Custom Shopify Plus, headless, and AI-powered ecommerce builds for Edmonton retailers and DTC brands. The complete commerce build, from platform strategy through UX, development, migration, and launch, is handled by one team.
Built by a Team That Ships Storefronts on Schedule and Ships Clean
Edmonton businesses need a commerce partner who ships on schedule, communicates clearly, and builds storefronts that hold up under real checkout traffic and PCI-level scrutiny. Every Akoode project runs through our in-house team from architecture to deployment, with no handoffs and no surprises.
A Roadmap You Can Set a Watch By
We build scalable ecommerce platforms for Edmonton retailers and DTC brands. A structured roadmap covers every engagement, with milestone tracking, sprint reviews, and delivery accountability in place from the start.
Mountain Time Hours, Genuinely Covered
Our teams keep dedicated Canada-India overlap hours structured around Mountain Time, so Edmonton clients stay connected through Slack, Jira, GitHub, and weekly sprint reporting for the length of the engagement.
Built to Handle Peak-Traffic Trust
We design for maintainability and traffic spikes from the outset, so an Edmonton storefront built with us can handle a promotional surge without buckling.
Ratings That Hold Up Past Edmonton
Clutch and Google scores are earned across Retail, DTC, and enterprise commerce projects, delivered by engineers who work daily in Shopify Plus, headless architecture, and production AI features.
Platform Ratings (Google, Clutch, GoodFirms) are static and not editable in this CMS section.
Platform Ratings
What our clients say across leading platforms.
Google, 4.9 out of five stars
4.9★★★★★★★★★★
Clutch, 5.0 out of five stars
5.0★★★★★★★★★★
GoodFirms, 4.8 out of five stars
4.8★★★★★★★★★★
What clients love about working with us
Milestones That Land When Promised
We track milestones and hold sprints accountable, which keeps engagements on schedule with visibility at every stage.
Nothing Gets Buried in an Inbox
Dedicated Canada-India overlap hours for real-time collaboration during planning, sprint reviews, and deployment cycles, with nothing important ever handled purely by email.
Trusted With Real Transaction Data
Clean code and documented architecture from day one produce storefronts that are scalable, secure, and production-ready, not retroactively tidied before handover.
A Long-Term Build Partner, Not a Vendor
Clients typically stay with us well past launch. We design for maintainability, so scaling later doesn't mean starting over.
Why Edmonton Businesses Choose Akoode
Edmonton is home to Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, whose AI research increasingly feeds into the personalization and recommendation layer of modern commerce platforms. That same standard is the baseline we build to for every Edmonton commerce client.
Mountain Time overlap. Our Canada-India delivery model is structured to provide dedicated overlap during Edmonton business hours for sprint planning, reviews, and deployment.
Pricing in CAD. We scope and bill every quote in Canadian dollars, removing any currency guesswork from the process.
In-house development. Every line of code is written by our own engineers, not subcontracted out.
One senior engineer owns the build. One senior lead is accountable for the project from discovery through launch, start to finish.
Privacy-aware by design. We build with Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) alongside federal PIPEDA, plus PCI DSS for payment handling in mind and work with your legal team where formal compliance sign-off is required.
Working Hours Built Around Mountain Time
Structured Canada-India overlap windows keep planning, reviews, and deployment calls landing inside Edmonton's own working day.
Built With Commerce Technology Chosen to Last
We pick Shopify Plus, headless architecture, and modern frameworks for stability and long-term support, not because they're currently popular. That keeps an Edmonton storefront maintainable years after launch, not just at release.
Sector Depth Beyond a Single Vertical
Deep delivery experience across Edmonton's dominant commerce verticals: Energy & Utilities, Retail & eCommerce, Agriculture.
Support That Doesn't End at Launch
Performance monitoring, conversion tracking, and platform updates continue after release, so an Edmonton storefront keeps converting as traffic and platforms change, not just on day one.
