Most store work needs nobody awake at once: notes you leave on staging at the end of your day are usually worked on before your next morning. Kickoff, staging review, domain switch and test order happen live in the window below, which is my evening.

  • How can I judge the work before paying for a build?

    For Shopify, open Richa Khemka: our build for a Kolkata fashion designer who sells her clothing collections there. For WooCommerce, look at the online pharmacy store for Anand Medico Chemist in India; the live site has since moved to a different stack. No client migration of ours is public yet, so start small if you like: one paid hourly fix on your current store, judged before you commit to a build.

  • Is Codingclave in Shopify’s partner program?

    No, and your store doesn't need it. You open the Shopify account in your business's name and add us as staff, and you can remove that access whenever you like.

  • When do I pay, and when is it mine?

    A fixed-price build is paid in three parts: 40% to start, 40% at the mid-project milestone named in your quote, and 20% at launch. The code and IP become yours on that final payment.

  • What if the store breaks after launch?

    For 6 months after launch, any bug in our work is fixed at no charge. A live store that stops taking orders gets a 24/7 emergency response, whatever the hour.

Our live-call window, 8am to 12pm Eastern on weekdays, in each Canadian time zone and in India, before and after the November clock change.
Where you areUntil 31 Oct 2026, and again from 14 Mar 2027Until 31 Oct1 Nov 2026 – 13 Mar 2027From 1 Nov
St. John's (Newfoundland)9:30am–1:30pm4 h of a 9–5 day9:30am–1:30pm4 h of a 9–5 day
Halifax (Atlantic)9am–1pm4 h of a 9–5 day9am–1pm4 h of a 9–5 day
Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal (Eastern)8am–12pm3 h of a 9–5 day8am–12pm3 h of a 9–5 day
Winnipeg (Manitoba)7am–11am2 h of a 9–5 day8am–12pm3 h of a 9–5 day
Regina, Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)6am–10am1 h of a 9–5 day7am–11am2 h of a 9–5 day
Calgary, Edmonton (Alberta)6am–10am1 h of a 9–5 day7am–11am2 h of a 9–5 day
Vancouver, Surrey (British Columbia)5am–9am0 h of a 9–5 day6am–10am1 h of a 9–5 day
Lucknow, India (our team, IST)5:30pm–9:30pm6:30pm–10:30pm
The small figure is how many hours of a 9am–5pm local working day the window covers. Times are worked out from the IANA time-zone database when this page was built. Written replies come within 2 hours, and there is a 24/7 response for emergencies on live sites and apps.

For a British Columbia store we book the domain switch and test order in the window's last hour. From the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March that hour is 9–10am in Vancouver; the rest of the year it's 8–9am. Book the kickoff in that window.

03of 9

WooPayments, Stripe or Moneris: fees on a taxed Canadian order

Card fees are normally charged on the full amount the customer pays, sales tax included. A CAD 100 basket is a CAD 113 charge in Ontario with 13% HST, and CAD 105 in Alberta with 5% GST, at the CRA's published rates (all provinces). This table is written from the WooCommerce side, with Shopify Basic beside it for comparison.

Card processing on one online order in CAD, from each provider's Canadian pricing, read 16 October 2026; the sums are ours.
Set-upRateOn CAD 100On CAD 113 (Ontario, 13% HST)International card on CAD 100 (Shopify: also Amex)
WooCommerce + WooPayments2.9% + 30¢3.203.584.20 (1% surcharge)
WooCommerce + Stripe2.9% + 30¢3.203.584.00 (0.8% surcharge)
WooCommerce + the Moneris extensionYour Moneris rate; no per-sale fee from WooCommerce (the extension itself is paid)Moneris's rateMoneris's rateMoneris's rate
Shopify Basic + Shopify Payments2.8% + 30¢3.103.463.80 (3.5% + 30¢)
Shopify Basic + Moneris or another providerProvider's rate + Shopify's 2%Provider's fee + 2.00Provider's fee + 2.26Provider's fee + 2.00
  • The CAD 113 column assumes fees on the tax-inclusive charge: normal card practice, but our inference, so check your first payout.
  • Currency conversion adds 2% on WooPayments and on Stripe.
  • Disputes cost CAD 20 each on WooPayments, refunded if you challenge one and win. Stripe charges CAD 15 per dispute, plus CAD 15 if you counter it; the counter fee comes back if you win.
  • WooPayments lists Canadian fees in plain dollars; we read them as CAD.

