E-Commerce Development Agency Serving Canada
Stores built on Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento with bilingual catalog support where it's needed, run by one in-house Pune team with a process built around the real Canada-India timezone gap.
What you actually get
A catalog structured for a bilingual market from the start
Where a store needs to serve French- and English-speaking customers, we scope the CMS to handle both languages cleanly across product listings, checkout copy and order confirmation emails — not as a translation plugin dropped on top of an English-only build after launch. That decision gets made during scoping, before the catalog structure is locked in, because retrofitting bilingual support onto a finished store touches more than just the visible copy — it touches URL structure, search indexing and every automated email the store sends.
A migration that doesn't cost you your order history
Lose order history in a migration and every customer service call afterward starts from zero — no purchase record, no context, just a customer repeating themselves to someone new. We avoid that by mapping products, customers and order history against the new platform and verifying it before cutover, running both systems in parallel long enough to catch whatever doesn't match. For a Canadian retailer, timing that work around Black Friday and the holiday window matters more than almost any other point on the calendar, since a migration problem during peak traffic costs more than the planning would have.
CAD checkout, tested before a customer finds the gap
CAD is set as the default currency from the first build, not bolted on later as a locale toggle, and the payment flow itself goes through a round of failure testing before it ever touches a live order — a card getting declined, a gateway timing out, a retry that has to actually succeed on the second attempt. That happens on a staging cart before launch, not in production after a Canadian shopper's failed payment quietly turns into an abandoned order nobody flagged.
Scheduling live calls where the overlap actually is
Pune sits roughly 9.5 to 12.5 hours ahead of Canada, depending on whether you're on Eastern or Pacific time and the season — wide enough that we don't pretend a bigger overlap exists than there is. Live calls go into the slot that genuinely works (see below), while catalog setup, checkout QA and reviews all run asynchronously, so the project keeps moving without anyone working an unreasonable hour just for a status check.
How this actually works
How a Pune-based team works with an e-commerce client in Canada
For Eastern Canada, the overlap with our 10:00–19:00 IST studio hours sits in 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, since a client who's promised a full day of live availability and gets a handful of morning minutes instead ends up more frustrated than one who knew the real window going in.
That window is reserved for calls that genuinely benefit from being live — platform decisions, checkout walkthroughs, launch coordination. Everything else runs async: written specs so a catalog decision doesn't depend on a verbal brief being remembered correctly, Loom walkthroughs of an admin panel or checkout flow, and a staging store updated the same day so you've got real progress to review when your morning starts, not a status update promising progress you can't yet see.
We invoice in CAD or USD by international transfer or card, with a fixed quote and written contract in place before work starts. There's no Canadian office behind this — we're a Pune-based studio, and we'll say so plainly rather than let a virtual address suggest a local presence that isn't there. For launch week specifically, we can shift the schedule for closer support rather than defaulting to normal studio hours.
Built for Canadian e-commerce clients
- CAD or USD invoicing
- Bilingual FR/EN catalog support
- Shopify, WooCommerce & Magento
- Migration without lost orders
Guide
Canada E-Commerce Pricing Guide
What an E-Commerce Store Actually Costs in Canada
Public Canadian pricing guides show a basic Shopify or WooCommerce store, built on a purchased theme with light customization, running roughly CAD $1,000 to $3,500 through a freelancer or small studio. A custom-designed build with standard integrations sits closer to CAD $3,500 to $15,000. A bilingual French/English store, or a Magento build for a genuinely large catalog, typically runs CAD $15,000 to $70,000 or more, since bilingual support touches more than visible copy — URL structure, search indexing and every automated email all need duplicating cleanly.
Bilingual support is the detail that separates a lot of Canadian builds from a US-equivalent quote — a store scoped for French and English from day one costs more upfront than an English-only build, but far less than retrofitting it after the catalog structure is already locked to a single language.
These are general figures aggregated from public Canadian pricing guides, not what we charge. We scope every project against its actual catalog, language needs and integrations, with a fixed quote agreed in writing before work starts.
- Basic theme build: CAD $1,000–3,500 — small catalog, single language.
- Custom build with integrations: CAD $3,500–15,000 — standard payment and inventory setup.
- Bilingual / Magento / complex build: CAD $15,000–70,000+ — large catalog, dual-language support.
FAQ
Questions before you get started.
Yes, when it's scoped upfront — we structure the CMS so French and English product listings, checkout copy and order emails can all be managed cleanly, rather than bolting on a translation plugin after launch.
Yes. Products, customer records and order history all get mapped and verified against the new platform first, and we keep both systems running in parallel until we're confident nothing's been missed before cutting over — timed deliberately around the holiday window rather than squeezed in whenever, since that's when a migration mistake costs the most.
We can invoice in CAD or USD, whichever is simpler on your end — the price is fixed before work starts either way.
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 catalog setup and checkout QA asynchronously the rest of the day.
We configure tax calculation to apply GST/HST and provincial rates correctly by shipping destination, but which provinces you're registered to collect in is a call for your own accountant — we build to whatever you confirm during scoping, not a guess.
Ready to start?
See the fuller service breakdown on our e-commerce development page.