The Six Things an Edmonton eCommerce Engagement Actually Covers
Whether the client is a two-person Edmonton DTC brand or an enterprise retailer with a national footprint, every engagement covers the same ground: platform strategy, storefront design, engineering, AI where it earns its place, and support that continues past launch day. Current Canadian pricing runs from around CAD $5,000 for a standard Shopify build up to CAD $40,000 and beyond for Plus or enterprise-scale projects.
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Edmonton Shopify and Shopify Plus Development
Akoode builds and migrates Shopify and Shopify Plus storefronts for Edmonton retailers, covering custom theme development, app integrations, and checkout extensions built for real conversion rates, not just launch-day polish.
Custom Shopify and Shopify Plus theme development
Checkout extensibility and custom checkout UI
App and API integrations with existing retail stacks
Scoped migration from legacy platforms with transparent CAD pricing
Akoode builds custom storefronts on Magento, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce when a template platform can't handle the catalog complexity or business logic an Edmonton brand needs.
Custom storefront builds on Magento, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce
Complex catalog and multi-warehouse inventory logic
B2B pricing tiers and account-based commerce
Architecture built to scale from launch to full product
Tech Stack:Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, PHP, MySQL
A storefront is only as fast as the architecture behind it. Akoode designs and builds headless commerce APIs that support real-time inventory, secure checkout, and third-party integrations for Edmonton commerce products that need to scale.
Headless storefront builds on Next.js with a composable backend
RESTful and GraphQL commerce API design
Payment gateway and third-party logistics integrations
API security, rate limiting, and PCI-aware authentication
AI-Powered Commerce Features for Edmonton Businesses
Our AI capability spans recommendation engines, LLM-powered search, and predictive analytics, used for personalisation, visual search, and merchandising automation, with PIPA-aligned handling built into every feature.
AI product recommendation and personalization engines
LLM-powered search and product discovery
Predictive analytics for inventory and demand forecasting
Secure, explainable AI aligned with PIPA standards
eCommerce UI/UX and CRO Design for Edmonton Storefronts
The sale is lost before checkout if a first-time visitor gets confused, no matter how strong the code underneath is. Akoode's design work is grounded in real shopper behaviour and conversion data rather than assumption.
User research and shopper journey mapping before any screen is designed
Conversion-focused product page and checkout design
Interactive prototypes tested with real users before development
Design systems built for consistency as the catalog grows
Tech Stack:Figma, A/B Testing, Hotjar, Design Systems
Post-Launch Support and Conversion Optimization in Edmonton
Launch day is the start of a storefront's life, not the end of the project. Akoode provides ongoing support, performance monitoring, and conversion-rate optimization to keep an Edmonton storefront converting well after the initial release.
Performance monitoring, uptime tracking, and rapid bug fixes
Conversion-rate optimization based on real funnel data
Seasonal and promotional traffic scaling support
Flexible staff augmentation when an in-house team needs extra hands
Tech Stack:Google Analytics, Hotjar, New Relic, CI/CD
How an Edmonton Storefront Gets Built, Step by Step
Six stages that keep every Edmonton ecommerce engagement on track, transparent, and accountable, from the first technical conversation through to launch and beyond.
Stage 01
Discovery and Strategy
Every Edmonton engagement starts with genuinely understanding the catalog, the customer, and the platform constraints, not filling in a standard brief.
Timeline
1 to 2 weeks
Ten working days is the usual span here, enough time for proper stakeholder workshops without dragging the timeline out.
You receive
Validated platform choice and technical scope document
Migration risk assessment if replacing an existing storefront
Project roadmap with milestone structure and delivery timeline
Risk register covering technical, compliance, and payment-processing risks
What'sActually Running Underneath an Edmonton Build
Proven technology choices, selected based on performance profile and long-term supportability. No experimental frameworks introduced mid-project.
Shopify
PHP Laravel
Magento
WooCommerce
Results We're Happy to Show You
Measurable results from real commerce projects, covering conversion rate, platform performance, and revenue impact you can report on.