Grow, Advanced and Plus lower Shopify's surcharge on outside providers to 1%, 0.6% and 0.2%; per-plan figures are in the cost guide's CAD 100 table. WooCommerce is free to download, so hosting, a theme and paid extensions are its running cost.

Ask what your store pays per order.

Want these figures for your own project?WhatsApp Ashish (opens WhatsApp)Get a free CAD quote →

04of 9

WooCommerce and Shopify checkout in Canada: GST/HST, Canada Post and Moneris

A checkout should charge only the taxes you are registered for: GST/HST under your federal number, plus QST or British Columbia, Saskatchewan or Manitoba PST where you hold those registrations too. The CRA publishes the rates. Registering federally is compulsory when you go over CAD 30,000 of taxable sales, whether in a single calendar quarter or across the last four quarters combined, as Shopify Help sets out. Your accountant confirms where you stand.

Setting up a Canadian checkout on each platform, read 16 October 2026.
JobOn WooCommerceOn ShopifyWhat you supply
Sales taxCanadian rates typed into the tax-rate table or imported by CSV, or the WooCommerce Tax extension, which supports Canadian stores and calculates at checkout but doesn't file or remitSettings > Taxes and duties > Canada, collecting per registered region. Basic Tax is only offered where the store collected Canadian tax before 13 May 2026; otherwise Shopify Tax or manual ratesGST/HST number (123456789RT0001 format), plus any QST or PST numbers
Canada Post ratesCanada Post Shipping Method extension (paid yearly): live commercial or counter rates from your own account; needs Canada as base country, CAD, and a weight and dimensions on every productShopify Shipping, or a Canada Post app using third-party calculated rates, which Basic doesn't include (an add-on on Grow, included on Advanced and Plus)A Canada Post account, which is free to register
Canada Post labelsThe extension's listing describes rates only, so labels come from a separate label plugin on the same accountShopify Shipping or a Canada Post app; check what your plan includesParcel sizes and weights
MonerisOfficial extension on Moneris Checkout: Canadian merchants only, CAD store currency, Subscriptions and Pre-Orders supported; Apple Pay isn't compatible with the Cart and Checkout blocksCounts as a third-party provider, so Shopify's 0.2⁠–⁠2% applies on top; confirm with Moneris that it covers your online checkoutA Moneris merchant account and Checkout profile
Stripe or Shopify PaymentsStripe's plugin, or WooPaymentsShopify Payments, with no extra Shopify feeThe account in your business's name

Moneris and the Canada Post tools are set-ups we can do; Stripe is the one we do most. Get your tax and shipping set-up priced.

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.

WhatsApp AshishGet a free CAD quote →

05of 9

Stay on WooCommerce, move to Shopify, or run both

We charge the same hourly band on either platform, so which one you pick doesn't change our bill. Here is how I'd decide.

  • Reasons to stay on WooCommerce

    Articles and guides bring the traffic, and they live in WordPress. Wholesale tiers or B2B rules run the catalogue. You want to pick the host, a Canadian data centre included. Or you take Moneris payments and don't want Shopify's surcharge on every sale.

  • Reasons to move to Shopify

    Nobody keeps WordPress, PHP and the plugins current, and every update is a risk to checkout. Your current gateway charges more than 2.8% + 30¢ on Canadian cards. You want fewer moving parts between cart and payout. Shopify hosts the store, so you give up the choice of server region.

