Catalog structure
Attributes, variations, and URL strategy that stay maintainable as the catalog grows.
Ecommerce development
Ecommerce website development in Vancouver
Ecommerce website development for WooCommerce, Magento / Adobe Commerce, and custom stores — checkout performance, sensible PCI hygiene, integrations, and ongoing support when you want it.
- Platform choice based on catalog complexity, ops team, and budget
- Payments, tax, and shipping integrated with testable edge cases
- Checkout UX and performance treated as revenue features, not afterthoughts
- Security and logging basics so incidents are traceable
What you get
How Ecommerce website development in Vancouver actually works
Concrete deliverables — no vague SaaS jargon. Each engagement is sized to your business and reviewed monthly.
Payments & tax
Stripe, PayPal, Moneris-style flows scoped with test transactions and refund paths.
Checkout UX
Guest checkout, address validation, and error states that do not silently lose carts.
Performance
Caching strategy, image pipelines, and server fit for traffic spikes — especially on WooCommerce.
PCI hygiene
No card data on your server, TLS everywhere, and admin access locked down.
Analytics
Ecommerce events, funnels, and server-side tagging options when you need cleaner data.
From experience
Stores we have worked on
Our team has supported Magento and other storefronts for years: checkout, tax, catalog integrations, and admin recoveries.
The work is rarely “install a theme.” It is a Magento admin that fatal-errors on compiled files, catalog pages that stall on custom pricing queries, checkout tax that must differ by location (Avalara and similar), and product names overwritten by a sync from another system. Alongside Magento we have worked on WooCommerce and Shopify storefronts, and on payment rails including PayPal and Stripe.
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Checkout and payments
Carts, gateways, and the mail that proves an order happened.
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Tax and location rules
Prove them with real addresses, not a single happy-path order.
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Catalog and integrations
A sync that silently overwrites names is still an incident.
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Admin recoveries
A dead Magento backend is an emergency repair, not a redesign.
Patterns drawn from our team’s years of agency support work.
From the support desk
Situations our team has handled
Anonymized cases from our team’s years of agency support work: what the owner saw, what was actually wrong, and what we check first because of it.
Magento admin crashed on open
- What they saw
- Staff hit a fatal error the moment they opened the Magento backend.
- What was wrong
- Magento’s generated and compiled files were in a broken state.
- Outcome
- We rebuilt the generated files and confirmed the admin loaded again. The change that triggered it was never identified.
Takeaway: Log every deploy and update. Without that record, the trigger is guesswork and the same crash can return.
Slow catalog: disk pressure and heavy pricing queries
- What they saw
- Product and category pages were loading slowly.
- What was wrong
- The server was under disk pressure, and custom pricing queries were expensive.
- Outcome
- Both the queries and the disk constraint were addressed. No before-and-after measurements were kept.
Takeaway: Measure a product page, not just the homepage, and keep the before-and-after numbers so the fix can be proven.
Checkout tax had to change by location
- What they saw
- Checkout needed to charge different tax depending on where the customer was.
- What was wrong
- The tax integration was connected but had never been tested against real addresses.
- Outcome
- We tested orders from different locations until each produced the correct rate.
Takeaway: Test tax with several real addresses. A single happy-path order proves very little.
Client names and identifying details removed. Outcomes are described as they happened, including the ones that needed follow-up.
Our process
Store build outline
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Platform choice
WooCommerce vs Magento vs headless — honest fit for team skills and roadmap.
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Catalog structure
Categories, attributes, and import pipelines planned before theme work.
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Payments & shipping
Gateways, tax rules, carriers, and edge cases for BC / Canada when relevant.
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Checkout UX
Friction review on mobile, account optional flows, and trust cues near pay.
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Performance
Template tuning, image discipline, and hosting fit for checkout paths.
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Maintenance
Update cadence, monitoring, and who handles incidents spelled out up front.
Trusted technologies we support
Related services
Pairs well with
WooCommerce support
Vancouver WooCommerce development.
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Magento hosting
Managed Magento hosting.
Learn moreGuide: what stores cost
Canadian ecommerce build budgets — WooCommerce vs Shopify vs custom.
Learn moreFAQ
Frequently asked questions
Do you support Magento?
Yes — we also offer Magento hosting tuned for checkout. Development scope depends on your edition and customizations.
Can you speed up an existing WooCommerce store?
Yes — profiling, plugin hygiene, caching, and image pipelines are the usual first wins.
Who owns PCI compliance?
You remain responsible for your merchant agreement; we implement technical practices that keep card data off your servers and reduce scope.
Do you work on Magento, or only WordPress stores?
Both. Our team has recovered Magento admin fatals, tuned catalog queries, and proven location-based tax. We have also worked on WooCommerce and Shopify storefronts and on PayPal, Stripe, Avalara, Salesforce, and HubSpot integrations.
Build or fix your ecommerce stack
Tell us platform, monthly orders, and pain points — we will propose next steps without fluff.
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