QR-Linked Apparel Platform: One Store, One Verified Digital Identity
Key Outcomes
2
Claim Steps
1
Account, Everything
Challenge
Fixed graphics, awkward in-person networking, and a customer relationship that stops dead at delivery are three separate frustrations that all happen to live on the same piece of fabric.
What We Built
A working store, a locked-down claiming step, and a profile people would bother keeping current - none of that means much if it ships as three loosely connected features instead of one build.
Precious Metals Ecommerce Platform: A Connected Silver Store, Cart to Checkout
Key Outcomes
3
Silver Categories
3
Service Areas
Challenge
The platform needed to connect service-led content with a working retail journey. A customer might arrive to explore silver bars, research silver coins, review silver rounds, or understand a storage or refinery service. Product discovery, cart actions, checkout, payment, accounts, and orders all had to make sense together.
What We Built
The brief called for a functioning ecommerce platform, not a catalogue with a payment button attached at the end. Akoode needed to connect product discovery, cart behavior, customer details, checkout, payment, account management, and order records inside OpenCart while keeping the public interface easy to understand.
Building a Multi-Brand Beauty Storefront on Shopify
Key Outcomes
7
Core Categories
60+
Subcategories
Challenge
None of this shows up all at once. A retailer adds brands to stay competitive, which forces more categories, which forces deeper subcategories, and somewhere along the way the store stops being browsable even though each individual product page still looks fine.
What We Built
This wasn't about adding features to an existing store. Stunner Selfcare needed a catalog structure sized for the brand range it already had, with merchandising and retention mechanics built in from the start rather than bolted on later.
Akoode has delivered ecommerce platforms across Canada's most demanding retail and commerce verticals, from Shopify Plus storefronts to PIPA-aware checkout flows for businesses headquartered in the Edmonton region.
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Real Estate
For Edmonton's real estate and home-goods sellers, we build virtual-tour and listing storefronts with secure deposit and booking-fee handling built in.
Supplement, medical device, and subscription-care storefronts for Edmonton healthcare brands, built with payment handling designed around PCI DSS from the outset.
Catalog management, checkout optimisation, and omnichannel inventory sync, built on Shopify Plus or headless architecture, for retailers based in Edmonton.
We build embedded commerce and checkout flows for fintech products based in Edmonton, engineered around secure, PCI-compliant transactions at real scale.
Edmonton-area agriculture businesses get ordering platforms that work even with unreliable rural connectivity, covering both DTC and B2B sales channels.
Senior-led delivery, AI-first engineering, and a no-subcontracting model that gives Edmonton clients direct access to the people building their storefront.
Awards & Recognitions
Recognised by leading platforms, startup ecosystems, and global technology communities.
Every Line of Code Stays In-House, Start to Finish
Every Akoode engagement stays entirely inside our own in-house team. Edmonton clients work directly with the developers, architects, designers, and strategists actually responsible for delivery, with no third-party shops and no white-labelling anywhere in the process.
AI Built to Earn Enterprise Trust
From the first sprint, AI is part of the actual product, recommendation engines, intelligent search, merchandising automation, each required to earn its place with real value post-launch, not just a good demo.
One Senior Engineer Owns the Whole Build
A senior engineer leads every Edmonton project, directly involved in architecture decisions, sprint reviews, and deployment, writing code alongside the team rather than managing tickets from a distance.
Trust-Grade Compliance From the First Sprint
PIPA + PIPEDA, PCI DSS, and any relevant regulated workflow all get built into an Edmonton storefront from the first design sprint, rather than left as a last-minute scramble before launch.
Talk Directly with Our Founder
Discuss your software vision, AI roadmap, and delivery strategy with the team leading product engineering at Akoode.
Ways of Working That Fit How Edmonton Teams Actually Operate
Choose how you want to work with us. Every model includes dedicated engineers, full IP ownership, transparent communication, and direct access to the people building your storefront.