  • Running both

    The WordPress blog stays and Shopify runs the shop, through Shopify's Buy Button on WordPress pages or a shop subdomain, with stock synced by an app or an integration we build. What it costs you is upkeep: WordPress still needs patching, and sales and blog traffic are read in two places.

Not sure? Send the URL for a written stay-or-move answer.

Does this fit your project?WhatsApp Ashish (opens WhatsApp)Get a free CAD quote →

06of 9

WooCommerce to Shopify: the redirect map comes before the products

Products and customers come across through Shopify's imports, and blog posts are copied over separately. Every address changes, though: Shopify puts products under /products/ and categories under /collections/, so each URL that earned clicks or links needs a 301. I write the redirect map myself from your crawl before anyone imports a product, because it decides every handle on the new store, and it's the part a cheap migration skips.

Typical WooCommerce URLs and where they land on Shopify. Paths vary; your crawl decides the final map.
WooCommerce URLShopify destinationNote
/product/blue-mug//products/blue-mugFixed prefix; keep the old slug as the handle
/product-category/mugs//collections/mugsNested categories flatten into single collections
/shop//collections/allShopify's catch-all collection
/product-tag/gift/The closest collectionNo direct equivalent
/shipping-policy/ (a WordPress page)/policies/shipping-policy or /pages/shipping-policyShopify's built-in policies sit under /policies/; a policy written as an ordinary page sits under /pages/
/2024/05/post-name/ or /blog/post-name//blogs/news/post-name"news" is the usual default blog handle; check yours
/?product=123 and other parameter URLsThat product's new URLFound in Search Console, not the sitemap
/my-account//accountCustomers sign in again here
  1. Export every live URL from the sitemap, a full crawl and Search Console's top pages, which catch addresses the sitemap forgot.
  2. Rank them by clicks and inbound links. On most stores a small share of URLs carries most of the search traffic (the 80/20 pattern), and I check those by hand. Every other URL still gets a redirect, and none is dumped on the home page.
  3. Build the redirect CSV and bulk-import it under Content > Menus > View URL redirects, before the domain moves.
  4. Switch the domain on a quiet sales day, during the call window, on a call with you.
  5. Submit Shopify's sitemap.xml in Search Console and watch the crawl errors.
  6. Expect re-indexing to take what Shopify Help calls "anywhere from a few days to a few weeks".

For staging blocks, canonicals and the first month after the switch, read the separate checklist on our blog. Send your WooCommerce store for a migration 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.

WhatsApp AshishGet a free CAD quote →

07of 9

What a WooCommerce export leaves behind

Five things don't move by themselves: reviews, customer passwords, subscriptions, order history and products with more than 3 options. Shopify Help covers them on separate pages, so here they are in one place.

What doesn't transfer from WooCommerce to Shopify on its own, from Shopify Help, read 16 October 2026.
ItemWhat happensWhat we do
Product reviewsCan't be exported or migratedRe-imported with a reviews app (Judge.me, Loox, Yotpo)
Customer passwordsCan't be migrated by CSV; customers are invited to create new onesAccount invites sent after launch, timed with a short note from you
SubscriptionsMoved by third-party apps, not Shopify, and only with Shopify Payments, Stripe or Authorize.net as the primary gatewayPlanned with the subscription app; old billing paused on switch day so nobody pays twice
Order historyNot in the standard import; Shopify points to LitExtension, Matrixify or AblestarImported with one of them if customers need to see past orders
Products with more than 3 optionsShopify allows 3; extra options aren't importedSplit into separate products, or the variants restructured
WeightsShopify's product file takes gramsConverted from your WooCommerce unit (lb ×453.6, kg ×1,000) and spot-checked against shipping rates
Marketing consentA yes or no column; Shopify says to email only customers who opted inYour recorded CASL consent carries across; nobody is switched to yes

The free route, Shopify's Store Migration app (early access, desktop only) or a product CSV, suits a few dozen simple products with no subscriptions. Order history, subscriptions, products past 3 options or pages with search traffic are where paid help earns its cost. Ask whether the free tools are enough for your store.

