Ecommerce website development in Vancouver

Shopify suits a store whose owner wants the platform to handle hosting, security, checkout and updates. You can add features through apps, although app subscriptions add an ongoing expense. Deeper checkout changes are limited to the Shopify Plus plan, so review your checkout needs before choosing it.

WooCommerce fits a team already using WordPress or a business with substantial content alongside its products. It gives you control over code, data and hosting. That control comes with work: someone needs to manage hosting, security, updates and plugin compatibility. For an unusual catalogue or checkout, a custom store may be a better fit. We recommend an option after learning how your products and operations work.

Selling into several countries adds another decision. Your store needs an approach to currencies, market-specific prices, duties, translated content and shipping, and some platforms need extensions to handle those choices. Decide what you need to manage before adding them to the build.

The GST or HST rate depends on the place of supply, such as where goods are delivered. We configure tax settings at checkout around the destinations and product rules you provide, so the order reflects the applicable treatment.

For commercial email, consent, sender identification and an unsubscribe mechanism affect the sign-up and email flow. We connect your email tool and set up the consent and unsubscribe steps, with the sender’s current mailing address included in messages.

Bring what you already have and note the decisions still to make.

• A product spreadsheet with names, descriptions, SKUs, variants, stock, weights and package sizes.
• Original product photos, with consistent backgrounds and an image for each colour variant.
• Registration, bank and identity documents for a payment account in your business’s name; apply early because the provider decides on approval.
• Your delivery areas and couriers, plus tax decisions checked with your accountant.
• Business-held logins for your domain, DNS, current site, email, analytics and Google accounts.

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  Leaving old links behind

  Map old product and category URLs to their closest new pages and use permanent redirects, including for products removed during a migration.

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  Adding an app for every feature

  Review what each app or plugin does and remove unused ones to limit extra scripts, conflicts and recurring fees.

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  Showing delivery charges too late

  Put estimates on product or cart pages so shoppers see the likely cost before the last checkout step.

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  Overloading product pages

  Compress images and load review, chat and tracking scripts only where needed.