Dedicated Team
Most Popular
Best for: Projects requiring continuous development and long-term product evolution
A dedicated team works as an extension of your in-house engineers, designers, QA, and PMs — fully aligned with your roadmap and sprint cadence.
Full control over the development process and sprint priorities
Easy scalability as the product and team requirements evolve
Seamless integration with your existing tools and workflows
Direct access to engineers — no account managers in between
Straight answers on process, pricing, timelines, compliance, and what working with Akoode actually looks like for Edmonton ecommerce projects.
Here's an honest breakdown based on current Canadian pricing: standard Shopify builds run CAD $5,000 to $15,000, mid-market growth work with custom UX and system integrations runs CAD $15,000 to $40,000, and Shopify Plus or enterprise builds with custom checkout and multi-region logic start from CAD $40,000. We confirm your specific number after discovery, once we understand the actual scope.
This comes down to your catalog and your growth plans, not a default preference. Shopify Plus is the fast, proven route for most retailers. Custom platforms handle complex pricing tiers or legacy integrations better. Headless commerce is the right call when the frontend needs to be built exactly to spec, not templated.
Akoode works across the full spectrum: early-stage DTC brands launching their first storefront, growth-stage retailers scaling an existing store, and enterprise teams running larger commerce transformation programmes.
Our teams operate dedicated Canada-India overlap hours structured around Mountain Time, so Edmonton clients get real-time collaboration during planning, reviews, and deployment through Slack, Jira, GitHub, and weekly sprint reporting for the length of the engagement.
With a dedicated team, you get a full cross-functional unit built around your project: developers, QA, designers, and a technical lead, working as an extension of your own organisation. Staff augmentation is narrower, it slots individual specialist engineers into a team you already have.
Submit your project requirements through the contact form on this page. A senior member of the Akoode team will review your submission and respond within one business day. We'll suggest a paid discovery engagement for complex projects, so you get a detailed technical scope and roadmap before making a fixed commitment.
We address compliance at the architecture stage, never as a fix bolted on before launch. For Edmonton clients, our teams map Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) alongside federal PIPEDA, plus PCI DSS for payment handling into the storefront design from the first sprint.
Yes. We build the technical SEO foundation, clean URLs, structured data, page speed, into every storefront from the start, since retrofitting it later is always more expensive. If you have an SEO agency already, we plug in alongside them rather than stepping on their work.
Timelines depend on scope and complexity. A well-scoped Shopify build typically takes six to ten weeks from discovery to launch. A custom or headless build with complex catalog logic usually requires three to five months.
Yes. AI development is a core capability, not an add-on. Akoode builds in-store AI features using recommendation engines, LLM-powered search, and predictive analytics, all built with explainability and PIPA-aligned data handling as standard.
Yes, and this is a standard part of any migration project. We build a full redirect map, preserve metadata, and run a pre-launch SEO audit against the current site, so the rankings you've built up don't get wiped out by the switch.
Akoode has taken over ecommerce projects started by other development teams on multiple occasions. The process starts with a technical audit of the existing codebase and platform account. Our senior engineers assess quality, identify risks, and produce a remediation plan before development continues.
We always sign an NDA before detailed technical or commercial conversations begin. Full IP ownership also transfers to the client once the engagement is complete, with nothing held back on our end.
Payment handling is designed around PCI DSS requirements from the architecture stage, typically by routing card data through a certified payment processor rather than storing it directly, which keeps your PCI scope as narrow as possible.
Our strongest sector experience in the Edmonton commerce market covers Energy & Utilities, Retail & E-Commerce, Agriculture, with security and compliance handling built to the standards those industries expect.
After launch, we handle performance monitoring, security patching, and platform updates as standard. Conversion-rate optimization usually comes next, once there's enough real traffic and funnel data to make it worthwhile rather than guesswork. Support runs either as an ongoing retainer or on an as-needed basis, whichever suits your team better.
Reading for Edmonton Retail and DTC Teams
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