Web Development Company Serving Canada

Canadian website pricing splits along a similar line to the US, but with its own currency and its own recurring cost driver: bilingual French/English support. A basic informational site typically runs CA$2,500 to CA$5,500 in pricing guides published across the Canadian market, a mid-tier SEO-ready build lands between CA$4,000 and CA$10,000, and a custom or e-commerce build runs CA$6,000 to CA$25,000 or more.

For any business required or expected to serve Quebec or a bilingual national audience, French/English content isn't a translation layer bolted onto an English site — it's a second content structure the CMS has to support cleanly, and that adds real scoping time on top of whatever the base build costs. E-commerce is the other major swing factor: a store with CAD-ready checkout and North American hosting for latency costs meaningfully more than a brochure site, largely because of the payment integration and testing involved.

These are general Canadian market figures aggregated from public pricing guides, not a quote from us. Every project gets scoped against its own pages, bilingual requirements and integrations, with a fixed number agreed in writing before work starts.

• Basic informational: CA$2,500–5,500 — a small site, single language, minimal functionality.
• SEO-ready mid-tier: CA$4,000–10,000 — a custom build with standard integrations, often bilingual.
• Custom / e-commerce: CA$6,000–25,000+ — complex functionality, full bilingual support, payment integration.

Not every Canadian business needs a bilingual site, but the businesses that assume they don't and turn out to be wrong usually find out from a Quebec-based customer complaint or a compliance requirement they hadn't scoped for. Federally regulated businesses and anything selling into Quebec specifically should confirm their own legal obligation under Quebec's language law before scoping — that's a legal question for your own counsel, not something we determine, but it's worth raising before a build starts rather than after.

Practically, we structure the CMS to support a second language cleanly from day one whenever bilingual is even a possibility, because retrofitting French content management onto an English-only content structure later is considerably more expensive than building for it upfront — new fields, new routing, new review workflow, on top of the actual translation cost. If there's a real chance the site goes bilingual within a year or two of launch, it's usually cheaper to build the CMS for it now and add the French content later than to rebuild the content architecture twice.

We'll ask about this directly during scoping rather than assuming — a Vancouver-only service business and a national Canadian retailer have very different answers to the same question, and the CMS structure should match which one you actually are.