E-commerce Development in Vancouver — Shopify and WooCommerce
Selling online in Canada has specific requirements that generic store templates handle badly. Provincial tax rules, Canada Post integration, dual-currency pricing and cross-border shipping all need to be right before you take a single order. We build stores that get these correct from launch.
Shopify or WooCommerce?
Neither is universally better, and any agency that always recommends the same one is selling what they know rather than what you need.
Shopify suits stores that want hosting, security and payments handled, with predictable monthly costs and a straightforward admin. The trade-off is transaction fees, app subscriptions that accumulate, and less control over the fine detail.
WooCommerce suits stores that need unusual product configurations, deep content and SEO alongside the catalogue, or full control over checkout and data. The trade-off is that you are responsible for hosting, maintenance and security.
What we handle
- Canadian payment gateways — Stripe, Moneris, PayPal, Shop Pay
- GST and PST configuration for BC and correct rates for other provinces
- Canada Post, UPS and local delivery rate integration
- Product schema markup so listings appear correctly in Google Shopping and search
- Category and product page SEO, including faceted navigation handled without creating duplicate content
- Inventory sync, ERP and accounting integrations
- Checkout optimisation and abandoned cart recovery
E-commerce SEO
Most online stores lose search traffic in the same places: thin product descriptions copied from the supplier, category pages with no content, filter URLs generating thousands of near-duplicate pages, and slow product images. These are fixable, and fixing them usually produces more revenue than adding another advertising channel.
Discuss your store
Call +1 (604) 396-5834 and we will tell you honestly which platform fits what you are selling.