Custom Shopify Store Development

We do custom Shopify store development for Canadian brands. With 14+ years of Shopify experience and a team of ex-Shopify engineers, we design and develop storefronts that load fast, look distinct, and turn visitors into customers. Most of our clients are in Toronto, the GTA, and across Ontario, with a growing roster of brands across the rest of Canada.

Recent Store Builds

Real stores, named where the client allows it.

Storefront + positioning

Bio-based activewear, planet-positive supply chain up front

We built the Shopify storefront and led the brand positioning that puts OYM's sustainable supply chain front and center. When the brand later rebranded, we replatformed the store in a week.

See the OYM project →

Bespoke theme, two stores

A metaobject-driven theme serving Canada and the US

A complex custom theme built on metaobjects and metafields, later migrated intact with store data to a second US store to open regional markets. No theme rework.

See the Waste Free project →

“I can’t say enough good things about my experience. We presented the team with a difficult task: to essentially rebuild our website after realizing the original code was messy and led to poor functionality and design. The work was completed quickly with great attention to both our time and budget.”

Who you'll work with

Victoria Garland Owner and Chief Creative Officer 13 years on Shopify

Alex Massaad CTO and Co-Founder 14 years on Shopify

You scope the project with the people who build it. The developer on the kickoff call is the developer on launch day.

Why hire a specialist Shopify web design agency

Themes are a fine starting point. They stop being enough once your brand needs a unique shopping experience, your conversion rate is plateauing, or your store has outgrown the constraints of pre-built layouts. That’s where custom Shopify store development pays off.

We’ve built stores for direct-to-consumer brands, retail chains, and B2B merchants. Every engagement starts with the same question: what does your customer need to see, in what order, to confidently buy?

For apparel, footwear, and accessory brands, that work includes editorial merchandising, fit and sizing systems, collection filtering, and drop mechanics. See our focused fashion Shopify agency service.

Our approach

• Brand-first design. Every element serves your story and your business goals, not a template’s defaults.
• Performance-tuned code. Optimized for Core Web Vitals because Google’s mobile-first index ranks fast pages higher.
• Conversion-focused UX. Strategic CTA placement, trust signals, and social proof in the right places.
• Mobile-first. Designed for the 70%+ of shoppers on phones, tested at every breakpoint.

What sets us apart from other Shopify agencies

• Shopify-exclusive. We don’t build on WooCommerce or Magento. Every hour of our team’s time goes into Shopify expertise.
• Ex-Shopify engineers. Our team includes engineers who worked at Shopify, so we know the platform from the inside.
• In-house apps. We build and maintain our own Shopify apps (JourneyGlow, PriceGlow, StockGlow), which means we ship production code on Shopify every week.
• Long-term partnership. Most clients stay with us for maintenance, optimization, and new feature work after launch.

Ready to build a Shopify store that actually converts? Let’s talk.

A Shopify Development Company, Not a Generalist Web Shop

Plenty of firms offer Shopify development services as one line on a long menu. We’re a Shopify development company in the literal sense: it’s the only thing we do. That focus is why our development services go deeper than a theme install. We write custom Liquid, build custom apps when no app exists, tune Core Web Vitals, and handle the migrations that move you onto the platform cleanly. If you’re comparing Shopify development companies, the question worth asking is whether they can open the code, and we can.

Custom Shopify Store Development in Toronto, Ontario, and across Canada

Most of our custom Shopify store development happens for brands in Toronto and the GTA, Mississauga, Vaughan, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Waterloo, Guelph, and across Ontario. We also work with brands across the rest of Canada, the US, and internationally. Most projects run remotely, with in-person meetings available throughout southwestern Ontario and the GTA.

Related Services

Need more than a store build? We also offer Shopify theme development for theme-only work, Shopify SEO to grow organic traffic, custom Shopify app development for unique workflows, and ads management once your store launches. See examples of our Shopify store work in our portfolio.