Shopify development for Toronto businesses

Both, and the honest answer is that most stores do not need a fully custom theme. Starting from a solid theme and building custom sections gets you a distinctive store faster and cheaper, and keeps you on a theme that receives updates. We will recommend a fully custom build only when the store genuinely needs it.

Yes. Products, variants, collections, customers and order history migrate over, and we map the old URLs to the new ones with 301 redirects so your existing search rankings survive the move.

We build custom functionality where an existing app will not do the job, and we quote it separately from the store build so you can see exactly what it costs. Often the better answer is an existing app plus some custom work around it, and we will say so when that is the case.

Store speed is mostly decided by how many apps are installed and how images are handled, not by the theme. We build with that in mind and tell you when an app you want is going to cost you a second of load time — which on a store is a real amount of revenue.

GST, HST and PST are configured by province, so a customer in Ontario is charged 13% HST and a customer in Alberta is charged 5% GST without you doing anything manually. If you sell outside Canada we will set up the rules for that too.

We set up the payment methods Canadian shoppers expect — cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, plus Shop Pay or PayPal if you want them — and configure shipping rates for the way you actually ship: flat rate, by weight, by region, free over a threshold, or local pickup.

A straightforward business website is usually three to five weeks from approved scope to launch. Larger sites and online stores typically run six to ten weeks. The single biggest factor is how quickly content and feedback come back from your side — we will tell you the honest timeline for your project before you commit, not an optimistic one.

Yes. You own the domain, the hosting account, the website files, the design and the content. Everything is registered in your name, and you get the logins. If you ever decide to work with someone else, you take it all with you and we will help with the handover.

Yes. We build on platforms you can edit without a developer, and we show you how — text, images, prices, new pages, blog posts. For anything structural you can come back to us, but day-to-day changes should not require an invoice.

Launch is not the last conversation. We stay available for the settling-in period, confirm your analytics and Search Console are reporting correctly, and fix anything that turns out to be wrong with the build. Ongoing maintenance and support are available separately if you want them — they are not compulsory.