Custom Shopify Plus, headless, and AI-powered ecommerce builds for Montreal 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
Montreal 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. Our in-house team carries every project from architecture through deployment, with no hand-offs along the way.
A Roadmap You Can Set a Watch By
We build scalable ecommerce platforms for Montreal retailers and DTC brands. Milestone tracking, sprint reviews, and clear delivery accountability are built into every engagement's roadmap from the very start.
Eastern Time Hours, Genuinely Covered
Our teams keep dedicated Canada-India overlap hours structured around Eastern Time, so Montreal 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 a Montreal storefront built with us can handle a promotional surge without buckling.
Ratings That Hold Up Past Montreal
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
Every engagement stays on schedule through milestone tracking and sprint accountability, with clear visibility throughout.
Nothing Gets Buried in an Inbox
Real-time collaboration happens during planning, sprint reviews, and deployment through dedicated Canada-India overlap hours, never left to email alone.
Trusted With Real Transaction Data
Scalable, secure, production-ready storefronts built with documented architecture and clean code standards from day one, not tidied up retroactively before a handover.
A Long-Term Build Partner, Not a Vendor
Most clients continue working with Akoode well beyond launch. We design for maintainability so scaling doesn't mean rebuilding from scratch a year later.
Why Montreal Businesses Choose Akoode
Montreal is home to Lightspeed Commerce, a point-of-sale and ecommerce platform founded in the city in 2005 and dual-listed on the NYSE and TSX. That same standard is the baseline we build to for every Montreal commerce client.
Eastern Time overlap. Our Canada-India delivery model is structured to provide dedicated overlap during Montreal business hours for sprint planning, reviews, and deployment.
Pricing in CAD. Quotes are always scoped and billed in Canadian dollars, so there's no currency guesswork involved.
In-house development. Our own engineers write every line of code, nothing gets subcontracted out.
One senior engineer owns the build. One accountable lead tracks the project from discovery all the way through launch.
Privacy-aware by design. We build with Quebec's Law 25 (the province's private-sector privacy statute) 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 Eastern Time
Structured Canada-India overlap windows keep planning, reviews, and deployment calls landing inside Montreal's own working day.
Built With Commerce Technology Chosen to Last
Shopify Plus, headless architecture, and modern storefront frameworks are picked for stability and long-term support, not because they're trending. That keeps a Montreal storefront maintainable years after launch, not just at release.
Sector Depth Beyond a Single Vertical
Deep delivery experience across Montreal's dominant commerce verticals: Retail & E-Commerce, Media & Entertainment, Finance & Banking.
Support That Doesn't End at Launch
Performance monitoring, conversion tracking, and platform updates continue after release, so a Montreal storefront keeps converting as traffic and platforms change, not just on day one.
The Six Things a Montreal eCommerce Engagement Actually Covers
Whether the client is a two-person Montreal 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. Typical 2026 Canadian pricing spans roughly CAD $5,000 for a standard build to CAD $40,000 or more for Shopify Plus and enterprise-scale projects.
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Montreal Shopify and Shopify Plus Development
Akoode builds and migrates Shopify and Shopify Plus storefronts for Montreal 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 a Montreal 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 Montreal 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 Montreal Businesses
Our AI capability spans recommendation engines, LLM-powered search, and predictive analytics, used for personalisation, visual search, and merchandising automation, with Law 25-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 Law 25 standards
eCommerce UI/UX and CRO Design for Montreal Storefronts
Good engineering can't fix a storefront a first-time visitor doesn't understand. That's why our design process is built around actual shopper behaviour and conversion data, not a template that looks fine on paper.
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 Montreal
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 a Montreal 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 a Montreal Storefront Gets Built, Step by Step
Six stages that keep every Montreal ecommerce engagement on track, transparent, and accountable, from the first technical conversation through to launch and beyond.
Stage 01
Discovery and Strategy
Every Montreal engagement starts with genuinely understanding the catalog, the customer, and the platform constraints, not filling in a standard brief.
Timeline
1 to 2 weeks
This stage runs about two weeks in practice, long enough for real stakeholder input, short enough to keep momentum.
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 a Montreal 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
These are real commerce projects with real results, conversion, performance, and revenue impact you can take to your own stakeholders.
Precious Metals Ecommerce Platform: A Connected Silver Store, Cart to Checkout
Key Outcomes
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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.
QR-Linked Apparel Platform: One Store, One Verified Digital Identity
Key Outcomes
2
Claim Steps
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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.
Akoode has delivered ecommerce platforms across Canada's most demanding retail and commerce verticals, from Shopify Plus storefronts to Law 25-aware checkout flows for businesses headquartered in the Montreal region.
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Real Estate
We build property listing and virtual-tour storefronts for sellers in and around Montreal, with payment handling designed for deposits and booking fees specifically.
