Ecommerce website development in Montreal
Your store needs a catalogue customers can browse, a checkout they can use and settings your team can manage. For a Montreal business, we design product pages, import catalogue data and configure payments and shipping. At MSH Technologies, a studio in India, we work with you from the first decisions through to launch.
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- 01Tell us what you need, in the form or on WhatsApp.
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What you get
What’s included in e-commerce development
Storefront design
Product, collection and checkout pages designed around how your customers shop.
Store build
Shopify, WooCommerce or a headless Next.js storefront.
Payments & shipping
Payment gateways, taxes, shipping rates and delivery partners configured.
Products & inventory
Catalogue import, variants and stock management.
Integrations
Accounting, ERP, email and marketplace connections.
Speed & SEO
Fast product pages with structured data for rich search results.
Tools we use: Shopify, WooCommerce, Next.js, Stripe, Razorpay.
Choosing
Which platform should you choose?
Shopify is the simplest option to run. WooCommerce suits a team already using WordPress, particularly if your store needs to sit alongside substantial content. WooCommerce also gives you control over code, data and hosting, but someone on your side needs to look after hosting, updates, security and plugin compatibility. Make that responsibility part of your platform decision.
A custom or headless storefront, such as Next.js connected to a commerce back end, fits a more unusual catalogue, a product configurator or a content-led brand. It takes more build effort, and most later changes need a developer. That trade-off is worth discussing before choosing custom screens and features that your team expects to edit regularly.
Selling across markets adds another decision: platforms handle currencies, translated content, duties and shipping options differently, with some needing extensions. We look at your products and operations before recommending Shopify, WooCommerce or a custom build, so the choice reflects how you will run the store as well as what customers see.
Local
What Montreal businesses need from an online store
Montreal has software engineering businesses that could sell configurable products online. If your offer involves choices beyond a simple variant, the store needs to capture the customer's selections clearly. We build around requirements such as file uploads, previews or price rules, so the order reaches your team with the information needed to fulfil it.
Cultural, film and music festival organisations in Montreal may want a clearer way to sell products they currently offer through social media or messages. A catalogue, online payment and order tracking give customers a place to choose and buy, while reducing the need to take each order by hand in chat.
Montreal's AI research organisations may also have products to sell directly. For a growing direct-to-consumer offer, the development brief could include faster product pages, subscriptions, reviews and email flows, with room to add new markets as the range grows.
Rules
What a Canadian store needs to handle
Quebec requires commercial website publications to be in French. That affects the content and page setup: we build the storefront pages to carry your French product and commercial content, including the information shoppers need during checkout.
For Quebec sales, QST is charged alongside GST and calculated on the amount before GST. We configure the store's tax settings around the rates and product decisions you provide, then include tax cases in checkout testing.
If you send commercial email, consent, sender identification and unsubscribe handling affect the signup and email setup. We set up a consent collection point and make room in messages for your current mailing address and an unsubscribe mechanism.
How it runs
How an e-commerce project runs with us
We work remotely over video calls, WhatsApp and shared project boards. India is ahead of Eastern Time, with the gap narrowing during daylight saving time. The shared board gives you a place to review progress and leave decisions for us across that difference.
- 01
Discover
We learn about your business, customers and goals. You help us agree what the store needs to cover before the scope is set.
- 02
Design
We design product, collection and checkout pages for desktop and mobile. You review the screens and give feedback before coding starts.
- 03
Import
We put in a small product sample first. You check titles, variants, prices and images; once the format is right, we import the full catalogue.
- 04
Test
You place test orders across payment methods, shipping zones, discounts and tax cases. Check the stock, emails and order records in the admin as well as the checkout screens.
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Launch and care
We handle domain, email, analytics and search setup, then provide ongoing support after launch.
Checklist
What to have ready before we talk
Gather the material your team uses to sell and fulfil orders.
- A product spreadsheet with descriptions, prices, SKUs, variants, stock, categories, weights and package sizes.
- Product photos with consistent backgrounds and proportions, including each colour variant, plus the original high-resolution files.
- Plain-language shipping, returns, refund, privacy and terms policies.
- Your tax and delivery decisions, including which products are taxed, whether prices include tax, where you deliver and how you charge.
- Business-owned logins for your domain, DNS, existing site, email, analytics and Google accounts.
Cost & time
What affects the cost and timeline
The work changes with the store's design, data and connections.
Design
Adapting a theme takes less work than a custom design for unusual products or a distinct brand.
Product data
A clean spreadsheet is easier to import than information scattered across an old store, supplier PDFs and photo threads.
Integrations
An accounting export is smaller work than syncing stock and prices in both directions with an ERP or marketplaces.
Migration
Products alone are a different scope from moving customers, order history, reviews and gift cards, plus mapping redirects.
Rules and markets
Wholesale pricing, delivery date pickers and extra currencies, languages or tax setups add work.
Avoid
Mistakes to avoid
Leaving delivery charges and taxes until the final checkout step
show estimates on product or cart pages so shoppers see costs earlier.
Adding a plugin for every small feature
review what each one does and remove those no longer used to reduce scripts, clutter and possible conflicts.
Moving a store without mapping its old URLs
use server-side permanent redirects to the closest new pages, including for products removed during the move.
Loading oversized images and unnecessary scripts on product pages
compress images and load review, chat and tracking scripts only where needed.
Questions
Asked by businesses in Montreal
Page updated 5 November 2026
How much does an e-commerce website cost to develop?
There is no fixed price. The platform and storefront approach, the connections to systems such as accounting, and the amount of existing store data to migrate all shape the scope. We send a free quote once that scope is agreed, so it reflects the work your store actually needs.
Should I sell through a marketplace or my own store?
Your own store gives you the customer data and margin, while a marketplace brings ready traffic but sets the rules and keeps the customer relationship. You can use both and sync stock between them. Your own store also needs a plan for attracting visitors, which is a separate consideration from building it.
What is included in an e-commerce build?
The build covers the customer-facing store and the admin your team uses to manage it. That includes the cart, customer accounts, policy pages and order emails. Those emails need your branding, a sender on your own domain and wording that matches your actual policies, including for dispatches, refunds and password resets.
Who owns the website after launch?
You own your domain, content and code. The store is not locked to the team that built it, so ownership remains with your business after launch. Keep those assets under your business's control when arranging access for anyone who works on the store.
What should we check after the store launches?
Retest the full checkout after an app, plugin or theme change, and give each staff member a separate login with only the permissions they need. Track conversion rate, checkout drop-off, repeat purchases and product-page speed against your figures from before launch or migration. That gives your team a basis for deciding what to investigate.
How do we choose payment methods for the store?
Start with where your business is registered and the currencies you sell in. Compare the methods each gateway supports, such as cards, wallets or bank transfers, along with settlement timing, refunds and disputes. We support Stripe, Razorpay, PayPal and local gateways according to the country and platform.
Tell us what you need
Sohail, Founder, replies within 1 working day (Mon–Sat, IST). Free and no obligation.
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