Toronto is one of North America's busiest e-commerce markets, home to retailers, direct-to-consumer brands and distributors selling across Canada and into the United States. Startup Slang works with those brands from our office at 545 King St W in downtown Toronto, as a Shopify and Shopify Plus agency with AI and marketing built in.
Shopify work for Toronto and Ontario brands
Some of our most recent e-commerce work is close to home:
- Wellwise by Shoppers Drug Mart. We built the Shopify store behind Shoppers Drug Mart's health and wellness e-commerce brand, a deep, specialised catalog of mobility aids, bathroom safety, braces and supports, organised by need so it feels easy to shop.
- Atlas Tools & Machinery. A third-generation family business with its retail home in downtown Toronto. We built its store on BigCommerce around how tradespeople shop: by category, by brand and by deal.
- SLK Home. One of Costco's main furniture distributors in Canada, now selling direct. We built the entire Shopify store, with custom features where the catalog demanded them.
- Northbound Gear. A Canadian-designed, water-resistant outdoor clothing brand where every purchase plants a tree, with rich product pages for technical apparel.
- Letterkenny for Netflix. The official merch store for a show that is proudly Canadian, built to speak its fans' language.
Shopify services in Toronto
- Custom Shopify theme design and development
- Shopify Plus builds: checkout extensibility, B2B, expansion stores and Flow automation
- Headless Shopify with Hydrogen or other frameworks
- Migrations to Shopify from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, WooCommerce, Magento and BigCommerce
- Shopify CRO, SEO, email and paid media
- AI automation and support agents connected to your store
What Toronto brands ask us for
Selling across Canada and the US
Many Toronto merchants sell nationally and cross-border. Shopify Markets handles currencies, duties and localized pricing, and Shopify Plus adds expansion stores when you need separate storefronts. We set up shipping, tax and market-specific content so both audiences get a store that feels local.
Bilingual stores
Brands selling into Quebec need French. With our second office in Montreal, we build English and French storefronts and content properly, not as an afterthought.
B2B and wholesale
Distributors like SLK Home often sell to both retailers and consumers. Shopify's B2B features on Plus support company accounts, price lists and payment terms, so wholesale and retail can run on one platform.
Integrations
Toronto retailers frequently run an ERP, POS or warehouse system. We connect Shopify to the systems you already use so inventory, orders and customers stay in sync.
Why work with a local Shopify agency
You can hire a Shopify developer anywhere. A Toronto partner gives you meetings in your time zone, workshops in person when they matter, and a team that understands Canadian shipping, taxes, privacy rules and customers. We also work fully remotely with clients across Canada, the US and internationally, so you get the same team either way.
How we work
- Discovery workshop in our King St W office or by video, covering goals, catalog, integrations and budget.
- Scope and plan in writing, with a fixed quote.
- Design and build on a staging store you can review at every milestone.
- Launch with QA, redirects and analytics checks.
- Grow with CRO, SEO and AI automation.
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