We build ecommerce for Montreal's healthcare and wellness sector, covering supplements, devices, and subscription products, all with PCI DSS-conscious payment handling.
Montreal's retail sector gets full-scale Shopify Plus and headless commerce work from us, catalog, checkout, and omnichannel inventory all built as one system.
Paywall and licensing management, built natively rather than bolted on, for subscription and digital-goods storefronts serving Montreal's media sector.
We build parts and service-booking storefronts for automotive dealers and suppliers in Montreal, synced directly to existing dealer management systems.
For food and agriculture producers near Montreal, ordering platforms built for both direct-to-consumer and B2B sales, with offline-tolerant capture for rural areas.
Senior-led delivery, AI-first engineering, and a no-subcontracting model that gives Montreal 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
The whole team on every Akoode engagement is in-house, entirely. Montreal 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
We treat AI as part of the working product from the first sprint, covering recommendation engines, intelligent search, and merchandising automation, each expected to deliver real value once shipped, not just in a demo.
One Senior Engineer Owns the Whole Build
A senior engineer leads every Montreal 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
Law 25 + PIPEDA, PCI DSS, and any relevant regulated workflow all get built into a Montreal 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 Montreal Teams Actually Operate
You choose how the engagement works. Dedicated engineers, full IP ownership, transparent communication, and direct access to the build team come standard across every model.
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 Montreal ecommerce projects.
Real 2026 Canadian market rates fall into three bands. A standard Shopify build, a well-configured theme with core app integrations, runs CAD $5,000 to $15,000. Mid-market growth work with bespoke UX and ERP or CRM integrations typically sits between CAD $15,000 and $40,000. Shopify Plus or enterprise-scale builds, with custom checkout, B2B pricing logic, and multi-region support, start from CAD $40,000 and scale with complexity. We confirm the exact figure for your project after a short discovery call.
We recommend based on what you actually need, not habit. Shopify Plus covers most retailers well. Custom development is the better fit when B2B pricing or legacy systems get complicated. Headless commerce makes sense once you need the frontend to be fully your own, decoupled from the commerce backend.
We work with businesses at every stage: startups shipping their first storefront, growing retailers scaling what they already have, and larger enterprise teams running full commerce transformation projects.
Our teams operate dedicated Canada-India overlap hours structured around Eastern Time, so Montreal clients get real-time collaboration during planning, reviews, and deployment through Slack, Jira, GitHub, and weekly sprint reporting for the length of the engagement.
A dedicated team provides a complete cross-functional unit, developers, QA, designers, and a technical lead, working on your storefront full-time as an extension of your organisation. Staff augmentation adds individual specialist engineers directly into your existing in-house team.
Use the contact form on this page to send over your project details. A senior team member reads it directly and replies within one business day. Complex projects usually warrant a paid discovery engagement, which produces a detailed technical scope and delivery roadmap before you commit to anything fixed.
Compliance is designed in from the architecture stage onward, not added right before launch. For Montreal clients, our teams map Quebec's Law 25 (the province's private-sector privacy statute) alongside federal PIPEDA, plus PCI DSS for payment handling into the storefront design from the first sprint.
SEO is treated as part of the build, not an add-on service. That means clean URLs, structured data for products and collections, fast page speed, and technical foundations built to support content and link-building work over time. We coordinate with your existing SEO team where one already exists.
Six to ten weeks covers most standard Shopify launches. If the build is custom or headless, budget for three to five months, since that's usually how long it takes to get the catalog architecture right rather than just workable.
We do this regularly. AI features, recommendation engines, LLM-powered search, predictive analytics for inventory, are treated as part of the core build rather than an extra. Everything is designed to be explainable and handled in line with Law 25 from day one.
Yes. We treat SEO continuity as part of the migration scope, not an afterthought, which means a redirect map, preserved metadata, and a pre-launch audit against the existing site before anything goes live.
Yes, this comes up regularly. We start with a technical audit of the existing codebase and platform account, then our senior engineers assess quality and risk before producing a remediation plan.
Yes. NDAs are signed upfront, before any specifics are shared. And to be clear, all intellectual property created during the project transfers fully to you, not us.
We design payment handling around PCI DSS from the start. Rather than storing card data ourselves, it's routed through a certified processor, which is the approach that keeps your PCI scope narrow and manageable.
Our strongest sector experience in the Montreal commerce market covers Retail & E-Commerce, Media & Entertainment, Finance & Banking, with security and compliance handling built to the standards those industries expect.
Post-launch support covers performance monitoring, uptime tracking, security patching, and platform updates as Shopify or your chosen platform evolves. Beyond that baseline, most clients add conversion-rate optimization work based on real funnel data once the store has enough traffic to make that data meaningful. Support can run as an ongoing retainer or on an as-needed basis, depending on what fits your team.
Reading for Montreal Retail and DTC Teams
Practical guidance on platform strategy, conversion optimization, and technical decisions for commerce founders and product leaders.
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