Sell your products or services online with a secure, professional store built on WooCommerce or Shopify - payments, Ontario tax and shipping, and a mobile-first checkout, all set up right the first time by a local Halton team.
E-commerce web design
Selling online is about more than a shopping cart. It’s a fast, trustworthy store that makes buying easy on a phone, handles Ontario tax and shipping correctly, and is simple enough for you to manage yourself. We build exactly that - on WooCommerce (via WordPress) or Shopify - and you own it outright.
Every store ships with the on-page SEO foundations it needs to be found, and pairs with active Google Business Profile management so local customers can discover you too.
What’s included
Your products set up cleanly with categories, variations, and images that make browsing and buying easy.
Stripe, PayPal, or the gateway you prefer - integrated and tested so checkout just works.
HST and real shipping rules configured correctly from day one - no guessing, no surprises for customers.
Most shoppers are on a phone. We build a fast, frictionless mobile checkout that doesn’t lose the sale.
Product and category pages structured for search, so your store can rank - not just exist.
We show you how to add products, process orders, and run promos - and we’re here when you need us.
Serving Halton & the GTA
We build e-commerce sites for businesses across the region. Explore your city’s services: Oakville · Burlington · Mississauga · Milton · Halton Hills · Orangeville · Caledon.
Our e-commerce services
Whether you’re opening your first online store, moving platforms or trying to get more sales from the store you have, these are the main ways we help.
New Shopify stores, theme customization, Shopify POS for shops that also sell in person, and migrations from Wix, Squarespace or WooCommerce. Shopify web design →
Lean, fast WooCommerce stores on WordPress that you own outright, including wholesale pricing, custom product options and adding a store to your existing site. WooCommerce web design →
Category and product page SEO, technical fixes, Google Merchant Center and redirect plans for migrations, so your products actually get found. E-commerce SEO →
Platform choice
This is the first real decision, and the right answer genuinely depends on your business rather than on which one we prefer to build.
You already have a WordPress site, you want to avoid a second monthly platform fee, you need unusual product logic or B2B pricing tiers, or content and SEO are a big part of your strategy. You own everything outright and there's no transaction fee on top of your payment processor. The trade-off is that you're responsible for hosting, updates and security, which is what a maintenance plan covers.
You want to launch quickly, your catalogue is straightforward, you value a checkout that's been optimised by a company with enormous data on what converts, or you need subscriptions and bundles that Shopify's app ecosystem handles well. The trade-off is a monthly fee, less control over the checkout, and transaction fees unless you use Shopify Payments.
Catalogue complexity and content strategy, in that order. Simple catalogue plus a brand story that needs telling tends toward Shopify. Complex products, trade pricing, or a business whose customers arrive through search tends toward WooCommerce. We'll give you a straight recommendation on the call rather than steering you toward whichever is easier to build.
Getting found
E-commerce SEO is a different discipline from local service SEO. Product and category pages compete nationally, not just against the shop down the road.
Your category pages are usually your best ranking assets, and they need to be designed before the catalogue is loaded rather than patched afterward. Clear hierarchy, no overlapping categories competing with each other, and real content on each one instead of a bare product grid.
Manufacturer descriptions pasted across four hundred products are invisible to Google and unconvincing to buyers. Real descriptions, honest specs, sizing and fit detail, and reviews wired up with schema so star ratings can show in search results.
Filters that generate thousands of near-identical crawlable URLs are one of the most common ways a store buries itself. Handled properly from the start with canonicals, parameter rules and selective indexing.
E-commerce sites are the worst offenders for uncompressed images and app bloat. Every second of load time costs conversions directly, and Core Web Vitals feed rankings on top of that. We build lean and test on a throttled mobile connection.
Already have a store that isn’t getting found? See our e-commerce SEO services for Shopify and WooCommerce stores.
Getting the order
Traffic is the easy half. Most stores we're brought in to fix are losing customers at four predictable points: shipping cost revealed too late in checkout, a checkout designed for desktop when most traffic is mobile, product pages with nothing to say, and a site that takes too long to load. Fixing those four is usually worth more than any amount of new traffic, and it's the first thing we look at on a rescue project.
Ontario specifics matter too: HST configured correctly with the right tax classes, realistic courier rates rather than a flat guess, free-shipping thresholds that don't lose money on a heavy order across the country, and local pickup set up as a real shipping method - which for many Ontario stores becomes the most-used option.
Pricing
Online stores start at $4,000 as a fixed-fee build. Bigger catalogues, custom features, integrations and migrations are quoted on top, itemized before work starts. Shopify’s monthly plan is paid directly to Shopify; WooCommerce stores need good hosting, covered by our maintenance & hosting plans. Just need a simple site first? See the $999 starter package.
Common questions
Our online stores start at $4,000 as a fixed-fee build, with products, payments, HST and shipping set up and tested. Bigger catalogues, custom features, integrations and migrations are quoted on top, itemized in writing before any work starts.
Shopify suits stores that want to launch quickly with a straightforward catalogue and no server to manage. WooCommerce suits complex products, trade pricing, content-heavy SEO plans and owners who want no platform fee. See Shopify and WooCommerce for the details.
Yes. We move products, customers and order history where the platforms allow it, and set up 301 redirects from every old URL so you keep your Google rankings.
Yes. HST with the right tax classes, real courier or Canada Post rates, free-shipping thresholds that don’t lose money on heavy orders, and local pickup as a proper shipping option.
Yes. Shopify POS or a WooCommerce setup connected to your point of sale keeps one product list and one inventory for both.
Every store we build has SEO foundations and can be connected to Google Merchant Center for free product listings. For competitive products, our e-commerce SEO service builds rankings over time.
Most stores launch in 4 to 8 weeks. The biggest factor is how quickly product information and photos are ready.
Yes. The domain, store account, content and customer data are all yours. We never hold a store hostage.
E-commerce web design by area: Oakville and Mississauga. By platform: Shopify and WooCommerce. Not selling online yet? See small business web design. Need the store found? See local SEO services.
Tell us about your products and we’ll follow up with a free, no-obligation consultation and a fixed-fee quote - usually within one business day.
No spam. No long-term contracts. Just a conversation.