Custom Plugin and App Development for Canadian Businesses
One in-house team building Shopify apps, WordPress plugins, Magento extensions and the integrations that connect them — run with a process built around the real Canada–India timezone gap, not around pretending it isn't there.
What you actually get
A live-call window that's honest about the timezone gap
Pune runs roughly 9.5 to 12.5 hours ahead of Canadian time zones depending on Eastern versus Pacific and daylight saving. Rather than promise overlap that isn't there, live calls happen in the window that genuinely works — see below — and the rest of a project runs async, so progress doesn't stall waiting on a call that would otherwise have to happen at an unreasonable hour for one side.
One team across every platform, not a vendor per system
Running a Shopify store, a WordPress marketing site and an internal ops Chrome extension typically means hiring and coordinating three separate specialists. We cover Shopify apps, WordPress and WooCommerce plugins, Magento extensions, Chrome extensions and API integrations as one team, so the engineers who built your Shopify app are the same ones maintaining the WordPress plugin that feeds data into it. That matters most exactly when it usually goes wrong: a plugin update on one system breaks a sync into another, and instead of two vendors blaming each other's side of the connection, one team just fixes it.
A Shopify app built to clear review, not patched after a rejection
A rejected Shopify app submission doesn't just cost a fix — it costs another trip through the review queue, which can run a week or more depending on volume. We build to avoid that first rejection: working uninstall webhooks, privacy policy handling, an embedded-app UI that follows Shopify's own patterns, all in place before the first submission, because we've cleared this review before and build to the checklist it's actually graded against.
Bilingual admin interfaces where a Canadian business needs them
For businesses that need a plugin's admin screens or a Chrome extension's interface available in both English and French, we scope that in from the start rather than shipping an English-only tool and adding translation later. Not every project needs it, but we build for it when it's part of the brief.
How this actually works
How a Pune-based team works with a client in Canada
Our studio hours are Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 19:00 IST. For Eastern Canada that overlaps your early morning, roughly 7:30 to 9:30am; for Pacific Canada it's earlier still, closer to 4:30 to 6:30am. We'd rather tell you that plainly than oversell a bigger overlap that doesn't exist.
For plugin and integration work, that window is reserved for the conversations that genuinely benefit from being live — agreeing on what an integration needs to sync, reviewing a Shopify app's rejection feedback together, walking through a Chrome extension's permission scope before submission. Everything else runs async: written specs, a staging link updated the same day, a Loom recording of a build in progress, so a Canadian working day starts with something concrete to review instead of an open question waiting on a call.
We invoice in CAD or USD by international transfer or card, with a fixed quote and written contract agreed before work starts. We're a Pune-based studio without a Canadian office — we'll say that directly rather than let a virtual address imply otherwise. If a launch week needs closer real-time coverage than the normal overlap gives, we can plan a shifted schedule for that specific week rather than defaulting to standard studio hours.
Built for Canadian businesses, across every platform
- Shopify apps
- WooCommerce & WordPress plugins
- Magento extensions
- Chrome extensions
- Custom API integrations
Guide
Plugin and App Development Pricing in Canada
What Canadian Businesses Actually Pay for Custom Plugin and App Work
Public pricing guides for the Canadian market put a basic WordPress or Shopify plugin at roughly CA$2,000–CA$6,000, a mid-complexity custom app or integration at CA$6,000–CA$16,000, and a larger multi-system integration or enterprise extension at CA$16,000–CA$45,000 or more.
The real driver behind where a project lands in that range is what the plugin needs to survive in production — a small internal tool used on one WordPress install is a different scope than a Shopify app built to clear App Store review and stay stable across thousands of merchant configurations. Bilingual admin interfaces, when a Canadian business needs French alongside English, also add real scope that a generic quote wouldn't include unless it's specified upfront.
These are general Canadian market figures aggregated from public pricing guides, not a Webcomp quote — every plugin or integration is scoped against its actual requirements, with a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts.
- Basic plugin or small app: CA$2,000–CA$6,000 — single-platform, limited scope.
- Mid-complexity integration or app: CA$6,000–CA$16,000 — App Store review, cross-system sync.
- Enterprise-grade extension or integration: CA$16,000–CA$45,000+ — high reliability, multi-system, ongoing maintenance.
FAQ
Questions before you get started.
For Eastern Canada, roughly 7:30 to 9:30am your time; earlier for the West Coast. We use that window for live calls and run the rest of a plugin or integration project asynchronously with written updates.
Yes. It's the same engineers on a Shopify app and the WordPress plugin that feeds it data, rather than two separate specialists who each only know their half of the integration.
Yes, when it's scoped upfront — tell us during scoping if bilingual support is a requirement and we'll structure the interface for both languages from the start rather than adding translation after launch.
We can invoice in CAD or USD, whichever is simpler on your end — the price is fixed before work starts either way.
A small utility plugin can be a week or two of work; a Shopify app that needs to clear App Store review usually runs four to eight weeks once review cycles are factored in. We give a specific timeline once scope is clear rather than a generic range that doesn't account for your actual requirements.
Ready to start?
See the fuller service breakdown on our plugin and app development page.