Want to talk this through?WhatsApp Ashish (opens WhatsApp)Get a free CAD quote →

08of 9

Launch day: the test order we place together

Handover isn't an email with a login. The refund, delivery, terms and contact pages go live, and one real order goes through on a call with you. If a line below fails, we fix it and run the order again, and we don't hand over until every line passes.

The launch checklist for a Canadian store.
CheckHow we test itPasses when
TaxOrders to Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia postal codes13% HST, GST plus QST (9.975%) or GST plus BC PST (7%), each only where you're registered
ShippingA Canada Post rate for a real postal codeIt matches the commercial or counter rate on your account
PaymentA live card through your gatewayThe charge shows in your Stripe, Moneris or Shopify Payments dashboard
RefundA full refund from the store adminIt shows as refunded in the gateway dashboard, and the customer email goes out
EmailsOrder confirmation and an abandoned-cart reminderOpt-in box unticked by default; unsubscribe works; refund, delivery, terms and contact links open from the footer
Redirects (moves only)The top old URLs plus a random sampleOne 301 each to the right page, with no chains
French (Quebec stores)The language switcher and the order-confirmation emailYour approved French shows on product, cart and checkout pages and in the email
AccountsWe list every login and who owns itShopify owner or WordPress admin, domain, gateway, Canada Post and Search Console are all in your name, and our staff access can be removed

Launch your store with this checklist.

Does this fit your project?WhatsApp Ashish (opens WhatsApp)Get a free CAD quote →

09of 9

Quebec French, AODA and CASL: what your store has to do

These duties sit with the business that sells, not with whoever built its store. We build to the written requirements you or your counsel set.

Rules a Canadian store commonly meets, read 16 October 2026. Information, not legal advice.
RuleApplies toWhat the store needsWho answers for it
Quebec's Charter of the French language, s.52Businesses in Quebec; sellers elsewhere who market to Quebec shoppers should ask counsel whether it reaches themCommercial publications in French, which the OQLF's 14 November 2025 notice applied to those on a website. Our reading: the catalogue, product pages and promotionsThe business; we supply the French copy, checked by a fluent French reviewer
Ontario's AODAOntario businesses and non-profits with 50 or more employees, and designated public sector bodiesWCAG 2.0 Level AA on the public website since 1 January 2021The organisation controlling the site (Ontario's guidance)
CASLCommercial email and texts; treat abandoned-cart reminders as commercialConsent before sending, sender identification and a working unsubscribe; we build the opt-in box untickedThe sender, who must be able to show consent; the most serious violations can reach CAD 10 million for a business (ISED)

We deliver the French copy, a fluent French reviewer checks it, and you sign it off. We build the bilingual structure around it: WPML or Polylang on WooCommerce, or Shopify's language settings, with a switcher on product, cart and checkout pages. Plan a French storefront.

Pricing in CAD

Store work, priced in CAD

Fixes on a trading store are billed by the hour. A new store gets one fixed price inside the band below once we've seen the catalogue and the integrations. A move to Shopify is quoted from your URL count, products and subscriptions. Plan, apps and theme are budgeted separately in the Shopify cost guide, and the quote form takes the details.

  • Hourly

    CAD 30 – CAD 60an hour

    Excl. GST/HST

    Developer by the hour · Hourly rate, agreed in writing before work starts

    Fixes on a trading store: a plugin conflict, a checkout error, a failed update, a missing Canada Post rate or slow product pages.

    Get a quote for this plan

  • Online store

    CAD 1,500 – CAD 12,000

    Excl. GST/HST

    Online store (Shopify, WooCommerce or custom) · Typical timeline: 2–6 weeks

    Products, GST/HST and Canada Post set-up, Stripe or Moneris, the four policy pages and the launch test order; typically 2⁠–⁠6 weeks.

