Ecommerce website design that gets the order finished

Getting a visitor to add a product to their cart is the expensive part. Losing them at shipping or at payment wastes it, and in Baymard Institute's survey of US online shoppers, extra costs that show up late are the most common reason people give up, ahead of slow delivery (Baymard).

If the holidays are your busy season, the store should be ready weeks before. The free audit shows where your current store loses people.

The tax on a Canadian sale depends on where the buyer is: 5% GST in some provinces, HST of 13% or more in others, plus PST or QST where they apply (CRA). Shopify and WooCommerce can handle it, if they're set up with your registrations; we set them up and test an order to each province you ship to.

Shipping across a country this size is a selling point or a reason to leave, so we show rates and delivery times on the product page, with Canada Post or courier rules and local pickup if you offer it. If you sell into Quebec, the store needs French product pages too.

Shopify is simple to run and takes care of hosting and payments; WooCommerce gives more control and runs on WordPress, which we also use for our websites. Both work well for a small store. What matters more is how the catalogue is organized and how fast it loads. We recommend one in your proposal, with the reasons.

If you already sell online, the new store keeps what works: products, customers and order history move where the platform allows, and every old product and category address leads to its new page. That's how you keep the visits Google already sends you.

We plan the move the same way as a website redesign that protects your rankings: a list of the pages that bring visits, a redirect for each one and a check after opening.