    Get a quote for this plan

  • WooCommerce to Shopify migration

    Quoted once the scope is agreed

    Excl. GST/HST

    WooCommerce to Shopify migration · Free written quote within 24 hours

    The URL-by-URL redirect map, product and customer import, a plan for reviews and subscriptions, and the launch test order.

    Get a quote for this plan
  • Fixed price in CAD once the scope is agreed
  • Free quote within 24 hours
  • No obligation

What moves a quote: product count, products past 3 options, subscriptions, order history and a French storefront. Care once the 6 months of free bug fixes end is quoted after we agree what it covers.

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.

Free CAD quote

What does your store need?

No store yet? Send a product list instead. Fixes are quoted by the hour, and a build or a move gets one fixed price before any work starts.

Ashish Sharma

Founder, Codingclave

Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours. Live calls 8am–12pm Eastern, Monday to Friday.

What happens next

  1. A reply within 2 hours

    Ashish or the team answers on WhatsApp or by email, usually with a few questions about your scope.

  2. A call, if you want one

    Weekdays between 8am and 12pm Eastern, on a WhatsApp or video call.

  3. A free quote within 24 hours

    Scope, timeline and either a fixed CAD price or your hourly rate, excluding GST/HST, in writing.

  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.

Prefer WhatsApp?

WhatsApp Ashish

Tell us about your project

  • Reply within 2 hours
  • Free quote within 24 hours
  • Prices in CAD, excl. GST/HST
How should we reach you?

Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours. Your details go only to Codingclave's team in India so we can reply; see our privacy policy. Prefer chat? WhatsApp us, or email [email protected].

How it works

From store URL to first real order

Start on WhatsApp

  1. Send the store URL, or a product list

    On WhatsApp or the form. For a move, Search Console access helps once you decide to go ahead.

  2. Crawl and scope

    We pull every URL, count products and options, and list gateways and plugins. That list becomes the written scope.

  3. One fixed CAD price

    The quote names the price and the milestone for the second payment, and the first 40% starts the work.

  4. Build on staging

    Inside your own accounts, with test payments through your gateway's sandbox before any real card is used.

  5. Redirects in, domain switched, test order

    During the Eastern-time call window, with the first real order placed together.

  6. Six months of bug fixes

    Free after launch, for anything in our work that doesn't behave as agreed.

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

Ask on WhatsApp

How much does WooCommerce cost per month for a store in Canada?

The plugin is free to download. The monthly cost is hosting, a theme, paid extensions (the Canada Post Shipping Method is sold as a yearly plan, for example) and someone to keep WordPress and the plugins updated. Card fees add 2.9% plus 30¢ a sale on WooPayments or Stripe. Shopify folds hosting into its plan, and the Shopify cost guide compares the two on a first-year bill.

Which costs less per order in Canada: WooPayments, Stripe or Shopify Payments?

On a CAD 100 sale paid by Canadian card, WooPayments and Stripe each take CAD 3.20 and Shopify Payments on Basic takes CAD 3.10. Moneris flips the comparison. On WooCommerce you pay only Moneris's own rate per sale, while Shopify Basic adds 2% on top because Moneris counts as a third-party provider. Card fees are normally charged on the total with tax, so the same basket shipped to Ontario costs about CAD 3.58 on WooPayments and CAD 3.46 on Basic.

Does WooCommerce calculate GST/HST and PST automatically?

Not out of the box. Core WooCommerce charges whatever sits in its tax-rate table, so Canada's GST, HST, PST and QST rates are typed in or imported as a CSV, then updated when a province changes one, as Nova Scotia's HST did on 1 April 2025, from 15% to 14%. The WooCommerce Tax extension calculates automatically for stores based in Canada but doesn't file returns or remit. Set up only the taxes you're registered for; filing stays with you and your accountant.

Will moving from WooCommerce to Shopify hurt my Google rankings?

It can, if old addresses break. Treat the URLs as the project: export every one from the sitemap, a crawl and Search Console, give each a 301 to its new /products/, /collections/, /pages/ or /blogs/ address, and load the redirect file before the domain moves. Then submit Shopify's sitemap and expect re-indexing to take days to weeks. Nobody can promise rankings; a complete map protects what the old store earned.

Does my WooCommerce store have to close while it moves to Shopify?

No. The Shopify store is built and checked on its own temporary address while WooCommerce keeps taking orders. Redirects are loaded before the switch, the domain moves on a quiet sales day during a call with you, and the test order runs straight after. Subscription billing in the old app is paused at the switch so nobody is charged twice.

Does an online store selling to Quebec need to be in French?

For a business in Quebec, its commercial publications must be available in French under section 52 of the Charter of the French language, and the OQLF's notice of 14 November 2025 applied that to publications on a website. Whether the rule reaches a seller in another province who markets to Quebec shoppers is a question for your counsel. Either way, we can supply the French copy, checked by a fluent French reviewer, and build the bilingual storefront and its language switcher.

What does WooCommerce maintenance involve after launch?

Keeping WordPress core, WooCommerce, PHP and every plugin current, holding recent backups, and placing a test order after each round of updates, because an update can break checkout with no warning on the home page. Bugs in our own work are fixed free for 6 months. After that, fixes are CAD 30⁠–⁠60 an hour, and regular care is quoted once we agree what it covers.

How much does it cost to build an e-commerce website in Canada?

Our store builds fall in a CAD 1,500⁠–⁠12,000 band over a typical 2⁠–⁠6 weeks, with one fixed price once the scope is agreed. Where a store lands in that band depends on product count, integrations, a French storefront and whether a migration comes with it. Platform, theme and app bills come on top, and the Shopify cost guide adds them up line by line for a first year.

Who are the top e-commerce developers in Canada?

No list is neutral, least of all the ones firms write about themselves. Start with Clutch, which shows client reviews, or WooCommerce.com's vetted partner directory. Then ask everyone on your shortlist the same store questions: what a taxed Ontario order costs in fees, how they build a redirect map, and what they check on launch day. We're one India-based option.

Ashish Sharma · Founder

Send your store URL and we’ll price the job in CAD

No store yet? Send a product list instead. Fixes are quoted by the hour, and a build or a move gets one fixed price before any work starts.

Get a free CAD quoteWhatsApp Ashish
  1. WhatsApp us or fill in the form
  2. A reply within 2 hours
  3. A free CAD quote within 24 hours, no obligation

Keep exploring

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.

About Ashish →

How we put this page together

Written by Ashish Sharma, who scopes and prices Codingclave's store projects. Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe, CRA, Ontario, OQLF and ISED pages were read on 16 October 2026; the CAD 100 and CAD 113 fee figures are our arithmetic from those published rates. Only the hourly rate, the store band and the payment terms are our own figures.

Sources (14)· public sources cited on this page

  1. Shopify – Pricing (Canada)
  2. WooCommerce – WooPayments fees
  3. Stripe – Pricing (Canada)
  4. Shopify Help – Migrating from WooCommerce
  5. Shopify Help – Setting up Canadian taxes
  6. Shopify Help – Importing and exporting customers
  7. Shopify Help – Shopify Plus launch checklist (subscription migration)
  8. WooCommerce – Canada Post Shipping Method
  9. WooCommerce – WooCommerce Tax documentation
  10. WooCommerce – Moneris documentation
  11. Government of Ontario – How to make websites accessible
  12. Office québécois de la langue française – Notice of 14 November 2025
  13. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada – Understanding Canada's anti-spam legislation
  14. Richa Khemka – Shopify store built by Codingclave